Windows Home Server Suggestions Forum

Windows 7 and WHS - possible hyrbid option for Libraries - store/access on local HDD but sync to common network file?

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:10:40 Z

I find the libraries folder on Windows 7 to be a great idea - the documents library now giving a single view of multiple documents folders, including those on other computers using a home group.

Of course the achilles heel of this approach is that unless all client PCs are on all the time, the documents library will not have access to the documents folders on other computers.

This of course is where a product like WHS comes in, and perhaps WHS2 will integrate these features.

What a great opportunity I thought, to finally have the same personal folder files, available on all client PCs, or all personal folders stored if you will in a common "cloud" to use the trendy term :-). On my netbook, I made the network folder available "offline" for portable use. I did the same with desktop folders, music folders, and others. In all libraries I set the common network folder as the default save location.

Of course, there are 2 problems with the approach in the paragraph above.
1) No record locking to prevent file conflicts if netbook is offline.
2) Most painful, was that despite having gigabit ethernet, and drives in WHS capable of 50MB/s to 105MB/s sustained throughput, I found performance linked to network folder to be painfully sluggish for common operations. For example if I saved a large compressed file to a network folder (say \\server\Dave\desktop) it would take much longer to extract, than if the same file was stored on a local hard drive. (I created a l library of desktop, and used the same networked desktop folder as the default on all client pcs)
3) I tried using the "always available offline" sync function, but the computer still uses the slower network folder, unless the network is offline.

My ideal would be something like this:

-Personal folder files are stored on local hard drives, (such as C:\Users\Dave\Documents) and are mirrored on a common server Drive mapped to \\server\Dave\Documents.
-Files would be opened from the local drive to improve performance
-When opening a file on the local drive, the mirrored file on the network, and mirror files on the local drives of other PCs would also be locked
-make available offline could be used so the files are always available on portable computers
-of course if the client PC is offline when attempting to open a file, it is not possible to check for a lock on the network drive. this could cause conflicts, but perhaps a warning to the user would suffice, together with automatic syncrhosation of changed local files to the network, the moment the PC is once again online

Is it possible to so something like the paragraph above - to have the benefit of faster access via the local hard drive, but syncrhonising a common file set among all connected computers, on a common network mirror folder?

can you upload more then 2 gigs on a home server,

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:56:00 Z

hello

i'm trying to upload a file thats more then 2 gigs, can you upload more then 2 gigs on a home server

without going threw an ftp, trying to go threw my admin acc.

am i missing something or not have something enabled,

thanks

cowboye

Please add skydrive support for WHS

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:39:12 Z

Wouldnt you like a folder on your WHS to automatically sync to a skydrive cloud folder?

Windows Media Extender

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:12:28 Z

Am I missing something or is WHS a perfect fit for Windows Media Extenders. WHS is a central server for A/V files, why can't you share video to Extenders? It doesn't make sense.

Drive Extender, extended replication

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:11:10 Z

Hello,

i think users should be able to choose how 'safe' they want their data.

Right now we are presented with two choices:

1) File on one disk (Duplication off)

2) File on two disks (Duplication on)

I recently had the pleasure of experiencing two crashing (usb) drives at the same time.

I'm now facing the loss of my data that was exclusively duplicated between these two drives.

Since the Drive Extender's concept makes sure that similar files are located on the same drive I'm probably about to lose a great part of my music and movies collection...

So the question basically is:

Let the user choose how much he wants to replicate (more than 2 times).

If it were for me, I would replicate about three to four times. I don't mind the performance loss or spending 100€ for 1TB of disk space.

If you let the end user make the final choice, I'm sure many others will feel the same way.

Greetings,

Tom Demets

WHS Restore

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:36:13 Z

I have read several posts of the restore process and can't find anyone who chose to update their hardware at the same time of a restore (ie:MB, SATA drive from non SATA) Is this possible if I have the correct drivers for the new hardware? What about the XP OS and the installed programs, is there a wrinkle there?

