HP MediaSmart Server Webcast – Replay Link

If you missed the 50 minute webcast on the HP MediaSmart Server then it is available for viewing/downloading. The free demonstaration with guest Paul Thurrott from SuperSite for Windows can be seen here.

For your convenience the questions and answers from the session are provided below for you. Good reading Wink

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Windows Home Server – Updated and all is well!

Well hopefully by now we have all installed the November update for Windows Home Server. The update package known as KB941914 has now resolved the following 7 issues:

Trusted certificate availability

  • We will no longer receive certificate warnings in the Web browser when accessing our Web site by using an external URL. This has improved the remote access experience for Windows Home Server users by providing them with a “trusted SSL certificate” for their home servers. That means customers will be able to access their home server from outside the home without any security warnings being generated by the web browser.  GoDaddy, a leading provider of Web domain addresses, is the provider of the free trusted certs which have a 5 year expiration date with a street value of $100 – all for free!

Shared folders and server storage

  • Data files that contain NTFS alternate data streams may be corrupted on a Windows Home Server computer has been addressed, so NO more corruption issues.
  • Windows Home Server Drive Extender did not update read-only attributes from the master shadow to the alternate shadow. Therefore, Microsoft Money backup files were not successfully stored in Windows Home Server shared folders.
  • Some users received an inconsistent notification when a hard disk that was installed in or connected to a Windows Home Server computer failed.

Home computer backup technologies

  • Files on the client computer were not successfully backed up if the latest successful backup was marked as “deletion.”
  • A Delete All command button has been added to the Backup tab on the Windows Home Server Console Settings page which enables you to permanently delete all home computer backups that are stored on the home server. The Delete All command can be useful if a hard disk fails on the home server or if the backup database needs to be reset because of consistency errors or because of other unforeseen circumstances.

Remote Access configuration

  • The configuration of Windows Home Server Remote Access displayed a misleading message if the router’s UPnP settings were disabled.

Wow, that’s a lot of updates that have finally resolved some major issues, so If you do not have your Windows Home Server configured to install updates automatically then update now and reboot the server. Once updated the resources tab within the console settings will display one of the following 2 screens depending on whether you had the original RTM or the RTM Media Refresh version of the WHS software installed.

Revision 1

Original RTM after November update.

Revision 2

RTM Media Refresh after November update.

Notice in both instances the WHS Backup & Restore and WHS Storage Manager have both been updated to the latest version 6.0.1500.8

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Sync Add-In – Coming Soon

Many of you are using the free SyncToy from Microsoft. A utility for copying, moving, and synchronization of different directories between a Windows XP or Vista machine and WHS.

Eric Maurer plans to integrate this great tool into an add-in for Windows Home Server that will:

  • Open Microsoft SyncToy directly from the console
  • View and Run Folder Pairs from the console
  • Open Scheduled Tasks from the console
  • Run and manage Scheduled Tasks from the console

Sync-full 

Stay tuned for more information.

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Add-In: Tab Scroller

scroll wheel mouse

If you have lots of add-in’s installed then you are probably already fed up with clicking through a whole list of Home Server tabs to get to the one you need. You could use the previously mentioned Tab Reorder to make sure the tab you require was in the right position or now you can also use Brendan Grant’s new add-in Tab Scroller to use the mouse scroll wheel to scroll through the list.

One unique feature of this add-in is that it is nearly invisible in the Console, making the only obvious presence of the add-in being the functionality it provides and it’s showing up on the Installed Add-Ins tab.

One warning that does need to be made about this add-in is that it is really only recommended for users with more than 7 Console tabs, any fewer and it’ll either be worthless due to not having anything to scroll to and/or it can cause some visual oddities, like the scroll buttons being present and clickable but doing nothing.

Once installed via the normal console, settings, Add-Ins tab it is just a matter of placing your mouse curser within the tab area and using your mouse scroll wheel to scroll the list.

Download Tab Scroller and more information is available from here.

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