Alex Kuretz

Microsoft have released a hotfix to resolve the bogus “Computer Monitoring Error” issue that some users have encountered after their servers updated to the UR2 release. The hotfix is not available for direct download, you’ll need to click the “View and Request Hotfix Downloads” link to email support for the hotfix. If you’ve experienced the […]

Rovio and Microsoft have granted me the exclusive right to announce what is arguably the most exciting news for Windows Home Server 2011 ever – the release of the wildly popular Angry Birds series of games as an Add-In for Windows Home Server 2011. I asked Rovio about the technical challenges involved with making the […]

March 31st has been chosen as World Backup Day, and the folks at Cloudberry are celebrating the event by offering 50% off of their popular Cloudberry Backup for Windows Home Server Add-In, making it only $14.99. We’ve reviewed the Add-In in the past and believe it’s important to have another backup of your most critical […]

Matt Sawyer of Dojo North Software has released an updated beta version of his Home Server SMART Add-In, as well as a standalone Windows application for monitoring hard drive health on non-WHS desktops or servers. This Add-In has been extremely valuable in our Troubleshooting forum to help users discover issues with their hard drives as […]

Matt Sawyer of Dojo North Software has posted in the forums announcing that he is in need of help testing the next release of his popular Home Server SMART Add-In. If you own an SSD, whether in your server or another PC you can help Matt with just a few minutes of your time. See […]

Paul York has written to let us know about an update to his Serviio Add-In for Windows Home Server that manages and installs the free Serviio DLNA media server. The update includes fixes and new features for the Windows Home Server v1 Add-In as well as a new Add-In for Windows Home Server 2011. Here […]

New forum member “Phil2011″ has posted in the forums with his solution for automatically ripping his DVD and CD collection directly on his Home Server using only freely available tools. Here’s what Phil2011 has to say about his process: I recently got quite tired of the manual overhead I had to go through to rip […]

The following is a guest article written by forum member Chuck “chuckcoleman” Coleman and shares his experience putting together a solution in Windows Home Server 2011 to replace the Media Collector feature he missed from the MediaSmart Server. Thank you, Chuck, for sharing your solution! Several months ago I decided that I was going to […]

Matt Sawyer of Dojo North Software has written to let us know that he has released version 2 of his highly useful and popular Home Server SMART Add-In for Windows Home Server. The release adds continuous, automatic monitoring and alerting, plus support for USB hard drives. Matt has also announced that he is beginning to […]

The popular Remote Notification Add-In for Windows Home Server has been updated to version 1.5.2.2 and delivers several new features, including support for Push Notifications to Apple, Google Android, and Windows Phone mobile devices. The currently supported Apps are: NMA – Notify My Android (Google Android phones and tablets) Prowl (Apple iPod/iPhone/iPad) Push – App […]