From Around the Web

February 29, 2008 — Philip Churchill

A couple of articles from around the web. First we have The Grouchy Gamer with his Adventures With Windows Home Server. Next author Ramon Pailla was flipping through the tech ads in the Sunday paper when she came across an ad for Windows Home Server. She asks is User friendly work style – good for your career?

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Confused about SageTV for Windows Home Server?

February 29, 2008 — Philip Churchill

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If like me you have been a bit confused in the past about SageTV for Windows Home Server then the post Totally Confused Concerning SageTV for Windows Home Server(WHS) – Please Help! on their forums may be of help to you.

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Add-In: PowerSwitch

February 28, 2008 — Philip Churchill

An add-in for those of us that like saving power (which we should all be). PowerSwitch ads a tab in the settings dialog which enables you to set a power down state to wake up and to sleep your home server and which method to use, either shutdown or hibernate if supported.

PowerSwitch

More info is available here.

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Data Corruption Bug and How to Avoid it

February 28, 2008 — Philip Churchill

Terry Walsh from WeGotServed talks about the data corruption bug that has hit Windows Home Server and points out how to avoid it over on The Media Center Show Podcast.

Available here.

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PerfectDisk 2008 Updated

February 28, 2008 — Philip Churchill

The defragmentation tool PerfectDisk 2008 has been updated to build 43. The following features and fixes are for all versions of PerfectDisk 2008. eg Professional, Server,  WHS etc:

  • New Features
    1. Improved defragmentation speed.
    2. Added ability to work in lower screen resolutions, such as 800×600 or 1024×768.
    3. Added print statistics functionality.
    4. Updated help files.
    5. Added ability to set license key via Active Directory Group Policy.
    6. Added the logging of a reason why the StealthPatrol schedule was suspended.
    7. Added “Every X weeks” field to the Exchange weekly schedule.
    8. Added Help Button in PerfectDisk Settings window.
    9. F1 opens Help.
    10. Added a warning when manually starting Exchange Defragmentation that this will dismount the datastore/stop the services.
  • Bug Fixes
    1. Fixed boot time defragmentation “Insufficient Space” error on Vista.
    2. Fixed installation on a remote computer problem.
    3. Fixed setting of the Exchange server name to allow the usage of PerfectDisk 2008 for Exchange on cluster servers.
    4. Fixed the problem of initiation of boot time defrag on a remote computer that would lead to reboot of the local computer.
    5. Fixed persistence of boot time defrag settings for FAT16 drives.
    6. Fixed problem when system tray icon shows idle state even though PD is currently defragmenting a drive.
    7. Fixed US-only non-localizable date format on Performance tab.
    8. Fixed file size displayed incorrectly for large files after defragmenting selected files.
    9. Fixed issue when sometimes fragmented files do not show up in the most fragmented files list.
    10. Fixed limit for “Every X weeks” field for weekly schedules.
    11. Fixed PerfectDisk crash when USB drive is removed during a defragmentation of another drive.
    12. Fixed incorrect saving of statistics to a file.
    13. Fixed screensaver defragmentation that used to stop when monitor turns off.
    14. Fixed the display of Daily schedules set to run on Weekdays or Weekends on AutoPilot tab.
    15. Made Free Space tab hidable in the server version of PerfectDisk 2008.
    16. Fixed setting of “Stop if any shadow copies exist” option.
    17. Fixed value of settings for “Every X Days” field when Daily schedules field edited.
    18. Fixed settings of “Defragment the selected system files on EVERY reboot”; made the behavior consistent with PerfectDisk v8.
    19. Fixed problem when some file extensions could not be added to the extension list on Free Space tab.
    20. Made default extension lists consistent on Free Space tab.

    Existing users can update from within the program interface and new users can download an evaluation copy and get more information from here.

    • UPDATE: Build 43/Service Pack 1 of PerfectDisk 2008 has been temporarily pulled. You will not see this if you try to update now. A new build and service pack will be coming shortly.

