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 […]
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.
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.
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 […]
Episode 148 of "The Home Server Show" podcast is up with more weekly goodness on Windows Home Server: “How about we relax after all that RAID and drive extender talk? We are talking about the news for the week and anything else we can think of.” You can catch episode 148 here.
Drive Bender brings us even closer to RC1 with the release of version 1.1.7.5 Lots of cool stuff in this beta release for 2011-08-18: Update: Applying file security and / or file attributes to a file in a folder marked for duplicate, will also apply those same security / attribute setting to the duplicated file. […]
Want to know what’s new in the M3 beta release of StableBit DrivePool? If so the Covecube blog takes us through what’s new in the following areas: Pooled Folders Data Visualization Remote Web Access Media Streaming Support HomeGroup Support Folder Management File Balancing [StableBit DrivePool] “provides tight integration with the Windows Home Server 2011 infrastructure […]
PerfectDisk 12 Windows Home Server has been updated to Service Pack 2 (Build 285). This latest build includes various bug fixes and existing users can “Check For Updates” in the products or wait for Autoupdate. Client fixes: S.M.A.R.T. tab incorrectly displayed some drives (SSDs) which were not supported as well as incorrectly reporting temperature for […]
If you would like to know how to connect WHS 2011 to a Windows 7 Homegroup then there is a guide for you. The guide explains how to set this up, troubleshoot any problems and how to check the connection status and Network Utilization. You can find it here.
The updates are flowing for the Drive Extender replacement add-in StableBit DrivePool, with another 3 updates in the last 24 hours. Build 3661: Suspend folder links while renaming. Build 3664: Fixed deleting folders. Build 3996: Shared folder security propagation is now asynchronous. Added new function to folder links that will clean up any shares pointing […]
