Author Archive for Philip Churchill

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Grid Junction Coming to WHS 2011

The guys behind Grid Junction have announced that they have recompiled their UPS management add-in for full-blown “native” 64-bit support, supporting both WHS 2011 and SBS Essentials. More details will be announced soon.

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Diskeeper 2011 for WHS 2011 Available Soon

Diskeeper have announced that their defragmentation utility for Windows Home Server 2011 and for SBS will be available soon and that the Dashboard has now been integrated. More details from Diskeeper soon.

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Add-In: StableBit DrivePool Build 3026

StableBit DrivePool has another build available for those of us looking for a Drive Extender replacement. Here is the build 3026 change log: Folder reconciliation. Resolve conflicting share names by making the folder name unique. Guest mode fix migration. More details on StableBit DrivePool are available here.

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BYOB Podcast Episode 53

Episode 53 of the BYOB podcast is available and this week the guys talk with Thomas B about his hardware and touch on a new Corsair power supply series and talk briefly on the EX-503B. You can catch episode 53 here.

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Add-In: Advanced Admin Console 0.9.5

The Release Candidate of the add-in Advanced Admin Console 2011 is now available which includes a number of fixes, changes, new functionality and most importantly, AAC 2011 will no longer be free. Here’s all the details: Licensing changes AAC 2011 will remain free for use on Windows Home Server 2011 and Windows Storage Server 2008 […]

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RC of WHS 2011 Expires Monday 1st August

As fellow WHS MVP diehard reminded me, don’t forget that this Monday 1st August the RC of WHS 2011 will expire and reboot the server every hour. So if you have a copy installed on some hardware or within a VM make sure you upgrade to the released version of Windows Home Server 2011 and […]

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Add-In: StableBit DrivePool 2.9.8.4

Another build has been made available of the Drive Extender replacement software StableBit DrivePool. Here is the change log for Build 2984: Win32 file time parsing fixed. DrivePool is now more aggressive when closing handles to open files. Addressed folder moving reliability issues (access denied, HomeGroup support, roll-back not working sometimes). More details on StableBit […]

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DVBLink Version 4 Beta 2

Version 4 beta 2 of DVBLink has just been released. And for those of you wondering what has changes since beta 1 then here are the details: General 8 DVBLink tuners are now available in MediaCenter Removed FirstRun page from DVBLink tuner TV Setup in MediaCenter Fixed subnumbers not appearing in MediaCenter Fixed channels not […]

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Add-In: Home Server Status 1.04

The add-in Home Server Status has been updated to version 1.04 Hers the change log for this latest release: 1. Rewrote the entire connectivity and backup checkers. I am now using an even better multi-threading routine than before. This makes the application very responsive and just plain faster. 2. Icons added, by user request, to […]

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Seagate 2TB Barracuda Green Reviewed

HotHardware reviews the Barracuda Green 2TB hard drive from Seagate and compares it to its direct competitor, WD’s Caviar Green. From the review it appears that the Seagate Barracuda Green has a performance advantage over WD’s Caviar Green: Seagate’s drive reached 124 MB/s and WD’s hit 125 MB/s. On the other hand, the Barracuda Green […]