http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/ Engadget Comments for Windows Home Server bug corrupts iTunes, Zune, lots of other apps http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/Feb 21st 2008 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/Feb 21st 2008 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/Feb 21st 2008 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/946676/en-us?spid=12624]]>Feb 21st 2008 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/Feb 21st 2008 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/

"Mommy, why is there a server in the house?"

"To corrupt your personal data sweetheart."]]>Feb 21st 2008 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/Feb 22nd 2008 4:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/Feb 21st 2008 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/Feb 21st 2008 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/Feb 21st 2008 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/Feb 21st 2008 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/]]>Feb 21st 2008 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/Feb 21st 2008 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/Feb 21st 2008 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/I am sure if they had found a solution they would have released it. The last thing MS needs is a File Server that doesn't work. In a perfect world this would have been discovered before launch, but we know how great MS product testing is.]]>Feb 22nd 2008 3:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/
This is why I dislike Microsoft's open source fight. There are plenty of tried and true methods, but they have to go and rewrite them to try to make more money off it.]]>Feb 22nd 2008 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/Feb 21st 2008 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/Feb 21st 2008 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/Feb 21st 2008 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/
While i'm sure the whole "haha windows suxors" conversation would be a blast, i'm really just feeling bad for anyone who is using WHS right now. :(

Hopefully MS gets on top of this and squashes the bug pronto. ]]>Feb 21st 2008 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/
i'm happy to make fun of your crappy Ford Explorer any day of the week, but when news comes out that tires are exploding and killing people... you get the point.]]>Feb 21st 2008 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/Feb 21st 2008 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/
I wonder if any of those same effects will happen in this scenario.]]>Feb 21st 2008 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/Feb 21st 2008 10:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/provided these services for years, and when Microsoft gets around to
trying it out, they manage to screw it up. Great job, guys.]]>Feb 21st 2008 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/Feb 21st 2008 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/Feb 21st 2008 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

"Oh, come on.

File sharing, remote desktop service, RAID, centralized backup, file indexing for speedy lookups, media streaming? Let's see....

FreeBSD, any flavor of Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris...basically all of Unix-based systems in popular usage.

Ease of use is a subjective attribute. In my opinion, those features are easy to use on all the systems I mentioned...well, Solaris can be annoying sometimes...err, all the time. You still have to tell the box what to do, whether or not it has a pretty picture surrounding the letters."
]]>Feb 21st 2008 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/Feb 21st 2008 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/Most modern flavors of linux make it relatively painless to make/use shares


The only thing going for WHS is the nice backup feature for the whole network.

Grab an old computer, put a modern OS on it and you have the same features save for the hand holding wizards.]]>Feb 21st 2008 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/
# Centralized Backup -
# Health Monitoring -
# File Sharing -
# Printer Sharing -
# Previous Versions -
# Headless Operation -
# Remote administration -
# Remote Access Gateway -
# Media Streaming -
# Data redundancy -
# Extensibility through Add-Ins -

"Ease of use is a subjective attribute." That's a cop out. Brain surgery is easy to a brain surgeon. Boy everybody should know how to do that then.]]>Feb 22nd 2008 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/
OS X 10.5 server does all the things Windows Home Server does, well, apart from the data corruption bit..


]]>Feb 22nd 2008 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/
I know it can be done on Mac and Linux, not without installing all kinds of other apps and hacking it though.]]>Feb 22nd 2008 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/Feb 21st 2008 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/Feb 21st 2008 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/
Really it's a safety issue. They are just looking out for your best interests.

-- Adapted from Dilbert.
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File sharing, remote desktop service, RAID, centralized backup, file indexing for speedy lookups, media streaming? Let's see....

FreeBSD, any flavor of Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris...basically all of Unix-based systems in popular usage.

Ease of use is a subjective attribute. In my opinion, those features are easy to use on all the systems I mentioned...well, Solaris can be annoying sometimes...err, all the time. You still have to tell the box what to do, whether or not it has a pretty picture surrounding the letters.]]>Feb 21st 2008 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/
Engadget should have stated this clearly in the article, instead of making it vague and starting the hate and flame wars.]]>Feb 21st 2008 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/
And then the typical blog chatter would rather blast these issues than understand the situation where they would pop up.]]>Feb 21st 2008 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/Feb 21st 2008 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/
Really, anyone who pays money to run Windows on a *fileserver* deserves the pain they get. Windows has its place for business apps and games, but for servers, Linux and BSD are king.]]>Feb 21st 2008 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/Feb 21st 2008 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/
I'm not going to promise this is easy to do (it wasn't), but I found a lot of help on forums and I'm kind of a newbie. All this from a computer that barely runs win98. ]]>Feb 21st 2008 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/Feb 21st 2008 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/
"do not edit any files directly on the WHS from your application".

Seems like an easy workaround. I only use my WHS as a scheduled backup server, print server and media streamer, I guess that's why I haven't had issues? Is anyone getting corruption purely from backing up?]]>Feb 21st 2008 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/windows-home-server-bug-corrupts-itunes-zune-lots-of-other-app/Feb 21st 2008 1:38PM