For a list of reviews on the Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo Home Server 1900 head over to TestSeek who are showing four reviews from the likes of PC Pro, VNU and Trusted reviews.
LogPoint Performance Monitor is an add-in that creates a graphical representation of your Home Server performance data while monitoring the disk speed (read/write) and tranfers per second.
LogPoint are also in the process of finalizing the development of the Windows Home Server LogPoint Management Console. This will give you most of the LogPoint functionality on your Windows Home Server network; allowing you to monitor and manage the devices on your network.
LogPoint Performance Monitor can be downloaded for free from here. Thanks to Jerry Wade for the details.
The Innoventions Dream Home is the latest attraction in Tomorrowland at DisneyLand in California. The Dream Home is showcasing cutting edge technologies including Microsoft Surface, Windows Home Server and Windows Media Center.
Built in collaboration between Disneyland, Microsoft, HP, Life|ware and home-builder Taylor Morrison the Innoventions Dream Home is both a show and a showcase, offering guests of all ages a hands-on experience with new in-home technologies
The experience includes guest interaction with the residents of the Dream Home – the fictional Elias family – who will welcome all guests into their new home. Members of the family move from room to room, utilizing the technology as they prepare for a big celebration. Guests who enter the Dream Home can observe and play with all its high-tech technologies.
It’s great to know that the Ellis family are using Windows Home Server to store and back-up what’s important in the Innoventions Dream Home.
More information is available from here. Thanks to WindowsNow, the source for Windows Vista News for the information.
UPDATE: On The Media Center Show #161 Ian Dixon talks to Jason Leonardelli from Life|Ware about the Innoventions Dream Home.
I new add-in is being planed called WHS DupFileManager which will will be an active duplicate file manager looking for file dups that live in any shares (or user defined subset of shares/directories) on the Windows Home Server and will move the duplicates to a “Duplicate Share”.
Although there is a similar add-in entitled DupeCleaner, WHS DupFileManager will provide a better user interface for the end user.
A beta version will be available within the next week or so and developer wombat94 would like some feedback on what features you would like to see in this version.
More information is available on the Windows Home Server Forums, which is also the place to leave feedback and feature suggestions.
Beta 2 of BitDefender Total Security 2009 has just been released and includes an enhanced feature set:
Make sure you work through the test cases, but hurry as you only have 9 days left to beta test! and thanks to The Home Server Show for the heads up.
To download beta 2 or to sign up for the beta program, do so here.
VPOP3 for Windows Home Server (Beta) is a Windows email server designed for Windows Home Server which will work with any Internet email account which supports POP3 or SMTP methods for incoming mail, and SMTP for outgoing mail. It will also work without an Internet email account at all, using direct SMTP email reception and sending.
The add-in includes a built in spam filter which can detect over 90% of spam and offensive email. VPOP3 also has a full Webmail server built in, enabling you to read and sent email including viewing your address book etc all from within the same browser.
Message archiving, a mailing list server and autoresponders are other included features which are available in a 1 month free trail version after which VPOP3 for Windows Home Server (Beta) is available for a yearly price of £40 ($82).
More information including the trail are available from here.
Part 2 of Building a Windows Home Server – Craftsman Style has just been published.
After we detailed part 1 of this story the other day, this woodworker has built his Windows Home Server into a wooden cabinet, the craftsman style home server. You can read the full story here.
In the Podcast Windows Weekly 63, hosts Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte talk about Windows Home Server (amongst other things). Around 30 minutes into the program, the features available in Power Pack 1 (PP1) are discussed as well as Jungle Disk for Windows Home Server, an online storage solution powered by Amazon S3.
You can listen online or download the MP3 file from here.
The Home Server Show Podcast is now at episode 5 and includes an interview with Alex Kuretz from MediaSmartServer.net along will the usual mix of news and announcements.
Listen to it here.
As we announced last week a copy of Windows Search 4.0 is available for Windows Home Server users. If you would like to know what is new, check out the following article at Maximum PC.