Thanks for any help! This is something I am going to attempt tonight.

VR
Dennis

WHS Shares - Backup

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:58:55 Z

The backup regime of WHS strikes me as odd, as follows:

If you put a file on your local machine, it is backed up to the WHS box each night and depending on how you set the purging if you accidentally delete it / change it, you can get any version of it from the last day / week / month etc.

BUT

If you put the file on your WHS box, your only protection appears to be folder duplication, so if you delete it by accident you're knackered.

In other words, stuff stored on the WHS server shares is LESS secure than stuff dumped on local drives, which is the opposite of what intuition would tell you.

It would be sensible if the WHS box could back up its own shared folders each night according to the same backup policy, so you can always recover from user error on the shares as well as on local machines.

Seems very odd to me that this feature isn't included. Perhaps the guys that developed the product feature set could explain the rationale and whether or not this will ever be added?

The Backup Process

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:37:13 Z

Please consider changing the backup process to "Include" from "Exclude". This setup drives me crazy.

Thanks, Eric Huber.

How about bundling Windows Live OneCare with WHS ?

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:28:52 Z

Now that Windows Live OneCare is slated to go free how about bundling it with WHS as a Power Pack 2 release ??? If client PCs dont have any Anti Virus Software installed it could give the user an option to push OneCare to clients.

Anything that doesnt have a self limiting factor is of the devil.

SkyDrive and Zune

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:47:34 Z

Hi, I'm a fairly new WHS owner. I have the HP Media Smart Server and I've been looking around at various add-ins and services that I can run on my WHS.

Currently, there are two add in's that I would love to see.

SkyDrive, My Live Account gives me access to 25GB of storage space. I would love to be able to use this 25GB of storage as a backup location for critical files such as photo's and documents automatically through WHS. Are there any current Add-ins that allow me to do this easily? If not, are there any plans to do so? I understand that there is, or will be a plug in for Mesh, but with only 5GB of storage there, I would much reather utilize the 25GB on SkyDrive.

I am also a Zune Owner. Currently I manage my Music Library from my primary PC and Sync Toy pushes changes to my library up to my WHS nightly. I am looking for the ability to use the Zune software on my WHS directly so it can update my licenses, podcasts, etc. I have tried to install the Zune software on my HP server, but it wouldn't install without a bit of trickery. But apparently the video subsystem included with the HP box isn't good enough to run the zune software, so I can't run it. Any add-ins available or suggestions to get the software to run?

Thanks!

Defender - How does it work ?

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:51:46 Z

Greetings All !,

I'm probably not in the right Forum but....

Having Downloaded Defender (w/Win/XP) when updating it, does it actually check my Computer's contents, or just apply the update to anything that it encountered from that point forward ?

Have a good Day ! :)
S.W.

Good Golf, good Friends or what ever makes you happy !

E-mail!!!

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:33:16 Z

Hello,

I want to again throw out a suggestion for a "lite" version of Exchange to be available for this product. Exchange 2007 has some great features that could be included in a home e-mail server. The ability to have e-mail, faxes and voice mail all in one inbox and have web access to that would be incredible. I admit, it's a bit bleeding edge, but I think it would have a market. Include the POP3 connector, and drivers for voice modems (for the voice mail and fax) and you'd have a winner in my opinion.

Maybe make this part of Windows Home Server Premium, and include a "lite" version of ISA as well. I can see Windows Home Server, Windows Home Mail, and Windows Home Firewall, bundled as Windows Home Server Premium, or Advanced or something like that.

Thanks,

Dave H.

Exchange Home Edition

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:14:57 Z

SBS has Exchange, I would like to see WHS also have exchange. Even if it is only 10 mailboxes and cannot receive internet mail directly (maybe only through a smart-host), it would be awesome to be able to share contact lists with my family and share calendars.

WHS should have atleast two versions and one of them should be "free"

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:22:08 Z

One version would be the current offering as it is and the other should have more of less the same features but could be ad-supported. Since WHS indexes all your stuff maybe it could display an ad bar along with sidebar.

