Post subject: Windows Home Server FAQ online, beta could be imminent Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:01 pm
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Windows Home Server beta 2 might be coming quite soon ... the official Microsoft forums for Windows Home Server are accessible (whether they are exactly open to the public or not I'm not sure). They have quite an interesting FAQ which reveals a few more pieces of information:
- The Windows Home Server connector software (that takes care of backup etc) runs on XP SP2 and Vista only, however you can still connect to the shares with anything that does SMB. This is a little disappointing, I was expecting Windows 2000 support, but its no biggie.
- You can join a Windows Home Server to a domain during setup, however after 24 hours the licensing system on it will realise you're on a domain, and lock the server. That makes sense, why would you want to run it on a domain anyway? You'd already have a server in that case ...
- You cannot at this time have dual NICs, because its designed so that you have it connected to a router which handles your internet sharing. Fair enough.
- Beta 2 will be a DVD image only
- Apparently, Beta 2 is already built. On the FAQ page about installing from a DVD, they have the CRC there for the Beta 2 release so I'd assume it's already built.
- You can use its backup system to backup 10 machines. That's not bad, considering if you want to you can back up more anyway by just copying to the SMB file share.
- Limited to 10 users, but if you're in a typical home who needs more than 10 users?
- Recommended requirements, 1GHz, 512mb of RAM, DVD-ROM and more than one HDD. USB2.0 if you're going to use external storage (obviously). Though it runs on a 550MHz P3 apparently. You will need a graphics card while you install it, however you won't need it after you've installed it. Onboard graphics will do just fine.
I may have to try this on my server, it seems Home Server would fit my needs perfectly, who knows, maybe this will stop me from switching to Linux/BSD on my storage server...
Does anyone know if it's possible to upgrade from XP or would I have to reinstall?
I may have to try this on my server, it seems Home Server would fit my needs perfectly, who knows, maybe this will stop me from switching to Linux/BSD on my storage server...
Does anyone know if it's possible to upgrade from XP or would I have to reinstall?
Given the fact it's based on Server 2003 R2, this is very likely not going to work.
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I emailed them and got an invite (told ya I gave the idea to them, they must have felt like rewarding me). I'm downloading it now.
could you please upload it to andys ftp?
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Recommended requirements, 1GHz, 512mb of RAM, DVD-ROM and more than one HDD. USB2.0 if you're going to use external storage (obviously). Though it runs on a 550MHz P3 apparently. You will need a graphics card while you install it, however you won't need it after you've installed it. Onboard graphics will do just fine.
Looks like its a lot more fat than xp or 2k3 server
I wonder why they've chosen to base it on an old product, rather than Longhorn Server?
Well, maybe they wanted to build this on something "not brand new and therefore proven in real use" or something like that, maybe because they are planning to release it before Longhorn Server or just to keep the system requirements down... Not really sure...
is it based on 2003 or Vista? the design looks like vista, but i heard its based on 2003
It's based on Server 2003 but it uses the Vista WinPE (and I think possibly the boot loader and install program, though I haven't tried it yet).
empireum wrote:
Vista Ultimate R2 wrote:
I wonder why they've chosen to base it on an old product, rather than Longhorn Server?
Well, maybe they wanted to build this on something "not brand new and therefore proven in real use" or something like that, maybe because they are planning to release it before Longhorn Server or just to keep the system requirements down... Not really sure...
Products are shipping Q2 2007 with WHS installed, so I imagine they didn't want a buggy base.
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