Reference
A collection of articles on various topics that interest me. Written mostly in order to document my own solutions to problems, and published in the hope that they may help others save some time.
2010
Disabling SBSCore Service on Windows Home Server
The Small Business Server Core Services (SBCore) that come preinstalled with Windows Home Server prevent the server from effectively running Active Directory, joining an existing domain and sleeping for prolonged periods of time by periodically shutting it down or restarting it. The service itself cannot be disabled in the Services Manager, and it will restart itself if the process is terminated through Task Manager.
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Asynchronous Streaming Reverse Proxy for IIS 6.0
I recently started to use Subsonic on my Windows Home Server to make my music collection available over the internet. Subsonic must be configured to run on a port other than port 80, because this port is already used by the IIS web server. This is a major inconvenience, because it may prevent you from accessing the media from firewall restricted networks, and it will make the URLs to your media server somewhat more ugly. In order to get around these two problems, IIS has to serve as a proxy for the server.
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Uninstalling Twonky and HP Software from MediaSmart Home Server
What do you do to convert a barely useful system into a completely broken system? You release a patch! And so HP set to work to develop and release the long awaited Update 2 for the MediaSmart 3.0 software, providing large parts of the customer base with a whole new level of psychological terror.
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