Windows Home Server

For home automation enthusiasts, comes a plugin for Windows Home Server called "Embedded Automation's mControl for Windows Home Server." With this WHS plugin, you can configure and control everything in your home from lighting to AC to thermostats to security cameras from directly within…

Orb is a cool web application that lets you stream media from your home computer to any internet-connected device, be it a PDA, mobile phone, computer, or laptop. Since Home Server users tend to have most of their media stored on their WHS box, the most logical place for them to install Orb would be…

Today, the guys at PerfectDisk announced on their blog that a new build of PerfectDisk 2008 for Windows Home Server is now available. This new version includes full integration with the Windows Home Server console, where PerfectDisk 2008 will now have its own tab. The PerfectDisk software defrags…

WeGotServed has the scoop on another new plugin for Media Center - and it’s one of the more useful ones we’ve seen, too. This plugin, called My Movies, adds an extra tab to the “TV+Movies” button in Media Center and shows a list of all the ripped movies stored on your Windows Home Server,…

Mike Craven has been working on a way to put Outlook on your Windows Home Server through the creation of a WHS add-in. The WHS Outlook Beta add-in will let you use Outlook right from the Windows Home Server Console to check your email, switch between Outlook profiles on-the-fly, access all of your…

SHOUTcast is an internet radio app that lets you listen to radio stations worldwide. But I just discovered that you can set up your Windows Home Server to be your very own, personal SHOUTcast server, which lets you listen to internet radio anywhere in your home. The steps are posted here on the We…

Via the Windows Home Server Team blog I heard about some crazy, custom-built Windows Home Server in an Alienware case sporting 11 drives. Of course I had to check this out for myself. Whoa, it's true! This guy in Kuwait is retrofitting an older Alienware case to accommodate 11 hard drives and one…

If you haven't already heard, the We Got Served blog is one of the best places to find Windows Homer Server news and tips. So, when I saw that they were offering a discount to their readers towards a purchase of a Fujitsu-Siemens Scaleo Home Server, I had to pass the info along. It looks like the…

The We Got Served blog has the scoop on another home serving offering, this one from Avideus. The Avideus HSE Home Server, like the Fujitsu-Siemens Scaleo and Velocity Micro Netmagix servers, will be based on the Intel SS4200-EHW Server design. The company, based in San Marocs, CA, are currently…

I've been following a very interesting series of posts over on the Home Server Hacks blog. They detailing, step-by-step, the process of building a $400 "green" Home Server. The server is encased in a Shuttle KPC housing, which is, according to the Shuttle web site, a low power consumption…