The Home Server Show is now in double digits with episode 10, and over 68 countries are tuning in, great stuff.

This weeks show has the usual news plus a review of a SATA to USB & eSATA external enclosure. You can listen to it here.

Why just 2 stars?

Size, too big as it is the same size as a standard midi-tower PC, noise. It's noisy being one of the loudest computers Computer Shopper had tested and file transfers were very sluggish at copying large files and remarkably slow at transferring small files.

You can read the full review here.

Najbliższe wydarzenia zaplanowano na 17 i 22 lipca. Oba spotkania dotyczyć będą cyfrowej fotografii w kontekście Windows Home Server. Tak, jak poprzednio przenterem będzie Jeff Kraft - Product Manager w HP. Tym razem w roli eksperta pojawi się Reed Hoffmann (Director of Education & Training w Blue Pixel. Inc.).

Zarejestruj się na dzisiejsze wydarzenie (17 lipca) | Zarejestruj się na 22 lipca

Łącza: Witryna seminarium

Ankiety? Większość użytkowników z reguły je omija. Jednakże jest to naprawdę dobry sposób na przekazanie opinii osobom tworzącym produkt naszych opinii - wyniki naprawdę są brane pod uwagę w procesie tworzenia aktualizacji.

Łącza: Ankieta dla użytkowników systemu w angielskiej wersji językowej | Ankieta dla użytkowników systemu w niemieckiej wersji językowej

PC Magazine has a great article on how to build a Home Server, using the ASUS T3-P5945GCX bare-bones kit. Just 30 minutes later; by following the advice, you'll be sharing files the easy way in no time.

You can read it here.

English
German

More info is available from here. Thanks to the German Home Server Blog for the details.

The latest edition of The Home Server Show talks about various add-ins including MSS Fan Control, as well as the latest Windows Home Server news.

You can listen to it from here.

Read about it here.

I'm very impressed by the ease of use and features. It suits my current needs and has the ability to grow as my needs grow. You don't have to be totally into computers to set one up so this is likely to work in WHS's favour...

This event will show you why the HP MediaSmart Server is the perfect solution for Digital Photographers:

• Accessing your files easily and with protection over the internet
• Sharing your life online with family and friends using HP Photo Webshare
• Organizing your personal files and digital entertainment in one location
• Protecting all of your digital media and documents

Presented by HP's Jeff Kraft with leading digital photography guests, Reed Hoffmann, a pioneer in digital imaging, as well as Debbie Grossman and Philip Ryan, senior editors from Popular Photography Magazine. The experts will recommend workflow and demo photo-focused features of the MediaSmart Server on July 17 and July 22 2008.

You can register for both events here.

Please note that the original article also contains pictures of the MediaSmart Server in a naked state!

Version 3.0.0.0.0 beta of LogPoint the Performance Monitor for WHS has been released which has been completely rewritten and graph's in real-time.

New Features:

1) Improved graphic display (now using real-time graphing) using Infragistics Graphing component.

2) Ability to monitor other devices on the WHS network

3) Performance graphing of the following WMI performance namespaces:

a) Processor
b) Memory
c) System
d) Logical Disks
e) Physical Disks
f) TCP IP
g) Processes (ability to monitor an individual process)
h) More to follow - can be added easily.

Each of the above is broken down into a number of sub-selectable monitors, which in some cases is dependent on the number of devices you have in the machine being monitored.

4) Ability to output graph to JPEG file.

5) View the real-time raw data gathered as the system monitors (can then be exported to excel).

6) English Descriptions of both the monitor and the individual components.

7) Interactive configurations, including the ability to direct messages and warnings to the WHS notifications queue.

NOTE: You will need to have the Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 installed for this add-in to work.

More information and support is available from here.

The hiatus has actually done the project good as feature creep was threatening to de-rail the thing the last time I had a look at it.

So I’ve cleaned up the requirements for the data to be stored locally. I’ve eliminated just about everything I can pull from SmugMug leaving me with a nice, clean object model to work with.

I was also struck by the fragmenting of the project into three – scheduled, service and WHS Console Add-in.

While this seems logical, it is a bit over the top. So I’m dropping the scheduled uploader and having uploads handled by the service.

Work is progressing nicely and I hope to have a working  service app soon ( if not a console add-in).

I’m now using the SmugMugAPIWrapper from Codeplex. Its MIT Licenced so WHS2SugMug will have to be too. This library is one that I can actually use without looking at the source as its built to use the current SmugMug API, so no worries there.

As with my Windows Live Writer add-in, I’ll host the project on Codeplex as soon as there is a release-ready codebase.

Fellow MVP Donavon West has the daunting tasks of answering your Windows Home Server related questions with detailed explanations and pictures too (I like that part!). From the HP EX470, iTunes and Macs to the Remote Desktop Connection having expired and lots more.

• Part 1
• Part Deux
• Part 3-D

All future installments can be found on the new Ask the Home Server Guy website.

New in Beta 3:

• Online backup for Windows x64 systems
• Vulnerability scanning
• Wizard to create new antimalware scan tasks from basic view
• History events for several modules
• IM Antiphishing not implemented

Known issues:

• Pppoe connections and ICS are not filtered by the BitDefender Firewall
• Yahoo! Messenger crashes on login when script control and game mode are enabled
• BitDefender button is not displayed in the Windows Live Messenger windows on x64b systems
• Rarely Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live Messenger may crash on exit.
• BitDefender Security Center may crash during a product update.
• On Windows Vista SP1 (x86 & x64), the local computer appears offline in the Network Map tree.
• Sometimes the registration wizard freezes during a product update (workaround click „cancel” in the registration wizard).
• Time Limiter does block the internet traffic in the specified time interval

You may sign up to the beta program from here. Existing beta testers can also find the download and additional information from the same link.

More details of the features included in BitDefender Total Security 2009 are available from here.

Windows Media Center is mature and extremely well supported. It wouldn’t be that difficult to port the Media Center code to a next-generation operating system that could then form the basis for cool, quiet PCs that could form the hub of a household digital media system. In fact, a device like HP’s MediaSmart Server, which currently runs Windows Home Server, could combine Media Center and backup functions into a single box and would probably run better without the unnecessary overhead of Windows components it doesn’t use.

So, what do you reckon? Would it be a good idea to combine Windows Home Server and Media Center as one product? Leave your thoughts below.

Then head over to smallbiztechnology.com where Joel Sider, senior product manager of the Windows Home Server team at Microsoft is interviewed.

Fixes:

• Added support for French installations of Windows Home Server. (Used to be a problem with the spelling of Videos)
• Fixed the Media Center Scheduler service going bonkers. (Modified how the service is changed to run under the current user instead of LocalSystem)
• Fixed the Problem downloading Guide data bug. (Was a result of changing the account the scheduler service ran under. Fixed by changed the permissions on first run of the client)

New Features:

• Added logging to the TV Manager client. (You'll get a dialog box telling you to check the event log with the TV Manager category)
• Automatically loads and refreshes the data for the TV Manager Console Tab.
• Exit context menu shows up when right clicking the client icon in the system tray.

All the information is available from here.

All the details.

You can catch the details here.

Sam Wood has updated his add-in, Windows Home Server Disk Management to version 1.0.8.6 which fixes a crash if removing the last internal drive bay and external drive bays still remain. The user is now prompted to remove external drive bays first.

This Add-In provides more detail about your server's storage status than what the standard WHS Server Storage interface provides.

Features:

• Detailed information for each disk in your Windows Home Server
• Real-time temperature and activity monitoring
• Capacity indicators for individual disks
• Customizable disk names
• Customizable 3D wireframe representation of your server

More details are available from here.