Episode 144 of "The Home Server Show" podcast is up with lots of news and discussion.
This week the guys talk media streaming, the price change for Windows Home Server 2011 and Drive Extender replacements.
You can catch episode 144 here.
Microsoft have released another Learning Bites video for Windows Home Server 2011 and this one is on Homegroup setup.
This video covers setting up Homegroup on your Windows Home Server, and connecting your PCs. You will also learn how to use PlayTo with Windows Media Player and Homegroup.
Tranquil PC have published a 10 page guide on restoring a LEO HS4 with WHS 2011 with the MonStor service.
The MonStor service is Tranquil PC’s version of the Division-M Drive Bender add-in, providing Drive Extender functionality to Windows Home server 2011.
So the question is in the event of a catastrophic primary HDD failure, is the WHS2011 data / setup / pool manager etc safe?
You can find out the answer in the following guide.
Unlike WHS v1, Windows Home Server 2011 does not have any popup or warning about when the Home Server is running a backup. That is until now.
Thanks to Home Server Status, this add-in brings back the Windows Home Server v1 status icon to Windows Home Server 2011. You can choose to be advised of Windows Home Server connection and backup status from either the Windows 7 taskbar or by using the Classic WHS v1 system tray icon.
More details are available from here.
If you are using Windows Home Server 2011, you may have a problem restoring your client machine if you are running RAID with Intel Rapid Storage.
This has occurred when using both RAID 0 and RAID 1 and the end of your log file will state that it can’t lock the volume for reason 5.
If this has happened to you then you may find the following 2 resources may help:
Windows Home Server hardware producer AWIECO have announced the AWIECO ServerCenter Add-In.
This add-in comes preinstalled on all AWIECO hardware and allows you to change the display on the front of the chassis, allowing you can choose what should be displayed individually. Furthermore, you can also control and optimize the two fans inside the case too.
More details on AWIECO are available from here.
Lights Management for Windows Home Server 2011 has just had an update.
This driver re-enables the drive lights on the following home servers following an upgrade to Windows Home Server 2011:
Also probably compatible and waiting for users to test:
This latest version includes the following changes:
More information is available from here.
WD Small Business Server, RAID5 plus lots more are discussed on this weeks edition of BYOB, the podcast for the build your own box enthusiast.
Episode 51 can be found here.
Thanks to our eager eyed readers for spotting even more great deals for those of thinking of purchasing a copy of Windows Home Server 2011.
Newegg.com currently have it available for $59.99 which includes $10 off with promo code MSSERV10 which ends ends 7/22. In the UK CCL have it available for £37.44 inc VAT and both suppliers offer free delivery too.
The add-in Windows Home Server Download Manager has been updated to version 3.2.9 with the following changes:
Windows Home Server Download Manager does not support free file hosting services anymore but these are now supported in the newer Server Transfer-Manager.
The following file hosting services are currently supported:
More detail on Windows Home Server Download Manager are available from here.
Thanks to WeGotServed for bringing this release to our attention.