Networked Vista Parental Controls

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:02:23 Z

Many home have multiple computer sthat family members all use.

Allow the WHS to control Vista parental Controls.

Controls set on the server apply to any machine that user logs onto.

Reports adn administrator access/chnages can be viewed and made over the network and via remote access.

Thank You

Support for >2TB Drives & GUID Partition Table (GPT) Drives

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:15:41 Z

I firmly believe that we'll have single drives > 2TB by this time next year, and the only way the Windows supports a single volume on these drives is via the GUID Partition Table (GPT) scheme.

When adding a >2TB RAID array to WHS today, the console reformats it to a 2TB MBR and orphans the space beyond 2TB. You can get around this by jumping through some hoops (described by rwicks61 on these forums), but it is inconvenient and not in the spirit of WHS.

Thanks,

-shoek

NAS support for Windows Home Server!

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:40:06 Z

Please integrate NAS support for the windows home server! Why would it NOT have support for this?!

Is the WHS backup component available separately?

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:20:35 Z

I can see the WHS backup component being incredibly useful in a corporate setting. No messing around with reinstalling all a user's individual applications and utilities - even if available pre-packaged - would be a wonderful timesaver. And the way WHS backup operates, you could store a few thousand machines very economically. Is it available separately?

qts

Add-in for Bose Lifestyle integration?

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:48:09 Z

I am a die hard Bose fan and I am also really interested in the Home Server. Is there a software add-in that will allow my lifestyle v30 to pull music from the home server and play it throughout my home?

Computer "name" & workgroup "name"

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:42:36 Z

Their has been some talk about how to change the computer name from "server" and workgroup name from "workgroup".

It is very easy to do:-

- after the installation is completed don't make the unit headless and don't install the connector service on client PC's. On the home server box;

- left click on the start button;

- right click on "my computer";

- left click on "properties";

- left click on the "computer name tab"; and

- Change the name to what ever you desire.

I do think that these should be question asked during the installation.

Hope this help..

Vince

Dynamic disks

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:44:16 Z

I installed home server like this: i unpluged all disks with data except one for installation. When installation was over i plugin three more disks.

Now i have one Storage Hard disc drive and three non Storage Hard disc.
It is ok for but there is an problem. I cannot write data from non Storage Hard disks !!??

It is a bad solution because i do not want Dynamic disks!!!(except one for installation)
Is there any software ,add in , update fix for that!!!

loza

Windows Home Server a Poor Naming Choice?

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:58:56 Z

I work in IT, and I currently have all my data on WHS at my home in addition to backing up my XP Clients to it.

Amongst my Co Workers the word "Home" immediately elicits a negative reaction. For whatever reason it is assumed the OS is a toy or something along the lines of Windows ME due to its naming convention.

After I go over the many features it has to offer in regards to the storage pool, and backups using Single Instance Storage I start to win them over.    I have converted 2 co workers to using WHS, and a few others are on the fence.

I guess I am just thinking out loud about how many other potential users of this software are not exploring it further simply due to its name?

Maybe "Windows 2003 Media Center Storage Server" or something along those lines would have been a better naming convention?    Maybe for the V2 release?

I know that MS has put a great deal into getting the Windows Home Server brand out there so this is doubtful to change I am just expressing my personal experience to date...

VPN Add-In?

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:09:02 Z

It'd be great if there was an add-in to setup VPN on WHS and manage connections. Maybe automatic (or manual if needed) router configuration. This should allow some basic management such as kick the user or ban connection, etc. I realize that the VPN connection would need to be setup on the client side manaully. But the process to setup VPN on the server can be a bit tedious and confusing. Is there any possibiliy someone out there would be interested in creating and add-in for this?

It would be great for family members in remote locatons to be able to connect through VPN and have their files backed up remotely using the WHS Connector software just as if they were on the local network. I definitely don't have the knowledge to do this myself, but maybe someone here does. What do you say? Anyone wanna give it a shot?

