Day 2 – Win PerfectDisk 10 WHS Family Pack
Its day 2 of the great giveaway from Raxco Software who are giving away 7 copies of PerfectDisk 10 Windows Home Server Family Pack over the next few days, that’s 1 a day every day till Sunday (11th October). And for the chance of winning a copy we want to know your favorite Windows Home Server add-in and why you like it so much. Just leave your answer below and 1 lucky person will get there self the Family Pack edition of PerfectDisk 10 Windows Home Server.
Remember winners will be announced on Sunday 11th October
FACT: Unlike typical defraggers, PerfectDisk 10 for Windows Home Server completely defrags your virtual drives (all files and metadata) and consolidates free space in just one pass – no matter how large or fragmented the system. With revolutionary minimal-free-space requirement, you can defrag an entire drive with as little as 1% free space.
More details on PerfectDisk 10 Windows Home Server are available from here.
UPDATE: Day 2 of the competition is now closed and so are the comments.
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My Movies for WHS. Brian has a great program for cataloguing and maintaing your movies and with v3.0 coming out I’m anticipating a nice updated UI.
Lights out is my favourite add in by far as it allows me to hibernate my WHS from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. saving me money on my utilities bill
I would also include Lights Out as my favorite Add-In, saving money is always a good thing.
PerfectDisk for Windows Home Server’s AutoPilot Scheduling lets me customize the defragmentation to run automatically, when I want it to.
I really like the Disk Management add in. The wire frame visual display of the disk system is cool. The detailed information on each drive is very helpful, especially the activity and temperature for each drive. It really adds to the information already provided on drive systems by the native drive management tab in WHS.
I also like a little add in that lists the updates that have been applied to the WHS OS. It’s not very fancy but provides really good info in one central location.
My favorite Add-In is Lights Out. It’s always a struggle determining whether to leave stuff on all the time, or only when you typically use it. Lights Out makes this an easy choice. It comes on every day at noon and shuts down at 9pm Sun-Thu. I leave the system on until 11pm on Fri and Saturday with a total shutodown on Saturday’s so I can give the system a fresh start once a week. If DiskPerfect does for the disk what Lights Out does for uptime management, I’ll be a happy camper!
I’m a big fan of Squeezecenter – I’ve got a Transporter and a Squeezebox, so having all of my music available whenever and wherever I want it is fantastic, especially when its all ripped and stored on my server.
Man, it’s tough to pick just one. I use and love just about all of the ones already mentioned but, just to change it up, I’m going to say Grid Junction. It works a treat, and it’s nice to be able to see what’s going on with my power – voltage, outages/brownouts, etc…
I still have just a few installed and so far my favorite is Advanced Admin Console, which allows me to do a lot more with the server without requiring a full remote desktop session.
Lights Out is easily my favorite and up until last week was the only plug in I have kept installed more than a day or two.
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My favorite add in is ASoft AutoExit. It gives me an easy access to boot / reboot / wake up the clients in my network, and lock the workstation in a network + sending messages. This combined with P80 gives me good and easy control. But it is the service of ASoft AutoExit I like best.
I love the advanced admin console since I’ve installed it I cant remember the last time I had t RDC to the box.
My Favorite addin is TV Manager by Brent Friedman
My favorite add-in is the WHS Backup Database Backup (BDBB). Backing up the Backup Database should be built into WHS, but since it isn’t, BDBB helps out. If I were to have a catastrophic fire (all PCs and the WHS totally destroyed), it’s imperative that I have everything stored offsite.
http://www.mswhs.com/2009/04/23/add-in-windows-home-server-backup-database-backup-bdbb-1016/
I love @WHStweet for keeping in touch with alerts though twitter. Nice!
Advanced Admin Console – gives me more control over WHS
Advanced Admin Console, it gives me access to all the functions I need to use on my WHS, and I don’t have to RDC to it.
I really need that program to completely eliminate WHS fragmentation of my drives. I have had nothing but problems trying to back-up of two pc’s. I get one good back-up of each and then next time a back-up is tried I get an error that the back service is not running. The only way to correct it is to do a total rebuild of the server. Hopefully this program will correct the problem or at least help troubleshoot the problem. I am at the end of the rope with this WHS.
The Advanced Admin Console is great. I can find things quickley in a method I am familer with.
It improve Anti-Virus Performance
Robert
Advanced Admin Console
best control over the WHS console 🙂
Great capability to defrag WHS with little input from the user, but be able to view the status as need via the WHS console
The expanding number of computers in my house drove a search for a better backup solution. That turned out to be WHS.
The “Old” main computer was defragged by PerfectDisk. It would be nice to add that to the rest of the computers.
Disk Management for sure!
I have had the most fun with this add-in
My Movies for Windows Home Server (my kids are addicted, o’ya my wife too)
My Movies for Windows Home Server provides automated disc copying of Audio CD’s and movies from internal or USB attached optical drives, adding meta-data to copied discs, or movies already stored on the server by monitoring your movie folders.
The Jungle Disk Amazon S3 plug-in. It’s an elegant, scalable solution to backup my vital files that I need off-site!
Lights Out
Help me keep my server Off on the few hours I don’t use it,
Lights Out – priceless.
A Grammar Checker would be nice!
Without a doubt, Advanced Admin Console
Without a doubt the Squeezebox Server! An excellent end-user product is now easier to install than ever and now it’s possible for anyone to manage some server-sw tasks from their admin console instade of just through the web interface