The Week in Review – Sunday's Summery

What’s been going on this week. Here’s your chance to catch-up if you missed something!

• Add-In: WHS Customizer – Change your Servers home page website image
  • Developer Jay Hinrichs has developed a settings add-in for Windows Home Server called WHS Customizer. Jay’s goal is to add little utilities and hacks that will allow you to customize your server machine. The first utility he has included allows you to change the servers home page website image via…
• HP Media Vault mv2100 and mv5100
  • Yikes! The MediaSmart Server has been chopped in half….or has it?Actually no. It’s the new Linux powered NAS device from HP known as the Media Vault. Available in 2 configurations the entry-level mv2100 comes with a 500Gb hard drive, and the mv5100 has two 500GB or 750GB drives. Additional…
• 2 New Knowledge Base Articles
  • Two new Knowledge base articles have been added for Windows Home Server. The first is How to troubleshoot the “Backup service is not running” error message in Windows Home Server (946339) and covers five different methods to troubleshoot the “Backup service is not running” error message or…
• HP adding Streaming, Vista 64-bit Support and Anti-Virus
  • HP has got some more enhancements coming to its MediaSmart Server this February for free which will be available via download. The 3 updates include server protection via McAfee Antivirus which will be free for the first seven months. PacketVideo technology will enhance the the media streaming…
• Latest Data Corruption Status
  • One of the benefits of now being an MVP is that tonight I had the opportunity to take part in the monthly discussion with the WHS Team which highlighted that the data corruption issue which affects some users will NOT effect those using just the one hard drive. So, only those of you using multiple…
• Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo Home Server Demo

  If you have looked at the Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo Home Server page lately you may have noticed that they have but up a flash demo that takes you through the features of the unit. View the demo from here.

• More MVP’s
  • Today four new MVP’s were announced, bring the total to seven. MVP’s or Microsoft Most Valuable Professional’s are people that have made significant contributions to various technical communities (in this case WHS) throughout the year.So congratulations to Andrew Edney author of the Windows…
• Happy New Year
  • MSWHS.com was formed back in June when we started this site with our first post entitled Good Evening, Afternoon or Morning – Wherever you are. It’s been a great year and after numerous beta builds Windows Home Server was finally released to an eagerly waiting public in the later part of 2007.So…
• Monitor WHS Events and Auto Reboot Server
  • How would you like a piece of software that monitors your Application, System, Security and WHS event logs on Home Server, and then sends an alert to your email address or mobile device and then even has the ability to reboot Home Server if a critical system failure is detected.Well we have info for…
• Print from WHS when away from Home
• MyHomeServer.com has posted an article on how to share your WHS connected printer over the Internet. The 16 step article takes you through the steps necessary to print when away from home – Read it here.

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