The Download Manager Add-In has been updated to version 1.9 Beta.
The changes to this version are a new daily download function that enables you to restrict the transfer limit from 0 MB to unlimited and a new shutdown server after daily download feature.
Microsoft enthusiast and evangelist Benjamin Gauthey has uploaded three videos on Windows Home Server. The first is a 20 minute Introduction to WHS, the second is on Restoration and the third is entitled Windows Server Home – Addition of disk space which explains how to increase the storage capacity of your home server.
The videos are in French and although my French is 0%, I could still follow what was going on.
During a recent press event Microsoft told the people in attendance, that Hewlett Packard now has the Windows Home Server update for which it decided to delay its MediaSmart Home Server. Microsoft will officially announce it’s availability to the rest of us on the Windows Home Server blog on Tuesday September 25 (2007) – Provided they don’t change the date.
One of the updates is aimed at allowing developers writing add-ins to better utilize Windows Home Server, the others will enhance the usability and improve the out-of-the-box experience of home server solutions. The present plan is to make this update available on Windows Updates so we will all automatically receive the update once posted.
Thanks to HardwareGeeks.com and Mary Jo Foley blog on ZDNet for the information.
Today Raxco released PerfectDisk 8.0 for Windows Home Server, an automatic defragger that is easy to install on the server.
With lots of files changing regularly, fragmentation can be an issue. PerfectDisk does a complete single-pass disk defragmentation and optimization, and their Space Restoration Technology’s free space consolidation improves the efficiency of the drives.
PerfectDisk 8 is Certified for Windows Server 2003 which is the version of Windows that Windows Home Server is based on.
Automatic:
A single copy of PerfectDisk 8 for Windows Home Server is priced at $39.99, and also includes a copy of PerfectDisk 8 Professional for one of your client PCs. A home site license is also available for just $99.99, and provides a single license of PerfectDisk 8 for Windows Home Server and up to 5 licenses of PerfectDisk 8 Professional.
A 30 day evaluation copy is available for download, under “Product Download” select “PerfectDisk 8 Home Server”.
More Information is available at Raxco’s site.
If your WHS has time bombed by changing the system date or for any other reason, you will see the following message:
“The Evaluation period for this copy of Windows has ended! Windows cannot start. To continue to use Windows, please purchase and install a retail copy of this product!”
If this is the case first check the system date and time in the bios (on the server) and correct if necessary. If this does not work you will have to reinstall your Release Candidate (RC) copy of Windows Home Server again. As long as you select “Server Reinstallation”, your data (including shared folders and backups) will be safe.
When you come to activate you’ll be told that the product key has been used the maximum number of times. Now that the beta has ended new keys are not available so when prompted use the activate by phone option , the wizard will supply the phone number, which varies depending in which region you live.
Make sure you have your RC1 product key handy so the Microsoft operator can activate it for you and remember after the “Server Reinstallation” you will need to recreate the “Users”.
I’d like to give you some techniques for searching for a copy of Windows Home Server in your country at the cheapest price possible.
Add-In Windows Home Server Download Manager has been updated to version 1.8 beta. This was to fix a bug where the download’s could not be started or deleted
Thanks to the German HomeServer forum for the info – Download.
If intellisense, public classes and methods mean absolutely anything to you, then Brendan Grant is your man.
Due to the lack of intellisense documentation, he has compiled an XML file and an accompanying help file explaining what some of the public classes and methods exposed by HomeServerControls do.
More information and the downloads are on Brendan’s blog and also on the accompanying thread on the Windows Home Server forums.
Terry from We Got Served has arranged with Diskeeper for us all to have a 45 day fully-working trial version of Diskeeper 2007 for WHS. For those of you that don’t know, this product will enable you to defrag your Home Server and keep the disk drives in an optimum state.
Andrew Edney author of the upcoming Windows Home Server User’s Guide has started a blog to coincide with the books release, which should be available by the end of October (2007). It is great to see more sites appearing dedicated to Windows Home Server, welcome aboard Andrew.
