Now apparently he claims to own WHS. Who woulda thought?!

Blunder after blunder… No wonder Bill G. is leaving his own company… As he doesn’t want to go down with the sinking ship…

And Philip is RIGHT!

I just experienced this myself, and it’s so disappointing how yet another bug continues to get by Microsoft’s own internal quality bar standards. It’s just like with the data corruption KB 946676 defect in WHS, having slipped by the $M quality control system that went ahead and sold WHS anyway!

Then everyone continues to wait for some resolution, since last year in 2007! Now, it’s the end of June 2008 and still NO resolution for a proven defect in WHS, as promised way back in December of 2007!

Microsoft took my money and sold me a crippled, broken and proven defect product. I’m still waiting to have Microsoft fix it…

Must customers need to beg for that?

There’s no way that renaming a disk would cause any issues for WHS – I don’t change any data. The disk PNPDeviceID and new “name” are stored in an XML file and retrieved later to display in my Add-In.

I’ve made contact with MS now, and I’m working with them.

Did I “ever stop to think about that”? Well, why don’t we take a moment and “stop to think about it”. Let’s take a close look at this thread. Notice how I responded up toward the top with the string “(real)” next to my name to differentiate myself from the troll. Then notice how further down in the comments someone wrote a trolling comment under the exact same name, complete with “(real)”. Hmmmm….

So yes, I have “stopped to think about that”. Please do your homework next time.

FYI your not the only person with the same name. Did you ever stop to think about that?

And YES, there is a compatibility issues with Power Pack 1 of which I have personally experienced.

Unfortunately, I’m using the Vista 64bit version of the Windows Home Server software which doesn’t allow the Windows Home Server Toolkit to be installed. So it’s difficult to trouble shoot the problem, as I’m only able to provide the bug details over to Microsoft Connect in a limited fashion.

I also want to say, having waited since last November 2007, for Vista 64bit support all this is extremely disappointing! When will WHS function correctly without having to experience so many broken defects in the product?

On the topic of open source: I don’t bash open source in fact I use MySQL, Apache and PHP on my WHS machine to host a few websites.

Like most people, I use the best solution for my requirements. And until someone finds me an open source backup solution that provides automatic incremental imaged backups of Windows clients, then WHS will continue to be the best solution for me (and many other Windows users).

In fact after evaluating a few open source solutions, WHS became an easy choice, well worth the money. It’s easily already repaid my investment in time saved (on three different ocassions I recovered lost email, once I used the image restore function to upgrade a hard drive and once I used restore to rebuild a client that got into a “bad” state). It’s a pretty amazing product IMO.

I’m using it without ANY problems! Period!

http://www.itbusinessedge.com/item/?ci=43223

“China’s State Intellectual Property Office is looking into possible monopoly activities by Microsoft…”

“Once China’s anti-monopoly law goes into effect Aug. 1, 2008 companies can begin to file lawsuits over suspected monopoly activities.” – Just wait and see!!!

If the European Union can prove Microsoft is guilty of wrong doing, just as South Korea did, why wouldn’t China?

Even the U.S. DOJ has found Microsoft guilty of wrong doing!

For all those NOT learning “open source intellectual property” you’re going to wake up come one day soon to realize Microsoft isn’t going to be there.

The world is adapting “open source intellectual property” and using, just as this website does with Apache, PHP, OpenSSL and WordPress. Come to think of it, what is MSWHS using that’s actually Microsoft software here?

NO Microsoft ASP.NET! No Microsoft Blog, No Microsoft Server! No Microsoft anything but propaganda!

WordPress isn’t a Microsoft product, it’s “open source” and FREE! That makes the Microsoft software corporation a leech, using the works of others for it’s own benefit, which it denies in return to the “open source” community!

And if Microsoft software is so good, why then are so many (more than any other) using “open source intellectual property” like this here MSWHS blog website?

Can’t Microsoft websites uses Microsoft ASP.NET and Microsoft solutions? How about Microsoft Live Search?

In Fact, all Microsoft fanbois shouldn’t being using Google, when they all claim Microsoft is great forgetting their own Microsoft Live Search less than 7.35% market share!

Hummm….. Microsoft fanbois bashing “open source” while using “open source”!

http://www.dailytech.com/DOJ+Investigators+Dig+Into+Windows+7/article12155.htm

As the article says, Microsoft is under investigation because they tried to prevent competitors from running their applications under Windows.

