Experience Level: Expert

AnyService Installer allows you to set up any program on your home server as a service, running without having to log on to your server and without interaction.

Developer: Marcel Nouwens

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Release History

v1.0

• Initial release

Experience Level: Standard

LED Light Show Settings lets you control the HP MediaSmart Server EX470 & EX475’s LED light show easter egg with a range of options to configure the speed and duration of the lights.

Developer: Jerry McCollom

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Release History

v1.0

• Initial release

Experience Level: Expert

MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database software, with over 100 million copies of its software downloaded or distributed throughout its history.

This is a straight install of MySQL with PhpMyAdmin included to make the management of MySQL as easy as possible. No password has been set on MySQL so you can do that through either the command line, or through PMA. (which needs PHP, which you can download or use the WHS PHP Installer Add-In)

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Release History

v0.0.5 (16th September 2009)

• Beta release

Experience Level: Expert

WHS Alert 1.1 is a small alert tool which can be handy if you’re running a script or service, and want to be notified if something goes wrong or if something is finished.

Upon a pre-configured event, an alert will pop up in the taskbar of your home computers.

Developer: CompuGeek Software

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Release History

v1.0

• Initial release

Experience Level: Expert

WHS PHP Installer will install a preconfigured PHP 5.2.6 install for Windows Home Server based systems.

This Add-In includes PHP software, freely available from http://www.php.net/software. but has been compiled into a Windows Home Server Add-In to make an it easy and convenient to install. Customization can be done to the PHP.INI file as required, however we have picked some popular extensions to make the installation as easy as possible.

Developers: Nigel Wilks and Drashna Jael’re

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Release History

v1.04 (2nd November 2009)

• Modified installer to install to c:\php5 and localised scripts missed in 1.03. Cleaned up bug in environment variable not removed on uninstall.

v1.0 ( 14th September 2009)

• PHP.INI modified to include date.timezone = UTC.
• Release version.

Experience Level: Expert

Performs comprehensive checks on the Windows Home Server backup database looking for consistency problems.

Developer: Alex

Release History

v1.0.0 Build 12 BETA (June 2009)

• Fixed crash introduced in last build in Levels 1, 2 and 3 checks.

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Experience Level: Expert

Creates human readable text from the Windows Home Server backup database files. Currently is able to decode all database files. This is more of an informational learning tool than an actual utility.

Developer: Alex

Release History

v1.0.0 Build 4 BETA (August 2009)

• Fixed alternate data stream output. Was outputting primary as alternate before.
• Corrected primary/secondary data output. Block length was incorrect, output was becoming corrupt when parsing large streams.

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Experience Level: Expert

The problem: you have dozens or even thousands of files on your Windows Home Server that cannot be read due to an “invalid file handle” problem. You can delete each one individually, but it will take forever… You probably lost a hard disc or had a bad episode while removing a disc.

This tool is for Windows Home Server. It reads files on your Windows Home Server to test if they are readable. It is meant to solve the “Invalid File Handle” problem. It does this by testing if a file is readable. If it is not readable it:

1. logs that event in C:\WHScleanup.log
2. Writes the commands to delete that file in C:\WHScleanup.cmd

Once the application has finished running you can inspect the log file (which is actually in CSV format), and inspect the contents of the .cmd file prior to running it.

Running the .cmd will delete the reparse points, effectively deleting undeletable, unreadable files.

Normally you run it on your WHS against D:\shares but you might just do it against one of your shared folders. eg D:\shares\music

You must run the application from a local disc on the WHS – not a network file share from a client PC. In other words, copy it to the C: drive on your WHS and run it under Remote Desktop.

Developer: catsaver

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Release History

v1.0

• Initial release