LDisk for WHS 2011 SBS 2011 Essentials and WSSe has had an update.
Version 3.0.0.3 of the iSCSI Target Storage and Disk Pooling add-in has added the following two features:
More information on LDisk is available from here.
Covecube the company behind StableBit Scanner have published a comprehensive blog post on the new file recovery engine in version 2.0.
As of version 2.0.0.1873 BETA, StableBit Scanner 2.0 added file recovery meaning that after one or more bad sectors are found on a hard drive, you now have the option of running a file scan and once completed, you’ll be able to select one or more damaged files for recovery.
To find out how this works in StableBit Scanner 2.0 head on over to their post which you can find here.
Version 2.0.0.1878 of StableBit Scanner is available for download.
This latest release of the hard drive scanner and monitor add-in for WHS 2011 users has the following changes:
More information on StableBit Scanner for Windows Home Server 2011, Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials and WHS v1 can be found here.
For all add-in developers Tentacle Software have an article on self-signing a Windows Server Solutions add-in package (*.wssx).
We are shown how to create a self-signed certificate by using Visual Studio tools in this very comprehensive tutorial which you can find here.
CloudBerry Backup for WHS has been updated to version 2.8
CloudBerry Backup for WHS automates data backup directly to Amazon S3, Windows Azure and other cloud storage providers.
This latest version offers the following new enhancements:
The ability to store backup plan configuration in the cloud. CloudBerry customers now can export their backup plans settings to the cloud storage and use them to restore when needed and/or deploy the same settings across multiple machines.
More info http://blog.cloudberrylab.com/2012/05/cloudberry-backup-store-backup-plan.html
A new security enhancement that allows encrypting files and folders names that in some cases can reveal highly confidential information and must be strongly protected.
http://blog.cloudberrylab.com/2012/05/how-to-encrypt-file-names-with.html
A French language has been added to over a dozen languages we supported already.
More information on CloudBerry Backup for WHS (v1, 2011 and SBS 2011) can be found here.
A great set of tips for installing Windows Home Server has been posted by a user with the name of Racer.
Racer gives his tips for installing and configuring WHS including some for the Windows Home Server console too:
"If you work with SATA drives then you should consider whether they are operated in Native mode, in AHCI mode or RAID. For the last two variants of the imperative, it needs drivers on a USB stick if IDE drives running as RAID is the same."
You can find Racer’s list of tips here at the TechArena Community.
StableBit Scanner for WHS 2011 has been updated to version 2.0.0.0.1873 BETA
This major update to the file scan and recovery engine has the following changes:
More information on this advanced hard disk surface scanner and monitor add-in can be found here.
If you are thinking of installing SkyDrive then why not install it on Windows Home Server.
To help you get this setup and configured WeGotServed has a great 5 page tutorial which takes you through creating a WHS share for your SkyDrive and getting the SkyDrive application installed so that you can connect your client machines to your WHS SkyDrive share.
Its a comprehensive tutorial which you can find here.
Its another week and its time for another episode of The Home Server Show podcast:
“We can’t stop talking about Windows 8 and Media Center. It all comes back to storage though. Plenty of server conversation as well as some follow up on cloud options and HD Home Run streaming.”
You can find episode 182 (and the video) here.
The LaCie 5big Office+ comes with Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials and website Hardware.Info has a review of it.
In their 10 page review the performance and energy consumption are taken a look at as well as the disk partition scheme and the software itself.
You can find it here.
