I’ve been having sporadic problems with my Windows Home Server for the last week or so. The WHS was powering itself off for no reason and according to the logs it wasn’t a clean shutdown. It’s been sporadic, but happened twice on Saturday.
I was also having connectivity problems from my Macs. These were also [...]
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While Microsoft may prefer that all Windows Home Server (WHS) administration occur through the Windows Home Server Console, there may be times where you want to be on the actual server console, as if you connected a monitor and keyboard to the server. You can use Microsoft Remote Desktop in order to do this.
Microsoft [...]
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I knew I was liking Windows Home Server (WHS) too much. Microsoft has posted knowledge base article 946676 which describes a potential file corruption issue with WHS. Affected software includes:
Windows Vista Photo Gallery
Windows Live Photo Gallery
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
Microsoft Office OneNote 2003
Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
Microsoft Money 2007
SyncToy 2.0 beta
Intuit Quicken and QuickBooks may be affected
Torrent [...]
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I decided to move my iTunes Library to a shared folder on my Windows Home Server. The HP MediaSmart Server does come with the ability to stream songs to any computer running iTunes on your home network. But this only provides streaming ability, which I can already do from my iMac. I wanted to [...]
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My HP MediaSmart Server arrived the other day and I got around to hooking it up last night. It was a night of frustration and a lot of swearing at WHS and other computer devices. But then this morning the light bulb went off, there was an easy solution, and the problem was unrelated [...]
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