The Week in Review – Sunday’s Summary

What was going on this week at mswhs.com? Here’s catch-up time if you missed something!

• Add-In: Recorded TV Manager available for Purchase
  • Rick Drasch has been in touch to announce that the add-in Recorded TV Manager is now up on his site and is available for $24.95 in its final release. For more info on Recorded TV Manager see our previous post.
• How to Build Cheap Linux and Windows Home Media Servers in Three Easy Steps
  • Popular Mechanics have posted How to Build Cheap Linux and Windows Home Media Servers in Three Easy Steps in the February (2008) issue of the mag.
• PerfectDisk for Windows Home Server Updated
  • The new version of PerfectDisk for WHS is now available. The 2008 version of the defragmentation toll for Windows Home Server is priced at $39.99, and also includes a copy of PerfectDisk 2008 Professional for one of your networked PCs. A home site license is also available for just $99.99, and…
• “Path too Deep” Error Message – We have the Answer
  • Windows Home Server does not play nice with large files above 4GB or 5GB. Using the simple copy-and-paste in Windows Explorer or by dragging and dropping from the source to the destination causes the system to either completely lock up or results in a “Path too deep” error message. And others…
• Changing the Port your Certificate applies to.
  • Your Windows Home Server website by default uses SSL port 443 and if changed your security certificate will need to be configured to apply to that port also. Colin Walker has the details on how to do this at his RandomElements Blog.
• Do you have KB941644 Installed?
  • We bought to your attention the other day that the vulnerabilities detailed in the MS08-001 security bulletin also affect Windows Home Server.The security bulletin which was first issued on January 8th was revised on January 25th when Microsoft announced that Windows Small Business Server and…
• Video Chat
  • Bob Muglia is the Senior Vice President of our Server and Tools division at Microsoft during the day and is an IT pro at night. Why? Well he needs to be when he runs 9 servers at home! Bob chats about Windows Server 2008 and Windows Home Server. The video can be viewed at the […]
• How Small Can You Go!
  • VIA ARTiGO Pico-ITX Builder Kit provides the starter hardware for a fully functional PC that’s small enough to fit in a desktop PC’s 5.25-inch drive bay. Based on Via’s Pico-ITX motherboard form factor, the motherboard is just slightly larger than a credit card and uses Via’s VX700 chip set…
• Add-In: Windows Home Server Disk Management Updated
  • The Windows Home Server Disk Management add-in which we discussed here has been updated to version 1.0.3. for those of you not in the know, this add-in is an extension of the server storage interface, making it easier to identify the hard drives via a visual display. Seeing which drive is the system…
• Add-In: TiVo Publisher Update
• The add-in TiVo Publisher for WHS makes your music, photos, and videos shares on the Home Server browsable from any TiVo that supports home networking. Updated version 1.21 is available which has fixed some bugs including a uninstall problem as well as correcting a problem with pressing “Play”…

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