In episode 189 of The Media Center Show, Ian Dixon interviews Todd Headrick from the Windows Home Server Team amongst other "digital" focused interviews.
Todd’s interview is approx 22 minutes into the podcast and can be found here.
After searching for a server and centralized backup solution for his business, Christoph Buenger uninstalled Windows Home Server and instead installed Windows 2008 Datacenter.
Chris says that the reason for the uninstall was because there was a delay in accessing mapped shared folders and that Windows XP/Vista showed the incorrect drive size.
The full story is available here.
Website EDM, which is a source of information for electronics original equipment manufacturer’s (EOEM) has some great pics of the Windows Home Server banners which were located outside CES in Las Vegas.
The full collection can be viewed here.
If you couldn’t make it to the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas, then courtesy of our friends here are some pics highlighting Windows Home Server.
Courtesy of the WHS Team Blog.
Thanks to John Brandon at Digital Trends.
From Ian Dixon of The Digital Lifestyle.com.
From fellow MVP Andrew Edney of The Windows Home Server User’s Guide.
Now that the next major version of Windows Home Server (codenamed Vail) will be available sometime in 2010, it’s time to look at some of the details of Windows 7 the platform that Vail will be based on:
And the differences between Vista and Windows 7 versions are:
Don’t forget if you would like to have a play with Windows 7 right now, then the current beta is available from:
On the HP Home & Home Office Store you can enter the HP MediaSmart Server Sweepstakes.
If you are a resident of the US you can sign up to receive email notification when it becomes available to purchase. By doing so, each month one lucky winner will receive:
This contest ends March 28, 2009 and 3 units are up for grabs.
You can sign up here.
The Home Server Show #29 podcast comes from CES in Las Vegas. Chatting this week is Windows Home Server Product Manager Todd Headrick who tells us that the team is working on a minor and major release of WHS at the same time.
Todd tells us that the minor release will extend the functionality of the current product and is currently in beta and once released will be available via the Microsoft Download Center.
Meanwhile work continues on the major release (codenamed Vail) and early iterations of the product have been up and running for 6 months now. Vail is based on the Windows 7 platform and will be probably be available in 2010.
The podcast is available here.
The Windows Home Server User’s Guide website has details of a competition to win 1 of 10 of the new HP MediaSmart Servers.
Sponsored by Intel, the sweepstakes ends at midnight Pacific Standard Time on January 13 2009, and you have to be 21 years of age or older and a resident of the US, so hurry.
You can enter here.
Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows has a review of the the new generation MediaSmart Server’s which has a look at the various software valued add-ons which HP add on top of the base WHS software.
Paul’s review is available here.
The evaluation version of Windows Home Server with Power Pack 1 was only available on CD/DVD direct from Microsoft, but as from today you can now download a copy direct from Microsoft’s Download Center.
If you are not already, you will need to register at the Windows Home Server Connect site and acquire a product key for the Windows Home Server Evaluation Edition software for the 120 day trial.
You can download a copy from here.
