On the latest edition of The Home Server Show, your host Dave interviews Allen Buckner from HP on the latest news regarding updates for the MediaSmart Server.
You can listen/download episode 4 from here.
For more news on the public beta of Power Pack 1 check out Ed Bott’s article Windows Home Server gets a big bug fix (and much more).
We have some great news for you. The Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 (PP1) public beta is here. This means you can now download a copy from Microsoft Connect (as long as you are registered) and help with the thousands of others who will test, operate and work through various scenarios to show that WHS is now one of the most stable and feature rich home backup solutions available.
So what’s new?
Well, of course the data corruption bug is fixed and the following new features have also been added:
Apart from all this Windows Home Server has been greatly improved, from speed enhancements to the overall customer experience. So, what are you waiting for? The download is available as an update package or as an ISO image of the evaluation version of Windows Home Server with Power Pack 1 integrated.
Once this public beta of PP1 has been validated by the community the final version of Power Pack 1 will be shipped and as Windows Home Server product manager Charlie Kindel states:
The only remaining question is how quickly those testers download the bits and start testing them.
Home Server Hacks has a step by step guide on installing Windows Home Server onto a Apple Mac Mini.
Why? Well its small and neat and hey…why not! Check out the guide here.
Gadget news and review site Pocket-link has reviewed the EX475 MediaSmart Server from HP and give it a respectful 8 out of 10.
The 1TB drive is big enough that you can use it as a media streamer without forcing you to run out of space on your own computer and we love the ability to access stuff remotely with an internet connection
You can read the full review here.
Blog the OS Quest takes us through the painless task of replacing his Windows Home Server hard disks with the green Western Digital Caviar WD10EACS 1GB drives.
Read the story here.
Over in the Asia-Pacific region the Chinese version of Windows Home Server will officially launch in the second half of this year with equipment being made by major manufacturers including Gigabyte, VIA and Sharp. Appliance company Sampo will also be releasing several products including a IP security monitoring camera.
More Information available on the Windows Home Server team Blog.
As reported on the Windows Home Server Team Blog, it is the last month of the WHS World Cup and Norway still dominates the prime position. The top 8 looks like this:
The add-in Advanced Admin Console which allows you to access administrative tools on the server directly from the console has been updated to version 0.4.3 Beta and includes the following changes:
More info is available here.
The Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Public Beta Documentation has just been released due to the PP1 Public Beta starting any time now.
Within the documentation, which is available in .doc and .docx format as well as PDF. It details the features and enhancements which will be in the public beta as well as giving test scenarios for beta testers.
Naturally the (famous) data corruption bug KB946676 has been addressed as well as long file paths with more than 240 characters being supported on WHS shared folders. The Windows Home Server Console constantly reporting “Balancing Storage” has been addressed as well as numerous other fixes.
With this update, the performance of migration passes, and hard drive removal has been speeded up and file copy performance to and from the Windows Home Server shared folders has been improved among lots of other improvements.
