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    I have an old laptop PC - can I use it for testing the home server software?
    Wednesday, February 07, 2007 1:47 AM

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    I have just posted Windows Home Server requirements here, check them out and see if that answers your question:


    http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1197365&SiteID=50

    Using a laptop for a Windows Home Server is not supported.  Please use a desktop or server capable machine for installing the Windows Home Server software.

    Wednesday, February 07, 2007 7:42 PM
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    That's a dead link for me.  Is it internal only?
    Tuesday, February 13, 2007 3:00 PM
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    If I can add a little clarification:

    WHS - the server, the DVD disk - technically may install on a notebook, but as Joel said, this is not supported, and besides, there is not much use from a server which is turned off or works someplace else for most of the time. Also how much storage you can plug into a notebook? And storage is one of the greatest things about WHS.

    WHS client software - the one that you install on the client machines once you have installed the server, the one on CD or \\server\software - is not only supported, but fully expected to run on notebooks as well as normal home machines.
    Wednesday, February 14, 2007 3:21 AM
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     Joel Burt wrote:

    Using a laptop for a Windows Home Server is not supported.  Please use a desktop or server capable machine for installing the Windows Home Server software.

     

    Is there a specific reason for this? Laptop class hardware has the potential to make a somewhat ideal Windows Home Server candidate due to the potentially low power requirements and heat output with the common advantage of built-in wired and wireless networking and most importantly, UPS :-) Granted you are sometimes limited to a single internal drive and would therefore probably need to be using external USB drives, but is there anything architecturally that precludes this as an option?

    Tuesday, February 20, 2007 11:14 PM
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    Can it be done yes, but it's not supported you may run into some power management issues as well as issues with drivers that control certain things on your notebook. I would not recommend installing it on your  notebook as it will not  give a true  representation of  whats  expected from the final product.
    Sunday, March 04, 2007 11:44 AM
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    well ***, i got it running on mine too until my stuff gets in for the new server.  it seems to do ok except for one ricoh media drive for my SD card reader.  Otherwise its doing great so far.  Granted my laptop blows away the minimum requirements.
    Friday, March 09, 2007 11:22 PM
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    I also installed it on an old laptop and it worked perfectly...
    Saturday, March 24, 2007 3:43 AM
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    I have jsut finished that too... so far soo good, although i shall test it a bit more when i got home from work later today
    Monday, March 26, 2007 2:18 PM