By on March 24th, 2010

Windows Home Server gets Strictly Sexual

Starting today Microsoft have two 30 second commercials which they are showing on Hulu.

The commercials will be running for a 3 month period throughout 25 different shows, on the free online video service, including Lost, 24 and Strictly Sexual:

  • Lost
  • The Simpsons
  • Human Target 
  • Burn Notice
  • Fringe
  • 24
  • Chuck
  • Heroes
  • Stargate SG-1
  • Archer
  • Caprica
  • Kitchen Nightmares
  • Naruto Shippuden
  • Legend of the Seeker
  • Fight Science
  • Better Off Ted
  • Dollhouse
  • Strictly Sexual
  • Samurai X
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live
  • The Beast
  • Cops
  • Bleach
  • Sanctuary
  • The Jay Leno Show

Both videos feature a genie, with the enthuses on "The Genie in the Box", with Windows Home Server being a magical device – Which it is.

One video highlights data recovery whilst the other is on digital media.

Windows Home Server
The Genie in the Box.
Emergency data recovery, as if by magic.

AND

Windows Home Server
The Genie in the Box.
All your digital media, at your command

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By on March 24th, 2010

Add-In: Directory Watcher 1.1.0.0

Directory Watcher is an add-in which monitor your folders on the home server and notifies you by email about any changes to it. Can you not reach your email account, you can retrieve the feed on the public website with all the changes.

Directory Watcher View 1.1.0.0

You can:

  • Set the folder to be monitored
  • Set the file types which are to be monitored (since version 1.1 you can exclude certain extensions)
  • Type of notification (Notification to clients, RSS feed, email)
  • Read the status of the service
  • Number of days to log the events
  • Care of the email data
  • Since version 1.1 – daily notification summary

Directory Watcher Settings 1.1.0.0

The latest 1.1.0.0 version includes the following changes:

    • Supports German
    • RSS feed internally
    • flicker limited by reload
    • test mail will now work
    • Creator will shown by mail
    • Messages with QMessagebox
    • Fixed bug in feed production
    • Exclude by file extensions possible
    • Notifications collect (eg, only 1x week / 1x daily)
    • client notification removed
    • SSL possible
    • Configuration of multiple email addresses to a monitored folder possible
    • each folder can be executed a subsequent process (eg batch file)

Information courtesy of We Got Served.

More information is available from here.

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By on March 23rd, 2010

Remove a Computer from WHS

If you no longer need a PC to be monitored by Windows Home Server, then the How-To Geek has a post on how to remove it. It’s very simple to do and is an ideal post for the newbie’s (which we all were once!).

How-To Geek Remove a Computer

You can find it here.

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By on March 23rd, 2010

A 4 Drive Enclosure to Expand the MediaSmart or Aspire EasyStore

MB561US-4S-1

The Icy Dock MB561US-4 is a high capacity four drive enclosure ideal to expand your HP Media Smart or Acer Aspire EasyStore Windows Home Server. And bit-tech.net has details of the perl white USB and eSATA multi bay external enclosure, which you can read about here.

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By on March 22nd, 2010

Add-In: MSS Fan Control

The add-in MSS Fan Control has been updated to work with the 3.0 software upgrade from HP.

   MSS Fan Control 1.0.0.9

MSS Fan Control supports EX47x servers running either HP 1.3 or 3.0 software and allows you to change the behavior of the exhaust fans in the MediaSmart Server.

More details are available from here.

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By on March 22nd, 2010

Developers – Implement an Update Check into your Add-In

If you are an add-in developer then Andreas M has a post on how to implement an update check into your add-ins.

All the details and the code are available from here.

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By on March 22nd, 2010

Add-In AdminMe at a Reduced Price

Although the add-in AdminMe has 99.99% of its functionalities enabled in the unregistered version, it is recommended to register a small license fee and support it’s development. And as an incentive the developers "ASoft" are offering a spring special where you can order the add-in for just $6 (€6/£6).

The add-in constantly monitors your server without you having to do anything, and if something goes wrong, it will notify you.

More details are available here.

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By on March 20th, 2010

Automatic Router Port Forwarding Tool

There is a simple tool available which makes it easy to open ports on your home router.

Simple Port Forwarding is a free application which supports over 1,100 models of router. The app saves the steps to configure the router into its database and updates your router without the need of you doing it yourself, ideal if your router interface isn’t the most friendly to navigate.

simple_port_forwarding

More details are available here.

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By on March 20th, 2010

Rip DVDs to Play on Any Device

The dudes at Tested.com have a really good guide on how to rid your DVDs to play on any device.

Ripping your DVD collection to a compressed, more compatible format will enable you to store more DVDs on Windows Home Server and allow you to stream them to your Windows Mobile, Zune, iPod/iPhone etc.

Handbrake for Windows

Its a great guide which goes through the various software packages available for both the PC and Mac user and the various presets available for your different devices:

  • Xbox 360
  • Playstation 3
  • AppleTV
  • WD TV/Popcorn Hour/Asus O!Play/Seagate FreeAgent/Etc
  • iPhone/iPod Touch
  • ZuneHD
  • Playstation Portable

Their comprehensive guide is available here.

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By on March 20th, 2010

From Frankenbox to MediaSmart

Going from a "Frankenbox" build to a MediaSmart EX485 from HP, Jason Dunn filled the bays with the fast, quiet and power-efficient Western Digital Caviar Green series hard drives.

MediaSmart with Western Digital Green Drives

Was it worth the switch going from the self build to the HP unit?

Jason says absolutely. It allowed him to go from a mess to something which is neat, tidy, power efficient as well as space saving and a 270% increase in speed when copying files across

You can read Jason’s experiences here.

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