Public Beta of Lights-Out for Windows 8 Now Available

Additional functionality

The Add-In visualizes the activity of the selected sources. So you can easily identify what keeps your server running.

Client actions

Lights-Out adds control to your clients.

Remarks

Data integrity

To reduce the risk of data loss, the server is never put into sleep during an active backup operation or a backup cleanup.

You can define services, which are stopped on suspend and restarted after resume.

Lights-Out is a very handy application, and Martin is committed to bringing most of this functionality to Windows 7 and Windows 8 machines.  Here is what is included in the new beta:

Description

Current Version 1.5.4 Build 2005 BETA

BETA Lights-Out for Windows 7 or 8 as “Home Server”

Differences between Lights-Out on WHS and Windows 7/8

• There is no WHS Connector and therefore no working communication infrastructure on Windows 8
• Lights-Out uses a special (TCP/IP based) communication protocol on port 7679
• Port 7679 is opened during installation on the Windows 7/8 “Server”, if you use another personal firewall you have to open port 7679 by yourself
• Client computers are joined during setup to their server, server discovery is handled by sending a multicast on port 7679
• There is no pre-configured SSL infrastructure on Windows 7/8
• There is no client backup handled by the server
• There is no WHS Console on the client

Known issues:

• No backup support for clients
• Mac and Mobile support only in LAN (local), not in WAN because SSL infrastructure is missing

Changes from last Beta

• Added RDP and console monitoring to uptime chart
• Lights-Out client can now be operated in parallel with another Lights-Out server installation
• In place license upgrade (discount code)
• New 30 day evaluation period
• Simplified Server Join during initial install
• Client uninstall/reinstall does no longer create a duplicate in console
• Client About dialog shows connected server and allows to runs the join program

If you want to participate in the beta, go here to download it.  We’ll keep you posted as this project progresses.