Comments on: Add-In: AutoExit 2008 for Windows Home Server

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:30:12 +0000

Hi reddragon72,
I know what you mean, my short icon bar scrolls, what seems like eternity.

By: reddragon72

reddragon72 — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:01:26 +0000

the WOL issue was resolved with an updated BIOS, but still I can RD to the server to do a WOL. It’s just right now having one extra icon in the task bar to make shortcuts for RD or WOL is not need especially since I rarely do those things. Now if the Vista messaging worked then I would install it and use it, but for now it just doesn’t carry enough functionality to warrent space taken on the already short icon bar in WHS.

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:43:14 +0000

Hi Robin,
Thanks for your comment.

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:02:57 +0000

Thanx for the nice add in!

Robin

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:07:24 +0000

Hi webdevver81,
Thanks for your comment. I agree, a really good add-in.

By: webdevver81

webdevver81 — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:07:38 +0000

Hi guys,

In search for a tool that makes it possible to remotely shut down and reboot my home network machines in an easy and reliable way, I ran into this. So decided to give it a try and downloaded it… Using it now for ’bout a day, have to admit that it’s already proven really handy for me! Also the messaging service is a feature I’ll use often, I think. Can only recommend this tool. Credits to the author(s)!

Ciao,
webdevver81

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:31:01 +0000

Hi there,

A few comments…
In the final release you get a message when you try to send a message to a Vista machine.
We have investigated a few ways of sending messages but Microsoft has completely removed this functionality from Vista. :-/

We haven’t had any complaints about problems with shutting down or WOL, if you can provide us with more details on what the problem is, please go here: http://www.asoft-ware.com/prod_feedback.php

Best Regards,
Mike

By: reddragon72

reddragon72 — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:41:51 +0000

Please make sure that you put the limitations per OS.

such as you cannot send messages to Vista only to XP.
shutdown is a crap shoot with Vista, I rarely see it work.
And I have two machine that will wake VIA another program but Auto will not wake them.
Remote desktop is easy enough to accomplish VIA the web page VIA WHS so no need for that one.
It would be an awesome program to get the kids attentions if it could send messages to Vista machines.

I personally uninstalled it as I can send a WOL packet with a desktop utility in WHS, and since I run only Vista there is no need since I cannot send messages to the Vista machines.

if I am wrong about any of this please correct me, but in Beta it was my least used addon.