Nov 11,2010 Recently I got a Windows Update message on my WHS telling me that there is a update available to Security Essential. This is the same version I have on my Windows 7 box. 2.0.522.2 Currently, The version I have installed on my WHS is 2.0.375.0 If I run the update, it fails. WHS [...]
I have been running Subsonic on my Windows Home Server for over a year. I also have FirePlay installed with web access. but, Subsonic, for me is more visually appealing. There are settings that can be tweaked and it also includes a web access page. I wrote about installing Subsonic using Tomcat here. This time [...]
I found an add-in developer over at MediaSmartServer.net, Christian Johnson, and we got chatting. He asked me what was the most sought after Windows Home Server add-in. According to the Microsoft Connect web site for WHS. It’s a Microsoft Security Essentials add-in. So for those of you who took the plunge and installed the beta [...]
This is the Icy Dock MB561US-4S Quad Bay External Removable Enclosure. During CES 2010 Dave , Chris and Jim paid a visit to the Icy Dock booth. They saw the potential of how the Icy Dock product could contribute to the Windows Home Server ecosystem. Icy Dock was pleased to help out and soon we [...]
Hi ya folks, I’m looking at starting a project on building a VGA/PS2 interface for the HP MediaSmart and the Acer H340 EasyStore servers. HP has come out with their 3rd generation home servers, the EX49x and I know Microsoft prefers WHS boxes to be headless. But with the recent changes to the EX49x boxes, [...]
Last week on the podcast,zekan asked if it was possible to install iTunes 9 on a WHS machine, I suggested a link over at MediaSmartServer.net where Mezo has found out how to do it. Here, bsieve asks if the Zune software can be installed on WHS. Dave and Chris were all into the Zune software [...]
With the news going round about the upcoming Lenova IdeaCentre D400 and the possible first clue to the next MediaSmart server, I thought I would chime in with what I wish HP would come out with in their next home server. Microsoft has recently started to push WHS as an option into the SOHO market. [...]
This is for all owners of the EX47x series hardware that would like to run the 2.5 update that HP released for the EX48x series. Not quite as low as EX470/EX475 and not as high as a EX485/EX487 until I change the CPU then it will be a EX490. Well, I’m one of you guys [...]
Add a fan to the rear of the power supply on the MediaSmart Server. A little history first about why: I’ve been following the post on adding a Dual-Core CPU to HP’s MediaSmart EX47x models on MediaSmartServer.net here called “Saw a EX470 post with a AMD X2”. This is a great post and very popular. [...]
Ian Dixon over at The Digital Lifestyle.com posted an article he found at hack7mc.com, that uses a tiny app to modify the Media Center start strips. I like how in a previous build of PP3 beta, both icons are on the Main MCE Page. So I used this app to delete the “Home Server” strip [...]
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