The Home Server Show podcast #77 is out and this weeks episode takes a look at the Windows Mobile 7 Series as well as the latest news and discussions surrounding everything Home Server.
You can catch episode 77 here.
If you are a MediaSmart owner and you click on "Add Software" from the "MediaSmart Server" tab within the Windows Home Server console, you will find a "Add Software" button, which takes you to the following web page:
If you have visited this page before, you would have noticed that the KeepVault online backup service has now been added to the other 2 services already there: PerfectDisk 10 and Diskeeper, both of which are defragmentation tools for Home Server users.
KeepVault which is a great online backup solution for Windows Home Server users are offering a free 15 day trial as well as a 20% discount off of their normal pricing for the first year. For example 20GB of storage for $65/yr whilst 100GB is $315/yr – More details are available from here on pricing for other storage amounts, whilst the official press release can be viewed here.
We reported the other day that the add-in WHS Mobile version 1.5.3.4 was in the works, and the good news is that it is now available.
Here’s the change log:
More details are available from here.
Windows Home Server and Windows Media Center enthusiast Dale Kirkwood is on this weeks Media Center Show podcast.
Dale talks about his massive 40TB Home Server and how he is integrating it with his Media Center setup. The hardware used and the software and services used to connect it all up are also discussed.
You can listen to episode 244 of The Media Center Show podcast here.
The WebLogs Add-In for Windows Home Server has been updated to version 1.0.6.0 with the following changes:
Note on 1.0.6.0: This version disables "Hide Local Network", which didn’t really work right before anyway. Previously, that button would only hide 192.168.*.* addresses. There are other valid private net addresses, like 10.*.*.* that it should have hidden and technically even then it should have been called "Hide Private Network". In a future edition it will be back, and it truly will hide the local network using the server’s IP address and netmask. I pulled it for not because I wanted to get the fix for the crash out asap as I haven’t had the time to revisit the network problem for a couple weeks.
More details are available from here.
Website HardwareSphere has a great review of the HP StorageWorks x510 Data Vault.
The review looks at the installation and the Data Vault in day to day use, which you can find here.
Thanks to the German Home Server Blog for the link.
Do you have a Windows Home Server restore disc?
If not, the How-To Geek has a guide on how to create one in either Windows 7, Vista or XP which you can find here.
There is a great post on “The Windows Home Server Blog” about how Windows Home Server provides a lot of added benefits to the Windows Home Server + Zune + Windows Media Center experience, which you can read about here.
Windows Media Center + Zune
- TV acquisition
- Zune software will Sync non-AC3 TV Content during a sync
- IPTV content on-demand
- Ability to go mobile with your TV Content
Windows Home Server + Windows Media Center + Zune
- TV acquisition
- Home Server will compress TV content ahead of sync – AC3 content included
- IPTV content on-demand
- Ability to go mobile with your TV Content
- Remote Access to future recordings while you are on the road.
- You can download these videos (which are already compressed and a LOT smaller) and sync them after download completes to your Zune while away from your home!
- Increased storage capabilities without having to be a techno expert
Microsoft employee "The IO Guy" has a great post on an unsupported way to back up Small Business Server (SBS) to Windows Home Server.
He installed the WHS connector software onto SBS 2008, but as Home Server is not a solution to backup things like Exchange, Active Directory and SQL databases he used the built in SBS Backup utility to backup the server to disk, and then used Home Server to backup that backup. An ideal way to backup Small Business Server to Windows Home Server.
You can read the post here.
Do you know how to shutdown or restart your Windows Home Server from within the console?
I’m sure you do, but if not the How-To Geek has a reminder and takes you easily through the process, which you can find here.
