Add-In Update: Lights-Out 1.5.1 for Windows Home Server 2011

Martin Rothschink has just been in touch to say that he has also just released version 1.5.1 of his Lights-Out add-in for Windows Home Server 2011.

The Add-In basically allows you to monitor and control all power aspects of your server and PCs on your network. You can turn on, put to sleep, hibernate and shut down PCs on the network. You can even monitor the actual PC usage and server remote access as well.

Lights-Out enhances a Windows Home Server in these areas:

• Power management, to run your server on demand
• Client backup, to run a scheduled backup and use Wake-On-Lan
• Uptime chart, to give a graphical overview of device activity in your network

Current Version 1.5.1 Build 1555

• Fixed a problem in file monitoring
• Fixed a problem in Backup/System monitoring
• Fixed a wrong backup time calculation
• Fixed a problem with missing updates on the Monitored Sources panel
• Added a message when user access to web site is denied

Known issues in 1.5.1.1555

• Resizing the Dashboard to the smallest possible window size creates a distorted Status sub-tab. Workaround: resize the Dashboard
• You can’t load an existing Windows Home Server v1 Lights-Out license into this version. Lights-Out for WHS 2011 requires a new license file.
• Client GUI application is not started automatically after first client push installation. Workaround: Run via Start->All Programs->Startup, Lights-Out Client or log off and log in again.
• Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials wakes up every 30 minutes by Server Infrastructure License Service (silsvc). This bug is logged in Microsoft Connect under ID 642301 and 669083. See Server Infrastructure License Service (silsvc) wakes server every 30 minutes and vote for this bug!