RC’s of Windows Phone 7 Connectors for SBS 2011 Essentials and/or Windows Home Server 2011 now available…

Windows Home Server Blog - Announcing the RC of the Windows Home Sever 2011 Windows Phone 7 Connector

“Today we are pleased to announce the Release Candidate of the Windows Server Solutions Phone Connector for Windows Home Server 2011 (aka Integrating Windows Phone 7 with your WHS 2011 Server). The purpose of this Add-in is to enable Remote Server Management tasks and relay Media Streams for WHS 2011 including:

Alerts

Users

Devices

Media

The Media panorama lets you discover and view streams of media elements that you stored on your server in the appropriate shared folders (such as Music, Video and Picture shares).

Live Tile Support

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The Official SBS Blog - Announcing the RC of the SBS 2011 Essentials Windows Phone 7 Connector

“Today I am pleased to announce the Release Candidate of the Windows Server Solutions Phone Connector for Small Business Server 2011 Essentials (aka Integrating Windows Phone 7 with your SBS 2011 Essentials Server)

The purpose of this Add-in is to enable Remote Server Management tasks for SBS 2011 Essentials including

Alerts

Users

Devices

Live Tile Support

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So today we see one of the major benefits of having SBS 2011 Essentials and Windows Home Server 2011 on the same foundation, with the simultaneous release of Windows Phone 7 Connectors for both, both looking nearly the same, yet with each having different features based on what its connecting too, i.e. The “Windows Server Solutions Phone Connector for Windows Home Server 2011” (that’s a mouth full) has the Media Hub stuff…