By Philip Churchill on February 12th, 2010
The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 76
The Home Server Show podcast #76 has the latest WHS news and views this week from John, Chris, and Dave.
You can catch it here.
By Philip Churchill on February 11th, 2010
Add-In: WHS Health 1.0.0.10
The add-in WHS Health has been updated to version 1.0.0.10 with the following changes:
- Renamed Console Errors to Console Status
- Icon Added to Console Status Item
- Updated Icons
- Better handling of “non standard” web site configurations.
- WebSites.XML for both home and remote pages updated on install and cleaned on uninstall.
- Changes in Settings tab now correctly applied when the OK or Apply button is clicked
- Correct specification of secure and non-secure URLs in remote pages
WHS Health is a set of web pages especially for viewing on modern mobile devices which enable you to read relevant health information from Home Server. The add-in has been shown to work correctly on the iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, and Palm Pre. Internet Explorer on Windows Mobile can have issues.
You can grab the download from here. (bottom of the page)
By Philip Churchill on February 11th, 2010
Setup and Use the WHS Toolkit
If you are having connection issues with Windows Home Server then you need the Windows Home Server Toolkit.
The How-To Geek have a guide on installing Microsoft’s utility and explains how to use the Connector Troubleshooter element of the toolkit as well as it’s advanced mode.
You can read the guide here.
By Philip Churchill on February 11th, 2010
Power Pack 3 Wins Best Integration Tool Award
The Digital Lifestyle.com have just announced the winners of their 5th annual award ceremony, aimed at Media Center enthusiasts. It’s good to see that under the "Best Integration Tool" category, Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 came in 1st place.
Congratulations to Power Pack 3 for bringing Media Center and Windows Home Server closer together.
By Philip Churchill on February 11th, 2010
DVBLink 2.0.1
DVBLogic have updated 2 components of their DVBLink software to version 2.0.1.
For the DVBLink Server Network Pack the picture break-up and stuttering in MediaCenter on network clients has been fixed.
DVBLink Server was not updated and their is no need to update it.
DVBLink TVSource includes the following fixes and updates:
- Fix for FireDTV/FloppyDTV cards that unable to find services during scan
- Fix for Terratec cards, where DVBLink prevents system from going to standby
- Potential fix for all other tuner cards, reporting "0 services found" during channel scan
- Experimental simple diseqc implementation for Hauppauge sat tuners
If you are running the previous DVBLink TVSource v2, then use the bat files, which are enclosed in the zip archive to update. This will update your binary files and keep all your scanned channels and preferences.
You can download version 2.0.1 from here.
By Philip Churchill on February 11th, 2010
Backup WHS Itself via a Scheduled Task
If you plug in a USB hard drive to your Home Server to backup the WHS unit itself you will notice that there is no way to schedule the backup.
Thankfully there is a set of instructions on how to get a "scheduled” backup using a key stroke macro which will run via the Windows Task Scheduler.
Setup instructions are available from here. Information courtesy of the MPECS Inc. Blog.
By Philip Churchill on February 10th, 2010
The avast! WHS Edition Update
Avast have updated some of their Anti Virus products to version 5 but not avast! WHS Edition, so what’s happening?
WeGotServed originally posted the answer and on further investigation we found the required info on the avast! Blog.
The three products currently at version 5 are avast 5 Free AV, avast 5 Pro AV, and avast 5 Internet Security. But avast! WHS Edition is currently still at version 4.8, but shortly the v5 clients will be updated to talk to the WHS Edition, whilst the WHS Edition itself is expected to be also ported to the v5 engine eventually, but no firm dates as yet.
Other news – The avast! Professional Family Pack is also going to be discontinued. This pack wasn’t really a product but just a bundle of 10x Professional Edition plus WHS Edition, but even with it being discontinued, you can obviously still build the same functionality with the other products.
By Philip Churchill on February 10th, 2010
Build your own WHS on the Cheap using an old PC
Computer Shopper have a tips & tricks guide on how to build your own Windows Home Server, which explains how to cook up and configure your own WHS on the cheap using an old PC.
The massive 9 part article goes through the minimum parts needed, installation and configuration, setting up users and Windows clients, installing add-ins including other apps like Firefly Media Server and Orb. Finally the guide looks at using Windows Home Server with a Mac.
You can find it here.
By Philip Churchill on February 10th, 2010
Should the Add-In WHS Mobile be Free?
Brent Friedman developer of WHS Mobile is asking if he should make his add-in free.
WHS Mobile lets you manage Windows Home Server from your Windows Mobile device or from an iPhone/iTouch and currently costs a couple of Dollars (£1.19) from Apple’s App Store.
So do you use the add-in? Should it still be a payable app or free? Leave your comments over here at Brent’s site.
By Philip Churchill on February 09th, 2010
TwonkyMedia Server High CPU Utilisation Fix
MediaSmartServer.net is reporting that TwonkyMedia have resolved an issue with TwonkyMedia Server 5.1.2 concering high CPU utilisation. TwonkyMedia suggest a patch was delivered to HP in December so we could expect that patch in “early March” from them.
More details here.
