Hi everyone! My name is Dileep and I am a Development lead with Windows Home Server team. It has been more than a week since we released the beta builds of the next version of Windows Home Server “Vail”, and we are very encouraged by the download and the feedback pouring in through connect. Thank you...

Hey everyone, As some of you know, we have started blogging over on the Windows Team Blog back at the beginning of September with a new blog called the Windows Home Server Blog . So, if you haven't already added this blog to your feed, please do. For the moment we are planning on blogging from both...

Yesterday marked the availability of the Windows 7 Release Candidate . On the Engineering Windows 7 Blog and Windows 7 Team Blog there were recent posts regarding this milestone. "We want to encourage you to revert to a Vista image and upgrade or to do a clean install, rather than upgrade the existing...

One of the developers on the Windows Home Server team, Gautam, was goofing around on a Mac during his off hours and put together this awesome set of instructions and screenshots for running the Windows Home Server Console on a Mac.  This article describes how to configure your Mac to be able to...

The Windows Home Server team is excited to have 2 new MVPs added to our MVP family . Please join me in welcoming our latest additions: Alexander Köplinger (Germany) - contributor on http://www.home-server-blog.de/ and author of OnTheFlyUnzipper Add-in Jim Clark - frequent contributor on http...

Possibly lost among the frenzy of the Power Pack 2 release, and the addition of Windows Home Server software to MSDN , was the update today of our very own product website . While clearly not a complete overhaul, we think it’s improved in a couple of key ways: A simpler and more contemporary layout Snappy...

Lots of great news and blog posts about Windows Home Server appeared over the last week. I thought I would summarize a few things and provide some of my favorite blog links from the past week. Windows Home Server Futures What's Next for Windows Home Server? (wegotserved.co.uk) Podcast: Home...

The Windows Home Server team is excited to have 4 new MVPs to join our family in helping the ever growing community around the product. Olaf Engelke (Germany) - frequent contributor on Windows Home Server Community forums Eric Rux (USA) - created the http://whshelp.com site and also wrote a...

Donavon West, blogger at http://www.homeserverhacks.com , set up a Windows Live Group site for Windows Home Server users, owners, enthusiasts, etc.  On his original blog post announcing the site , there were only 3 members ... Last checked there are over 150 members and the number grows every hour...

CrunchGear did a great write-up on Windows Home Server and the HP MediaSmart Server and is giving away the home server to one lucky person that comments on the blog post. As I write this blog post, there are over 450 comments added to their post, the number isn't what amazes me ... it is the fact that...

I sometimes get asked the question: " What is the difference between a home server and a network attached storage (NAS) device?" First off, Microsoft is focused on the development of a feature rich and powerful home server software solution, where most NAS vendors are primarily hardware companies...

If you haven't updated your event calendars lately, here's one to make sure you have on your agenda: the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2008 , or PDC as we affectionately call it. Taking place in Los Angeles, CA from Oct. 27 - 30, this year's PDC is gearing up to be one of the biggest events...

Donavon over at Home Server Hacks has started a new "Ask the Home Server Guy" feature. In his words: Send in your questions about anything and everything Windows Home Server related and I’ll do my best to answer them. Send your questions to ask@HomeServerGuy.com (note the spiffy new domain name)....

Yesterday the Innoventions Dream Home became the latest attraction at Disneyland. Located in Tomorrowland, the Dream Home delivers on "Walt's vision for showcasing cutting-edge technologies that make life better and easier." The Dream Home is a collaboration between Disneyland, Microsoft, HP, Life|ware...

This past week a few members of the Windows Home Server team were in Tokyo, Japan. Along with the local team from Microsoft Japan, we were very pleased to host the first Windows Home Server Users Night! The venue was a banquet room on the 47th floor of the Keio Plaza Hotel, in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo...

Another great story about WHS backup saving the day...this time in the case of burglary. From Mike Frank's blog post titled "WHS Eases My Suffering:" Essentially a person (or a couple people) broke into my house, rifled through everything, and took as much as they could carry (so it seems). The item...

Have you seen Edgar Voorbraak's Home Server toaster yet? Imaginative, cool, funny...just like the Home Server community, in general. Here are the specs. Home Server Hacks has more info and pics. VIA C7@ 1.5Ghz, 1GB RAM I managed to cram in 4 HDD’s, suspended in shock absorbers, totaling 2...

Microsoft storage guru and 'gamer dad' Jason Buffington has a great post on the popular Xbox Dad blog about using WHS with Xbox. He cites the Windows Home Server documentation on media sharing , as well as the section of the Xbox.com site devoted to connecting your Xbox 360 to Windows Media (including...

Good to see Tranquil's T2 WHS A3 Harmony Home Server - "more substantial" vs. the T7 HSA - is a recommended product on PC Pro's "A List." "...this machine is passively cooled throughout; the only noise is of the hard disk spinning. It's also appealingly efficient....well built and well conceived....

Donavon West of Home Server Hacks and LiveGadgets.net has created a nice Home Server blog headline ticker gadget to help you get the WHS news you can use. Pretty slick - it currently pulls from this blog, We Got Served , MS Windows Home Server and Home Server Hacks . J

Interesting story here on CE Pro about Atomoo , which "may be the first residential IT managed services company to cater to home systems integrators." And they rely on Home Server. Home systems integrators may do a good job of installing PCs and networks in their customers’ homes, but they really...

The Consumer Electronics Association has issued a new study that shows (yet again) that Americans are not backing up their digital photos, music, documents or other types of files. Results of the study, "Amassing Digital Fortunes: A Digital Storage Study," show that nearly one in three consumers don...

I saw this come through the transom and thought I'd share...a guy in Kuwait custom building a big Home Server (11 drives?!) with an Alienware case. Maybe he'll help move Kuwait up in the Home Server World Cup standings. J

Industry analyst firm In-Stat is promoting its new consumer storage research by Joyce Putscher, who we speak with regularly. See the press release for a quick summary of the report. The consumer storage market has more than doubled in the last two years - no great surprise there. Putscher notes that...

Lots of buzz lately for the Fujitsu-Siemens SCALEO Home Server . The German PC Magazine just gave it a great review, for example. We Got Served provides a very in-depth review of the product, comparing it with HP's MediaSmart Server. Worth a read. Terry calls SCALEO a "strong contender" with "beauty...