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JonRohan said:
So you've read the article about centralized backups, compression, health monitoring, WHS Drive Extender and dynamic disk control?

Perhaps you should read some facts before trolling.
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DataVampire said:
and i appologise its actualy based on Windows Server 2003 R2
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As DV said, S2003 and possibly XP Whistler can do all that. I haven't found any Sever features in Vista though, any more info on that?
 
DataVampire said:
nothing that cant already be done using 3rd party applications, and from what i have been reading on forums, the home server os will not be released indisk format, only on home server pcs........... its just a gloreyfied media server, heck linux can do that for free, and correct me if im wrong here, vista originaly had soem "wow" featuers where are they all now, i bet you they wont end up in the final, normaly i sign up for these type of betas as they are intesting, but unless you are going to buy a ready made server, what isthe point, i believe hp will be the first to realse a home server box, i think i read it in micromart magazine, and trolling, i think you need to get your facts straight..............
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What facts have I stated that are incorrect?

And no Linux cannot do everything that WHS does. Namely because it can't integrate with other MS platforms as well. For instance, health monitoring and the system backup features to name a couple of things. ;)

Yes you probably could do some of the stuff WHS does with third party applications and with Linux. Most people (particularly home users) aren't going to bother or won't have the expertise to faff around with Linux.

I have a Linux server at home and it’s great. Does the job nicely. However, I wouldn't hesitate in replacing it for WHS if upon my testing it was alright.
 
.....dam wont install on my 20Gb drive in my server as my spare 160Gb SATA has finally given up and stop living.... :( Have to sort another drive out tommrow.

Got my e-mail a few days after I signed up.
 
Phnom_Penh said:
As DV said, S2003 and possibly XP Whistler can do all that. I haven't found any Sever features in Vista though, any more info on that?
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yup easy to find, all you have to do is this controle pannel/defualt programs/ on the left hand side you will see a link to programs and featuers. form that
on the left hand side again, you will see turn windows featurers on and off/another box will pop up wait for it to scan, then all you have to do is tick the revelent faetuers, like snmp/internet information services/ a whole bunch of them there, webserving/ftp blah blah, but then im running the ultamate not sure if its in home premium ect.
 
Phnom_Penh said:
tbh most home users aren't going to faff about with a home server.
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They are more likely to now with Home Server.

File sharing was messy in Windows XP. How many families ended up with multiple copies of picutes and music etc.
 
Phnom_Penh said:
tbh most home users aren't going to faff about with a home server.
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True true. :).

If you read the articles posted in this thread you will see that there are a number of features that aren't available on XP or Server 2003.
 
JonRohan said:
So you've read the article about centralized backups, compression, health monitoring, WHS Drive Extender and dynamic disk control?

Perhaps you should read some facts before trolling.
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there think that says it all there, trolling, so when have i trolled then ?? lol
 
DataVampire said:
nothing that cant already be done using 3rd party applications, and from what i have been reading on forums, the home server os will not be released indisk format, only on home server pcs........... its just a gloreyfied media server, heck linux can do that for free, and correct me if im wrong here, vista originaly had soem "wow" featuers where are they all now, i bet you they wont end up in the final, normaly i sign up for these type of betas as they are intesting, but unless you are going to buy a ready made server, what isthe point, i believe hp will be the first to realse a home server box, i think i read it in micromart magazine, and trolling, i think you need to get your facts straight..............
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you will be able to buy WHS on DVD when it comes out, only thing im worried about the HP Media Server is that its going to have loads of HP garbage built into it, and we all know how bad HP's software is

Unfortunally WHS doesnt act as a Media Center (which is a massive let down as media center can be a lot better)

WHS is very handy, the add \ remove program bits you mentioned were also in WinXP, but how many familys did you know ran a web server at home?

The main benift of WHS is that it doesnt need a mouse \ keyboard or a monitor plugged into it, its just a box that can sit anywhere, all the family needs to do is to turn it on. You can obviously do that with a WinXP \ Vista box, but theres more to go wrong with it
 
DataVampire said:
yup easy to find, all you have to do is this controle pannel/defualt programs/ on the left hand side you will see a link to programs and featuers. form that
on the left hand side again, you will see turn windows featurers on and off/another box will pop up wait for it to scan, then all you have to do is tick the revelent faetuers, like snmp/internet information services/ a whole bunch of them there, webserving/ftp blah blah, but then im running the ultamate not sure if its in home premium ect.
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Turning on the FTP and IIS services doesn't suddenly change the PC in question into "Windows Home Server"

The advantage of the Homer Server is a single point for the family to store all their documents and back them up from one single location.
 
JonRohan said:
See post #43 unless you feel like quoting me all day ;)

I could see WHS being used in some very small business environments.
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the point to that is this,m its not meant for buisness, its basicly a home media server, with a few addons, a centralised location to store music/pictuers ect, will be interesting to see how they manage drm, ect mind, if they do not impliment it , that will sell it in buckets, but i bet it wil use media player, will this realy be of any use to the average house hold, would it not be better to use a proper linux server os, and strip the featuers you are not going to use ?? realy seams overboard to me.
just my £2 worth
 
Slinwagh said:
Turning on the FTP and IIS services doesn't suddenly change the PC in question into "Windows Home Server"

The advantage of the Homer Server is a single point for the family to store all their documents and back them up from one single location.
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so you cant use the ftp accounts, to create user accoutns for each person in the household, and you also cannot use file sharing to share folders ect, and you canot use the http server to utilise websoftware that will undoubtibly be released after the home server is, with http server ect on, you can create a nice intranet for the same purpose, having siad that, the ms home server wil be noob freindly. but i still stand by what i first siad, its nothing more than a media server with a few addons.
 
JonRohan said:
read again. :P.

Stuff like the dynamic disk management (not raid) and the compression technologies it uses are a couple of things off the top of my head.
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and what wil that do to the average household, do you honestly think they will use it,the peeps looking at that, will want it to stream movies/mp3s and to share the odd files, centralised backup, that will be a fad, acronis is good enough and simple enough to use, you can uce compression already, grant it ti is most prob not the same as that but nietherless compression. and i also bet you will see soem of those featuers apear on vista, wasnt they working on a new filesystem for vista, wonder if the compression technology is part of that.
also corect me if im wrong, most of the new nas external usints you can now do the media sharing part, at a lot cheaper cost, so again, what will be the point
 
quick question

how do i get a CD key for WHS? it doesnt say it in the e-mail, i have a invite code tho, I have downloaded the ISO and in the middle of installing it now

EDIT: IGNORE POST!!! (found it)
 
got mine up and working, seems very impressive

backing up my machine which takes up 55GB on the server. I would imagine that the ideal storage pool for a WHS would be around 1TB-1.5TB depending on how many PCs you have on your network

Also a quick question

I have a folder thats 40GB, if I setup duplication, will that take up another 40GB on a physical drive so in total the folder would take up 80GB of storage space?

EDIT: Does anyone know any small cases that would be ideal for a server with a lot of drive bays?
 
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