Jim recently spent some time with Mario Blandini of Drobo at the offices in San Jose, CA. The Podcast can be heard here at theAverageGuy.tv. During the podcast, Jim threw down a challenge to the Windows Home Server Community to produce an add-in that works with managing Drobo devices on WHS 2011. Mario and Drobo [...]
Home Server Status version 2.01 is a great addition to Windows Home Server 2011. If you are running the newest home server from Microsoft and are missing the old WHS tray icon that gave you simple status updates you are in luck. This little gem for $6.95 has it and a little bit more. This [...]
So here is the name that Microsoft give the release candidate of the Windows Home Server add in and Windows Phone 7 app… “Windows Home Server 2011 Windows Phone 7 Connector”. Man that is a mouth full, wish it was a little simpler. Well at least the app as it appears in the phone is [...]
We discussed the upcoming Drive Bender Beta 2 on podcast 128 and sure enough, here it is. This time around there is a Windows Home Server 2011 Add-In as well as folder duplication. Here are the rest of the release notes from the developer. Release v1.1.2.0 – beta (2011-03-21) – Many bug fixes and enhancements. [...]
Good news for those of us who use Advanced Admin Console for Windows Home Server Version 1. A new version (0.5.4) is available which is a maintenance release that fixes some bugs. Here’s what the developer Andreas Miceli has to say about the update: “This is a maintenance release which fixes a number of minor [...]
In mid December I told you about a new Add-In from Sam Wood of Tentacle Software. That Add-In is Feedsource. Tentacle Software Feedsource is a Windows Home Server Add-In that publishes secure Really Simple Syndication (“RSS”) feeds for Shared Folders through the Remote Access web site. Sam gives a much better description of what Feedsource [...]
If you want to save power and energy and still have access to PCs on your network, a good solution is to use Wake-on-Lan. Today we take a look at a new WHS Add-in called Magic WOL that does a great job of remotely waking up your PCs for RDP sessions. Magic WOL is a [...]
Windows Home Server is an awesome way to share and store files on a home or small office network. However, if you’re constantly moving files between different machines on your network to WHS, after time you’ll undoubtedly end up with duplicates. After time, this can waste valuable server space. This is where the Duplicate File [...]
I found an add-in developer over at MediaSmartServer.net, Christian Johnson, and we got chatting. He asked me what was the most sought after Windows Home Server add-in. According to the Microsoft Connect web site for WHS. It’s a Microsoft Security Essentials add-in. So for those of you who took the plunge and installed the beta [...]
Tentacle Software Blackbox is a Windows Home Server Add-In that provides in-depth monitoring of motherboard hardware sensors and configurable alerting rules to notify the server administrator when a sensor exceeds a defined threshold. System Requirements Windows Home Server Version 1 Motherboard that supports hardware Sensors – Most ITE * chips, CPU thermal sensors, hard drive [...]
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