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Here in South Dakota there are two main cell phone providers... Verizon Wireless and Alltel (formerly Cellular One) and when I first got a cell phone back in 2002 I went with Verizon because they had far better coverage in the area... a decision I've largely regretted ever since. As great as Verizon coverage is throughout the state, I've ...

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 UI falls flat if one wants to share digital content (via WMC) from even more shares or a custom ...

Big news and a big move is coming around these parts, news/a move that I'll be announcing when the actual events are a bit closer... in the mean time a little confirmation that I made the right choice. Despite the general... nervousness about moving to a far away and strange place where I've been only once... waking up on a day such as ...

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. Say what? Rather than having a cluttered tab tool bar full of lots and lots of add-ins: A ...

Due to the recent news that WHS add-in's must start with a capital letter (HomeServerConsoleTab.TabName.dll (correct) vs HomeServerConsoleTab.tabName.dll (incorrect))... I've updated WHS Test Loader (instructions) to also check for this condition. Downloads: C# Project Pre-built executable

Apparently someone snuck a camera into a recent showing of Cloverfield and got this: Oh what chills ran down my spine when the theme began to play.

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 any luck will be available in an early form before too long. It works quite well today... only ...

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 to other priorities. Then I used it... and was thrilled, and floored. Not only does it provide ...

... and Visual Studio 2008 hasn't even hit retail shelves yet. From the sounds of it... the bug in VS 2005 and 2008 (at least) that prevents proper automatic specification of the new project's assembly name based on the settings of the project template will be included in Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008. Huzaah! While this kind of ...

Did you know the Home Server Console uses the Remote Desktop Protocol/Terminal Services to bring the application to clients? Did you know that you can launch additional applications in the session?Terminal ServicesBefore getting into what we can do... lets make sure we all understand what we are using... Windows Terminal Services is a server ...