If you have been following on from Part 1 in this series, I covered installing VirtualBox and how to manage VirtuaBox using the phpVirtualBox web interface. Hopefully you already have VirtualBox installed and running nicely on your Windows Home Server, and have a Virtual Machine or two. All that’s left is to add the a few finishing touches too our configuration and we will have a great Virtual Machine hosting platform on top of Windows Home Server. Automatically Start and Stop Virtual Machines on Boot-Up and Shutdown On the rare occasion that you need to reboot your Windows Home Server, you want...

One of the slight drawbacks of my migration from a Windows Server 2008 R2 file server to a Windows Home Server 2011 file server was the lack of Hyper-V in WHS 2011. I used to run a few Virtual Machines under Hyper-V for testing purposes and wanted to do the same under WHS 2011. I decided to use VirtualBox as I have had a great experience with it before on my desktop’s and laptops. After following Part 1 and Part 2 in this series of articles you will be able to: Host Virtual Machines on your Windows Home Server 2011 box Manage Virtual Machines using a Web Interface Login to managing your...

Windows Home Server 2011 makes a great server for hosting your media on. Out of the box it has cool interface for streaming your media over the web, but unfortunately it doesn’t play nicely with mobile devices like the iPhone, iPad or Android. If you want to stream music from your WHS 2011 to an iPhone, iPad or Android, you have to go third-party. Enter Subsonic, a free, web-based media streamer which transcodes music on the fly so it can be streamed to pretty much any device. You can find an extensive list of Subsonic mobile Apps here, but it includes apps iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7 and...

To upgrade from Quicken 2002 to Quicken 2009, you need to install Quicken 2004, convert your .QDF file to Quicken 2004 format, and then convert from Quicken 2004 format to Quicken 2009 format. Follow these steps to learn how to do the upgrade. Note : This was done using the Quicken 2009 Australian/New Zealand Edition. Put your Quicken 2009 CD in the drive. Close the Auto Run box and browse the CD. Navigate to  D:\CV\CBTrial and run CashBook2004Trial.exe (Where D: is your CD Rom Drive) Follow the prompts and install the Quicken 2004 trial. Launch Quicken 2004 Cashbook from the start menu,...