As part of my work on Mesh networking, I have a bunch of computers peered together in a network, monitoring and managing each other.

Yesterday we released a new version of the mesh tools. Nothing earth shattering yet, but the main new feature I have been working on is connecting a mesh of computers to an external web site. Basically, you use the mesh to coordinate computers in such a way as to keep one of them connected to an external web site at all times.

Last night I updated the Windows Home Server Add-in based on the mesh networking project. The new version fixes many really bad bugs.

• Completely new C# mesh walking engine that is faster and more efficient.


• Improved handling of small meshes with only one or two computers.

A few weeks ago I started playing around with Windows Home Server. Since you can code add-in in C# and I have lots of open source C# code around, I figured I could just re-use a bunch of it for a new add-in. Well, I just released my first attempt at it. This add-in is called the "Manageability Add-in for Windows Home Server".