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Ian over at the Digital Lifestyle.com has just released the Digital Lifestyle Show podcast 283, and this week its mainly me talking about the removal of Drive Extender from Windows Home Server Vail and HP’s decision to leave the Home Server market.

In yet another surprising turn of events, in a week full of surprises, HP are out of the Windows Home Server market, effective immediately.

It is with some regret that I have to announce that my forthcoming book, Windows Home Server Inside Out by MS Press has been cancelled.

The guys over at CloudBerry Labs have been in touch to let us know that their CloudBerry Backup Add-in for Windows Home Server has been released in beta for Windows Home Server Code Name Vail.

Today, in a bit of a shock announcement, Microsoft told the world that Drive Extender, one of the main components of Windows Home Server V1, has been removed from Windows Home Server Code Name Vail and Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials.

As well as letting us know about the second beta for Lights-Out for Windows Home Server Vail, Martin also told us that a beta for the V1 Windows Home Server Lights-Out was also available.

Martin Rothschink has been in touch to say that he has just released a second preview for his excellent Lights-Out Add-In for Windows Home Server Code Name Vail and Aurora (or Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials to you and me).

James over at the Tenniswood blog had a problem trying to install the Zune software on his Windows Home Server Code Name Vail, until he came across a work around.