Home Server Status for Windows Home Server 2011 Version 2.01 Released

Do you miss some of the information you used to see in WHS V1? Well Jerry Wade has written an app that brings that information to WHS 2011 and it’s just been updated to version 2.01.

This is how Jerry describes this app:

It wasn’t long ago I told my friend, John, about my wonderful WHSv1. He decided to create his own box and use WHS 2011. However, he noticed that the icon did not give him the same information as mine such as, connectivity and backup in progress (eg: blue icon). After pondering over this, I decided to put my limited programming skills to work and develop a home server status application. So, without further hesitation, world, humbly meet: Home Server Status v1.0.

REQUIREMENTS:

• .NET Framework 4
• WHS 2011 Connector
• Windows 7 32/64-bit machine. (Why only Windows 7? Well, it offered the features I wanted to see such as, the overlay icons and taskbar pinning.)

Change log:

1. Internal clean-up
2. Added progress to the system tray icon when a backup is running. This way someone can visually see their backup progress without having to hover. See screenshot below.

Here is the download link for Windows 7 32bit/64bit: HSS v2.01