We are pleased to announce that Remote Notification for Windows Home Server v1 has now been discounted to $8.00 per server. Visit the Buy page to purchase your license today!

We are pleased to announce the release of Remote Notification version 1.5.1.2 which includes a number of new features plus a few minor bug fixes. The biggest new feature is a Mac Connector application that offers Windows Home Server Health Alerts on your Mac desktop as well as reporting of Time Machine backup status to your Windows Home Server for centralized reporting and alerting. The current backup status of all Macs that are running Remote Notification is also included in the Daily Email Reports.

• Learn more about the new Mac features
• Learn how to upgrade Remote Notification on your server
• Learn how to install and configure the Remote Notification Mac Connector

Those of you that are already using Remote Notification should receive an Update alert in Remote Notification within the next 24 hours. We recommend that you always upgrade to the latest version. Below is a full list of changes in the new release, and you can download the latest version here.

1.5.1.2
Released May 24, 2011

• Feature: Mac application displays WHS Health Alerts on the Mac Desktop via a menu item
• Feature: Mac application reports Time Machine backup status to the server for monitoring and alerting
• Feature: Mac Client status is displayed in the Daily Reports if you have any Macs configured
• Feature: More details in short message formats (Twitter and SMS), fully utilizing them to their max length when possible
• Feature: Added “Create Debug File” button to Advanced settings tab to facilitate easier support
• Bug: Windows Updates times in Daily Reports now correctly reported in Local time rather than UTC time
• Bug: Recipient Add/Edit dialog updated to properly enable the Save button when settings are changed
• Bug: Don’t allow Twitter recipients to change their Recipient Type, must delete and add new Recipient instead

We are pleased to announce the release of Remote Notification 1.5.0.7. This is a minor update comprised mostly of a small bug fix plus several new statistics added to the Daily Reports. If you are already running Remote Notification 1.5 you should receive an update notice within the next day.

Here is what’s new in 1.5.0.7:

• Bug: Client Health errors in Daily Reports now correctly display Red instead of Yellow
• Feature: Client Backups “Last good backup” time in Daily Reports now displays “Never Backed Up” instead of Jan 1 1601
• Feature: Daily Reports now display Available and Total amount of both physical memory and virtual memory
• Feature: Daily Reports now display additional Windows Update statistics: Last installed date, Last checked for updates date, and Reboot required
• Feature: Changes to the Remote Notification service to speed up start time

Click here for a guide on how to upgrade Remote Notification to the new version.

I’ve started a poll in the Remote Notification support forum, asking users if they use the Text formatted Daily Email Reports or if they use the HTML formatted reports. You can cast your vote here, or leave a comment here on the blog.

We’re pleased to announce the release of Remote Notification 1.5.0.4. This update delivers functionality that allows your server to post Windows Home Server health notifications to a Twitter feed, either as status updates or as direct messages to another Twitter user. The Twitter recipient is highly customizable just like the other recipient types, allowing you to choose to receive errors and/or warnings, and to configure exclude filters for those notifications that you’d rather not see.

Upgrading to version 1.5.0.4 is easy. Simply uninstall your current version of Remote Notification, and install the newest version downloaded from here. Setup instructions are available in the documentation section to walk you through the configuration of your Twitter recipient.

The full list of changes in the 1.5.0.4 release include:

• Add Twitter recipient type that supports both Twitter status updates as well as direct (private) messages
• Explicitly set text color in HTML email reports so they render properly on OLED smart phones that invert colors to save battery power (thanks Jeff Z.)
• Minor changes to improve error handling and logging

Thank you for using Remote Notification, we look forward to hearing how you like the new features.