Andrew Edney

April 21st 2009 will see the first UK Windows Media Center and Windows Home Server Usergroup Event taking place at the Aston Science Park in Birmingham.

Did you know that there is a Windows Home Server group on there? Well, actually, there are several Windows Home Server groups on there, but there is only one run by some of the guys in the Windows Home Server team at Microsoft.

The other night I posted that Ed Tittel has put together a great post that explained where to get the latest drivers if you happen to own an HP MediaSmart EX470 or EX475 Server. Ed has now published a much longer article on Tom’s Hardware site that includes this information but also lots more including how to change the processor and also benchmarking your MediaSmart Server.

Microsoft are advertising a webcast for Microsoft Partners called “5W/50 Series – Windows Home Server – The Next Version”. This is a free to attend webcast due to take place on Friday 5th June 2009 at 9am Pacific US time, for an hour.

According to Akihabaranews in Japan, Epson are going to release a new Windows Home Server called the SV120h.

Brendan Grant has just published an article on utilising single sign-on with ASP.NET on your Windows Home Server in order to use with custom web applications.

Terry over at We Got Served has the low down on the European pricing of Acer’s two easyStore Home Servers.

My friend, and fellow MVP, Pete Stagman has just published the first in a series of articles on how you can build your own Astaro Personal Firewall with either spare or low end parts, and no other cost.