Los Angeles, August 24 2010 – Kentdome LLC today announces the release of Grid Junction 1.5 for Windows Home Server platforms. Grid Junction is an award winning Windows Home Server add-in for managing an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) via the Windows Home Server Console. Grid Junction integrates seamlessly to issue power alerts and help protect Windows Home Server from power problems such as brownouts, or blackouts by safely powering down the Windows Home Server when battery levels reach a set threshold. Developed following feedback from the community, 1.5 further enhances Grid Junction by offering additional hardware support, performance and feature enhancements.
The Grid Junction 1.5 software is available to download from the HomeServerLand website and directly via Add-in Central:
http://www.homeserverland.com

About the Company:
Kentdome LLC brings value added solutions and network-centric services to businesses worldwide, with the commitment of providing significant economic value to their customers and partners while maximizing the human benefit and productivity of users.

Kentdome announces the open beta of Add-In Central, a Windows Home Server (WHS) add-in and community-powered service designed to help users find and update WHS add-ins from within the Windows Home Server Console.

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Alexander Kent writes an article about Windows Home Server Remote Access Challenges for the Microsoft Windows Team Blog.

Enabling the Remote Access feature prompts the Windows Home Server to try and automatically configure the network to allow inbound connections. Seven times out of ten times this works perfectly, but given the sheer number of different devices, and the ever increasing complexity of home networks, the process of configuring your network for Remote Access may have to be more hands on.

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Alexander Kent receives the 2009 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for his technical contributions to the Microsoft Windows Home Server. In effect, he joins an elite group of the world’s most accomplished technical leaders, all of whom have demonstrated unprecedented contributions to the world of technology.

As a MVP recipient, Alexander has the opportunity to meet Microsoft executives and network with other technical leaders in his field. He has the opportunity to share his expertise with the technical community and customers through speaking engagements, one-on-one customer event participation and technical content development. Alexander also receives early access to Microsoft technology and has the ability to influence the future functionalities of their products.

Microsoft MVP Profile | Home Server Land News

Founded in January 2009, Home Server Land is a Windows Home Server centric-community platform that helps people communicate and share their experiences more efficiently.

Home Server Land is geared to make the Windows Home Server world more open and connected. It is a place to find the latest WHS add-ins and software as well as news and discussions dealing with all things Windows Home Server and your connected home.

It would seem a bit paradoxical to run a Microsoft Windows Home Server community using a mash-up of various non-Microsoft open-source products strung together. Therefore, Home Server Land is built on state of the art Microsoft platforms and technologies to ensure the highest levels of performance efficiency and security.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! That’s right, folks, Grid Junction won the Best Windows Home Server Add-in of 2008 Award!

Thank you for voting for us and showing your support. It’s been a great year, and you’ve all been an important part of it.

“It’s truly a privilege to be recognized in the company of such fantastic Windows Home Server products. We’re grateful to the We Got Served community, our add-in users and our contributors for the honor.

We’re going to take a five-minute champagne and Happy New Year break and then get back to coding!”

Kentdome is donating servers unused CPU cycles to a distributed computing project by Stanford University. Folding@home is geared to unravel the mysteries of the protein folding procedure, to try and help scientiest understand why and how proteins ‘fold’; these projects include the search for cures of: Alzheimer’s Disease, Cancer, Huntington’s Disease, Osteogenesis Imperfecta, BSE, Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease, and Parkinson’s Disease.

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This Annual Award is given to Windows Home Server hardware and software based solutions in diverse categories based on community satisfaction and feedback. Results are set to be announced after December 31st 2008.
For more information, visit the We Got Served Reader Awards 2008

We are pleased to welcome Dennis a distinguished technology veteran as a member of the Kentdome Technologies advisory board. In this role, Dennis will oversee and offer guidance on various matters that reflect his invaluable understanding of data models and emerging database platforms.

Sequoia Services Group (SSG) brings together some of the most talented and experienced engineers to create successful on-time and on-budget software development and intrinsic project management. Alexander Kent was tapped as Infrastructure and Security Adviser to provide network-centric technology leadership. SSG secure server farm deployed in Kentdome Technologies co-location facility in downtown Los Angeles.

A simple key logging implementation using Visual C# .NET.

A key logger, or keystroke logger, is a piece of hardware or software which records user keystrokes such as instant messages, e-mail, and any information you type at any time using your keyboard. Many key log solutions are very careful to be invisible to computer users and are often used by employers to ensure employees use work computers for business purposes only.

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Utility allowing convenient modification of a Terminal Servers listening port from 3389 to something else.

Terminal Services and Remote Desktop both use the RDP protocol and a default port of 3389. Remote Desktop included in Windows XP is a watered down version of Terminal Services, and as such, it only allows for a single user session at a time. In contrast, Terminal Services available in Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003 can be used in two distinctive modes:

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Alexander Kent wrote his second article for The Code Project demonstrating the usage of Platform Invoke Services in Visual C# to interoperate with Windows Media Player.

In short, Windows APIs are DLLs that are embedded in the Microsoft Windows operating system. The advantage of using Windows APIs in your code is that development time and complexity may be reduced because they contain hundreds of useful functions already written. The disadvantage is that Windows APIs do not use managed code and have data types that are different from those used with Visual Studio .NET. While the .NET framework has wrapped a significant portion of the Win32 API into managed code, the ones that remain unmanaged and without a .NET equivalent may be called by managed code using the platform invoke service.

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An article on axWebBrowser/MSHTML automation using Visual C# by Alexander Kent.

The Microsoft Web Browser COM control adds browsing, document, viewing, and downloading capabilities to your applications. Parsing and rendering of HTML documents in the WebBrowser control is handled by the MSHTML component which is an Active Document Dynamic HTML (DHTML) Object Model hosting ActiveX Controls and script languages. The WebBrowser control merely acts as a container for the MSHTML component and implements navigations and related functions. MSHTML can be automated using IDispatch and IConnectionPointContainer-style automation interfaces. These interfaces enable a host to automate MSHTML through the object model.

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