It’s been a long time since I had something work actually blogging about but I just had to talk about this. I’ve finally got around to setting up my old PC as a Windows Home Server, it’s taken me this long as I’ve not had a lounge to expand into.
I’m amazed at how simple it was to setup. Pop the CD in, tell it to format all the drives, enter a password and wait. When it was done I logged on and got it to do updates using Windows Update. I also setup one user for myself and I turned UPNP on on my router.
Next I setup my laptop and media center. All I had to do here was connect to \software">\\<server>\software and run the home server connector software setup. Now my machines will backup to the Home Server every night.
All I need to do now is work out how best to manage the power…
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