Windows Home Server

Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 BETA is available and includes a number of Windows 7 integration features. I stopped by to see CJ Saretto and get the latest on this Power Pack, the features, and where Home Server is heading in the future (of course). Some of the new features include: Win7 Libraries…

Windows Home Server has come a long way in a very short time. We caught up with Joel Sider at CES 2008 to check out some of the new OEM systems available on the market as well as some cool home automation add-ins that allow you to remotely control electrical…

Here a cool add-in for Windows Home Server made my a french company called Omwave (http://www.omwave.com/). With this one, you can manage LED Lights in your house to create ambiances. Have a look at it!

A show of hands: Who here among us is storing all of their important data (media and otherwise) in a safe location where it’s constantly accessible, as well as backed up to prevent loss? Not a lot of hands here at the 10 HQ, and probably not many of the rest of you. Well thanks to CJ Saretto and…

The Windows Home Server team were at PDC2008 presenting sessions on developing WHS applications and services which are now available for on-demand viewing over at Channel 9.We sat down with Mark Pendergrast, Brendan Grant and Doug Berrett to chat about their PDC sessions and…

Windows Home Server is a great gateway to all the other PC's in your house. Using the dynamic DNS function of Home Server, you can browse to your network with a real name, like myserver.homeserver.com, and then remote into whatever computer in your house that you need to. But what if that computer…

The Windows Home Server team had a tonne of new hardware on display at CES 2009. Todd Headrick from the WHS group walked us through the new home server form factors available for 2009 including an updated version of the popular HP Media Smart server line which now…

Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 is out so we stopped by CJ Saretto's office to see what new features and fixes are included. Along with some nice fixes, PP2 has better remote access, better domain management (yourname.homeserver.com), expanded media sharing (Mp4 support) and Media Center…

The Windows Team has announced the next version of Windows Home Server, code name “Vail” has now been launched into beta. Everyone can download the public beta (English only) here from the Microsoft Connect website. The top four things that are new in Vail are an extended ability to stream media…

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,…