Michael Leworthy Senior Product Manager at Microsoft gives us an overview on Windows Server 2012. This 77 minute video is from TechEd 2012 and can be found here on Microsoft’s Channel 9 network. P.S. 45 minutes in Michael talks about storage in Windows Server 8 which is the part us Home Server fans are interested […]
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Release Candidate 2 of DVBLink products v4.5 are available for download. What is new/fixed from RC1: General Added: removed limitation on child lock pin code length DVBLink TVSource Fixed: unrecognized eit character sets 21 and 31 Fixed: no signal on high freq transponders using Terratec S7 Added: PCTV 460e 1.0 diseqc and Unicable support Fixed: […]
My Movies for Windows Home Server 2011 has been updated to version 2.11 PR5 (Build 2). Here’s the change log: Change: Updated Nimbie drivers for Nimbie NB21. Fix: MediaBrowser setting did not stick. Fix: MediaBrowser XML file was in some situations still encrypted. More details on My Movies for Windows Home Server is available from […]
StableBit DrivePool has been updated with a small folder details update and other fixes. Version 1.0.2.6278 BETA has the following changes: Sometimes VDS was being queried too often. After removing a drive, sometimes a full duplication pass was scheduled. This is not necessary unless you specified to duplicate later in the remove wizard. When DrivePool […]
StableBit Scanner for WHS 2011, SBS 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials has had an update to ad a new scan mode and for fixes: Added option to refresh BitFlock interpretation data (on a delay). Added some more BitFlock format types. Sorting by Size did not work properly. Faster initial startup time […]
Episode 187 of The Home Server Show podcast is available for your listening pleasure: “…we are talking about the UR3 Beta for Windows Home Server, Amazon’s music player for Android and iOS, and we go over the SkyDrive app installed on Windows Home Server and how you can get to your files remotely. All this […]
StableBit DrivePool has been updated to version 1.0.2.6257 BETA. This latest version of the Drive Extender type add-in for WHS 2011 users has the following changes: Added some extra safeguards against pool parts being listed twice in the Pool tab. Offline volumes are now enumerated properly. They will not be listed in the Pool tab. […]
If you use the SkyDrive web app at https://skydrive.live.com/ then you can also access every folder on your Windows Home Server 2011 box too. You can accomplish this by installing SkyDrive directly onto WHS 2011 and ticking the Fetch Files option in Settings, which will then enable remote devices to view the files on Windows […]
If you down/up load large files with your WHS 2011 box then you will find that the remote access interface will time out after 30 minutes. You can correct this by increasing the time-out parameter in the Windows Home Server web.config file. To increase the Remote Access time: 1. Use mstsc.exe to start a […]
