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By on October 30th, 2007

Windows Home Server Drive Extender Explained

Today Microsoft published a Technical Brief for Windows Home Server Drive Extender. The 20 page PDF document explains the features and functionality of the drive extender, highlighting the benefits of the technology. The document also looks at the drive extender filter and migrator service, tombstones and the balancing of storage. http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/F/C/2FC09C20-587F-4F16-AA33-C6C4C75FB3DD/Windows_Home_Server_Drive_Extender.pdf

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By on October 30th, 2007

Add-In: Windows Home Server Event Monitor Updated

Dave Mercer the developer of Windows Home Server Event Monitor has updated the add-in from it’s initial 1.0.0.8 release to version 1.0.1.0 to fix some bugs: Removed spurious tooltip and fixed typos Clarified UI a little    Added tooltips     Changed Regex defaults in event grid view to default to “All” versus “.*”     Warning dialog […]

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By on October 29th, 2007

Add-In: AutoExit 2008 for Windows Home Server

After being in beta for the last few months, today sees the launch of the final version of AutoExit 2008 for Windows Home Server. This add-in can be used to shut down and reboot machines in your home network. Wake On Lan is also supported, enabling you to easily boot up machines remotely. These actions […]

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By on October 29th, 2007

HP and Microsoft MediaSmart Server Webcasts

HP and Microsoft are making available four free webcasts that will unveil and demo the long-awaited MediaSmart Server. In addition to a live demonstration at these educational events, you’ll also hear from consumer technology industry experts, like Rob Enderle, Rick Doherty, Paul Thurrott from SuperSite for Windows, and Ed Bott from ZDNet on how the […]

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By on October 29th, 2007

Add-In Home Base now Open Source

Aleksei Nipirakis has started to place you source code to his add-in Home Base onto SourceForge.net. The add-in that allows your Mobile Phone to download files from the Home Server and lets you blog from your phone as well is now Open Source GPL and will enable other developers to build and develop onto it. […]

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By on October 29th, 2007

Add-In – Windows Home Server Event Monitor

Dave Mercer has developed a new add-in. Windows Home Server Event Monitor monitors the event logs and sends them in a single email at a fixed frequency, with the ability to send some events immediately (e.g. remote login failures).    This is an Alpha release and Dave would love to hear your comments, suggestions and […]

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By on October 27th, 2007

HP MediaSmart Server Data Sheet Available

Over on the HP MediaSmart Server page at HP, they now have a link to the data sheet for the EX470/EX475 models.     Thanks to Josh Pearl for the info.

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By on October 27th, 2007

Give Grandma and Grandpa Access To Your Photos Even Though They Are Thousands of Miles Away

One of the “silent features” of Windows Home Server is the ability to give people access to your shared folders even though they aren’t even in your household.  You don’t need to associate user accounts with computers, which means you can create as many users as you need in WHS and them assign them permissions […]

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By on October 26th, 2007

Mac Leopard and WHS do NOT Play Nicely

On the SuperSite for Windows back in January 2007 Todd Headrick, the WHS Product Planner told Paul Thurrott in his Windows Home Server Preview that Mac users could access the WHS shared folders as they would any other Windows share and that WHS would be a great back-end store for Time Machine. The name of […]

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By on October 26th, 2007

avast! WHS Edition AntiVirus Updated to 3 Beta

Out a couple of days later than expected is beta 3 of avast! WHS Edition. The first dedicated antivirus add-in for Windows home Server. This latest beta version 4.7.18, 10/16/2007 has: Yet another attempt to set the firewall exceptions correctly on all OS’s GUI improvements (WHS Console) Minor fixes Updates in the AV engine (new […]

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