Thus always been curious what seems home network a serious geek? Well let us take a tour.
Click the following thumbnail to download a PDF of my network and read along as we explore the components.
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The Internet connection is provided by Comcast. The 8Mbps download version. With the Apple Airport Extreme router I get more than that, often, and the loading of 768 Kbps full I'm allowed Airport Extreme provides a service network-attached storage using a Maxtor OneTouch II 250 GB drive. Used for backup and occasional moving files to the extreme. Attached is a power adapter Panasonic's HD PLC. This provides network over the House mains to also encrypt all traffic this feeds the man room Xbox 360 and wireless coverage in the back of the house that acts of Xbox 360 as a media center extender to provide TV viewing on the home network I will be moving the Airport Express to the living room to pass downstairs. The iTunes AppleTV is talking with the man room Airport Extreme via 5 GHz 802 .11n wireless. My main desktop computer is an iMac G5 which is connected to the extreme via wired connection. Was easier than wireless 802.11 G irregular because it is in the same wall as the primary network connectivity I stopped a hacked Linksys WRT54G with ddWRT that offers wireless 802.11 g for my powerbook and the Airport Express about the effect of the House. It simply is connected in extreme in access point mode not so all Apple router based on sharing works.2 living room.
A second Airport Extreme provides performance wired through 5 GHz 802 .11n wireless home network. The HP z545 Home Media Center provides functions for double DirecTV DVR receivers. grant not HD, but good enough for us for now.This is what sends TV content for the Xbox 360 so I can watch my programs written while my wife watches it.Unfortunately HP recently announced that it will quit doing these style units.3. Home back
Uplink network is provided by another Panasonic HD-PLC powerline adapter. 871W Cisco that used to be that my main router is now designated as 802.11 G access point coverage to the end of the room of the House.Then you ask how Microsoft and Apple can play in the same House for entertainment media? Ya'll there. Media Center as the primary DVR with iTunes/Podcasting content via an AppleTV. Lance in occasional use VisualHub to convert MS-DVR recorded TV shows and I can make that game on AppleTV or my iPod on the road.
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In short, Launchpad serves the following purposes: It is the entry point for the day-to-day tasks related to Windows Home Server from the client PCs. En eiminates the need for matching usernames and passwords setup between server and client, and eliminates the password sync dialogs. It Provides a logical and centralized location where all home server related tasks are exposed, resulting in much better awareness of home server and its capabilities. It allows everyone in the household to have visibility to developers ' add-ins, than just home server administrators. Why should developers care about Launchpad? So far, home server add-ins or applications were focused on ' Administrative ' kind of tasks that extended the Admin Console. The audience for such add ins were limited to one person in the house hold, most possibly the head of the house hold who does the ' Administrative tasks ' on the computers. With Launchpad, we now have the ability to create end-to-end add-ins with user interfaces targeted at everyone in the home who uses a PC joined to home server. A typical example can be an addin providing the ability for everyone in the home to sync a folder on their PC to home server, and then subsequently to the cloud. The launch point for a configuration UI for adding or removing folders included in the auto-sync scenario above (which is specific to the user's PC) would be Launchpad, and not dashboards. As you can see from the example this is an opportunity for developers to create add-ins with multiple facets – one server side component targeting the administrator and one client side component targeting everyone in the home. The result is more people using your add-ins and more word getting spread about your product/addin. With our add-in deployment mechanism, you can package both these components together and we'll take care of deploying and installing the relevant pieces on the server and client fully and appropriately as well (more on this in a later post). So, as you can see, we have built a powerful SDK for developers to build a truly end-to-end add-ins spanning the client, server, and the cloud. When to extend Launchpad and when not toJust so that we give a clear guidance on extensibility of Launchpad vs Dashboard, I am going to call this out specifically here.You extend Launchpad when …You have a task or resource/UI that you expect everyone in the household to access/use. Eg: Backup my PC, access shared folders etc ...The task IS NOT related to the management or administration of the Server. You DO NOT need Administrator privileges on the server to do the task.You extend Dashboard when …You have a task or resource/UI that you expect only the head of the household (home Admin – typically the person who sets up Home servers) to access/use. Eg: Add a hard drive, create user account etc..The IS tasks related to the management or administration of the Server, and not a day-to-day one DO .you need Administrator privileges on the server to do the task. When in doubt, please do not hesitate to reach out to us. Adding entries to LaunchpadYou can add entries to Launchpad to point to a client application that makes use of Home Server in one way or the other. Your entries will appear under a category called ' Addins ' on the main page of Launchpad. Adding categories to LaunchpadIf you want to add multiple entries to the Launchpad UI, we recommend grouping them under categories. Categories can be added upto three levels deep. Example: Addins-> (built-in category) Company-> (Your category) Antivirus-> (Your sub category) System Scan (entry) Scan Schedule (entry) Online Backup-> (Your sub category) Backup Now (entry) Backup Settings (entry) Enhances coming in future buildsIn the later builds, we are looking at adding capability for targeting Launchpad tasks to specific users who are part of a User Group on the Server. For example, you can target only users who are part of ' Remote Access Group ' to see a link to your remote portal hosted in Home Server. We are also making it so that Launchpad automatically authenticates the machine to home server using the username and password stored, if the user choses to do so. I know, as soon as the user logs into the local machine, they are authenticated to Home Server so that all the services that require authentication to server work seamlessly. Another enhancement that is coming is the ability to control the alerts that are seen from the tray icon. User would be able to choose from three options – No alerts, network alerts or local & network alerts. On top of that you'll see a lot more in the look and feel for Launchpad when we ship!