This new release of the Advanced Admin Console AddIn for Windows Home Server is now fully compatible with Internet Explorer 8 (previous versions were not). In order to achieve compatibility with IE8 some fundamental changes have been implemented under the hood. As a result, the Workgroup item is no longer available. To compensate this, access to the recycle bin has been added. There’s also a new “Show Desktop” button, which when clicked launches a full Windows Desktop session. Make sure to logoff from the server when using this. You can either logoff from the WHS console or the start menu.
Another new feature is the integration of Windows Search. I consider this feature experimental. Please feel free to provide feedback on Windows Search integration in AAC.
Here’s a screenshot of AAC 0.5.0 running on Windows Home Server (Power Pack 2) with Internet Explorer 8 installed:
This version has been thoroughly tested on Windows Home Server (RTM, PP1, PP2, IE6, IE7, IE8).
Download Advanced Admin Console AddIn Version 0.5.0 Beta.
CRC-32 52180D53
MD5 F2170EFD359C106A169862F3B68F0B4B
SHA1 49376A6DD5256B2AD3AFCF59899341B6A6104206
Important: Before installing the new release, please UNINSTALL any previous version!
Feedback is welcome via Email, at the WeGotServed-Forums (english) or Home-Server-Forum (german).
As posted earlier this week, after installation of Internet Explorer 8 on Windows Home Server most of the functionality in the Advanced Admin Console AddIn is broken. If you have already IE8 installed on your WHS and want to uninstall it from within the Home Server Console by using AAC to get to the control panel then you’re stuck: AAC cannot take you there anymore, because IE8 prevents AAC from displaying the control panel (well, this is a little oversimplification – I will go into the technical details of the problem in another post soon).
You still have at least two options if you want to uninstall IE8:
Open a command prompt from within the Advanced Admin Console, then enter
RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL appwiz.cpl,,0
This will open the Add/Remove Programs control panel applet. There you can uninstall all IE8 updates (if any) and IE8 itself.
OR
follow Philip Churchills great walkthrough on mswhs.com. This guide will not only explain how to uninstall IE8 but also how to permanently prevent it from being installed automatically again.
Andreas M.
Internet Explorer 8 is currently being pushed to Windows Home Servers around the world. Unfortunately Advanced Admin Console will no longer work when IE8 is installed. I’m 99.9% sure that this is a bug in IE8 and I’ve already spent a lot of time to find a workaround to the problem. However, it seems there’s no way to make it work.
I have updated the Advanced Admin Console addin to version 0.4.4 0.4.5 Beta. With the new version installed, the Home Server Console will no longer crash when you click on an administrative item in Advanced Admin Console. Instead, a message will be displayed when IE8 or higher is detected.
To make it clear:
PLEASE DO NOT INSTALL Internet Explorer 8 on your Windows Home Server if you plan to use Advanced Admin Console.
Download Advanced Admin Console AddIn Version 0.4.4 0.4.5 Beta.
UPDATE: I’ve just released version 0.4.5 Beta. Version 0.4.4 did not display the IE8 incompatibility message in the correct language.
CRC-32 EC6A053D
MD5 35967DAC1942451596DB337F250EA30E
SHA1 4EDB92357FD5DE4EEBD6C0A92B4D8EAE96DB150B
Important: Before installing the new release, please UNINSTALL any previous version!
Feedback is welcome via Email, at the WeGotServed-Forums (english) or Home-Server-Forum (german).
