The Week in Review – Sunday's Summary

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

• Tranquil PC T2-WHS-A3 Harmony Home Server Wins A List Award
  • In the May (2008) edition of the magazine PC Pro, the Tranquil PC T2-WHS-A3 Harmony Home Server wins a PC Pro A List award. To celebrate for this weekend only Tranquil PC are offering their acclaimed Recovery Kit  valued at £29 FREE of charge on all Home Server orders.the review concludes that:…
• AnandTech – Data Corruption due to Faulty Algorithm in the Drive Extender software
  • The IT source for hardware analysis and industry news AnandTech has a look at the data corruption bug in a more technical light taking us through the Drive Extender technology. What you shall read is a mixture of things they know for sure, along with some educated guessing based on what sources told…
• Home Center from Iomega Delayed due to Market Conditions
  • After our post yesterday regarding an article in Personal Computer World, George Melissargos from Iomega who was interviewed for the piece contacted us.  Iomega’s Windows Home Server product called the Home Center has been placed on hold for now due to market conditions and was not delayed due to…
• Existing Connector Software works on Windows XP x64 SP2
  • We have shown you before how to install the Connector Software on Vista x64 machines even before Power Pack 1 with that technology is released.Readers leaving comments found that it also worked on Windows XP x64 SP2 also. One by the name of budious said: …to my surprise, found that it detected the…
• Power Pack 1 could be available end of April
  • As announced previously Todd Headrick the Product Manager of the Windows Home Server Team  posted a question over on the WHS forums asking if you would like Power Pack 1 released prior to June 2008, the date when the Data Corruption fix is due.More than 220 replies later and with Windows home…
• Iomega Drops Windows Home Server
  • Storage company Iomega has dropped it’s Windows Home Server product because it could not be made at a price low enough for its target audience. The 500GB unit would have sold at approx 600 euros (£450), but price was not the only factor in the decision to drop it from its range. George…
• General Manager Charlie Kindel talks Windows Home Server
  • General Manager of Windows Home Server Charlie Kindel talks about what’s in Home Server for IT Pros on Microsoft’s Edge site. Charlie runs 5 servers at home, and had no problem integrating Home Server and its functionality. He talks about two guys, Jeff and Oliver, that don’t really exist, but…
• How to make VCalendar run on Windows Home Server
  • Our Norwegian friend Sgaah has posted a guide on how to make VCalendar run on Windows Home Server. VCalendar or Virtual Calendar is an open source Web calendar application for posting and maintaining events and schedules online, in calendar format.The guide is in Norwegian but as Sgaah says pictures…
• Windows Home Server Presentation – New York
  • The Mid-Hudson Computer User Group is holding a presentation on Windows Home Server this Thursday 13th March at Poughkeepsie in New York.John Bickford you tell you all you need to know about Home Server with a Q & A session beginning at 6:30 p.m., followed at 7:00 p.m. by business announcements.…
• Add-In: TiVo Publisher 1.3
  • The latest version of the add-in TiVo Publisher is available for download. Version 1.3  fixes numerous bug fixes and adds the following features: FLAC, OGG, M4A (AAC unprotected) audio formats are now supported. Video Aspect Ratios are preserved. Updated ffmpeg to newer release (2/5/2008, r11870).…
• Windows Home Server Bible – Sample’s
  • The new book by Greg Kettell and Jennifer Ackerman Kettell is about to be published by publishers Wiley. The Windows Home server Bible is a 600 page comprehensive guide that covers all the techniques and step-by-step instruction you need to succeed with Windows Home Server. Choose the out-of-the-box…
• Connect Your xBox 360 to Your Home Server

  Website Train Signal Training have a post detailing How to Connect Your xBox 360 to Your Home Server taking you through from the physical connection to the xBox 360 configuration setup. Read it here.

• Would you like Power Pack 1 sooner rather than later?
  • The Product Manager of the Windows Home Server Team Todd Headrick has posted a question over on the forums asking if you would like Power Pack 1 released prior to June 2008, the date when the Data Corruption fix is due.With already over 100 replies to the question, the consensus seems to be yes…
• Data Corruption Issue Q&A
  • With the Knowledge Base Article (KB) 946676 detailing the data corruption issue being updated today (see here) we have more detailed information available for you in a question and answer format that should help you understand the problem easier.What is the issue?When certain programs are used to…
• Data Corruption Knowledge Base (KB946676) Article has been Updated
  • The data corruption Knowledge Base (KB946676) Article has been updated today to revision 5.0 with updated information about symptoms, the cause and giving the status on the issue with guidance also.When certain programs are used to edit or transfer files that are stored on a Windows Home…

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