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Windows Home Server users want their Power Pack 1

Windows Home Server users want their Power Pack 1I can understand MS posistionIf they send out the power pack without the fix there will be someone out there saying “I thought this had the fix. Microsoft deceived me. Wheres my lawyer!” Its kind of a no win for them...

Tags: Backups, server, remote access capability, Microsoft Windows, WHS, Power Pack, PP1, Windows Home Server user, Power Pack 1, Microsoft Windows Home Server

Discussion threads 2008-03-12

Windows Home Server users want their Power Pack 1

Microsoft officials acknowledged this week that they are not going to release until June a fix for the serious data-corruption bug affecting Windows Home Server (WHS) that was first discovered months ago and affects the back-up of a growing number of Microsoft and third-party applications. The WHS...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Home Server, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-03-12

Microsoft's biggest lemon - Windows Home Server

Microsoft's biggest lemon - Windows Home ServerI was thinking of buying this until this article.At home we have 2 PC's and 3 laptops. I have a NAS drive for common storage, and a tiny print server to share the printer.I was thinking of getting WHS purely because it is a...

Tags: Printers, Servers, Operating systems, data corruption bug, server, lemon, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Windows Home, printer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-03-11

Microsoft's biggest lemon - Windows Home Server

I'm really surprised that Windows Vista gets as much bad press as it does when Microsoft has an operating system that's worse.  Much worse.  I am of course talking about Windows Home Server. Windows Home Server is bad in a way that you just don't want your...

Tags: Operating System, Conclusion, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, File Servers, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-03-11

No fix until June for Windows Home Server flaw

No fix until June for Windows Home Server flawWild Speculationbut if it's really low level is it possible for the flaw to exist in Windows Server 2003/2008, kinda raises the hair on the back of my neck.Oh well!Another $200 bucks down the drain... maybe they'll fix it by christmas.... and...

Tags: SECURITY, flaw, Microsoft Windows Home Server, server, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-03-11

Windows Home Server 'Vail' to get more entertainment hooks

Windows Home Server 'Vail' to get more entertainment hooksReliability has to be the first priorityI attended an evening session on WHS and as one of my friends who attended put it: it's not Windows Home Server, it's Windows Home Backup. Then he amended that to Windows Small Business Backup, because...

Tags: Backups, server, entertainment, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Microsoft Windows, WHS Server, backup

Discussion threads 2008-02-25

Windows Home Server 'Vail' to get more entertainment hooks

While Microsoft has shared some details (and code) for its upcoming minor update to Windows Home Server, it has said next to nothing about the next major version. (Like the rest of the Windows client and server teams, the Home Server team is alternating between "major" and...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server, Vail, Entertainment, Microsoft Windows, Media Center PCs, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-02-25

Velocity Micro's Windows Home Server for power users

Velocity Micro's Windows Home Server for power usersPerformance justification questionableIt's interesting that the individual from the Velociy Micro does not know that the Windows Home Server is only able to performe a single backup at a time, or that streaming to several PC's at once is limited by the network...

Tags: server, Microsoft Windows, WHS File, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Windows Home, RAID 5, Hewlett-Packard Co., storage, Velocity, Velocity Micro

Discussion threads 2008-02-21

Velocity Micro's Windows Home Server for power users

I was noodling through Velocity Micro's Web site the other day, and I noticed that its version of the Windows Home Server, the NetMagix HQ HomeServer, is more robustly configured than the HP MediaSmart Server. Velocity Micro, which sells high-performance PCs that are popular with go-getter gamers, offers the NetMagix...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Velocity, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Rik Fairlie

Blog posts 2008-02-20

Build your own Windows Home Server for only $380

Build your own Windows Home Server for only $380Sure you can. ;)Easilly sets up the drives, backups, every lat little thing.Then just load the included Ubuntu client tool disk onto your Ubuntu desktop and let the automation begins!Oh, wait, So you [i]can't[/i] do that?Then why did you just say you...

