http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/ Engadget Comments for Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 goes live http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/Jul 21st 2008 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/Jul 21st 2008 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/Jul 21st 2008 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/Jul 21st 2008 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/
It only corrupted data with some kind of special NTFS stream attached to it. I'm not familiar with all of the details of the bug, however.

So I don't think most 'normal' files were affected, but only ones being accessed be certain apps.]]>Jul 21st 2008 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/Jul 21st 2008 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/Jul 21st 2008 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/Jul 21st 2008 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/
And too be completely honest, the corruption bug only affected you if you saved or edited a file DIRECTLY on the server. The data wasn't being randomly corrupted, only if it was being modified from a share. Still the bug should have been disclosed and fix sooner, but don't blow it out of proportions.]]>Jul 21st 2008 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/Jul 21st 2008 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/Jul 21st 2008 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/3389.

Unfortunately my work blocks all RDP. At least I have my home web server running on 443 so I can pull down mp3's at leisure with no peeking. I use TSweb all the time when traveling though.

Find
MsRdpClient.AdvancedSettings2.RDPPort = 3389

In the script and change it to your new port.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326945]]>Jul 21st 2008 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/Jul 21st 2008 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/Jul 21st 2008 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/Jul 21st 2008 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/Jul 21st 2008 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/home server. Like M$ doesn't do enough to eat up your resources, without any help from 3rd party software..]]>Jul 22nd 2008 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/
...I knew it was too awesome to be true :(]]>Jul 21st 2008 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/Jul 21st 2008 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/Jul 21st 2008 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/
Then they added new features.

Then they let you download and install it for free.

What are you bitching about?]]>Jul 21st 2008 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e5daf37e-e243-4410-bc51-81cf2b56fe6e&displaylang=en]]>Jul 21st 2008 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/Jul 21st 2008 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/Jul 21st 2008 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/Jul 21st 2008 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/Jul 21st 2008 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/
IMHO watching uber nerds deride products like this makes me laugh. Lets keep it going! Why do you need a mouse and monitor? Anyone smart enough to use a computer should be able to do fine with a card reader and teletype console.

WHS is a great product. It's the first backup/restore solution for Windows I've seen that is this easy to use. My machines wake in the middle of the night, backup and go back to sleep. Restores are a simple matter of booting from the restore CD. It's slick and it works very well and it takes minutes to setup. Not hours. No scripts, no digging through *nix forums. It. Just. Works. The SDK is nice and enables neat add-ons. The remote access is slick, the RDP gateway is nice as well. It's built on Server 2K3 which is rock solid.

Could I setup a *nix box to do this? Sure. But why? Why waste my valuable time dicking about with it?]]>Jul 21st 2008 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/Jul 21st 2008 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/Because Lunix doesn't proxy remote desktop.
Because everything else that it does do is so incredibly complicated that only Lunix nerds would consider it a replacement.]]>Jul 21st 2008 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/
"Can't teach an old dog new tricks" though.]]>Jul 21st 2008 7:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/Jul 21st 2008 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/
NOW ACTIVATING POWER BOOTS.

Seriously, the name is very unmicrosoft-like.]]>Jul 21st 2008 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/Jul 21st 2008 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/Jul 21st 2008 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/Jul 21st 2008 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/thanks
z
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I went with the cheapest HP single drive unit, bought 4 drives, and replaced the HP drive and added the three extra.

Much cheaper than trying to get it larger from HP and much cheaper than trying to build it yourself and still have swap trays, low power use, easy recovery/rebuild from scratch and the small headless form factor.

I'm happy I went with it over something like the ReadyNAS linux based NAS systems. For a windows user, it is much more powerful and versatile.]]>Jul 21st 2008 9:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/
I went with the cheapest HP single drive unit, bought 4 drives, and replaced the HP drive and added the three extra.

Much cheaper than trying to get it larger from HP and much cheaper than trying to build it yourself and still have swap trays, low power use, easy recovery/rebuild from scratch and the small headless form factor.

I'm happy I went with it over something like the ReadyNAS linux based NAS systems. For a windows user, it is much more powerful and versatile.]]>Jul 21st 2008 9:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/Jul 22nd 2008 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/
btw- Any preferences or recommendations for a media server that does it all- apple itunes, mp3 music, photo, client bkup and good mgt capabilities? I'm a little leary of the linux based units- file fmt difference and limitations, os unfamiliarility etc...

thanks E and atbnet
z
]]>Jul 21st 2008 10:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/ if the ex470 does work lying on its side then it may be the best choice...

z]]>Jul 21st 2008 10:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/Jul 22nd 2008 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-goes-live/
http://www.velocitymicro.com/wizard.php?iid=143
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http://www.velocitymicro.com/wizard.php?iid=143
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