WHS inside Virtual PC or VMWare?

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:40:33 Z

Can we run WHS Beta 2 inside Virtual PC or VMWare if we don't have a dedicated box to test it on?

Thanks,

TowerDave

Xbox 360 Backup?

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:00:05 Z

For most purposes, you can re-download content from Xbox Live, but it would be handy to be able to backup content from an Xbox 360 (XBLA games, Xbox Live Video Marketplace, other Xbox Live content) to Windows Home Server.

This would especially be handy considering the limited 20GB hard disk drive on my Xbox 360. One or two HD video downloads, and you are full. Media Center is recommended instead of ripping MP3s locally to the Xbox 360 (and then having no place to store them). What about those not having a hard disk on their 360?

I do have a media center PC, but that means yet another source of power drain for my electricity bill for ripping/streaming the content I already own (the 360 rips CDs fine).

The 360 can rip, de-stream, etc. but the storage solution is not always convenient and a backup solution is lacking. I think the Windows Home Server would be even better if it had a feature in this space. It could be a tie-in to the 360.

Slightly off the original intent of this suggestion, but I think WHS could be an awesome way to manage Xbox 360 content downloaded or created via the 360 itself.

allow disabling chkdsk runs

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:44:47 Z

Please publish registry strings for disabling the periodical chkdsk runs - or create an option within the console for it.

Suggestion at Connect.

Back up of files on WHS

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:12:24 Z

I really miss a backup function of files stored on WHS. Like your pst-files and or dokuments you store on the server

WHS and Hard Drives issues

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:56:29 Z

I have been looking around for informaition about WHS and harddrive issues, and found that WHS more or less sucks in functionality.

I can understand that Microsoft wanted to make an easy home version server, but why making it hard for those who would like to use this server version, as a really good home server.

Why not having support for RAID drives, every shop is selling RAID controllers, and almost every pc suitable for using as a server for WHS has RAID functionality built in.

For thos of you who would like know what RAID is you can find some information if you follow this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_array_of_independent_disks

Everyone who would like to set up a server with their personal photos, videos, music and other stuff, would ofcourse like to make that server as safe as possible, and they would like to have as much storage as possible. Today many people would like to have all their music and video ripped and stored on a server, and easily accessible everywhere through different types of mediacenters.

My WHS has 6 drives, 2*500 GB for the system, with RAID 1 for mirroring of the system, so that the server can continue to run even if one drive fails. It was really hard to find a way to install the server on a SATA2 RAID controller, since no drivers are available from the Microsoft distribution of WHS. Even if you have drivers on a separate floppy disk, you will end up with problems, since WHS can not copy the drivers to the disk.

The other 4 drives are used for storage and they are ofcourse 4*1 TB set up on another RAID-controller in a RAID 5, making 3 TB of storage available, and still, one drive in this RAID-set can fail, and I have still all my data available.

When you have this set up, you also very soon realize that WHS only support drives up to 2 TB in size. This is really really bad, and I hope that Microsoft actually realize that is something you need to work on. If you rip all your CDs and your videos, and also start to record TV-programs, you will need to have a lot of storage available.

So, since the operating system in itself, that WHS is built on, does support drives bigger than 2 TB, there is a way I used to work around the issues in WHS:

I partioned the disk into suitable pieces, and mounted the pieces in each share. Not a nice solution, but it works, even though the WHS software do not like it.

Please Microsoft, make WHS a good solution for the home, without such stupid limitations, otherwise a NAS would be a better solution for most people.

I Mac seeing folders on WHS

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:22:52 Z

If I put an i Mac on my home network that has a WHS server will I be able to read, copy and edit the contents of the Shared Folders from the Home Server?

HBV

NAS drive compatability

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:47:26 Z

Hi,

I don't think I am alone on suggesting this, I have found hundreds of comments one the web with users being frustrated with the same limitation. I have several large Buffalo NAS drives storing data and want to be able to use them with my home server as shared folders.

