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 2.1.
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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.)
Changes:
Added the ability to ‘Enable Alerts From Other PCs’ running the HSS application, via UDP on port 2564.
This addition will enable tray notifications containing the computer name and backup status for any computer running HSS on your network.
Once you have opened the application, navigate to the ‘Settings’ menu where you will find the option to enable this feature under the Admin section. Once enabled and after running a backup on your machine or another machine running HSS, you will find an additional menu item in the context list, whether you use the taskbar button or the task tray icon, called Backup Reports. This item will only show up and be enabled in your menu when a backup report exists.
* Because of the UDP addition, you will be required to allow permissions to your Windows Firewall. The only permissions you need is to your private network, NOT public.
Here is the download link for Windows 7 32bit/64bit: HSS v2.1
