Icy Dock MB561US-4S Quad Bay External Removable Enclosure

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 each [...]

VGA/PS2 build project for Media Smart EX and H340 Home Servers.

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, reinstalling the [...]

Installing Zune 4.0 on WHS

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 on [...]

Diehard’s Ideal HP MediaSmart Server

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. You [...]

My EX470 is now a EX480???

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 who has [...]

Add a fan to your MediaSmart Server

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.  It was [...]

Another PP3 MCE visual tweak.

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 and [...]

Changing the text in PP3 icons

From this;                                                                        To this;
Change the text for PP3 icons to Camel Case. (or media capitals),   This requires a registry edit but is very simple.
Open your Registry Editor and change the title to Camel Case in all 3 registries.

Installing the Subsonic Web Based Media Streamer on your MediaSmart Server

Subsonic is a free, web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music. Use it to share your music with friends, or to listen to your own music while at work. You can stream to multiple players simultaneously, for instance to one player in your kitchen and another in your living room.
Subsonic is designed to [...]

Quick & Easy Windows Home Server OS Backup and Restore. | 4Hak3rs

There is finally a quick and easy solution to backing up your MediaSmart server’s Operating System.
One big option I thought that Microsoft wrongly omitted from the WHS software is to backup the OS. Yes there is a way to backup your shares, but not the OS. I have looked into options like Acronis Echo Server [...]

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