See the REAL FACTS, as told by the U.S. Department of Justice!
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ms_index.htm#settlement

Microsoft-DOJ Joint Status Report June 17, 2008
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080620164127151

And where was the DoJ on the whole DX10 for vista only issue? What about all those still using Windows XP locked into using DX9.0C? Is forced migration to Windows Vista the only solution for Microsoft’s own loyal customers?

Will Vista become another example of declining investment, as Windows 7 (Fuji) establishes all new protocols that will NOT be offered in Vista?

Will the same be true for WHS “Vail” with the Windows Server 2008 Kernel? What else isn’t going to work in WHS RTM? WHS PP1 clearly doesn’t allow WHS RTM to work with WHS PP1.

Microsoft uses it’s secret ALL proprietary intellectual source code as a weapon against anyone else that isn’t building upon Microsoft’s newest software platforms. If you still think Microsoft is “open” prove it by providing the interoperability documentation for the public to review the real facts!

Open source intellectual property isn’t hidden and doesn’t keep anyone from reviewing the open intellectual source code, unlike Microsoft’s ALL proprietary intellectual source code.

Just how much how much Open Source Intellectual Property is Microsoft infringing upon?

Maybe it would just be better to have Microsoft acknowledge it’s wrong doing, and allow everyone else to build upon prior intellectual property to benefit ALL of society?

How can Gates talk about helping others, when his own Microsoft business is denying society to build upon and improve Microsoft’s proprietary source code?

Thanks for the info Phillip.

@Craig: “I hate microsoft, and all that it is.” Question for you, do you use microsoft products? At all? Yes you do. This is a Windows Home Server site, please go flame on the Apple forums or on the Ubuntu forums, whichever you commonly subscibe to, for which this sort of unfounded, baseless bashing is welcome. We read this blog because WE LIKE MICROSOFT. Blame a company for doing well? Microsoft makes great products, and if you can’t standing running XP or Vista on your P1, please go home.

Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer even has the the audacity to claim that Linux OS (operating system) infringes on his firm’s intellectual property! While knowing Microsoft denies the public from reviewing it’s own all intellectual propriety source code that free open source intellectual property allows everyone this right.

And if anyone just happens to criticizes Microsoft, their branded as a heretic and basher. The truth is Microsoft is a “propriety software pusher” that was proven by it’s own U.S. government to be guilty of anti-competitive behavior (United States v. Microsoft, Civil Action No. 98-1232 demonstrates even after two full years, Microsoft is guilty of still NOT delivering interoperability documentation just like the European Union’s Rule against Microsoft.

I have been told repeatedly by Microsoft employees that they themselves can’t find valid documentation for the things the DOJ is asking for. Thus they read the code and take their best guess. The end result is that there is no standard. Is it any wonder why so many of Microsoft’s software products, are full of bugs, glitches, defects and flaws having passed Microsoft’s own internal quality bar standards which fail to deliver OOBE (Out of Box Experience) customer expectations?

And for those customers that do decline the pre-loaded Windows PC as an only purchase choice, they must surrender to Microsoft’s draconian stipulations in the EULA (End User License Agreement) without negations. In fact, consumers don’t even get the legal right to declined the license for a refund, unless the entire whole PC is taken back to the retailer.

If Microsoft didn’t have every software and hardware developer building for Microsoft’s “Windows” operating system, there wouldn’t be this issue now, to deal with. Instead, there would have been an open computer platform in which everyone would be able to build upon, even if you don’t want to use Microsoft’s “Windows” operating systems.

However, the consumers now are locked out, with “Desktop Management Interface”, “Digital Right Management (Restrictions) and the use of “Trusted Platform Module” technologies. Why are you paying for all of this? Start supporting FREE “open source intellectual property” as FREE is a whole lot cheaper than Microsoft, and unlike Microsoft, you get to review and build upon the source code.

(yawn)….. Anyone who has read the PP1 release notes knows by now that you’re dead wrong.

Anyway, is that the best trolling attempt you can give us?

Where did you see that Disk Management has compatibility issues with PP1? I’d like to get in touch with the partner team (who have yet to make contact with me) to get some more detail.

The only functionality that could have been impacted (based on the changelog released by MS) is the addition and removal of disks in Disk Management. All other functionality of the Add-In should be working as before.

However, from the testing I’ve done and the feedback I’ve received, the basic add/remove disk functionality in Disk Management continues to work in PP1.

The new PP1 features (adding a disk to be a target for server backups etc) have yet to be implemented in Disk Management.

WHS still isn’t Ready even with PP1

Why purchase WHS “Vail” second edition, when Microsoft isn’t about to workout it’s first edition defects, glitches, flaws and bugs?