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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmD1U6Gqaco What is Windows Home Server? Pretty much the best thing to come out of Microsoft in a long time. The data corruption bug has been fixed so please don't ask about it. Windows Home Server is built on the same codebase as Windows Server 2003 SP2. It includes almost all technologies found in Windows Server 2003 SP2 but has been modified in some areas to remove or limit features. I will let Wikipedia tell you more about the cool stuff it has! Features The big one here is the Drive Extender: The best part is that the hard drives are formatted as NTFS, so if your WHS dies you can plug in into your desktop and just copy over any of the date on the hard drive. If you want to read some more about how drive extender works, here are two articles. A reminder of the advantages of Drive Extender over RAID Why RAID is not a consumer technology RAID Made Easy What are these Add-Ins I keep hearing about? Windows Home Server allows for developers to publish community and commercial add-ins designed to enhance the Windows Home Server with added functionality. There are quite a few good ones, I usually just read about the main blogs to see what has been released. Go here to download them. http://www.wegotserved.com/category/add-ins/ How do I use Windows Home Server? Clients use the Windows Home Server connector software. You can then run Windows Home Server console and configure your backups. You can set a time block of the hours you would like to back up your machines. You can enable wake your computer up an hour or so before you wake up yourself. You can also specify folders do never backup if you so desire. If you have multiple computers, WHS will minimize the amount of data stored on the server because it backs up using cluster levels. Once you do a full backup of your client, every subsequent backup will just back up any files that have changed. You can remote desktop directly into your WHS box, and run pretty much and Windows program you would like. I personally run SABnzbd, uTorrent, PS3 Media Server, Dropbox, and some add ins. I have been running my WHS box since the fall of 2007 24/7 365 and it's still trucking. How do I acquire such fancy technology? You can buy a prebuilt WHS box from many companies, or you can be one of the cool kids and just build your own out of the parts in your closet. You can get a 30 day trial for WHS and if you like it buy an OEM key at Newegg for $100. Microsoft purchase/trial page Newegg WHS OEM Goon Thermopyle has pictures up of his cool home build here. I heard there is a new version of WHS coming out!? Windows Home Server 2011 (Vail) has been released, and is on MSDN now as well. WHS 2011 has no drive extender, but alternatives exist, Drive Bender is probably the most popular one. Hardware Requirements: quote:* Vail is a 64-bit only operating system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmnFoI8iqC8 Here comes the link spam Official Internet Web Sites Official Website Official Forums Microsoft Team Blog - Technical Briefs Cool blogs WegotServed MediaSmartServer Philip Churchill's MVP Blog Home Server Hacks WHS X:Files Edition Home Server Plus (Add-Ins) Guides Virtualizing Windows Home Server On Hyper-V WGS Wiki - lots of cool poo poo here Vail Hooking a monitor up to a prefab WHS unit. Props to Cryptic edge for the link. http://www.mediasmartserver.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8066 kri kri fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Apr 14, 2011 |
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MonkeyFit posted:That build guide is horribly dated and unless that's a typo on the Microsoft website, the trial is now only 30 days. Updated the OP. Can you rearm the trial? Anyone know of a good recent build guide?
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Apr 17, 2010 20:12
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BorderPatrol posted:Maximum PC did a good build guide a few months back Does anyone know if you can re-arm the trial version? I edited the OP to say 30 days.
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Apr 19, 2010 19:05
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BorderPatrol posted:Yes, the drives will need to be attached at all times. If you're constantly adding and removing the drives it will need to constant move the data on and off the drives before unplugging them, which can take hours each time. Thanks I added this to the OP
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Apr 23, 2010 19:12
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Anyone install this virtually yet? OP updated with Vail stuff kri kri fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Apr 26, 2010 |
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Apr 26, 2010 20:01
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They really dropped the ball I think regarding MCE support. The improvements to the disk extender look good, it isn't really a big deal about recovering as I am sure Microsoft or some developer will come out with a recovery tool.
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Apr 27, 2010 17:04
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Maneki Neko posted:I'd really love to see more "cloud" integration native, with better online backup, maybe some live mesh integration, etc. but we'll see what happens there. kri kri fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Apr 27, 2010 |
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Apr 27, 2010 19:56
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http://www.anandtech.com/show/3677/windows-home-server-v2-vail-beta-drive-extender-v2-dissected Good article. 
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Apr 28, 2010 16:46
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There is a decent write up about building a WHS build for Vail if anyone is interested here: http://www.mediasmartserver.net/2010/04/30/a-cheap-build-to-test-out-vail-maybe-lovely-title/
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May 3, 2010 04:47
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COCKMOUTH.GIF posted:It really is a shame because after playing with the Vail preview in VMware, it feels 75% easier to use than WHS v1. I guess Microsoft is sacrificing a lot under the hood to get this into the hands of consumers who want something more simple to play with.
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May 5, 2010 05:51
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blackswordca posted:I don't suppose the OS can be run off of a USB key.. Don't see why not. Anyone know off hand how much v1 WHS OS is?
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May 5, 2010 19:20
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zerox147o posted:I don't know if this was meant to be sarcastic, but given the context one can assume he meant disk space. It is not very large, probably would be doable with a 16gb stick easily with room to spare. Yeah I meant disk space. I would think if you could get the install down quite a bit, maybe 10 gigs or so? It would be awesome to run on a SSD I would imagine.
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May 5, 2010 19:54
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Does anyone run a DVD/blu ray cataloging software on their WHS box? I looked at My Movies, but I am not thrilled being nickle and dimed with their features.
