By on May 15th, 2008

Add-In: Event Viewer 1.1.0.0

Benjamin Robichaud has updated his add-in that displays the Windows Event Logs, also known as Event Viewer in the Home Server Console. Once installed you can choose which log to monitor, filter the entries with Show All, Warnings, Errors, etc and clear the logs as well.

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Version 1.1.0.0 includes the following:

  • Fix : only displays the last 500 entries of a Log, thus preventing the console to freeze while iterating over too many items.
  • Fix : ‘Show Relevant’ now only displays ‘Warnings’ and ‘Errors’.
  • New : ‘Show Unknowns’ is now available under the ‘Filter’ dropdown box.
  • New : displays the event ID, per request. 

Event viewer can be downloaded from here.

Thanks to We Got Served for the update details.

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By on May 15th, 2008

Drobo + Windows Home Server = Goodness

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Steve Rowe has posted on his blog how he uses Drobo and Windows Home Server both together. Drobo is a flexible RAID solution from Data Robotics Inc.

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By on May 14th, 2008

Setting up Windows Home Server – Part 3

The How-To Geek has published part 3 (with links to parts 1 and 2 if you missed them) of its setting up Windows Home Server series. Based around the Velocity Micro unit, in this part the geek loads everything up!

Read it here.

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By on May 14th, 2008

Low Power/Noise CPU's and Motherboards for WHS

Paul Jenkins has a great article on selecting a CPU and Motherboard for WHS that have low power usage and low noise output. Meet the contenders here.

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By on May 12th, 2008

Windows Home Server World Cup – April 2008

With Windows Home Server now being sold in 47 different countries around the world, the Windows Home Server World Cup results for April look very interesting. Norway remains in 1st position, with New Zealand less than 100 units away from first place, assuming Norway stands still. 

From the WHS Team Blog the top 8 countries are:

  1. Norway
  2. New Zealand
  3. United States
  4. Germany
  5. United Kingdom
  6. Denmark
  7. Australia  
  8. Switzerland

The standings are computed by taking Windows Home Server sales divided by the number of households with a broadband connection in each country. Updated standings will be published next month. 

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By on May 12th, 2008

New Podcast – The Media Center Show

The Home Server Show is a new fortnightly Podcast by David McCabe. In the first episode David discusses our site amongst other WHS enthusiast sites and also chats with Ian Dixon from The Media Center Show. David adds that he hopes that The Home Server Show will eventually be made available weekly in the future.

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By on May 10th, 2008

Power Pack 1 and the Backup Database Feature (or NOT)

We Got Served picked up on a post on Microsoft’s WHS forums stating that Power Pack 1 of Windows Home Server will not allow you to back up your backup database via a built in tool as was previously announced.

Todd Headrick of the WHS Team stated:

A feature isn’t a feature until it ships.  And sometimes marketing gets things wrong … by pre-announcing stuff at CES that ends up getting cut before it ships.

The feature had to be cut due to the interplay with the connector install and the fact that consumers may hork their backup database by doing an incomplete backup or interrupting the restore process.  The team will look to add this functionality in a future release after Power Pack 1.

Of course this is not a problem as you can still back up the backup database manually, using the steps in the Home Computer Backup technical brief.

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By on May 08th, 2008

Files that are compressed by NTFS compression may not be backed up correctly by WHS

The WHS team has solved a software bug that can affect Files on a home computer that are compressed by using NTFS compression may not be backed up correctly by Windows Home Server. The Knowledge Base (KB) article explains that if you try to restore a compressed file from a WHS backup, the file may be corrupted. This is because under certain circumstances, a compressed file may consume more disk space than the original file size. Some sections of a file may use less disk space after NTFS compression. However, other sections of a file may use more disk space after NTFS compression. If the compressed file uses more disk space than the original file, a small amount of data at the end of the file may be lost during the backup process. This data loss results in a corrupted file or a partially-corrupted file, depending on the corresponding file types. The file types that may be affected by this issue include, but are not limited to, CAB, ZIP, JPG, and PNG.

An update package is available for download as well as via Windows Update that corrects this issue but remember that backups that were created before the update was installed may still contain corrupted files if the backups used NTFS compression.

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By on May 08th, 2008

How-To Install phpBB 3, MediaWiki and WordPress on WHS

Over the last few days WHS enthusiast site We Got Served has published a series of how to’s for those wanting more from their Home Server’s. These include how to install Forum Software phpBB 3 on Windows Home Server, how-to install MediaWiki on Windows Home Server, installing PHP for IIS on Windows Home Server and how-to: install WordPress on Windows Home Server. Great stuff!

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By on May 06th, 2008

Beta Testers Required for UPS Add-In

After mentioning about GridJunction the Uninterruptible Power Supply management add-in for Windows Home Server, developer Alexander Kent has been in touch asking for some fruitful beta candidates. So, if you think you are up to the challenge pop on over to the www.gridjunction.com website to sign up or to learn more on the forth coming UPS add-in.

What will I need to do as a GridJunction Beta Tester?
  • Install and configure the Beta product within one week after you download it.
  • Report your experiences by email or via the website.
    Include any problems or bugs you experienced with the product,
    as well as suggestions for the product’s improvement and product “wish lists.”

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