Windows Home Server: Any updates?

the-void

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A while back there was a thread about how you could register for Windows Home Server. I imagine that those people who were sucessful have since downloaded and installed it. I was wondering what it is like. Just had my acceptance email now - In the middle of downloading.

Has anyone tried installing it as a Virtual Machine?

thanks.
 
bledd. said:
not heard anything yet from them, how long did it take you guys to get 'accepted'
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Took that long that I almost forgot what Windows Live account I registered with. :D

Rough estimate, about two to three weeks.
 
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so you're telling me there's a chance..
 
am running Home Server at the min. Havn't done much other than set it up but its been running smooth ever since
 
bledd. said:
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so you're telling me there's a chance..
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lol.

I would say so. I registered and forgot about it. Thought they didn't care for my business.

Anyone tried it on VM? Might see what happens after tea.
 
the-void said:
Anyone tried it on VM? Might see what happens after tea.
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Yes, currently playing with it on Virtual PC (Why I'm not using VMware god only knows)

I notice a lot of inconsistant branding, it's pretty obvious its a direct port of 2003.

Make sure your VM meets the min specs of 512 ram and 36GB hdd ;)

Burnsy
 
They sent me the email saying I could DL it i might pop it on spare media rig tommrow if it supports my wireless card.
 
yeah its not very good i found and just pt xp pro back on om my home server..

idea behind it is great.. just doesnt work very well.. hope full will be better out of beta. The storage pool is great and so is the backup, i found driver support very lacking for win2k3 server drivers.. that put put me off the most
 
burnsy2023 said:
Yes, currently playing with it on Virtual PC (Why I'm not using VMware god only knows)

I notice a lot of inconsistant branding, it's pretty obvious its a direct port of 2003.

Make sure your VM meets the min specs of 512 ram and 36GB hdd ;)

Burnsy
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Thanks Burnsy. Don't actually feel like dedicating an entire machine to host WHS. Good job I have a free partition that used to hold Vista eh, that's a fair chunk of HDD space.
 
Robotica said:
i found driver support very lacking for win2k3 server drivers.. that put put me off the most
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That shouldn't really be much of an issue, most XP drivers will work with 2k3 and the ones that don't will probably have 2k3 specific drivers.

Burnsy
 
burnsy2023 said:
That shouldn't really be much of an issue, most XP drivers will work with 2k3 and the ones that don't will probably have 2k3 specific drivers.

Burnsy
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yeah

even things like nforce2 drivers install fine on 2k3
 
I got my invitation but when I go to download it, it opens a aspx file in Dreamweaver.... How do I download it?

I thought this was something that goes ontop of XP?... Doesn't look like it from what I can see.
 
Trifid said:
I got my invitation but when I go to download it, it opens a aspx file in Dreamweaver.... How do I download it?

I thought this was something that goes ontop of XP?... Doesn't look like it from what I can see.
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Use IE.

And it's a whole new OS.

Burnsy
 
first impressions.... not good. it's a pain if you only have one hard disk like myself. it wants to wipe the whole lot (fair enough, i have everything backed up anyway). but what annoyed me the most is the way it offers no options whatsoever as to how you want the drive partitioned. it assigned the system partition 10gb and made the rest of the drive into a data partition. but i'd have liked the option to create multiple partitions. i like to keep stuff separate but this gives you no choice. i'm not amused... :( :D
 
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