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Upgraded client to Win7 from XP problem with WHS RRS feed

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    I got the connector installed fine, but the problem is that WHS can't seem to figure out that this is the same computer and now shows a duplicated 'COMPUTER_NAME' on the server.   I don't want this to show up as a new computer as it is the same computer, and I want to keep things historically aligned for retrieving from backups.

    How do you get WHS to see that it's the same computer, just a new operating system?
    Saturday, December 26, 2009 5:27 PM

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    I got the connector installed fine, but the problem is that WHS can't seem to figure out that this is the same computer and now shows a duplicated 'COMPUTER_NAME' on the server.   I don't want this to show up as a new computer as it is the same computer, and I want to keep things historically aligned for retrieving from backups.

    How do you get WHS to see that it's the same computer, just a new operating system?
    There is no way to do that.  WHS does not use the computer name to identify a client (it uses a GUID instead).  When you installed the Connector software on your 7 installation, it created a new GUID different from the one that your XP install had.
    Saturday, January 2, 2010 1:47 AM
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