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May 6, 2010 20:22
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blackswordca posted:I think if you use a program for streaming it like XBMC or Boxee it'll take of all of that for you. XBMC has no real offline management.
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May 6, 2010 21:02
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qutius posted:I would do it from the client side and schedule either robocopy or SyncToy via the built-in Scheduler on Windows. That or this http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/
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May 13, 2010 20:23
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The guys on the WGS podcast are claiming that Vail takes at least 50 gigs? 
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May 20, 2010 23:34
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modeski posted:No loving way can an operating system - let alone a server OS - take up 50Gb. In five years time, maybe. They were talking about SSDs, it was pretty interesting. I want to run a smallish SSD when Vail comes out.
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May 21, 2010 02:08
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sucko posted:Any word on Vail performing an upgrade in-place? In the past all upgrades from 32bit to 64 required a total reinstall. I have no where to stage 6TB of data. Nothing yet, but it will not be very pretty I don't think, since they are going 32->64 bit, and they are changing the disk extender so I doubt v1 pools will be able to just be able to go to v2 pools.
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May 21, 2010 17:44
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New Vail video. http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Vail/
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May 24, 2010 17:27
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stgdz posted:I thought it was a bad idea to have the OS drive be separate from the the share drives. In Vail you cant have a separate drive just for the OS.
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May 26, 2010 17:20
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dietcokefiend posted:Do they mirror it across all the drives in the system now? You can make the OS drive not part of the pool - is that what you mean?
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May 26, 2010 18:22
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Uziel posted:Yeah I don't have that at all. =( Use Speccy or SPeedfan?
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Jun 6, 2010 00:03
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modeski posted:So initially I want my WHS to have four drives, with room for another four. I'm wondering now how I'll power all eight. Are there PSUs with eight SATA power connectors? Or will I need to get a second PSU? I think it's safe to use splitters. http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10226&cs_id=1022604
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Jun 17, 2010 00:04
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4 of my shared folders say Failing (check health) but in my storage tab the drives all say healthy. 
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Jun 25, 2010 19:59
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widds2v posted:Is there any way to get another copy of the restore disk? I looked on HP's website but it doesn't even look like you can buy it off of there. http://xfiles.breakinghomeserver.com/ It should work just fine with the mediasmart, I think.
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Jul 6, 2010 03:46
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singe posted:I tried searching on Google, but is there a way to use windows home server as a media center to stream live tv to another computer (with a tuner card), kind of like what you can do with Xbox 360's media extender's functionality? All the articles I found said it wasn't possible and suggests using videolan, but if the xbox 360's method is software based I don't see why it wouldn't be possible. This is one of the big things that got dropped from Vail. You will need to run the tuner card in another computer, or you can use something hacky in WHS with sagetv and possibly others.
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Jul 11, 2010 20:20
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Holy poo poo media streaming via silverlight.
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Aug 17, 2010 03:59
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I had file conflicts, I had to use the file conflict addin to find them.
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Aug 27, 2010 00:05
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univbee posted:I'm starting to get file conflicts on my Home Server suddenly. There was an add-on called Conflict Resolver but its author hosted it on a server using DynDNS which no longer works and I can't find a mirror for it anywhere. Is there a better tool or fixing method, or somewhere I can download it from? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16864/HomeServer.ConflictResolver.msi
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Cryptic Edge posted:To those of us with a prefab home server that doesn't have a video card or a spot to put one, I've discovered something amazing. This owns, OP updated.
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Weird issue here - I am trying to install mysql on my WHS v1 box to run some xbmc stuff. When I run the config it errors out on the starting service step. I looked at services.msc and I see mysql and mysql.whs. Anyone know what to do here? I wonder if installing and uninstalling the mymovies addin about a year ago had anything to do with this.
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hitze posted:If I reinstall WHS can I re-add my existing drives without losing any data? From what I can tell the system disk is still empty share-wise atleast. You can do a server reinstall, which will just require you to re-set up your shares and applications, I think.
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Sep 10, 2010 22:41
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Pretty decent v1 vs vail comparison here http://www.homeserverland.com/b/hslblog/archive/2010/09/19/the-ultimate-comparison-guide-to-windows-home-server-vail-vs-whs-v1.aspx
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Interesting article on media streaming and WHS. http://www.mswhs.com/2010/10/does-demigrator-exe-interrupt-your-media-streaming/ e: anyone seen a vail release date yet? kri kri fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Oct 6, 2010 |
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Oct 6, 2010 19:48
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Telex posted:is Vail available anywhere as a beta? 
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calcio posted:Looking for some suggestions as a replacement for my first gen HP home server. I'm starting to run out of space and am CPU bound not being able to run playon, airvideo, web server and squeezebox server software. I don't want to spend a ton and don't need a complete powerhouse. I also prefer the form factor of my HP versus some barebones tower. I would wait until the Vail HP or whatever machines come out. I hope Vail gets a solid release date soon, I am waiting to upgrade my homebuilt soon.
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Interesting post on a mini-itx build for Vail. http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1127158
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redeyes posted:So.. I guess if one drive in your Vail array dies, you lose all your non-duplicated data on the array. Every time I want to try Vail I realize this can happen and that combined with the checksum overhead means you lose more than %50 of your HD space. UGGHHH. I doubt this is true.
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Digital War posted:Does anyone have any experience with the Acer Easystore H340? I would wait to get a Vail box, if you could.
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This is another one http://freefilesync.sourceforge.net/
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