How To Run Vail on a Virtual Machine

If you are itching to try out WHS Vail, but don’t have an extra box to run it on, a good choice is to install it in a Virtual Machine.  Also, since the Vail Refresh isn’t ready for prime time yet, using a virtual environment is well worth considering.
You can run Vail on VMware Server, [...]

The Media Center Show featuring Jim Collison

Our very own Jim Collison is on Ian’s podcast this week.  Check out The Media Center Show here.
This week on The Media Center Show I am talking to Windows Home Server and Windows Media Center enthusiast Jim Collison about Windows Home Server Vail, Windows Home Server addins and using WHS and Windows Media [...]

Movie Streaming 101 (The Basics)

Streaming Basics.

A (much) more advanced look at Home Networking

So we left off last time just talking about the basic aspects of IP addresses, so let’s go a little deeper.

Virtual Machine’s for the masses.

Ever since I read my first article on the subject I was intrigued by the concept of Virtual machines. I was eager to know how practical, easy, and effective it really was to use in an everyday situation.  My approach was not to try and achieve new technical ground or challenge my own capabilities, but [...]

Total Media Theatre 3

Since Windows Media center is a perfect compliment to WHS in as much as they mesh together perfectly, I immediately fell in love with the concept of being able to play my movies on a PC and be able to display it on a large screen HDTV.  I could always play various movies on my [...]

Hyper-V virtualization in a flash, drive that is – Part 2

In part 1, we installed the Hyper-V server to our USB drive, and now in part 2 we’ll bring it to life.
Our ingredients for part 2:

Hyper-V enabled USB Drive (completed in part 1)
Hyper-V MMC Management Plugin used on our 2nd computer to manage the virtual machines we install on our Hyper-V computer. (select your appropriate [...]

Hyper-V virtualization in a flash, drive that is – Part 1

We’ve been talking about virtualization on the podcast, but how can you really give this a try?  Over the next few articles I’ll try to lay out how you can take several free virtualization tools available and turn them into exciting platforms for WHS and other systems.  In these write-ups I’ll go through how to [...]

How to track web visitors on your Windows Home Server using Google Analytics

by:  David McCabe, Windows Home Server MVP 2009
I’ve often wondered if anyone has viewed my Windows Home Server Web front-end.  You know, the front end page that you use to log into your WHS console while you are remote.  Maybe you have put links there, websites even.
How would you like a graphical representation that shows [...]

Gladinet – Mapping Cloud Storage to your Windows Explorer

Gladinet is very simple and doesn’t need a whole lot of explanation.  It allows you to map a drive on your computer to multiple cloud backup services.
Free Starter Edition
Professional Edition – $39.99
Starter Edition is limited to 1000 items per transfer.
Professional Edition adds significant value to the Starter Edition with improvements in Security, Performance, Usability and [...]

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