MS Windows Home Server

Tech Ready is a semi-annual internal technical conference for Microsoft employees and at Tech Ready 9 was Michael Gannotti who chatted with Vick from the Windows Home Server Team about WHS and PP3 in this great 8 minute video.

The Home Server Show podcast episode 51 is all about Live Mesh on Windows Home Server as well as the latest news and views. Details of a new add-in called WHS Port Forward are also debuted.

Catch episode 51 here.

Small Business Server (SBS) specialist Sean Daniel has a great post on his blog about how Windows Home Server saves an exam, where a lady by the name of Janet lost her exam work when her home PC refused to boot.

You can read the full story here.

As Sean states:

“I remember when losing a hard drive was the end of the world, now, it’s just inconvenient.”

Website Boing Boing Gadgets (we love that name!) has a review – "A day with HP’s MediaSmart LX195", which has a small list of the pros and cons of the Intel Atom powered Home Server, which may be useful to would be buyers.

Read it here.

A couple of weeks ago we told you that website "The Digital Media Zone" had posted a video looking at the features of Power Pack 3. As a follow up co-host Adam Thursby has now posted a review of PP3 with the good news – And the bad.

You can catch it here.

The Media Center Show podcast this week amongst other things chats to fellow MVP Andrew Edney about Power Pack 3, TV Archiving and where next for Windows Home Server.

The podcast is available from here.

They don’t come much greener than this.

Many thanks to Alexander Kent of Home Server Land for the pic.

Soren Kahlke  an IT Operations Manager has written about his installation experience and the features of the beta of Power Pack 3 after joining Microsoft Connect especially to test the latest Power Pack.

Soren takes us through what is new in PP3 and also has a great link for those of you who may be interested in learning more about the Libraries feature in Windows 7.

You can read the full post here.