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- WHS CTP - YAY!April 19 2007
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Boy, they say in the blog announcing the CTP that hints were dropped, but it seemed to me that the WHS Team folks had been doing a great job insinuating we wouldn’t be getting another build of WHS.
This is a lovely surprise to me. I really thought that all that was going to be released publicly was Beta 2, and so I was beginning the wait until ~Fall.
After reading that less than 60% of the first batch of invited beta participants had actually (presumably) installed the software, I was worried MS would feel many of the invitees would not be active enough (I certainly haven’t had the time to as much as I’d like). A lot of people have written about how (apparently) many of the Vista testers were not very helpful, just taking builds, and not providing feedback.
I am grateful that the WHS team has found the community’s feedback helpful, and the changes in this new release sound like they’re just increasing the WOW factor of this product.
It’s a great thing when something so simple can be so amazing.
I look forward to blogging soon about the new 7-step guided setup, and other new features in the CTP.
I put to Microsoft and the WHS Team –
Will there be any certification or approval process for Add-ins?
Is “Server Playgrou - Leave your WHS install disc in the drive!March 22 2007
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Just a heads-up for future WHS beta installers — don’t remove the install DVD until you are totally complete with the install. I know I’m used to removing discs around the time of a reboot, but if you do, Setup will fail.
I got an error when WinFX was attempting to install — the error I got was;
installing WinFx failed, drive not ready, error code 0×80070015This sounds really severe — I checked all kinds of things before realizing that it was incredibly simple — put the disc back in the drive, and reboot.
So, please, you WHS beta-testers out there, leave the disc in the drive.
- New Batch of Home Server Beta InvitesFebruary 28 2007
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As reported on the Windows Home Server Blog another 10,000 invites went out to those picked to help test this fantastic product
Its exciting to see more momentum behind this product and I think it has an excellent place in Microsofts lineup.
- Used Space HistoryFebruary 25 2007
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So, I’ve been running Windows Home Server beta 2 for about a week now, and it feels like I’ve been using it forever. It’s just so easy.
But something popped up in the Console today, and I’m not sure how it got there, or how to make it go away.
The screen is a detail of my primary Shared Folders’ space usage over the last week, with a little slider which will be useful in the future.I can click on any of my Shared Folders, and receive a graph for just that Folder’s usage.
It’s a useful feature, and I like it. But I can’t resize it, and I can’t figure out why it’s suddenly there now (other than it now has one week of data), and, I wonder if I can option it away.
Have any other testers out there noticed this screen yet, or can perhaps shed some light on this?
- Creating User Accounts for Home ServerFebruary 24 2007
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One of the most appealing features from Home Server is having centralized storage space for all the PC’s on your network. To work seamlessly you will need to make sure that the user accounts on Home Server matches those on you PC. This will keep you from having to login each time you go to use the shared folders.
If you dont have the users matched and you go to login this is what you will see:
Now if you want to avoid having to do this here is what you do!
First Login to your Home Server Console:
In Home Server Console click on the User Accounts tab:
