Two days ago, I received an invite for WHS Beta 2.
I installed the server from DVD yesterday and have been migrating some data to it and backing up my machines, without any noteworthy problems.
Last night, I decided to add additional storage by basically removing the DVD and adding two parallel ATA drives (this is an unfortunate limitation of the motherboard I have). WHS was able to initialize the drives fine, and I am using them already. However, I think a side effect of doing this was to somehow reset the Windows Activation counter? I noticed the "0 days until Activation required" notice in the system tray yesterday after the required reboot when the two added drives were initialized. I thought it may have been a glitch.
This morning when I backed up my laptop for the first time, on the WHS Connector Console, I got a "Critical" message. The reason: I had 0 days to activate windows. While it did not seem to alter or restrict functionality as far as I could tell, it was somewhat alarming. I went to activate my Beta through the WHS Console, and after the first time not being able to reach the network, it proceeded.
The docs, at least for the Beta, recommend that you do not activate right away, as you can only get a certain, small number of keys during the beta period. Was this activation glitch by design I wonder or a small, unintended issue?
Anyone else encounter this "forced activation" with the Beta 2?
