By on August 21st, 2008

12 Hardware Company's Join Epson in Japan

Applied WHS10000GV250 The Applied WHS10000GV250.

As well as the Epson we discussed yesterday, the following Japanese companies have announced that they will be shipping Home Server powered home servers or Windows Home Server related products in Japan:

With the Japanese version of Windows Home Server being officially launched in Tokyo yesterday (August 20), we would like to give a warm welcome to our Japanese friends – mswhs.com?????.

Information courtesy of the Windows Home Server Team Blog.

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By on August 21st, 2008

New Add-In Resource

Windows Home Server Addins

Windows Home Server forum user Jacques N is a recent convert to Windows Homer Server and got frustrated when trying to find all the available addins.  As such, he built a little website that lists all the available add-ins under different category’s along with their download links.

http://whsaddins.com/

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By on August 20th, 2008

Endeavour SV110h Windows Home Server for Japan

Endeavor SV110h

We Got Served has the scoop that Epson in Japan are releasing the Endeavour SV110h Windows Home Server.

The space saving Endeavour measuring only 75 x 195 x 185mm and comes with the Japanese version of WHS with PP1. Available in 2 flavors, a basic and a performance model, both come with 512MB of RAM and have fast 1000Base-T Ethernet.

The basic model is powered via a Celeron Intel processor 560 (2.13GHz) and has a 250GB SATA hard drive whilst the performance model has a Intel Core 2 Duo processor T8100 (2.1GHz) and a 320GB SATA hard drive.

The Space Saving Endeavour SV110h 

Both models are available now for ¥ 79,800  ($725) and ¥ 99,750 ($906) respectively.

Also available for the Endeavor will be an optional 1TB or 2TB external HDD for additional storage space.

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By on August 20th, 2008

Add-In: Windows Home Server Disk Management 1.0.9.8

Add-in developer Sam Wood has just released version 1.0.9.8 of Windows Home Server Disk Management, the add-in that that gives you more detail about your server’s storage status.

WHS Disk Management 1.0.9.8 

This version resolves a rare crash if an ID number could not be found for a specific disk.

More information is available from here.

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By on August 20th, 2008

Add-In: SageTV 6.4.8

Last week the release candidate 6.4.8 of SageTV was released. Some of the major additions for V6.4, but not specific to this build are:

-Support for the Hauppauge HD PVR (Official on Windows, Experimental on Linux)
-Automatic STVI Generation in the SageTV Studio
-EXIF metadata/thumbnail support for JPEGs
-new file system & network browser
-H.264 videos from YouTube
-High definition photo display on the STX-HD100
-File transfers to/from Placeshifter clients
-editing of aspect ratios on the fly for the STX-HD100
-lots of bugs fixes & performance enhancements

The download of SageTV Media Server for Windows Home Server is located here along with more information here.

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By on August 19th, 2008

Add-In:HAI WL3 for Windows Home Server 1.0

WL3-Logo

WL3 is an Add-in from HAI (Home Automation Inc) for Windows Home Server that allows you to monitor and control a HAI Home Control System from any device with a web browser, such as a computer, PDA, Smartphone, BlackBerry, iPhone 2.0 and iPod Touch etc.

Regardless of the brand of camera, the video is displayed in the WL3 format so that all camera feeds have a consistent look and feel.  Easily select any camera, choose the frame rate and screen size, manually start and stop video recording, take a snapshot of the video image, and play, pause, or stop the video stream.

HAI-WL3-1.0 

WL3 can also record video based on an event and/or send e-mails or text messages.  Recorded videos and snapshots are categorized and can be viewed anytime you log in, locally or over the Internet.  WL3 continually monitors your home and can inform you of events such as the alarm system being disarmed, or a car entering the garage.  Furthermore, WL3 is customizable and allows you to change the user interface by applying different graphic and color schemes, add RSS feeds, weather, sports, news, personal blogs and more.  WL3 will retail for $329 and requires an Ethernet enabled HAI home control system and a Windows Home Server.

More information is available from here plus a PDF technical sheet.

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By on August 18th, 2008

Changing Blocked Ports

Troubleshooting Remote Access for your MediaSmart or Windows Home Server is a guide available from MediaSmartHome.com. The tutorial details what to do when your server ports are blocked by your ISP and how to overcome this problem.

The guide is available here.

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By on August 15th, 2008

Yet Another Windows Home Server Parts List

Paul Fenkins Part List

Another Windows Home Server parts list. This time self proclaimed geek and Microsoft Student Partner, Paul Jenkins shows us his single 1TB build list with power usage details, and all for $566.

Here are the details.

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By on August 15th, 2008

The Home Server Show #14

The Home Server Show Podcast

David McCabe is the compiler and host of The Home Server Show and this week he takes a well deserved vacation. Whilst David is away show #14 is a re-broadcast of show #1 with Ian Dixon minus the news and pre-interview chit chat

Listen here.

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By on August 13th, 2008

Why doesn't Windows Home Server use RAID?

Following on from our Fear the Cowboy’s post on Windows Home Server Drive Extender v RAID, the Windows Home Server Team Blog has a follow up posting explaining the WHS storage system design requirements and why RAID is not a consumer technology and why it’s not in Windows Home Server.

Read it here.

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