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• One Month In

  This morning I realized that one month ago yesterday (3/24) I arrived bright and early to building 43 on the Microsoft campus to begin NEO ( New Employee Orientation ) and to begin my career with Microsoft. What a month it's been. While all of the... Posted Apr 25 2008, 09:02 AM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server Development

• Mr. Grant Goes to Washington (state)

  ... or Borg.Assimilate(Me) ... or Brendan.Drink(Drink.KoolAid); ... or Brendan.Soul.Sell(Microsoft) ... or Brendan.Employer.Name = "Microsoft"; At last the background checks are complete and now all that remains is the move and my first day... Posted Feb 22 2008, 07:03 AM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server Development

• Proof of concept add-in: Media Connect Controller

  While the Home Server Console exposes the ability to share ones built in Videos, Music and Pictures shares using Windows Media Connect (WMC) (Microsoft's implementation of the Universal Plug and Play Audio and Video standards )... the Home Server... Posted Feb 10 2008, 03:45 PM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server Development

• New Home Server Add-in: Tab Manager

  In yet another attempt to make the Home Server Console a little more manageable with regards to multiple tabs, Tab Manager allows a user to bypass the normal Home Server Add-in loading mechanism and display whatever tabs they want inside of another tab... Posted Jan 23 2008, 09:09 PM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server Development

• Coming Soon: Tab Management

  Last month I mentioned a proof of concept add-in I was working on to change the way a user looks at some of the tabs in the Home Server Console. I'm pleased to say that this add-in still proceeds (granted fairly slowly over the last month) and with... Posted Jan 16 2008, 11:12 AM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server Development

• Amazing New Add-in: Disk Management

  After first seeing the announcement of Sam Wood's new Disk Management add-in I cursed at being beaten out of the door with a tool to help a user figure out which drive is which in their Home Server Console as my attempt kept getting pushed back due... Posted Jan 15 2008, 01:56 PM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server Development

• How many tabs is too many?

  Ever wonder how many console tabs the Windows Home Server Console can display? So did I... so I built a few extra projects and deployed them to my Home Server: The answer is... 100 and believe it or not... that's a bad thing! As much as I would like... Posted Dec 30 2007, 02:43 PM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server Development

• Indefinite WHS testing in VPC

  In many homes this morning countless children screamed and yelled as they discovered Santa had visited and left them just what they'd asked for. What follows is something I learned a few weeks ago and that made me act similarly... only I was giggling... Posted Dec 25 2007, 07:57 AM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server Development, WHS Dev Tips

• WHS Dev Tips: Correction

  On Monday and Tuesday I made a horrible mistake in the two part WHS Dev Tip on remote and local debugging as I completely forgot about the static Control.CheckForIllegalCrossThreadCalls property that can be used to get around debug time exceptions such... Posted Dec 13 2007, 04:25 PM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server Development, WHS Dev Tips

• Proof of concept add-in: Tab Management

  Part of the reason I created Tab Scroller was that at times I just have too many tabs to deal with in the Windows Home Server Console and today I came up with another method of dealing with large numbers of them... a Tab Management tab. What does it do... Posted Dec 11 2007, 09:34 PM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server Development

• Relaunched: BrendanGrant.com

  After owning the name domain for more than four and a half years... at last, there is now actual, useful, honest to goodness content! And no... there are no links related to the cobuyitaphobia wars (in which I was victorious ). Despite the frequency of... Posted Dec 03 2007, 10:03 PM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server Development

• Updated: Web Folders 4 WHS

  Today I am making available the latest build of Web Folders 4 WHS (version 0.6.2) which is largely a cosmetic upgrade from the previous version (version 0.6.0) and includes some new eye candy for more easily identifying folders and whether they are web... Posted Nov 30 2007, 11:32 AM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server Development

• New Home Server Add-in: Tab Scroller

  Do you use a lot of Home Server add-ins? Do you have so many Home Server Console tabs that you hand begins to hurt as you click through them all? Do you wish that the list was scrollable? Well now it is! As hinted at yesterday ... Description Tab Scroller... Posted Nov 28 2007, 06:33 AM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server Development

• Windows Home Server Development: Grrr

  As much as I love Windows Home Server, I find myself hating it at times when I keep running into issues which prevent me from so fully exploiting it as easily as I would like and wouldn't you know... today was one of those days. Today I finally had... Posted Nov 27 2007, 03:51 PM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server Development

• Missing Certificate with WebFolders4WHS

  Problem: A user remotely connecting to a Windows Home Server computer configured with WebFolders4WHS may receive the following error: The folder you entered does not appear to be valid. Please choose another or a dialog titled "Select the certificate... Posted Nov 21 2007, 05:45 PM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server Development