Author Archive for Philip Churchill

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Will the HP ProLiant MicroServer Survive?

With HP’s news last week stating they are going to spin off or sell it’s Personal Systems Group (PSG), many of you have asked if this will affect you if you own the HP ProLiant MicroServer,  a great server to install Windows Home Server. And the good news is no it will not affect you […]

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Windows Home Server 2011 Resources by Microsoft

A list of resources for Windows Home Server 2011 have been published by Microsoft. The seven listed documents which are available for download include brochures, datasheets and whitepapers related to WHS 2011. You can find them here.

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9 Issues Fixed in WHS 2011

Update Rollup 1 for WHS 2011 is now available that fixes 9 known issues. This first major update package for v2 users address the following: Issue 1 You cannot register a Remote Web Access domain name that contains two or more root domain levels (such as testuser.com.uk). Additionally, you receive an error message that resembles […]

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Add-In: Drive Bender 1.1.7.6

Hot on the heals of 1175 is the latest version of Drive Bender which fixes a number of start up issues experienced by some users. Here is the change log for release 1.1.7.6 (2011-08-22) Bug fix: Networked mount points now start correctly (these were hanging the startup process). Update: License issues are now sent via […]

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Add-In: Squeezebox Server for WHS 7.6.1

Squeezebox Server for Windows Home server has had an update. Version 7.6.1 fixes these issues for Squeezebox Server: Playback: Unable to play tracks in Browse Music subfolders Scanner: Scanning of music library stops prematurely if player accesses music library during scanning Tracks deleted still appear in music library after New and Changed scan Extra spaces […]

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Add-In: Home Server Status 2.0

We wrote about Home Server Status back in July and explained that it bought back the Windows Home Server v1 status icon to WHS 2011 via either the taskbar or system tray, since out the box v2 does not have any popup or warning about when the Home Server is running a backup. Well now […]

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Update Rollup 1 for WHS 2011 this Tuesday

Microsoft have published advance information that this Tuesday will see an Update Rollup for Windows Home Server 2011, Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. Microsoft updates the information in the Software and Server Update Services knowledge base article (894199) on a regular basis and this is where this […]

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BYOB Podcast Episode 55

Episode 55 of the BYOB podcast is up: "Hyper-V, HP Web OS, Live Mesh, and HP StorageWorks X310 just to name a few of the subjects we discuss…" You can find it here.

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Add-In: StableBit DrivePool Build 3703

StableBit DrivePool Beta M3 3703 is available for download with the following changes: * Remove any empty directories in the mount point before mounting pool. * Add new folder wizard now respects HomeGroup permissions and publishes the folder properly to the HomeGroup. More details on the Drive Extender replacement are available here.

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Media Streaming Issues and Solutions for WHS 2011

Microsoft have published a TechNet Wiki article on three media streaming issues which affect both WHS 2011 and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials users. The first workaround is for the repeat function not working when playing single music/video on the RWA page Secondly, after moving video/photos/music files to a different folder that is out […]