When installing the Windows Home Server connector software the server may not be found. This may be because you are running as a restricted Vista user and if this is the case you will need to install the connector software as “Administrator”. The step by step instructions are on Tranquil PC’s Weblog.
The online backup solution KeepVault for Windows Home Server has been updated to version 2.15:
Now what can you do with a briefcase bought off eBay and a copy of Windows Home Server?
Five months later with over $1000 of cash spent on it Christopher Guertin and his buddy David Kosloffsky, both known as the Mod Bros have made what is known as The Windows Home Briefcase.
Wow, that is nice guys but a lot of money. The full story is available to read at the Bros site.
Website Channel 10 have a video posted by Microsoft enthusiast evangelist Benjamin Gauthey explaining an add-in by French company Omwave that can control your home lighting and create ambiances with them.
More Info at Channel 10.
The Media Center Show Podcast this week features Andrew Edney author of the book Windows Home Server Users Guide. He talks about his new book and some of the features of Windows Home server.
Listen and/or download from here.
Eric Maurer add-in Client Info enables you to see hardware information about your home server and all client computers; including processor, memory, IP address, drive size, drive temp, and if a drive SMART failure is predicted.
New version 1.0.2.17 has been released which includes the following:
By the end of this week Tranquil PC home servers will be available in Germany, France and Spain for a very modest £24 shipping charge and this will include their latest Intel powered T2-WHS-A3 model as well, which is due for release this Wednesday. The servers will be supplied with the local language version of Windows Home Server and also the country specific power leads (of course).
Tranquil PC Online Catalogue.
What was going on this week at mswhs.com? Here’s your chance to catch-up if you missed something!
If you are like me and enjoy testing the different features of Windows Home Server and all the different add-ins available for it then it is a good idea to set up another copy of WHS in a testing environment. One way of doing this is within a virtual machine that allows you to install a […]
Five more reviews from around the World Wide Web regarding our Windows Home Server:
Top-of-the-line COM and .NET software component company Xceed used Xceed Zip for .NET and Xceed Chart for .NET in WHS and had this to say in a press release:
Xceed’s components figure in the client-side and the server-side of Windows Home Server, providing both UI elements and data manipulation capabilities. First, in the Windows Home Server Console, duties for displaying charts with statistics on free storage space, usage, etc., are handled by Xceed Chart for .NET. Second, when the home server is accessed remotely, Xceed Zip for .NET is used to compress and package files so they can be downloaded as a single Zip file onto a computer over the Internet.
“When we needed a control to draw charts in the Windows Home Server Console, a colleague referred me to Xceed Software,” explained CJ Saretto, senior program manager at Microsoft. “I downloaded the trial edition to see what it could do and was blown away by the Chart Explorer application. It took all of the guesswork out of evaluating the control’s capabilities. Without writing a single line of code, we knew that Xceed Chart for .NET could meet our needs. A day later we had Xceed Chart for .NET working in our application.” Concerning Xceed Zip for .NET, he added: “When we needed a library to handle ZIP files for Windows Home Server Remote Access, we turned to Xceed immediately, and we were up and running again in less than a day!”
Dileep Kumar, a developer at Microsoft who worked directly with Xceed’s chart control, had this to say: “Xceed Chart for .NET has an elaborate set of features. It was possible to customize pretty much everything on the chart: the borders, the background, the style (3D, 2D, projection), and the text. There was pretty much no requirement we had that was not met by the control, and the graphics were fast, too. The sample application provided (Chart Explorer) helped a lot.”
Xceed Zip for .NET is an industry-leading data compression component for .NET and ASP.NET. Powered by the Xceed FileSystem Core, it lets developers manipulate files and folders anywhere: in Zip and Tar archives, in GZip files, via secure FTP (including through HTTP proxy servers), in self-extracting Zip files, in streams, and in memory. This intuitive object model makes working with compressed or remote files and folders as easy as working with local ones.
Xceed Chart for .NET lets programmers rapidly create impressive charts in Windows Forms applications, saving time and producing great results. The fastest-rendering 2D/3D chart component on the market with both OpenGL and GDI+ render devices, it features extensive Visual Studio design-time support, a built-in toolbar and grid, built-in formulas, 3D view control and scene lighting, data binding support (DataAdapters and DataSets), and a data binding wizard.
If you are a developer for Windows Home Server then that probably meant something to you. Me, I’ll just go back to the corner of the room with my dunces cap on!
