The add-ins WHS Outlook, WHS Quicken and WHS QuickBooks have had an update.
The update is to address an issue that arose from the Microsoft Windows Home Server Update Rollup 2 (KB981089), and address the issue where these add-ins had problems with web access.
More information is available from HomeServerLand.
The Windows Home Server Team yesterday posted a tweet on Twitter stating that they had signed off on the final RC (Release Candidate) of Vail, with a link pointing to the Windows Home Server page on the Microsoft Connect beta site.
The link has since been removed and website Winrumors are also predicting that the RC will be available on the Connect site this Thursday.
It looks like we may have the RC of Vail very soon!
A blogger was building a decent Windows Home Server using spare parts from around the house when upon installing SyncToy and mapping his network drives to his existing WHS he noticed things were running a bit sluggish:
Not sure where to go I poked around through device manager. In the ATA controllers section I saw there is a speed test button: one of many thoughtful Nvidia features. I checked both WD Green drives: one was operating at 146 MB/s and the other at 14 MB/s. Running the test several times made no difference. I checked the Western Digital site and they mentioned setting jumper 7-8 for XP systems with Advanced Format drives: while this isn’t an XP system all the drivers were and it was worth a shot. I removed both drives, added a jumper to pins 7-8 and reinstalled WHS. The system was fast and the speed test showed 146 MB/s for both drives.
You can read the full story here.
Add-In that publishes secure Really Simple Syndication (“RSS”) feeds for Shared Folders through the Remote Access web site.
Authorized users can access the Feedsource RSS feeds from inside or outside the home network to view new and changed files in Shared Folders using any RSS reader that supports authenticated feeds
Features
Feedsource for WHS is available as a 30 day trail and is priced at $10. More details are available from Tentacle Software.
Episode 121 of "The Home Server show" podcast is available, which this week is about Update Release 2 for WHS V1.
Including the weeks news plus Dave’s crazy thoughts on the future of Windows Home Server, you can catch this weeks episode here.
An Xbox Home Server? Why not says ZDNet’s Simon Bisson whilst talking about the future of Windows Home Server.
Simon asks the question:
So if Home Server is on the move, where should it go?
And states:
Thinking about it, there’s one logical home for Home Server’s software, and another for its hardware.
Personally I think Windows Home Server’s future is a bright one. We may have lost Drive Extender but as the clique from the 1800’s states: “Onwards and upwards”.
You can read Simon’s article here.
Update Release 2 (UR2) for Windows Home Server v1 is available today and will be available from Windows Update and will automatically download as long as you have automatic updates turned on within the console.
UR2 also known as Knowledge Base article 981089 fixes 8 issues with Windows Home Server:
Its great news to see that these problems are all fixes in the latest UR1 update for Windows Home Server v1.
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CloudBerry Lab has just announced version 1.9 of CloudBerry Backup for WHS.
Available for Home Server v1, Vail and also Aurora this latest version includes the following new features:
Intelligent include/ exclude folder functionality
Imagine the situation: you select the folder to backup up and then select only a subset of folders and files underneath it. In the previous release if you add more files to the parent folder they would not get copied when CloudBerry Backup runs.
In this latest release all new files in the parent folders will get automatically copied when backup process runs.
Amazon S3 Multipart Upload support.
Now enables you to upload large files more reliably while accessible using other Amazon S3 tools. Also, supports objects up to 5TB
More details on CloudBerry Backup for WHS are available from here.
Microsoft’s Sean Daniel is giving a presentation on SBS 2011 Essentials and Standard in BC, Canada.
The Vancouver Island Computing Experts(?) User Group presents the event which takes place in Victoria, British Columbia at the Camosun College Lansdowne on the 2nd February between 06:30PM and 09:30 PM.
Join Sean Daniel Senior Program Manager from Microsoft Corp. as he talks about small business server solutions coming from Microsoft and HP. See what’s new with Small Business Server 2011 Standard and Essentials and learn about HPs offerings for Small Business server hardware. As a Small Business program manager for 10+ years, he’ll talk about the new servers as well as be able to answer questions on the old servers from Microsoft. Come with questions on the new or old products, with his experience in the field, he’s perfect to bounce questions off.
If you are an IT support shop, your companies "go to IT person", an independent IT person, the manager/implementer for your small business, or interested simply interested in small business technology, this evening is for you!!
Registration is free and if you would like to attend then please fill in the relevant documentation which you can find here.
