Archive | April, 2008

Add-In: GridJunction 1.0

By on April 30, 2008 in Add-ins & Apps, Windows Home Server

GridJunction is a new add-in from Alexander Kent (who previously authored Vista Caller-ID for Windows Home Server) which allows you to monitor the state of any Uninterruptible Power Supply attached to your home server, either by USB or Serial connection. If the home server switches to battery power (i.e. lead unplugged, no power etc) it will use [...]

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Turn Your USB Flash Drive into a Windows Install Disk

By on April 30, 2008 in Hardware, How to Guides, Under the Hood, Windows, Windows Home Server

Many of us more technically-inclined poeple have probably built our own Windows Home Server systems by now or are considering it.  But one of the more tricky problems with building your own Home Server is how to install it.  Sure there is picking up a spare DVD drive just to install Home Server intially, but most [...]

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Add-In: EasyRadius (Beta)

By on April 28, 2008 in Add-ins & Apps, Windows Home Server

Brent Freidman is keeping himself and the rest of us busy with another add-in release this week. EasyRadius allows the simple installation and management of a Radius Server to provide added security for your home server. Features: Install (or uninstall) Internet Authentication Services Configure IAS for Radius use (on install) Create the Radius User Group [...]

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WGS Most Wanted…

By on April 28, 2008 in Site Updates, Windows Home Server

In case you’ve missed any of our posts this year, I thought it would be fun to check out what have been the most popular posts so far this year. Here’s the rundown: Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 – Coming Your Way Add-In Review: Website Manager Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 In Depth: [...]

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Add-In Update: Firefly WHS 0.0.2

By on April 27, 2008 in Add-ins & Apps, Windows Home Server

Nic Bedford has updated his Firefly WHS add-in which controls the settings for Firefly Media Server running on Windows Home Server. Version 0.0.2 fixes a problem whereby the add-in stated that the service needed restarting even when no settings had been changed. Download: Firefly WHS | Forum

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Windows Home Server Blogs Gadget

By on April 27, 2008 in Windows Home Server

It’s great to see a number of Windows Home Server blogs popping up all over the internet – if, like me, you spend time checking out a few of the blogs, Donovan West has created a cool sidebar gadget for Windows Vista that scrolls headlines from We Got Served, the Windows Home Server Team Blog, [...]

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Add-In: DupeCleaner (Beta)

By on April 26, 2008 in Add-ins & Apps, Windows Home Server

Here’s a great example of why Windows Home Server, and the community that’s developed around it, completely rocks. On Wednesday, a post in the WGS add-ins forums asks if there’s an add-in which can find duplicate files on a home server. Nothing like it exists. So someone writes one and makes it available today, Friday. [...]

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Routers That Successfully Auto-Configure with Windows Home Server

By on April 25, 2008 in Hardware, How to Guides, Networking, Routers, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server v1

Over on the WGS Forums, we’re compiling a master list of Routers that auto-configure with Windows Home Server using uPnP. You’ll probably know that Windows Home Server is meant to be able to configure remote access for your router if it supports uPnP, but in fact, this only seems to work with some routers. If you’re [...]

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Add-In Update: LightsOut 0.7.5

By on April 24, 2008 in Windows Home Server

Power Management Add-In, LightsOut, has today been updated to version 0.75. Here’s a rundown of the changes: New: Calendar Items sorted with their start time Check for double clients Check for the process sbsrexe Changed: Changed the Calendar control with a newly developed component Restart of services on the PowerStatusChange event Client Service protocols less [...]

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PerfectDisk 2008 for Windows Home Server Travels to France and Germany

By on April 24, 2008 in Software, Windows Home Server

Raxco today announced that PerfectDisk 2008 for Windows Home Server has been released in two new languages, German and French. If you’re in those countries and want to know more, check out the links below: Germany: http://www.raxco.com/de/de_perfectdisk_windows.cfm France: http://www.raxco.com/fr/fr_perfectdisk_windows.cfm

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