The default Action for SyncToy 2.1 is Synchronize. SyncToy 2.1 offers a couple of options that are worth explaining. The Folder Pair defines for SyncToy 2.1 what folder on the PC should be “synchronized” on the server. Once SyncToy 2.1 is installed, you need to create a Folder Pair on your PC for music. On each PC I also mapped the server Music folder to a PC drive letter drive “M” in my case. Microsoft provides both 32 bit and 64 bit versions so be sure to download and install the correct version for each PC based on whether the PC is running 32 bit or 64 bit version of the operating system. SyncToy gets installed on each PC that contains music that you want to aggregate on the WHS server. I downloaded from the Microsoft download center SyncToy 2.1. My configuration aggregates music from my PC’s, updates the server with changes automatically on a scheduled basis, and integrates with iTunes, Zune and Windows Media Player, all without any user intervention. My challenge was to try and figure out how to accomplish this with readily available tools.Īfter a few weeks of experimentation, I believe I have been successful. Aggregating the music from all of the PC’s was an important issue for me knowing that I would lose that when I upgraded from the EX495 to WHS 2011. I have five PC’s in the house, (mostly Windows 7 some with 32 bit versions of W7 and some with 64 bit versions of W7), and a wife that loves to listen to her iTunes music collection from anywhere in the house. During this preparatory phase I remained concerned that WHS 2011 didn’t have natively to it any of the Media Collector functionality I was familiar with as a result of having the HP EX495. To prepare for the upgrade I increased the ram to 4GB and began reading articles on the process to upgrade a headless system to WHS 2011. Several months ago I decided that I was going to upgrade my HP EX495 to WHS 2011. Thank you, Chuck, for sharing your solution! The following is a guest article written by forum member Chuck “chuckcoleman” Coleman and shares his experience putting together a solution in Windows Home Server 2011 to replace the Media Collector feature he missed from the MediaSmart Server.
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