Add-In: TV Manager 1.0

August 30, 2008 — Philip Churchill

TV Manager 1.0

Finally out of beta, TV Manager 1.0 is now available for download. The add-in lets you move your recordings to your Windows Home Server for management and storage. With the biggest feature, being the ability to watch your recordings in Media Center as if they were sitting in your Media Center record path.

You can delete recordings from the Windows Home Server Console or by using Media Center and you can also play the recordings on non-Media Center PCs using the Windows Home Server Console or Windows Explorer.

Changes Since The Last Beta:

  • Fix: TV Manager Service setting permissions.
  • Fix: Compatibility with limited user accounts.
  • Fix: Launch recordings straight from the Windows Home Server Console.
  • Fix: Changed how recordings were moved (to fix ghost file issue) but lost the ability to monitor progress percentage.
  • New: Added Media Center Extender compatibility.
  • New: TV Manager Add-In interface redone.
  • New: Experimental ComSkip feature (disabled by default)
  • New: Regenerate the Xml in case of cache corruption without tester.exe.
  • Small things were changed and fixed.

The add-in and a help file are available for download from here.

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WHS Officially Launches in Japan

August 30, 2008 — Philip Churchill

Today’s the day that the Japanese version of Windows Home Server launches in Japan. At Akihabara, the heart of the consumer technology scene in Tokyo, Streaming21 and Microsoft will be unveiling Windows Home Server at a consumer launch press event.

Companies to release Windows Home Server products for Japan include Streaming21, Dell, Epson, NEC, Mouse Computer Japan, Logitec, Thirdwave, Unitcom, Tsukumo, PDX Japan, Clevery, Regin, Applied, Sofmap, and Sycom (more here.)

For those of you interested, the full press release can be read here.

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WHS Developer Guidelines Published

August 30, 2008 — Philip Churchill

WHS_DevGuidelines

Microsoft have just released a document entitled Windows Home Server Developer Guidelines, which is a supplement to the Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows Home Server.

The 16 page .doc document provides guidelines for developers who are writing applications for Windows Home Server, following these guidelines will improve the user experience of your applications.

The guidelines look at the Windows Home Server environment and how to develop functional WHS solutions taking application security into consideration with lots of application examples thrown in for good measure.

Download from here.

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