Author Archive for Philip Churchill

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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 125

Episode 125 of The Home Server Show podcast is out with lots of Home Server news and views plus lots of add-in info this week, including an interview with the owner of Division-M the company behind Drive Bender. You can find this weeks episode right here.

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Add-In: CloudBerry Backup for WHS2011

CloudBerry Lab have just released CloudBerry Backup for WHS2011. The add-in comes with all the features of CloudBerry Backup Desktop Edition and integrates seamlessly into the WHS Dashboard. It costs a onetime fee of $29.99 US per copy although existing WHS v1 customers can upgrade their add-in for free. More details are available on CloudBerry […]

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Asus TS mini Home Server Review

CDRLabs.com have a review of the Asus TS mini Home Server. Their comprehensive 8 page review takes a good look at the unit both inside and out and takes a look at Asus’s 2 exclusive add-ins which come with the TS mini, Asus WebStorage and ASWM (ASUS System Web-based Management). Benchmarks are also included for […]

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Add-In: Remote Notification 1.5.0.4

The add-in Remote Notification has had an update to add Twitter support. This update delivers functionality that allows your server to post Windows Home Server health notifications to a Twitter feed, either as status updates or as direct messages to another Twitter user. The Twitter recipient is highly customizable just like the other recipient types, […]

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WHS Phone Demo Video

There is a YouTube video with a demo of a Samsung Focus Windows Phone 7 with the add-in WHS Phone. The 5 minute video gives a good overview of the WHS Phone add-in.

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SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Available

Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows Server 2008 R2 (the under lying operating system behind WHS2011) and Windows 7 is available for download.   The download will automatically come down from Windows Update if you have it enabled or if you prefer it is also available from the Microsoft Download Center  as separate downloads for […]

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Drive Bender 1.0.1.6 Bug Fix

The early beta release of Drive Bender has had an update. Beta release 1.0.1.6  (2011-02-21) have the following bug fixes: Creating a mount point using a drive letter now works correctly. Installer now working correctly on x86 platforms. This latest release which hopes to be Drive Extender’s replacement can be downloaded from here.

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Drive Bender Released for Windows Platform

As expected after a long day yesterday ironing out some last minute issues Division-M have released beta 1 of Drive Bender for all versions of Windows, XP and above. Unfortunately the WHS add-in wasn’t released as the team ran out of time so it didn’t make this beta release but it still works great on […]

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uTorrent for WHS2011 Add-In Available Soon

"grimstoner" a user on the We Got Served forums is developing a uTorrent add-in for WHS2011. Once installed you will just need to point it to your uTorrent installation with username and password and the add-in will run as a service. Cant wait for this to be available – More details are available from here.

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Drive Extender Gone but NOT Dead

We told you back in early February about Drive Extender functionality coming to WHS2011 courtesy of the add-in StableBit DrivePool ad since then there has been 2 further announcements from 2 different companies. First up is Drive Bender which is due its first beta release today. Similar in features to StableBit DrivePool the difference with […]