If you fancy seeing one sexy number being undressed (sorry unboxed!!!) then The Digital Lifestyle is the place to surf over too. Ian Dixon gives us a video preview of Tranquil’s SQA-5H Home Server.
After a vacation and a bout of sickness, David McCabe is back with The Home Server Show #24 with the latest news, your emails and a look at travelling with your Windows Home Server.
Available from here.
The HP MediaSmart community MediaSmartServer.net has details that Encore, the codename for the next version of HP MediaSmart Server’s may not be far away.
When forum member MSCrzyMan went to register his MediaSmart online he was surprised to see that apart from the EX470 and EX475 being displayed that two other models were also in the search results. An EX485 and a EX487.
“Coming Home to Windows Home Server” is a series of posts on home server from sound and video contractor SVC. The latest part 12, takes a look at WHS in the wild with an enthuses on the importance of data backups. The other parts in this series they are also available from the same location, which is here.
Microsoft’s diagnostic and troubleshooting tool for WHS has had an update.
The Windows Home Server Toolkit now works on Windows Vista (x64) systems as well as Windows XP and Windows Vista (32-bit) and the toolkit add in part of the package has also been simplified to make it easier for users to access relevant information when troubleshooting any issues that they may encounter with their home servers.
Windows Home Server Toolkit User Manual v 1.1
Earlier today an update for Windows Home Server became available. Known plainly as "Windows Home Server Update, November 2008" or KB957824 the minor software update fixes 6 problems that users have experienced over the following months with Windows Home Server:
The update will be downloaded automatically to your Windows Home Server via Windows/Microsoft Update, as long as Automatic Updates is enabled on the server. If not from within the Windows Home Server Console, click Update Now on the General page of the home server Settings page to receive the update.
More information is available in Knowledge Base article 957824 from Microsoft.
PerfectDisk 2008 is a defrag tool, and if you don’t know already, Raxco the people behind it have a version especially designed for Windows Home Server.
Now, if you fancy giving a copy a new home on your Home Server, just type the code PDTEN4FREE (do not cut & paste) during checkout and you’ll receive a 25% discount and a FREE upgrade to PerfectDisk Version 10 when it is released.
The offer expires before midnight on December 19, 2008.
More details are available from here.
If you built your own Windows Home Server and are using either integrated graphics or a video card that has Nvidia chips on it then you could run into problems if you upgrade the video driver.
A graphic driver update released in October is causing havoc on many Home Server installs by not allowing users to log in via the Console or Remote Desktop and even a driver roll back does not work forcing many to do a server reinstall.
The driver version at the cause of the problem is GeForce Release 178.24 which was released October 15, 2008 to add support for motherboards with integrated GeForce 9-series GPUs, mainly the GeForce 9400 and the GeForce 9300.
Version 178.24 has now been superseded by release 180.48 released November 19, 2008 which presently has NOT been tested alongside Windows Home Server, so use this updated version with caution!
Neither release has no mention of a compatibility issue in their release notes, although fellow enthusiast Christopher Price and myself have experienced this issue.
The office chain of stores, OfficeMax are offering the HP MediaSmart Server EX470 for a dollar short of 300 bucks through their US stores and online.
The $299 price even includes free shipping if you are within 20 miles of an OfficeMax store, but don’t forget to add on the taxes.
More details are available from here.
The Advanced Admin Console Add-In has had a home over at http://keinplatz.spaces.live.com (or Andreas’ Space for short) for the last year or so. But now the developer Andreas has decided to launch a new website dedicated to Windows Home Server Add-In development.
The new site “Andreas M’s Windows Home Server Addins” can be found here.
