By Philip Churchill on November 28th, 2007
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
Stay tuned for more information.
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That’s great! I look forward to try it!
That is so cool. If I want to use SyncToy now with my HP ex470 how do I install the current version on the media server? Without a direct monitor output on the HP I don’t see the start menu on the ex470.
Hi Ben,
You would have to remote desktop into the server machine from your XP/Vista computer.
That´s great! !!!
Hi Iars,
Yes I can’t wait till this add-in is available.
Fantastic! Now all we need is Microsoft to Fix the Data Corruption bug so we can use this add-in without the fear of destroying our data 🙂
MS lists SyncToy 2.0 Beta in the evil corruption list, but what about other versions – like 1.4? What version of SyncToy does this Add-In use?
I wish they would publish how to reproduce the bug so that I can test these kind of things in Virtual PC.
It is now June, 2008. Is this synchronization add-in available yet?
It is now 2009… Beuler…
Doesn’t seem like it will ever come out, unfortunately.
It is a shame that it isn’t brought out..
I am using allwaysync in the background now but this addin would have been beautiful..
Let’s finish this up or get the mesh.com people to create something. One or the other please…
Another vote to get a decent sync add-in (does not have to be SyncToy) working with WHS. I have read that the WHS filesystem (Drive Extender in particular) can be tough on sync apps.
Would love to see this add-in, but looks like Eric started a new job in 2008 which doesn’t allow him time to develop new add-ins. Looks like he stopped developing “Sync Add-In” when the current version of SyncToy was in it’s beta stage, see the “Sync Add-in” link below. I would love to see someone else pick up this idea…
Eric’s Homepage:
http://sites.google.com/site/emaurer/whsadd-inpage
Sync Add-In Project Page
http://sites.google.com/site/emaurer/moreaddins