Add-In: Drive Bender 1.1.5.0

Beta 4 (v1.1.5.0) a major update to Drive Bender has just been posted.

This last major beta version of Drive Bender includes the following changes:

• Update: A new version of the WHS 2011 addin.
• Bug fix: WHS client backup could sometimes fail, this has been fixed.
• Bug fix: Drive balancing no longer balances Drive Bender specific files.
• Bug fix: Windows update no longer fails (permission issue fixed).
• Update: The drive merge functionality has been improved.
• Update The drive removal functionality has been improved.
• Update The drive add functionality has been improved.
• Added: Drive convert feature to convert an existing non pooled drive into a pooled drive.
• Added: Option – Smooth Stream. This is file read caching to improve file streaming performance (default = disabled).
• Added: Option – CRC file validation of duplicated files (default = enabled). Disabling this reverts to file size validation.
• Added: Option – Log level. The specifies the amount of logging taking place (default = none).
• Added: Option – Drive balancing. You can enable / disable balancing as required (default = enabled).
• Added: Option – Drive renaming. When adding a drive to the pool, it is now renamed to make its use obvious (default = enabled).
• Added: Option – Drive letter management. Allows Drive Bender to manage drive letters for drives added to, and removed from the pool (default = enabled). Note that due to a bug, this feature was disabled prior to release.
• Bug fix: Renaming and deleting files and folders should no longer fails with errors.
• Bug fix: Recycle bin support have been fixed.
• Bug fix: Remove Windows assigned mount points (i.e. drive letters) if there is a conflict with a Drive Bender mount point.
• Added: Pool recovery feature. This can recover a pool (or pools) from connect drive without any configuration information (to be uses with OS re-installs etc)
• Added: Pool configuration repair. Drive Bender now validates and repair broken configurations.
• Added: WHS running tasks and notification windows (full WHS notification integration to come).
• Known issue: Fault tolerant mode (i.e. when a drive is missing from the pool) is still not displaying duplicated files (will be fixed in the next update).
• Known issue: The WHS move folder feature throws an error (to be fixed in an update).
• Known issue: The opening of web links from the getting started tab are opening on the server, not the client.
• Known issue: Documentation incomplete.

The download can be downloaded from here, but hurry as beta registration will be closing very soon.

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