Re: OT: Windows Home Server

Tom, the 10-PC limit is a hard limitation in the sense that you cannot buy
additional licenses.

they limit it at 10 because it was meant to be used in a home and was not
indended for use in a business. For businesses, they want them to run the
full Microsoft Server 2003 package.

I used it during the beta testing phase and it worked very nicely as a
method of automatically backing up all the PC's in your house each night.

You can also use it to share files, so you can store all your files in a
central location and access them from any PC.

another nice feature is that you can expand the storage capacity on the fly
by adding more HD storage. The server will can just extend the current
volume onto the new HD.

It's another piece of software that was meant to be sold as part of a 'Home
Server' and not seperatly, but again, evidently you can buy 'OEM' versions
of Home Server just like you can with Vista.

ISTR that during the beta days, it was suggested by many testers that Home
Server be enhanced to be able to function as a Media Center Server that
could be a central location to stream multimedia content from, but i'm not
sure if that feature was ever added or not. In the beginning, Microsoft
didn't want to add that feature. Maybe they listened to reason and included
it. I hope so.

If they did, it would greatly expand it's penetration into the home users
market.


"Tom Scales" <tjscales@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Harding [mailto:ToHard@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Posted At: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 10:14 PM
Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Conversation: OT: Windows Home Server
Subject: Re: OT: Windows Home Server

Tom Scales wrote:
Anyone here had experience with Windows Home Server? I just ordered
a
copy and plan on installing it on a Core 2 Duo XPS410. The goal is
for
the machine to be my media server (running Snapstream's BeyondTV)
and
also the central site for all our music, photos, etc.

It has a lot of truly cool features, such as:

- Centralized Remote Desktop -- from outside the house, you connect
to
WHS and the choose the machine you want to connect to.
- Centralized storage management

This is probably the coolest feature. You set up one fairly small
drive. You then add more drives to the pool. As the smaller drive
fills up, WHS automatically moves files to the other drives and load
balances them. Completely transparent to the user, who sees a size
of
essentially unlimited size. You can also configure it to keep a
primary
and a backup file for each file (essentially Raid1). If a drive
fails,
it rebuilds everything.

- Centralized backup

Also very cool. All the connected machines are backed up
automatically
every day. You can restore individual files or restore the machine
back
to 'bare metal'. Perfect for my kids.

It does other things, which I'll learn when I get it. The storage
management and backup management are both huge for me.

The only challenge for me is the 10 connection limit. Have to
figure
out if I can add more licenses.

What's your experience with the Home Server? Been thinking about one
myself.

My experience is that we moved and I can't find the DVD anymore so I
haven't installed it!

Tom



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