Archive for May, 2011

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Organizing Music on a Home Server

Organising Music on a Home Server is an article by Dan Gravell which takes a look at the different types of Home server’s including a NAS and WHS itself and how they are ideal for storing music. The article looks at why you can grant access to the music for your music players around your […]

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The Features of Windows Home Server 2011

PCWorld takes a look at Windows Home Server 2011 and its features and asks if its worth upgrading to if you are using the current version of WHS. Lloyd Case then takes us through a basic setup of WHS2011 using a mini-ITX setup, to see how things have improved. You can read Lloyd’s article here.

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Add-In: StableBit DrivePool Build 1671

Another day and another release for StableBit DrivePool. The Drive Extender replacement add-in is now up to build 1671, and includes the following changes: [Driver] Tweaked the unmount timeout algorithm to prevent automatic unmount on sleep. Fixed alert monitoring error. Write error notifications were not being issued for non-duplicated folders. (you may need to delete […]

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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 137

Episode 137 of The Home Server Show podcast is available with lots of Home Server news, as well as lots of chat from Dave and the guys. You can grab episode 137 here.

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Add-In: WHS Phone for Windows Phone 7 Version 1.3

Version 1.3 of WHS Phone for Windows Phone 7 is now available in the marketplace. WHS Phone is a phone application for Windows Home Server. Connect to your server and browse files, stream music, view photos, and much more. Available now in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. This latest release, includes: Completely new UI Streamlined […]

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Tranquil PC Go Multilingual

British based Tranquil PC are now shipping Windows Home Server 2011 and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials with various EU languages, along with full OEM Server Recovery Support We are told what Czech, Poland and Russia will follow shortly – Great news for those Windows Home Server users where English is not their native […]

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Add-In: AWIECO WakeOnLAN 1.1.0 and PRO Version Available

The add-in which gives you the ability to remotely turn ON a computer attached to your network has had an update. Here is the AWIECO WakeOnLAN 1.1.0 ChangeLog: Improved UI design – The user interface now has a new design Added PRO edition -  The PRO version is a commercial version and available for purchase. […]

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Add-In Company Launching WHS Hardware

AWIECO the company responsible for add-ins such as AWIECO WakeOnLAN and AWIECO RemoteLauncher are planning to launch hardware too. Due to be available at the end of June, AWIECO are launching a range of Windows Home Server 2011 and Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials powered systems from Germany. Available in different configurations these servers […]

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WHS Migration Assistant Pro 1.01

Mediadogg Software have just released Windows Home Server Migration Assistant Pro, a tool to help you in the planning of the data move from WHS v1 to WHS2011. In addition to the planning functions, the WHS Migration Assistant (WHS2WHS) has functions for partially automating the actual data movements and other functions for saving, restoring and […]

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Add-In: StableBit DrivePool Build 1665

Build 1665 of StableBit DrivePool is available for Windows Home Server 2011. This beta release of the Drive Extender replacement, includes the following changes: Expiration updated. Drive removal now takes priority over open handles. This means that if a file is open with no proper share access, that file will be force closed if the […]