My NAS drives hold gigs and gigs of personally photo's and MP3's and I have designed my network so that if we ever got burgled they would not find all of the drives, hence I would not loose my precious data. Having all my drives plugged into the home server defeats the object of this and causes me to have all my data in one place.

I know peolple say use the NAS drives as backup drives, but not everyone wants to work in that way. I'm using my old laptop as the home server and after splashing out on the NAS drives do not want to have to then splash out on a new machine with large disks to accomodate the data.

Regards
Chris

Duplicate those backups that you want to keep

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:10:15 Z

One of the features I really like in WHS is the ability to do a complete restore one of my computers. I keep a backup copy of a computer from the time it was newly built so that I can go back to this 'clean slate' if needed. However I could lose this clean backup if WHS ever goes down for some reason.

I would therefor like to be able to duplicate those backups that I have set to be kept. Maybe they could stay in a special shares folder?

Andy

Fix the CPU ID Bug

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 04:00:29 Z

It appears some newer CPUs are not being identified properly by the WHS console, see pics below. While this may purely be a case of aesthetics, my concern is that the software might be ignoring new instruction sets that would aid in performance, etc... Overall I'm very pleased with the performance of WHS, and clearly the underlying Server 2003 OS sees the correct CPU, but it would be nice if the console accurately reflected the hardware as well.

CPU in System Properties

CPU in WHS Console

FLAC support

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:50:29 Z

I would truly love to see my Xbox360 being able to play the FLAC files that are stored on my WHS.

I DON'T want to have to convert all of my FLAC files to any other format and I'm fed up to the teeth with people believing that this is an acceptable solution.

Why can't Microsoft just add support for FLAC files? FLAC has become a very widespead and popular format. Is it pride, or something else?
What does it matter to Microsoft if I choose to use FLAC? Pretending it doesn't exist doesn't do any good. It's here, we like it and we want to use it....please, just accept it.

Support for XviD was added much to the delight of everybody and it has had a truly positive effect. Encouraging people to go out and buy Xbox360s as media extenders. I would NEVER have purchased an Xbox360 until Xvid support was added. As soon as it was I purchased TWO!! I don't play games on either of them.

Adding support for FLAC would encourage MORE people to take up this option rather than coming up with their own solutions. It's not rocket science.

Please stop telling us what we can have and start listening to what we would like.... It's mutually beneficial :-)

Network

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:07:22 Z

When I view network map I find my server not included or could not be added to network map. My quesetion is,
Should my server and all client computers be in the same WORKGROUP,MSHOME etc. ???

Date and Time during WHS Software Install

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:06:50 Z

I have spent hours troubleshooting a non-connect to Server problem (Discovery didn't work) on a re-installation and it turned out to be Date, Time, and Time Zone were all wrong as compared to my PC. The WHS Install Software I have (launch software), did not question me or give me a fill-in-the-blanks statement on setting Date, Time, and Zone, and Daylight Savings. Is this in the latest software? I would think at least when I go for the updates part of the install some kind of pop-up or anything should ask me Date and time, or better yet automatically seek out "Time @ Microsoft.com" and set my Server. This should also be very apparent and one of the first questions within Toolkit troubleshooting and within the “Troubleshooting Windows Home Server Connector Installation” booklet, (9/2007).

I did give this feedback to “Connect”.

I Give Up!

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:21:10 Z

Make it work would be nice

Bought a complete new system with recommended parts which is well above spec.

Installed Home server and it kept on crashing during backups (reboot) and was unable to start up afterwards due to "file corruption".. every part was then exhaustively tested for errors without a problem being found..after the 12th attempt it worked (it did not like the nvidia driver for the onboard graphics but quite how this affects disk corruption is anyone's guess)!.. Sort of.. 1 machine on my home network would not back up.. Home server insisted on a disk check.. which was done without errors.

fast forward 2-3 months of 2 computers being backed up

The problem machine was reformatted and a fresh install with new HDs was done..

