Use the articles in the following table to learn about Office Online Server and Office Online with SharePoint Server. Office Online Server is the next version of Office Web Apps Server. It is an on-premises server.
Thursday 26th Novemember saw my media server (an old desktop running XP SP2) give up on me. The harddisk that the OS was installed on was corrupt with a boot becoming impossible because some of window's key files like HAL.dll were missing/corrupt. I soon realised that the disk was finished. But it didn't matter too much because all of my media was installed on an external HD and a second internal HD in the machine.
I like to keep up to date with some of the shows that air in the US before they are shown in the UK. I use Xbox Media Centre to play back the stuff I download, with the "media server" merely serving up the files accross my network. I have a modded Xbox (not a 360) that allows me to play my "backup" games and also allows you to use the Xbox as a media centre.
I found myself logged on to my trusty old "media server" all of the time, downloading these shows using the Bittorrent protocol. I've always wanted to have a client that would run as a windows service that I could administer remotely and would not require me to have a User ID logged onto the opperating system 24x7.
I decided to install a copy of Windows 2003 on my media server, using the same approach as before with the OS on a separate disk. Over the last 4 years I have used most of the torrent clients, the best one being uTorrent. It doesn't have an installation package, require Java, or screw up my router.
Excellent article. This is just what I was planning. Till now I was thinking of using UltraVNC. Yours seems to be an easier method. However I'll keep the VNC setup in case I need to administer the bittorrent server remotely.
One of the easiest ways in setting up a file download and sharing server would be to use the TurnKey Torrent Server appliance. It's just one of a family of pre-integrated TurnKey Linux Software Appliances.
1. At the time of this posting, there is no Windows Server 2008 Resource Kit Tools, so get the "srvany.exe " from the "Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools " and copy it to a suitable location on your Win2008 server (e.g. C:\Windows\System32\ ).
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