The Digital Lifestyle.com has a post by chrisoldroyd explaining how he connects his Windows Home Server and his Popcorn Hour to his modem/router using a Home Plug solution.
You can read chrisoldroyd post here.
Episode 74 of The Home Server Show podcast is up, and this week Dave, John, Jim and Chris have a lot of add-ins to talk about as well as the weeks other Home Server news.
You can find it here.
Software developer Stuart Northcott gave up trying to recover his many years worth of data off of a Linux HDD and instead switched to Windows Home Server.
Stuart goes through his setup in his blog post and also gives a good tip for those of you experiencing the password is incorrect dialogue.
You can read it here.
DVBLink v2 RC1 has been updated to version 2.0.0004
As you may be aware the DVBLink software enables your tuner card/s to become network tuners, thus ideal for installing them in Windows Home Server and watching via Media Center.
This latest update includes the following new features and fixes:
More details are available from here.
Asus has decided to make the TS mini Home Server available in Australia:
Seamlessly Store, Share, and Secure Digital Content Everywhere Around the Home
ASUS Home Server TS mini Embedded with Windows® 7 Delivers Instant, Intuitive, and Simplified Data ManagementSydney, Australia 27 January 2010 – ASUS has launched its home server in Australia which leverages the Windows ® 7 operating system to improve data management, enhance media streaming and better utilise home networks. The ASUS Home Server TS mini is designed to simplify a user’s digital life by centralising photos, music, videos and other digital content from multiple home computers onto a single repository—thereby enabling easy storage, sharing and securing of digital assets within a home or remotely via the Internet. Equipped with an Intel® Atom processor and operating on the Microsoft® Windows™ Home Server platform, it simplifies management and protection of digital content. The TS mini features 2GB of DDR2 memory, Gigabit Ethernet support, up to 4TB of internal storage, exclusive 500GB of online storage, six USB ports and two eSATA ports to meet future growth requirements.
Easy Backup and Restoration of Home Computers
The TS mini functions as a data management centre, automatically backing up data from up to 10 computers daily. In a recovery scenario, users can easily restore files or bring computers back online by loading the latest information saved on the TS mini.Convenient Content Sharing at Home and Easy Remote Access
The TS mini makes it easy for users to stream photos, music, video and other digital content to various devices in the home including TVs, computers, media PCs and gaming consoles—for comprehensive home entertainment access. By using the Remote Access feature, users away from home can also leverage on their personal Windows Live™ accounts to access the TS mini and its content. Additionally, they can stream music and multimedia content through the online connection.Large Data Capacity with Exclusive Web Storage
For additional storage capacity, the TS mini provides a year of free 500GB storage over the Web. Users can boost their storage or synchronise backups online for improved data security. Additionally, users can save large peer-to-peer files directly to the web storage and host files which can be linked to from social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.Enhanced Data Access and File Management
The TS mini acts as a user-friendly management console that consolidates data from various sources. With six USB and two eSATA ports—the highest number of I/O interfaces on a home server—the TS mini lets home users directly back up, synchronise and manage their files across various USB and eSATA devices, as well as the internal hard drive.Improved Home Security with Easy Surveillance Features
By connecting IP cameras to the TS mini, users can easily set up a home surveillance system. With its online connectivity, the TS mini lets users view live or recorded clips of home surveillance footage while they are away—to ensure their families are safe.Better Energy-saving Features
In line with global energy-saving initiatives, the TS mini was developed to use minimal power—consuming 24.5W of power when in idle mode and 27.9W when in operation. Such energy-saving capabilities make the TS mini a good choice for 24-by-7, non-stop data centre operations.
Asus are stating that it will be available for $699 from IT distributors Ingram Micro, Synnex and Bluechip and a date to be announced.
Sleep, we all do it, most at night but some during the day…sleep that is – And that’s exactly what our Home Servers should be doing if you would like to cut your electricity bill.
Minnaar Pieters gives us a few examples on how to drop your Windows Home Server’s power usage, which should cut your electricity bill by a few dollars, euros, pounds… you get the idea!
You can give it a read here.
Juan Goni is the latest victim 🙂 of “Show us Your Tech”, a series which highlights the tech used (featuring WHS) in WHS team members homes.
Juan is a senior Program Manager at Microsoft in the Exchange Online Deployment group and shows us how to uses Windows Home Server to control amongst other things his home lighting.
PC Pro online reviews the Asus TS mini Home Server.
The TS mini gets an impressive 5 out of 6 stars in its overall rating, and reviewer Darien Graham-Smith had this to say:
It lacks polish, but the mini is an affordable and practical choice to serve any home
You can read their review here.
Ylian Saint-Hilaire is a senior architect at Intel and is currently working on network manageability using the Intel Active Management Technology (AMT).
Ylian has released the open source add-in "Manageability Add-in for Windows Home Server", which can manage any computer as long as it runs the peer-to-peer mesh agent (a background service) from Ylian’s mesh project. Once up and running the add-in can do power state monitoring, remote computer monitoring and management along with access to a basic management console prompt. Additional benefits are added within the add-in if the computers on the network support Intel AMT, but this is not required for use.
Ylian has provided this quick tutorial video on the features in the Manageability Add-in for Windows Home Server.
More details on the add-in are available from here.
Digital ArcHound is now known as DA Document Manager and the 2010 Edition is available for download.
DA Document Manager – Windows Home Server Edition is a document archiving multi-user software application that has been designed for individuals, families and small businesses to quickly and easily move toward a truly paperless environment by allowing them to store, retrieve, archive and manage their electronic documents.
Using the DA Document Manager client software, each computer connected to the WHS server can independently archive, search, recall, email and combine archives from a centrally located database and archive vault on the WHS server.
Some of the new features include:
A 15 day free trial is available after which pricing is $59.99 for a 3 user license, $99.99 for 5 users and $189.99 for 10 users. Existing users of Digital ArcHound can upgrade to DA Document Manager from $39.99.
More information is available from here.
