Pedro Innecco

The HP MediaSmart server [470 and 475 models] comes with some handy add-ons, such as the iTunes server (for those who have an iPod) and an addition to the web server called Photo Webshare, which allow users to create and share pictures through the web, straight from their Windows Home Server (WHS). Sounds cool, right? Well, not for me it doesn’t.

While I see the value both products, first and foremost I don’t have an iPod, so I disabled the iTunes server. as for the Photo Webshare, I don’t like it for the main reason that the albums you create are independent from the pictures you have in your shared photos folder. Which also brings into the attention the fact that pictures published in Photo Webshare aren’t going to be protected by the folder replication redundancy feature.

The only problem is, I can ‘t find an out of the box way of uninstalling or disabling HP Photo Webshare. At the moment I am researching on how this could be done without breaking everything, and I’ll make sure I post my findings here. In the meantime, if you know a way to disable or uninstall HP Photo Webshare, please let me know how. Even better, you could share your findings with everyone at this forum.

 UPDATE (March 2010): After a long wait, HP has finally released an update for their MediaSmart Servers series 47x and 48x. This update will remove HP Photo Webshare, and add more features. You can find more information about this update here.