Tags: Operating systems, Backups, OPEN SOURCE, WHS Team, server, WHS, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Windows Home, Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-02-14

Build your own Windows Home Server for only $380

I'm a huge fan of Microsoft's Windows Home Server OS, the very capable and easy-to-use consumer server software. But the only Windows Home Server-based hardware I've had a chance to play around with is the HP MediaSmart Server EX470, which contains just one 500GB hard drive and costs a whopping...

Tags: Operating System, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Gist, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Rik Fairlie

Blog posts 2008-02-14

Windows Home Server to get an x64 update

Windows Home Server to get an x64 updatebackup of serverEd- Am I interpreting the screenshot correctly to say the new external backup applies to folders residing on the server and NOT to backing up the entire server or the backups on the server? (Ie., If my server is destroyed, I...

Tags: Backups, backup, server, Windows Home, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-01-08

Next Windows Home Server release due this spring

Next Windows Home Server release due this springI have my share of gripes with Microsoft, but....WHS is a BRILLIANT product.I used the OEM version from NewEgg (around $175) on an old 2.53 Ghz server I have that was running Windows 2003 Server.The backup system is the cats meow. The...

Tags: Backups, Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Home Server, backup system, WHS, backup, server

Discussion threads 2008-01-07

Windows Home Server to get an x64 update

This morning at CES, Microsoft announced plans to release a minor update to Windows Home Server, to be called Windows Home Server Power Pack 1. The odd name (not a service pack, not a feature pack) reflects the unusual contents of this update, which will bundle bug...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server, Power Pack 1, Microsoft Windows, Backups, 64-Bit, Operating Systems, Software, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-01-07

Next Windows Home Server release due this spring

Microsoft is privately testing the next release of its Windows Home Server (WHS) operating system -- an update called "Power Pack 1" -- that it plans to ship to its device/PC partners and customers some time this spring. Microsoft is characterizing the forthcoming release (which was codenamed...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Home Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-01-07

What's the real story on the Windows Home Server data corruption bug?

What's the real story on the Windows Home Server data corruption bug?That's OK Ed.....it's not like WHS is even a BIG market anyhow.apology accecpted (nt):(Home users combing MS KB's?I can't really see most home users combing MS KB articles, can you? Most are lucky to...

Tags: Linux, Corporate communications, Operating systems, real story, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Home Server, Windows Home, server, Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-12-27

What's the real story on the Windows Home Server data corruption bug?

In the software industry, data-damaging bugs are every product manager's nightmare. When a reproducible bug in this category is identified, sirens go off, vacations get canceled, engineers lose sleep, and product managers pop Maalox until it's fixed. That's the context behind the alarmingly terse Knowledge Base article 946676, published last week. The entire article...

Tags: Article, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server, Bug, File, KB, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2007-12-27

He likes it: Linux guy gives Windows Home Server a (qualified) thumbs up

He likes it: Linux guy gives Windows Home Server a (qualified) thumbs upHeh.Only a Linux guy would like such toy. WHS is a geeky toy...it may be useful for some people, but I still don't see why Joe User would bouy it. This product is going to sell as well...

Tags: Operating systems, CSS, Media Center PCs, UNIX, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), OPEN SOURCE, FUD, Linux, Linux Guy, server, WHS, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Windows Home, Iomega WHS, codec, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-12-24

He likes it: Linux guy gives Windows Home Server a (qualified) thumbs up

It seems every time I do a Windows Home Server (WHS) post, the comments end up evolving/devolving into a debate over whether Linux or Windows is a better home-server platform. I decided to ask a Linux aficionado, Jason Perlow, to provide his take on WHS. Here's Perlow's WHS review: ...

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server, Jason Perlow, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-12-24

AutoExit 2008 For Windows Home Server (msi)

ASoft AutoExit WHS is a console add-in for Windows home server. It can be used to shut down, reboot machines in your home network from within the console. You can execute these actions per machine or for all machines. Other features are sending messages to the different machines and opening...

Tags: Remote Desktop, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Machine, ASoft AutoExit WHS, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-12-03