We released maintenance update 3.7.3 today for Windows, Synology and QNAP. What’s new in maintenance release 3.7.3? This update which fixes issues reported by our customers and is recommended for all users. New prices from February 15, 2023 After more than 12 years of constantly increasing operating costs, we are forced to take into account […]
Today we released the official version Lights-Out 3.7. We are pleased to offer official support for a whole range of new server operating systems with Lights-Out 3.7 Synology DSM 7, please read the installation instructions carefully! Windows 11 Windows Server 2022 Windows Server Essentials Role on Windows Server 2019 or 2022 (see article by Mike […]
The second (and final) release candidate of the upcoming version Lights-Out 3.7 is now available for download. The RC2 is available for Windows, Synology DSM 6 and 7 and QNAP QTS 4 and 5. Lights-Out 3.7 will be published in January 2022! If you don’t know the new features yet, you should read the article […]
The release candidate of the upcoming version Lights-Out 3.7 is now available for download. The RC is available for Windows, Synology DSM 6 and 7 and QNAP QTS 4 and 5. If you don’t know the new features yet, you should read the article about the beta here first. An updated installation guide for DSM […]
After a long development time, we are happy to release the beta 3.7 of Lights-Out today. A lot has happened in the new version, the most important new features are: Improvements in the console view for devices and computers. Official support of new client operating systems Official support for new server operating systems including DSM […]
Maintenance Update 3.5.3 We have released a maintenance update today that fixes the following issues: Fix #847797: Improved detection of backup start/end in Active-Backup-for Business and better handling if client goes offline during backupFix #216969: Removed wake-up for Essentials Backup task, does now respect connector settingFix #802710: Workaround for server based VEEAM backupFix: Detection of […]
Since summer 2020, Synology has been selling its new x20+ DiskStations, currently consisting of the DS220+, DS420+, DS720+, DS920+ and DS1520+. In this post we explain, how you can install Lights-Out on Synology x20+ models and why a workaround for Mono is required. What’s different? These new models are based internally on the so-called Geminilake […]
A public beta of the upcoming version 3.5.2 is now available for testing. This beta update corrects reported errors and includes support for the upcoming macOS 11 Big Sur from Apple. A further change is the continued reduction of the certificate lifetime to 1 year as of September 1, 2020, as forced by Apple and […]
We published Lights-Out 3.5.1 bug fix update today. This updated address a few issues which have been reported after the release of version 3.5.0. Bugs fixed Remove power action after backup for community editionMissing client wake-up by timer if server/NAS is offlineClient backup via calendar may fail to startLong delay if console is switched to […]
In this article we will introduce the new server-side features of Lights-Out 3.5 in detail. An upcoming article will then deal with the client side. Concatenation of two servers Many users who switch from a legacy system, such as the WHS 2011, to Essentials 2016 or a NAS will then run 2 servers in parallel. […]