I've always loved my WHS.  I've been using it since the first beta, but I don't mind admitting I'm not the most committed beta tester.  There was no way I was going to try restoring a backup to a machine that had nothing wrong with it using a beta product.  If one of my machines failed during the beta, sure no problem, but I don't go looking for trouble.  So in all the months I've been using the WHS I've never had to do a restore, until this weekend.

Steph's laptop randomly rebooted and then came up with a little message explaining the registry was corrupt.  No problem, I'll restore it!  Well the first restore didn't go as planned, in fact it bombed out with no message at all.  However I figured it was a hard drive consistency problem, so I tried to do a chkdsk which told me there were errors that couldn't be fixed.  So I bought a new hard drive, popped it in and tried the restore again (Note, I had to create a primary partition first which I could have done using Disk Management right in the restore process).  This time the restore took an hour and at the end of that hour the laptop was up and running like nothing had ever happened!   

I love it, I would have spent a couple days trying to fix the problem without blowing away the OS and then I would have given up on that, and then I would have spent some time trying to get all the files off the machine, then I would have to reinstall windows, then I would have to put all the files back on. The whole time Steph would be 'asking' when her computer was going to be fixed.

 

So why don't you have your own home server yet?!?  Don't know what a home server is?  Have more than 2 machines at home?  Ask me about it sometime and I'll talk your ear off.

Note: The above picture is not an accurate representation of the events that led to the Steph lappy failure of '08 because we don't have a dog yet.

Ok, I've been back for almost a week now, and I just barely found time to pump out a new version with only one small change.

 

Change Log 1.2

- Removed settings tab

 

Version 1.2 is now released, unless I hear about some bugs or some interesting feature requests this will probably be the last version.  I think it does what it was meant to do, and I'd like to get started on my other add-in.

Well I should be packing right now, I'm leaving for my wedding tomorrow... but instead I wanted to add a quick feature that hornetfig mentioned in the WHS Developers Forum.  So instead of getting ready and packed I sat down and did some coding.  

So here is version 1.1

Update - Version 1.2

If there are issues with that build you can stil get 1.0 here.

Thanks to We Got Served for their post on my 'succinctly named' add-in. :)

I've been playing around with some Windows Home Server development and I got sick of having the console open and having a RDC connection open to check the Event Log or mess with IIS settings.  Thus the program launcher was born. 

 

You can download it here

I only have one Home Server so testing is a little difficult so let me know if you run into any issues.

 

UPDATE:  Posted a new version, to fix some icon problems.

Dan

Just installed the beta 2 release of Home Server and I moved all my web junk up to it and off my desktop.  Seems to be working perfectly so far...