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The Web's Largest Dedicated Windows Home Server Resource by Microsoft MVP Philip Churchill.
Microsoft Windows Home Server - WHS will automatically backup and restore your PCs and allow you to share and access files from any machine in the house as well as giving you remote access to those files and PC’s as well. This site will guide you on your journey of discovery with WHS.
Poll Results and Vote
July 26, 2007 — Philip ChurchillWell our Poll has finished for Will you buying a ready made WHS (HP etc) or buying just the software? We had a total of 199 votes (WOW!). 172 of you said that you would be buying the software only and the other 27 of you said that you would buy a ready made unit. So from this result we can see that over three quarters of you will be going the DIY route and building your own Windows Home Server. Well done those of you that voted.
We have another one for you now. What we want to know is What will be the main purpose of your WHS? We have the two main options available for you Computer Backups and Server Storage. You will find the Poll half way down in the left pane, so get clicking!
Welcome "Daily Rotation" Readers
July 26, 2007 — Philip ChurchillDaily Rotation has added us to its list of tech headlines. The site carries headlines from over 300 tech sites all on the one page. Each headline links to the story it refers to and you can easily configure the page so headlines from only the sites you selected will only be displayed. These configurations can then be viewed on any PC by setting up a free account at Daily Rotation.
If one of your favorite sites is not listed then it can also be added by pasting in its feed address in the box provided. The number of headlines from each site, background colors, font size and column size can also easily be customized.
Daily Rotation has been set as my homepage for the last couple of years, give it a try yourself.
When I open a backup I get a dialog box asking me to restart my computer. Why do I get that?
July 23, 2007 — Philip ChurchillTom Ziegmann part of the Windows Home Server Team has just posted this over on the Microsoft WHS forums:
You will get a message saying that “Windows has installed new devices, in order for them to be fully functional you need to restart your computer.” You get this message because when a backup is opened it loads a disk driver that allows you to open the backup as a separate disk. If you restart your computer you will have to start the process of opening the backup all over again. Do not restart your computer, the backup will open and you should not have any issues.
4 more OEM Partners added to the list of WHS Hardware Manufactures
July 20, 2007 — Philip ChurchillWell we now have four more OEM partners added to the list of Windows Home Server hardware manufactures. Iomega, Fujitsu-Siemens, Velocity Micro and Tranquil PC.
The Iomega, is an expandable consumer networking product that will include up to four hot-swappable drives and the Fujitsu Siemens unit, called the “Scaleo Home Server,” will include 500GB of storage.
The Velocity Micro unit can be oriented either horizontally or vertically and will use use an Intel Conroe-like processor with DDR2 RAM. It will also have have SATA II (with NCQ) hard drives, gigabit Ethernet, eSATA, and will launch at an “extremely competitive price”.
And finally the Tranquil PC T7 can again be oriented either horizontally or vertically and via an optional bracket can be mounted on the wall or in a car. Its a very small unit and is fan less.
We cant wait to see all four units in action. The WHS hardware scene is defiantly hotting up!
WHS Forums to be Upgraded – More Down time!
July 20, 2007 — Philip ChurchillThe Windows Home Server forums are due to be upgraded on Wednesday 25 July 2007 to SP4. This patch will provide a better forum for us and resolve some long standing issues, so be prepared for a lot of down time.
Add-in: Program Launcher – Launch any Program from within the WHS Console
July 20, 2007 — Philip ChurchillProgram Launcher from Red D Solutions enables you to launch any application directly from the Windows Home Server Console just by entering the Program Path and Program Name.
It comes with 4 applications already setup. Desktop, Event Viewer, IIS Manager and Windows Explorer. You can add any other applications you wish e.g. Task Manager.
This is a very useful add-in, well done to developer Dan Forsyth who had this to say:
“While working on my first add-in I got really annoyed at having a console and a remote desktop session open to check the event log and iis admin tools. So I whipped up a quick add-in that will let you launch any app you want from the console.”
Download Program Launcher version 1.0
UPDATE: Version 1.1 has also been released that solves an icon issue where the icons shown for the application were jarred and B&W. If there are issues with this build you can still use version 1.0
RTM Documentation is available
July 18, 2007 — Philip ChurchillThe RTM English version of the Windows Home Server Getting Started Guide has been posted to the download center on Microsoft’s web site. French, Spanish and German versions will follow in the next few weeks.
Also available for download is the Windows Home Server Reviewer’s Guide which has detailed descriptions about the features and functionality of WHS. Time to get reading!
RTM button-pushing ceremony Video
July 17, 2007 — Philip ChurchillTom Z. part of the Windows Home Server team has posted details that the guys from On10.net have posted a four minute video from Microsoft’s internal Sign-off party of Windows Home Server v1. The video and Larry Larsen’s write up on the event can be viewed at http://www.on10.net/Blogs/larry/watch-windows-home-server-rtm/.
100 New Fixes, Forums and Connect to Stay Open and Available Versions!
July 17, 2007 — Philip ChurchillNow that Windows Home Server has shipped we have some details on the included fixes, info on what will be happening to the Microsoft WHS Forums and Connect web site and details on the availability of the evaluation version including info for MSDN and Technet subscribers.
There has been over 100 new fixes with the RTM version, a lot of which were text string changes for the German, French and Spanish localization builds. Other fixes include:
- Backup Consistency Check
- Log files growing
- Windows Updates takes all updates (including non-critical ones)
- Remove Drive problems
- Activation error messages
- Server Recovery for some of the hardware partners
This is good news. The Microsoft WHS Forums will remain open and will become a place where people can discuss their experiences with the product and find add-ins, etc. The product team will continue to monitor and participate in the forums and they ask us to keep testing and reporting on the forums so they can see if they can reproduce any of the reported problems with the RTM code. The Connect site will also remain open for beta-testing any add-ins or other new functionality that the Windows Home Server team might develop.
Those of us with a MSDN or Technet subscription will be sad to hear that the first release of Windows Home Server will not be available via these services although in a couple of months we shall be able to order disk kits of the 120 day Evaluation Editions from the Microsoft home server web site. These Evaluation editions shall be available in English, French, Spanish and German.
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