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.
Good news for those of you after a caller ID add-in for Windows Home Server Add-in. After a lot of interest, the closed beta of Vista Caller-ID WHS Add-in has now been made publicly available, although still in beta.
Developer Alexander Kent hopes that users will continue sharing ideas, and that together it will become a better product!
Download and more info available from here.
February 29th caused a few problems for Windows Home Server owners last week. Installations of the software went fine until the Welcome/Setup screen requesting the initial WHS password appeared, it would carry on appearing after every login continuously. Users like Julian B and patterson76 posted on the WHS forums:
“How can I stop the Welcome/Setup screen ?”
Users found that setting the home server system time/date ahead to March 1st in the bios solved the issue but hose using totally headless units like the HP MediaSmart can not access their bios and were told by HP to try again tomorrow (March 01).
Basically it was a leap year issue that occurred if the system date on the server was February 29th. Users got caught in an OOBE loop which also affected those trying to connect computers to the server on that day. Those using the recovery CD as well and those trying to install the WHS Connector software on their networked PC’s were also affected. One user added:
“I enter my Home Server password and then I get a dialog box with An Error Occurred, This operation cannot be completed at the time”.
Those waiting until March 1st to work on their Windows Home Server’s found that the problems no longer existed. Also affected were Small Business Server and Exchange 2007 amongst others.
Steven Warren’s beginner mini series Real World this time looks at how to connect your computers to your Windows Home Server which basically looks at installing the connector software on one of your networked PCs.
If you own a MediaSmart Server then HP would like to understand how they are using the product and what your experience has been so far. They state that their goal is to understand how people have adopted the product into their homes and what they are doing with it.
If you take the 10 minutes to complete the online survey then you will receive a $20 gift certificate for hpshopping.com. If you also manage to speak with one of their researchers about the MediaSmart Server you will also earn either a free digital camera or photo printer (limited to the first 50 interviews).
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