Ask the Home Server Guy

July 9, 2008 — Philip Churchill

Home Server Hacks are already on part 3 of their new series of Q&A called Ask the Home Server Guy.

Ask The Home Server Guy

Fellow MVP Donavon West has the daunting tasks of answering your Windows Home Server related questions with detailed explanations and pictures too (I like that part!). From the HP EX470, iTunes and Macs to the Remote Desktop Connection having expired and lots more.

All future installments can be found on the new Ask the Home Server Guy website.

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BitDefender Total Security 2009 Beta 3

July 9, 2008 — Philip Churchill

Beta 3 of BitDefender Total Security 2009 has just become available, the security package add-in for Windows Home Server.

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New in Beta 3:

  • Online backup for Windows x64 systems
  • Vulnerability scanning
  • Wizard to create new antimalware scan tasks from basic view
  • History events for several modules
  • IM Antiphishing not implemented

Known issues:

  • Pppoe connections and ICS are not filtered by the BitDefender Firewall
  • Yahoo! Messenger crashes on login when script control and game mode are enabled
  • BitDefender button is not displayed in the Windows Live Messenger windows on x64b systems
  • Rarely Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live Messenger may crash on exit.
  • BitDefender Security Center may crash during a product update.
  • On Windows Vista SP1 (x86 & x64), the local computer appears offline in the Network Map tree.
  • Sometimes the registration wizard freezes during a product update (workaround click „cancel” in the registration wizard).
  • Time Limiter does block the internet traffic in the specified time interval

You may sign up to the beta program from here. Existing beta testers can also find the download and additional information from the same link.

More details of the features included in BitDefender Total Security 2009 are available from here.

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Should WHS and Media Center be Combined?

July 9, 2008 — Philip Churchill

Windows expert Ed Bott writes about special-purpose consumer devices on ZDNet:

Windows Media Center is mature and extremely well supported. It wouldn’t be that difficult to port the Media Center code to a next-generation operating system that could then form the basis for cool, quiet PCs that could form the hub of a household digital media system. In fact, a device like HP’s MediaSmart Server, which currently runs Windows Home Server, could combine Media Center and backup functions into a single box and would probably run better without the unnecessary overhead of Windows components it doesn’t use.

So, what do you reckon? Would it be a good idea to combine Windows Home Server and Media Center as one product? Leave your thoughts below.

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WHS – Great for Home Based Businesses with Small Networks

July 9, 2008 — Philip Churchill

Would you like to know how Windows Home Server compares to Microsoft Small Business Server and why Home Server is also great for home based businesses with small networks?

Then head over to smallbiztechnology.com where Joel Sider, senior product manager of the Windows Home Server team at Microsoft is interviewed.

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Ad-In: TV Manager Beta 3

July 9, 2008 — Philip Churchill

Beta 3 of the add-in TV Manager is now available. Designed for both WHS and Media Center, it copies your recordings off to your WHS for storage and management. It comes in two parts. Part one, is installed on the server for management of the Recordings. Part two, is the Media Center (Vista only) plug-in that copies new recordings over to the WHS deleting the original. It also allows you to watch the recordings like you normally would via ‘recorded tv’.

Fixes:

  • Added support for French installations of Windows Home Server. (Used to be a problem with the spelling of Videos)
  • Fixed the Media Center Scheduler service going bonkers. (Modified how the service is changed to run under the current user instead of LocalSystem)
  • Fixed the Problem downloading Guide data bug. (Was a result of changing the account the scheduler service ran under. Fixed by changed the permissions on first run of the client)

New Features:

  • Added logging to the TV Manager client. (You’ll get a dialog box telling you to check the event log with the TV Manager category)
  • Automatically loads and refreshes the data for the TV Manager Console Tab.
  • Exit context menu shows up when right clicking the client icon in the system tray.

All the information is available from here.

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