With some ISPs blocking remote access ports, HomeServerLand has posted a further short video on your options available.
From contacting your ISP for a request to unblock the necessary ports to using alternative ports to access your server. all your options are highlighted in this 1 minute video.
With Microsoft currently promoting the Vail SDK, they have placed a document on the Microsoft Connect website which gives an overview of the “Vail” Dashboard primarily when compared to v1 Admin Console.
The audience for this document is anyone who has already developed addins for Windows Home Server or who is just starting to get ramped up on the new “Vail” SDK. Level of coding expertise needed to follow the document is very low to none…
You can download the 11 page document from here. (WHS Connect registration required)
Dileep, the Development Lead on the Windows Home Server team introduces the WHS Vail SDK on the engineering teams blog.
There is a lot of information to digest in Vail and SDK in particular. Hence we are taking this opportunity to do a series of blog posts to talk about the various extensibility points of Vail in a much higher level than the actual SDK documentation. The idea is to give developers an overview of the capabilities of Vail SDK along with providing guidance as to how to go about building addins the right way so that the user experience or performance is not compromised.
You can find the full post here.
If you are experiencing remote access problems on WHS then do you have Universal Plug and Play setup and configured on your router. HomeServerLand explains UPnP and Port Forwarding in a short video which you can find here.
Sam Wood from Tentacle Software has a list of 3 guides on using the Software Development Kit for Vail.
The new SDK in Sam’s words is "pure awesome", and he provides his top 10 of awesomeness which includes:
Plus much more, which you can read about here.
the INQUIRER has a review of Windows Home Server Vail in which reviewer Kelvyn Taylor gives his first impressions.
By concentrating on making it [Vail] a backup and media streaming platform with a highly customisable interface, it could become much more attractive to manufacturers, although everything’s relative and there are still only a handful of WHS systems on the market.
You can read the review here.
Lance Canaday and "DieHard" talk about the Time Traveler add-in amongst many other things in episode 89 of The Home Server Show podcast, which you can find here.
Nick Asseloos from Asoft (who bring us the add-ins AdminiMe and AutoExit) have a guide on how to develop an ad-in for Vail.
The 8 page PDF document explains how to get the SDK and setup Visual Studio and create a project with tabs and creating the config file for it.
Its a great little document which is accompanied in a package with a file structure and a test tab, which you can find here.
Automated Home.com review a UPS which helps protect their Jukebox WHS machine.
Testing the £60 APC Back-UPS CS 350 which helped protect Home Server after a 27 minute power outrage during a lightning storm
So gone are the days when a UPS was an expensive luxury or only found in business server rooms. Now there’s no excuse for not giving your data that extra layer of protection, and giving you peace of mind
You can read their story here.
The How-To Geek return with another Windows Home Server article, with this one on backing up your Home Server off-site using the Asus Webstorage add-in.
A comprehensive tutorial which covers all the details, which you can find here.
