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    If I upgrade one of my pc's to Windows 7, what implications are there for compatibility with my WHS. Will it still be recognised, and backed up as are the Vista and XP machines?
    Friday, October 9, 2009 12:39 PM

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    Hi Dave,
        All should be fine, I have windows 7 Pro on 5 pc's in the house all were x vista machines I did a clean install on them all and then installed the connection software and all worked as expected, just 1 hint if you want the console to work from a win7 machine plase add the whs ip address to the Host file on the pc's this is located at -

    C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

    You will need to change its security settings so you can edit the file.


    Good luck

    IAN (UK)
    Friday, October 9, 2009 1:27 PM
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    Hi Dave,
        All should be fine, I have windows 7 Pro on 5 pc's in the house all were x vista machines I did a clean install on them all and then installed the connection software and all worked as expected, just 1 hint if you want the console to work from a win7 machine plase add the whs ip address to the Host file on the pc's this is located at -

    C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

    You will need to change its security settings so you can edit the file.


    Good luck

    IAN (UK)
    I wouldn't do that unless necessary (which normally it's not).  If you have to do that, there is something wrong with name resolution within your LAN (it's not just a Win 7 issue in that case).
    Friday, October 9, 2009 6:47 PM
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    If I upgrade one of my pc's to Windows 7, what implications are there for compatibility with my WHS. Will it still be recognised, and backed up as are the Vista and XP machines?
    To clarify what Ian said:  that depends on what you mean by "upgrade".  If you are doing a true upgrade install from Vista, you should be able to continue to use that as PC as 1 of the 10 already joined to your server.  If, however, you do a new install of 7, it will be a "new PC" in terms of being joined to the server (you would then have both your previous install floating around in your server, plus your new 7 install as well).

    Also, one little caveat:  7 is not officially supported on WHS yet (that won't happen until PP3 is released).  Having said that, it does work.
    Friday, October 9, 2009 6:51 PM
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