MS Windows Home Server

My Movies for Windows Home Server has been updated to version 1.50 Build 9 to fix a problem with the playback of images.

My Movies for Windows Home Server allows you to create a copy of your DVD/CD collection onto your Home Server.

More details are available from here.

The add-in WHS PHP Installer has been updated to version 1.04

The add-in installs a preconfigured PHP 5.2.6 install which includes the PHP software to make it easy and convenient to install PHP onto Windows Home Server.

This latest version includes a modified installer to install to c:\php5 and localized scripts missed in 1.03. and the bug in environment variable not removed on uninstall has been cleaned up.

Thanks to the German Home Server Blog for the update.

More details are available from here.

Version 3.1 of WHS-Download Manager is now available for download.

The add-in helps organize large amounts of data and can download ULRs. The add-in can be configured to download a specified amount of data at a specified time and is optimized for use with Rapidshare, both free and premium accounts.

Version 3.1 contains some bug fixes and adds a new feature: DLC-Container format support. Links encrypted in DLC-Files can be added to the Download-Pool.

Developer Christof Rakowski also tells us that a Client-Version, which will feed links to the Windows Home Server, will be out soon – Great news!

Grab the add-in from here.

D-Links most popular home security cameras can now be managed and accessed within the Windows Home Server console.

After a longer than usual install process (compared to other add-ins) the D-ViewCam add-in adds a D-Link IP Camera tab in the WHS console. Video and motion monitoring are recorded from D-Link security cameras directly to the server where users can configure the recording schedules and access recorded or streaming video from the home server using a web browser.

As well as this users can remotely access their IP surveillance system from any computer with Internet access. 

As you can see four cameras can be viewed at once on a single screen.

At the current time the DCS-1100, DCS-1130, DCS-2121 and DCS-920 D-Link network camera models are compatible with the D-ViewCam add-in for Windows Home Server, although D-Link have stated that they are working on developing more D-Link devices which are WHS compatible

Steven Leonard, Microsoft Senior Product Manager for WHS had this to say:

We are pleased that D-Link is continuing to extend the value of Windows Home Server with the D-ViewCam Add-in, Windows Home Server provides a perfect platform for D-Link’s popular surveillance solutions, providing peace-of-mind for customers at home and in their business.

As well as the add-in D-Link are also providing a 65 page PDF User Manual which are all available from here.

The add-in CloudBerry Backup for Windows Home Server is now available for download in beta.

We mentioned CloudBerry Online Backup back in August, and today they have released a beta release for you to download. The add-in utilizes Amazons S3 storage to provide additional peace of find in case of fire or theft etc by backing up your data to the cloud.

This 1.3.0.338 release is beta so please send CloudBerry Lab any feedback on what you like and don’t like and let them know if you have any problems.

More details are available from here as well as the download.

WHS Mobile. the add-in for our mobile devices has been updated to version 1.5.3

This latest update now works fine with my iPhone whereas the previous version did not. Developer Brent Friendman has now added a PDF help document to help you setup and configure the Home Server add-in and the app for either your iPhone/iPod Touch or your Windows Mobile device.

iPhone/iPod Touch Updates:

• UI Improvements
• No more waiting for a folder’s thumbnails to load
• Uploading Fix
• Enhanced Security
• Added support for high-bitrate
• Added document viewing (PDF, HTML, XLS, and DOC formats)
• Search has been redone
• Space error fixed
• Now configures correctly on non-English Home Server’s

Windows Mobile Updates:

• Asynchronous thumbnail loading (like the iPhone)
• Bug Fixes
• Smartphone edition (non-touch screen devices) support – With the Smartphone edition, uploading and downloading is currently not supported because the prompts have to be re-written.

More information is available from here.

We have talked about P80 in the past but now developer Kris Rodenhausen has released P80 as a proper add-in which can be installed and uninstalled like other add-ins via the console.

P80 is a website that you can view via your homepage and gives a central overview of various kinds of information that you normally would need to query from all kinds of places (WHS Console, RDP etc).

P80 provides a lot of information into one compact website, which also has the advantage that it can be viewed using a web enabled mobile phone,  which you can also use to shut down and reboot your machines too as long as you have AutoExit 2008R2 or 2009 installed too.

More information is available from here.

ASoft have updated their popular AutoExit 2009 add-in to Release Candidate status.

AutoExit 2009 allows you to shut down and reboot your machines over the Windows Home Server network from within the console, as well as booting up your machines remotely you can also put the machine into hibernation, sleep, log off the user or lock the machine too.

Changes in AutoExit 2009:

• Multilingual UI (supports German, French, Japanese).
• Setup has been made smaller and packaged as a zip file instead of 1 installer.
• Wake On Lan all clients.
• Send a message to all connected clients.
• Warn users when the server is going down.
• Support for Windows 7.
• Possibility to the Wake On Lan port to send to.
• Possibility to enable easy logging on the client side.
• Mac-address of the server is retrieved when opening the diagnostic dialog and the Mac field being empty.
• When downloading an update, it is automatically saved to the ‘Server\Software’ or ‘Server\Logiciel’ folder, if none of these exist the browse directory dialog is shown.
• Fix: On some machines the actions did not work and an error 998 was displayed, this has been fixed.
• Fix: Fixed issue that settings in Vista/Windows 7 weren’t read correctly and made the AutoWOL Server function not work.
• Fix: Now when a client comes out of sleep, a WOL packet is sent to the server if enabled.
• Fix: Small improvement to the update dialog to show the product name.
• Fix: When using hibernate/sleep, the machine sometimes couldn’t be enabled again.
• Fix: Detects if Remote Desktop is enabled on a Home Edition.
• And some other minor adjustments.

More details are available from here.

The add-in Remote Alert has been updated to version 1.3.5.

The add-in that provides remote access notification, additional security layers and remote access activity logging includes the following changes/fixes:

• Network Activity Monitor now works if multiple NIC cards are installed.
• DNS, WHOIS look-up extended to IP connections page.
• Network chart performance improvements.
• Geo-location look-up performance and accuracy improvement.
• Remote Alert GUI fixes, revisions and improvements.
• IIS Log parser sidebar toggle added.

More details are available from here.