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    Create a Shared PDF Printer using PDF Creator

    February 27, 2008 — Philip Churchill

    Deploying the FREE windows utility PDFCreator on Windows Home Server will enable you to Print to PDF and save paper. The confessions of a freeware junkie blog has the details on how to set it up.

    http://maximillianx.blogspot.com/2008/02/network-admin-tip-create-shared-pdf.html

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    More Info on the WHS Corruption Bug

    February 27, 2008 — Philip Churchill

    ComputerWorld writer Gregg Keizer has been speaking to the WHS team about the corruption bug. Todd Headrick, the product planning manager for WHS had this to say in the article:

    In many cases, users might not realize that they are, in fact, “editing” a file, because an application may be appending metadata to a file’s contents. He cited the example of digital music files, such as those played by Windows Media Player 11, one of the programs on the reported-but-not-confirmed list. When you’re downloading album art, your actually changing the file, he said. If you rate a song, you’re actually editing the file.

    Remember although it is a big issue this problem does not affect a lot of users and Microsoft are working on this full time and are expanding the scope of their testing.

    Read the full article here.

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    The Big Book of Windows Hacks includes WHS topics

    February 26, 2008 — Philip Churchill

    Big Book of Windows Hacks

    A book which is currently available but is not specifically just for Windows Home Server users is the Big Book of Windows Hacks by Preston Gralla which gives you everything you need to get the most out of your Windows Vista or XP system, including its related applications and the hardware it runs or connects to. This book takes you beyond the operating system with hacks for applications like Internet Explorer 7 and Office 2007, and hardware such as the Zune, your networking gear, and the PC itself including specific hacks for Windows Home Server including Make a Remote Connection to Windows Home Server Over the Internet which we have managed to get an excerpt for you in PDF format.

    http://cachefly.oreilly.com/make/hacks/excerpts/BigBookOfWindowsHacks/BigBookOfWindowsHacks-129.pdf

    The Big Book of Windows Hacks is available now and is published by O’Reilly.

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    Next Major Version of WHS is Codenamed “Vail"

    February 26, 2008 — Philip Churchill

    Mary Jo Foley has some interesting info on her blog that the next major version of Windows Home Server will be codenamed “Vail” and will also include more entertainment “capabilities”, whatever that means?

    http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1217

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    The Week in Review – Sunday’s Summary

    February 24, 2008 — Philip Churchill

    What was going on this week at mswhs.com? Here’s your chance to catch-up if you missed something!

  • New Add-In will Integrate MCE and WHS
    • Microsoft employee Steve Lindsay passion in his spare time is Media Center and Home Server, so it makes sense that Steve is about to go into beta with a MCE Home Server Manager application, which does the following: Simple install.Move recordings to Windows Home Server drive on scheduled…
  • Exclusive 25% Discount on WHS Training Videos
    • We brought details of the new video training from Train Signal on Windows Home Server the other day and we have negotiated a discount code with them which will enable you to receive a 25% discount of the already discounted price of $199.95 saving you an extra $49.99, bringing the total cost down to…
  • Add-In: Vista Caller-ID
    • The Vista Caller-ID WHS Add-in is designed specifically for Windows Home Server networks that include one or more Vista Caller-ID client machines. Vista Caller-ID is an on-demand Caller ID log file aggregator add-in where the Caller ID history is centrally stored on the WHS Caller ID database with…
  • Data Corruption Issue (946676) Updated
    • The Microsoft Knowledge Base article 946676 has been updated today regarding When you use certain programs to edit files on a home computer that uses Windows Home Server, the files may become corrupted when you save them to the home server.Microsoft has successfully reproduced corruptions for the…
  • Windows Small Business Server 2008 looks very similar to WHS
    • We have some screen shots of the new Windows Small Business Server 2008 for you. Do they look familiar to you? Taken from the Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008 pages. Thanks to Bob Crook for bringing it to our attention.
  • Windows Home Server Training Videos
    • The leading provider of IT training products Train Signal Inc have released over 12 hours of instructor-led training videos for Windows Home Server which show you how to take advantage of WHS to make your digital environment simpler, more organized and more secure.The training is designed for…
  • Norco DS-520G Network Storage Appliance Review
    • Back in October (2007) of last year we gave you details of the DS-520 Home Server NAS Appliance from Norco Technologies which is available as two separate models the DS-520F provides Dual 10/100 Ethernet and a 600MHz Processor whilst the DS-520G has Dual Gigabit Ethernet and a 1GHz Processor and in…
  • How To Use Time Machine with Windows Home Server
    • Blogger Jeremy Jones has a Mac Mini, MacBook and a MacBook Pro and shows us how to back them all up using iTimeMachine to Windows Home Server. Read the full post here.

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