2 weeks later backup fails and the server has rebooted itself and is nowhere to be found on the network. The problem "file corruption" and a server unable to boot. Corrupt files from the backup or any file SHOULD NOT be able to impact the OS in this way!

As backups go this is as much good as a chocolate teapot, in fact it is in more need of backing up than the computers it is supposed to be backing up!!!!!!!

I have asked Microsoft for an exchange license for the machine so it is at least of more use than a doorstop but they want me to go through the whole support thing again.. as if I have not already done this enough with the original installs trying to figure out what the hell was wrong. They also want me to go through the problems again as they would be interested to examine the problem... THIS IS NOT BETA SOFTWARE!

I have not been so dissapointed since ME (though Vista is not exactly my favourite)

All I can say is I am glad I never fully trusted it and have full backups elsewhere.. so I suppose in some twisted way it has worked.

Remote connection to PC, should handle all versions of XP and Vista, especially home versions

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:23:37 Z

From the FAQ section of these forums, there is mention of how to enable remote connection to PC. First, it says that you must manually enable remote connection.

You can enable remote connection by:

Right clicking My Computer
Click properties
Clicking the remote tab
Checking the box for Remote Desktop
Click OK

Then it says you must have the right version of Windows:

The following editions of Windows support Remote connection (remote desktop):

Windows Vista Ultimate
Windows Vista Enterprise
Windows Vista Business
Windows XP Professional
Windows XP Media Center Edition
Windows XP Tablet

My suggestions are two-fold:

Automatically enable the remote connection (or offer to enable it) when running the Connect CD on the PC.
Support remote connection to the most likely versions found in the home, namely:

Windows XP Home
Windows Vista Home Basic
Windows Vista Home Premium

This second suggestion probably requires loading a certain Terminal Services component, but I really don't understand why this remote connection feature is touted as a feature of WHS, but won't be useful for a majority of the home users out there. As it stands, home users are unlikely to have any of the business versions, or XP Pro versions. That leaves just the MCE being able to be remotely controlled. Certainly you want support for XP Home, Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium?

First 3 Days WHS

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:11:16 Z

Just thought I would post about setting up WHS. Friday my eval OEM disk arrived. I was running a home server using windows XP. I opened the package and checked out the disks. I had been reading about how to set it up and the requirements. I have a dell dimension 2400 and two 500G USB drives.I saved all my stuff to the one drive and disconnected it and put it away for safe keeping. I unhooked the other from the computer. Put the disk in the drive and nothing. My fault I thought I had a DVD drive. Luckily my wife was in town and picked me one up, under $30. Took the old drive out and when she arrived home within 5 minutes I had the drive up and running. LOL Next it told me not enought RAM. No problem I have another computer removed it from there and installed in another 5 minutes and started install. I needed to upgade the RAM in the other computer, 1G about $30. The fun part is I only have dail up in my area. So I have a wireless network using a wifi. It is a dail up modem with a wireless router. It has a LAN connections, so I hooked my cable from the computer to the router.I put the disk in the drive and the install started. It took about an hour an a half to two hours. The install went great no errors.
Next I went to my computer to install the home server connector software.There started my first problem. No connection to server. I started running test on the server. Nothing. I checked online for a solution. I used my driver disk that came with the computer to make sure the drivers were installed. Nothing. About an hour is my limited so I moved to a new solution. I shut the computer down and installed the wireless card I had. Started it back up asked for the driver. I put the disk in the drive. It installed the drivers the icon in the task bar showed up and I was up and running. Went back to my computer and started the server connector software. It was an easy install.I then hooked one of the 500G drives back up.It was an easy format. Then I installed it on the next computer. I had to order the RAM so when it gets here will be able to set up my 3rd computer.
I started the process for the backups and the updates. Went to bed hoping when I got up on Saturday it would be backed-up and up to date. I got one, the computers were backed up, but the server did not update. I had to work with that a bit. It keep freezing up. Finally I got it to start the updates. that was 8am. I knew with the dail up would be awhile. At 4 pm I checked it was done updating. That was not to bad. I am use to it with the dail up.
The update install was easy, was able to do that from my computer on the console. It download IE 7 and I was able to watch that from the console. It said it needed to reboot so I clicked restart now. For some reason it didn't so I had to go to the server to do it. I hope the updates fixed that.
After the computer updated I had to update the the server connector software. That was an easy process. I thought I could do it remote from the server from my computer but it did not work I had to update it from the computers. I then got my 500G drive and connected it to my computer. I copied all my files from it to the server. There was a lot on it but the speeds were great, was done in about an hour.So far everything is really good.
I made sure the user accounts were all set up and running. I found when I shut the computers down and restart I have to log back in for the shared files. On the log in I checked the save but have to log back in. I hope Microsoft fixes this so the shared files will stayed lodged in. Next I needed to get my anti virus installed on the server. I thought this would be a good over night download. I am running Windows Live Onecare on all my computers. I was running it on my XP that I was using as the server. Went to the server went to Live Onecare for servers. My first real let down. I could not believe that Onecare would not work on WHS. I know this is just an over site and it will be avalable soon.
So far I like WHS. So today I order the OEM. I don't want to set everything up and loose it. I hope that Live Onecare will soon be avaliable and that as we use it MS will fix some of the small problems. I will post more as I use it.

