November Update Package for WHS

We posted yesterday about a update package from Microsoft that is going to cure most of the remaining problems that some users were experiencing with Windows Home Server:

  • You will no longer receive certificate warnings in the Web browser when you access your Web site by using an external URL.
  • Data files that contain NTFS alternate data streams may be corrupted on a Windows Home Server computer has been addressed.
  • Windows Home Server Drive Extender may not update read-only attributes from the master shadow to the alternate shadow. Therefore, Microsoft Money backup files may not be successfully stored in Windows Home Server shared folders. This problem is resolved after you apply this update package.

And this is only 3 of the 7 updates that are in the update package, with other included updates either adding a new feature or curing a problem.

Well, good news the KB article has now been posted at Microsoft’s Knowledge Base and although entitled “An update for Windows Home Server lets you obtain a trusted certificate for your Windows Home Server computer during remote access configuration of your personalized domain”, (that was a mouthful) it does a lot more than just that one trusted certificate update. All the details are in the KB941914 article.

This November update package will be available from Windows Update for Windows Home Server from Tuesday 27th November (2007). And most issues that people have been experiencing with WHS will (hopefully) be a thing of the past. Personally I can’t wait!

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Technical Brief for Home Computer Backup and Restore

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Technical Brief for Home Computer Backup and Restore is another technical brief from Microsoft for Windows Home Server. This 26 page PDF document provides an in-depth look at the features and functionality of WHS Home Computer Backup and Restore complete with an overview of the backup process along with it’s features, functionality and benefits.

Backup and restore are covered in depth showing us how it is implemented and how backups are stored. We are shown how to do a restore for both individual files/folders and for a complete PC as well. A great tip included in this white paper is how to save and restore a copy of the backup database in case you lose a single hard drive.

PDF download from here.

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Fujitsu-Siemens Scaleo HomeServer Videos

The German Homeserver Blog has posted 2 English language videos which feature the Scaleo HomeServer alongside other products from Fujitsu-Siemens.
The first Video is 14 minutes long followed by another at 18 minutes in length.

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