By Philip Churchill on December 04th, 2009
WHS – Stable and Mature to Attract a Small-Business Audience
ZDNet UK First Take reports on new IT products with their initial impressions, and under the spotlight today is Windows Home Server Power Pack 3.
…this service pack could be an important milestone for WHS for business users…WHS should now be sufficiently stable and mature to attract a small-business audience — it certainly has features that are perfect for many small branch offices.
You can read their report here.
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Very short and lacking of detail. Hardly worth referencing. For most of us ardent fans of the product, and my clients have fifteen WHS servers running, this has been a must-have small business product ever since its inital release. I continue to be stunned by Dell’s lack of product.
The most versatile feature of this product is its ability to run on such a vast array of old equipment.
If there is one downside to this marvellous product it is the fact that it is limited to only ten clients!
Its going to be interesting to see what Microsoft announces regarding Vail (v2 WHS). Here some of things I’d like to see…
Improvements to standard WHS core:
– Make it easy to transfer contents to a new WHS.
– Backup System Partition capability.
– Tie into Windows Live SkyDrive. In essense, allow SkyDrive to access a WHS folder to extend the storage capacity of SkyDrive. I would say Live Mesh, but I think Live Mesh is be rolled into Live SkyDrive & Live Sync.
– Faster and more attractive interface for recovering files at a point in time
– Better network throughput. Perhaps a given with Windows 7/2008 code base.
New Entertainment features perhaps for “Premium” Sku…
– Media Center: If not outright integration, than at least provide capability to playback protected recordings stored on WHS from other connected homegroup PCs. This would make WHS even more essential to the Media Center user base.
– Get away from HTML/AJAX based remote browsing and media playback and create a Silverlight application that works on both PCs and Mobile phones. Though with the SkyDrive integration I mentioned before, it would be interesting if this SL app wasn’t really designed with WHS in mind but Windows Live instead.