Situation: I recently moved to a new location and in this house I am unable to directly connect my xbox to a router to connect to the internet and/or home network. To regain internet/Live capability I now use my laptop as a wireless adapter via bridging my wireless and LAN connection (xbox is connected...

Home Server, Windows Live, Office Live and Social Media Working Nicely Together I would like to see integration between Windows Live and Home Server. After seeing the remote access page on the Vail demo it got me thinking. What about being able to access and manage your Home Server through the Windows...

Hello everyone - I'm building a Windows Media Center and Home Server using Windows 7 . I've made most of the hardware decisions, and will be working on the software decisions next. Please feel free to follow it, comment, agree or disagree. I'll definitely be looking for input from the Green...

Hi I have been having rather a lot of issues with Win7 Media Center. Specifically it is all todo with when I am trying to archive tv shows ( Series and normal movies ) to my windows Home Server. I have re-installed Windoes 7 twice in trying to find a solution to this problem. and I have re-installed...

I have been looking for a solution to the WHS that I have setup. Currently I have WHS on a 180gb harddrive. On my other computer I have 2 harddrives completely filled with movies. I have tried adding the hardrives to WHS but the only way it seems I can do this with out losing the movies is to add them...

I've read through many of the threads, and they seem to assume I already know the answer to this question, but: Can you replace Windows Media Center with Windows Home Server? I currently have WMC running under Windows 7 to my primary TV, and extending to a secondary TV via an Xbox 360 extender. I...

Ok, im honestly surprised i didn't see this anywhere...but how on earth do you get rid of the "Home Server" start menu row that is added to Win7 MCE when you upgrade the connector software with power Pack 3?

I have been using a vista media center setup for a year or so now, and I just loaded windows 7 home premium on 3 computers at home. I heard a lot about how great windows 7 was, and how media center has been greatly improved and is now included in all versions of the OS including professional. I naturally...

I just built a Windows Home Server and a Windows 7 Professional running MCE. I am also using the SIIG Vista MCE Remote control as well. At night we hit the power button on the SIIG remote and the Windows 7 MCE machine goes to sleep. But at around midnight, the Home Server sends out a command and wakes...

helle, I am a windows fanatic and i am using windows 2008 server on my home network with AD. then i started noticing that a lot of people are starting to use WIndows home server, should i switch? in my house i have more 3 media centers and about 4 computer clients and 1 xbox 360, i like centralize data...