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    My only suggestion would be to allow the user to define a larger system drive partition. With over one Terabyte total capacity, the 20 GB limitation set by the default setup drive preparation is only 2% of the total available capacity. Although I am not a professional developer (yet), I installed Visual Studio 2005 Professional full installation licensed in order to generate an aspx.net web site for friends and family. This increased the system drive usage from about 30% to a whopping 56% of the total. Depending upon the size of the power pack release, this could be a serious issue. I understand the reasoning for limiting the default partition size, patially proprietary since the server can in fact be used to serve the other standalone units within the local area network, it would not hurt to give customers this option when they build their own server and use extensive hardware as I have done for maximum throughput and enhanced capability. Since I am entitled to a copy of Standard Server x64 2003 under my university MSDN partnership alliance, it may be the only option for me given that I will eventually be pursuing IT as a career. Even professional partitioning tools, such as Paragon Server Partition Manager, generate problems when attempting to merge or extend the system drive partition to allow at least two or more applications to be installed. This was a surprise to me. It is astounding that I can build, compile, and publish the site within Home Server in real time and from another computer on the LAN by way of remote desktop connection. I am very impressed, as it is a modified version of Small Business Server 2003 X86.

     

    Eric

    Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:44 PM

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    Eric, installing large desktop applications and applicaiton suites on WHS isn't recommended (or supported). In the case of your web site, the recommended course would be to develop it locally on a client PC, then build a deployment package that installs it on the server. You don't need Visual Studio installed on the server that way.
    Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:06 PM
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    Eric, installing large desktop applications and applicaiton suites on WHS isn't recommended (or supported). In the case of your web site, the recommended course would be to develop it locally on a client PC, then build a deployment package that installs it on the server. You don't need Visual Studio installed on the server that way.
    Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:06 PM
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    IMHO this not really a problem. If you want to install (large applications) there is no need to use the C partition. IMHO you can best install them on a disk which is not part of the WHS storage pool.

    Saturday, February 23, 2008 3:44 PM
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    I agree. However, both standalone units on the local home network run NT6 Vista 32 bit on one, 64 bit on the other. There are known incompatibilities with VS2005 even when run as administrator. I will not go back to XP at this point. One, and only one application, needed to be installed. I used a third party server partition manager to reallocate free space from the "D" partition over to "C" without errors. Thanks for this. I know that home server was not intended for this purpose. As it is an evaluation copy due to expire in 120 days, I will take advantage of my eligibility for standard server later in March. Thanks so much for taking time to respond to my thread. This was very helpful and I am appreciative. Eric

     

    Saturday, February 23, 2008 3:50 PM
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    I also think, that the system partition sometimes could be bigger, at least for us enthusiasts.

    Although this is an unsupported scenario,I had the situation one time, that I wanted Windows Home Server to be installed on a larger C: drive. While this can be done with 3rd party partitioners more or less successfully (if they allow to perform the tasks from a bootable CD), this can also be realized during installation with Windows PE:

    After WHS setup copied the files to the new created system partition and is rebooting, power off the computer and insert a Vista DVD.

    Boot from it and go to computer repair options.

    Open the command prompt.

    Enter the command

    diskpart

    Enter the command

    list volume

    Figure, which is the system partition of the Windows Home Server. Enter

    select volume x (where x is the number of the volume you want to extend)

    Enter

    extend size=30000

    to increase the size by 30 GByte.

    Type

    exit

    Leave the recovery environment, reinsert the Windows Home Server setup DVD and reboot.

    Best greetings from Germany

    Olaf

    Monday, August 25, 2008 7:16 AM
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