Windows Home Server
Bruce
and used as a home/web server, or do you have to buy the software and
hardware as a system? I've googled, and found different answers.
My home network runs Vista Home Premium, Windows Media Edition 2005,
Windows XP Home, and Windows 2000 Pro. I'm connected to the internet via
Comcast modem.
Shenan Stanley
Tried going to the source...?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/default.mspx
Specifically:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/faq.mspx
"Why aren’t you releasing the software standalone to consumers?
We want to help ensure customers have a simplified, quality experience with
Windows Home Server. The best way to do this is to deliver Windows Home
Server on integrated hardware/software solutions through OEMs and system
builders that are tested and meet system requirements."
Like to ask someone directly?
EMail: whs...@microsoft.com
Suggested subject: "WHS questions"
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VanguardLH
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> Can Windows Home Server software
There is no such product.
> be installed on a spare pc (Pentium 4),
> and used as a home/web server,
Web server applications don't care if they are on a host in your home or
on a host at work.
> or do you have to buy the software and
> hardware as a system?
It depends if you want to match the hardware with the intended use of
the operating system.
> I've googled, and found different answers.
No doubt.
> My home network runs Vista Home Premium, Windows Media Edition 2005,
> Windows XP Home, and Windows 2000 Pro.
None of which are server versions of Windows.
> I'm connected to the internet via Comcast modem.
Okay. Unimportant to the OS, hardware of the host, or the web server
app.
VanguardLH
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> "Bruce" wrote in
> <news:Xns9AAF98B87DCDAn...@216.196.97.136>:
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>> Can Windows Home Server software
>
> There is no such product.
I was wrong. Apparently Microsoft is willing to downsize or bastardize
anything if they can manage a market to dump it on.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/default.mspx
I doubt it's free. For home-use, there are plenty of *NIX operating
systems to choose from which are free (and they usually have lower
hardware requirements than Microsoft operating systems).
David B.
know existed? So much for your credibility, it's actually a rather decent OS
for home server usage.
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Dick Miller
As long as you're willing to dedicate a machine for WHS. The package is
available as an OEM product from many vendors. NewEgg had the best price
when I bought mine. As of now there is NO retail version. WHS is
supported on windows update.
Do a lot of reading before you make the investment.
Dick Miller
VanguardLH
> So your bashing a product that 2 minutes before you reposted you didn't even
> know existed? So much for your credibility, it's actually a rather decent OS
> for home server usage.
I read the description of Windows Home Server (WHS). I've read the
reviews, forums, and non-biased news (not the regurgitation of
Microsoft's press releases). Did you? Looks like a bad joke and a
waste of money. They crippled Windows 2003 to make Windows XP Pro x64.
Now they've crippled Windows 2003 again to make Windows Home Server.
From what I've read (since I chose not to get suckered into buying WHIS)
from purchaser reviews and the Microsoft WHS forum
(http://forums.microsoft.com/windowshomeserver/default.aspx?siteid=50):
- WHS stops booting without any changes to software or hardeware.
- Backup service stops.
- Backups get corrupted (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946676/en-us)
and not just when another hard drive gets added, and not at a high
volume of edits (half a dozen edits can cause corruption).
- Ignoring the corruption (which obviates the point of this product),
adding more drives bogs down this "server" under its load-balancing file
management. When load-balancing kicks in is another cause of file
corruption, often massive corruption. Its demigrator is not designed to
leverage multiple copies or portions of files across multiple spindles.
It is not RAID5 to provide hardware recovery should the OS partition
fail.
- Won't work with but the most basic USB thumb drives.
- Doesn't support 64-bit Windows clients, Windows XP Pro x64 and Windows
Vista x64. A release is pending but as a separate PowerPack (announced
in January but not available until *maybe* June). The "fix" means
losing all your current backups; see http://preview.tinyurl.com/5gpdpg
and http://www.crn.com/software/207800362.
- Requires a 40GB, or larger, install partition although only 3GB gets
consumed.
- The install wipes all drives (so you'll lose even more data than just
the corruption that occurs afterward).
Of course no other non-server version of Windows provides support for
network connects or shared folders so they absolutely must replace their
workstation version of Windows with this "server" version. Of those
that have used WHS, many consider Windows XP with folder sharing a
better choice. Considering they're trying to bundle this with hardware,
it's cheaper and more relibale to instead get Network Attached Storage
(NAS). For the software alone, Fedora 8 with Amahi Home Server costs
nothing.
Buggy and corruption are what I've read about WHS. For anyone wanting
to waste their time trialing this product, and to see the system
requirements, go to:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/eval.mspx