Recovering lost WHS system disk

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 05:33:15 Z

If the WHS has enough storage on secondary drives, WHS should be able to completely reconstruct the system disk - from the contents of the secondary drives.

Based on other posts on this forum, it appears this isn't possible - and that recovering the WHS system disk - at best, would only lose some settings - at worst, would lose all backup data stored on the server (which is completely unacceptable).

Why not have an option for the WHS to backup its own 20GB disk partition (like it does for WHS clients)? Recovering the WHS system partition would then be possible.

And, why not have an option that would duplicate all of the data stored on primary data partition on the system disk?

Without the ability to recover from a lost system disk on the WHS, it seems we're now putting all of our eggs in one basket - and hoping the system disk never fails - which somewhat defeats the entire purpose of having file duplication - and using a server for file backup and recovery!

Remote Access Login to Desktop Computers

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:48:07 Z

When I login to Remote Access from within my home subnet I have the option to control desktop computers. if I login from outside my home subnet, i.e. from the office, it will not present me with this option. Is this standard or have I missed a setting.

Windows Home Server Suggestions Forum

Windows 7 and WHS - possible hyrbid option for Libraries - store/access on local HDD but sync to common network file?

can you upload more then 2 gigs on a home server,

Please add skydrive support for WHS

Windows Media Extender

Drive Extender, extended replication

WHS Restore

WHS Shares - Backup

The Backup Process

How about bundling Windows Live OneCare with WHS ?

SkyDrive and Zune

Defender - How does it work ?

E-mail!!!

Exchange Home Edition

WHS should have atleast two versions and one of them should be "free"

Networked Vista Parental Controls

Support for >2TB Drives & GUID Partition Table (GPT) Drives

NAS support for Windows Home Server!

Is the WHS backup component available separately?

Add-in for Bose Lifestyle integration?

Computer "name" & workgroup "name"

Dynamic disks

Windows Home Server a Poor Naming Choice?

VPN Add-In?

WHS inside Virtual PC or VMWare?

Xbox 360 Backup?

allow disabling chkdsk runs

Back up of files on WHS

WHS and Hard Drives issues

I Mac seeing folders on WHS

NAS drive compatability

Duplicate those backups that you want to keep

Fix the CPU ID Bug

FLAC support

Network

Date and Time during WHS Software Install

I Give Up!

Remote connection to PC, should handle *all* versions of XP and Vista, especially home versions

First 3 Days WHS

Recovering lost WHS system disk

Remote Access Login to Desktop Computers

Remote connection to PC, should handle all versions of XP and Vista, especially home versions