4 more OEM Partners added to the list of WHS Hardware Manufactures

Well we now have four more OEM partners added to the list of Windows Home Server hardware manufactures. Iomega, Fujitsu-Siemens, Velocity Micro and Tranquil PC.

The Iomega, is an expandable consumer networking product that will include up to four hot-swappable drives and the Fujitsu Siemens unit, called the “Scaleo Home Server,” will include 500GB of storage.

Logo iomega      Fujitsu

The Velocity Micro unit can be oriented either horizontally or vertically and will use use an Intel Conroe-like processor with DDR2 RAM. It will also have have SATA II (with NCQ) hard drives, gigabit Ethernet, eSATA, and will launch at an “extremely competitive price”.

velocity      Tranquil PC

And finally the Tranquil PC T7 can again be oriented either horizontally or vertically and via an optional bracket can be mounted on the wall or in a car. Its a very small unit and is fan less.

We cant wait to see all four units in action. The WHS hardware scene is defiantly hotting up!

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WHS Forums to be Upgraded – More Down time!

The Windows Home Server forums are due to be upgraded on Wednesday 25 July 2007 to SP4. This patch will provide a better forum for us and resolve some long standing issues, so be prepared for a lot of down time.

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Add-in: Program Launcher – Launch any Program from within the WHS Console

Program Launcher from Red D Solutions enables you to launch any application directly from the Windows Home Server Console just by entering the Program Path and Program Name.
It comes with 4 applications already setup. Desktop, Event Viewer, IIS Manager and Windows Explorer. You can add any other applications you wish e.g. Task Manager.

Program Launcher

This is a very useful add-in, well done to developer Dan Forsyth who had this to say:

“While working on my first add-in I got really annoyed at having a console and a remote desktop session open to check the event log and iis admin tools. So I whipped up a quick add-in that will let you launch any app you want from the console.”

Download Program Launcher version 1.0

UPDATE: Version 1.1 has also been released that solves an icon issue where the icons shown for the application were jarred and B&W. If there are issues with this build you can still use version 1.0

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