Windows Home Server
It doesn't come out until late this year but I'm really
interested in finding out about it. I'm pretty sure I want it,
it has a new imaging program that can back up every PC on
your network and really compressed.
"If you have a copy of foo.dll on five machines, only one copy
will be saved". This only applys to XP and Vista though but
that's probably all I'm going to be using for a while now. This
can let you store up to 15 terrabytes on about 300 gigs of
hard drive space.
It monitors the health of all computers on the network so if
someone turns off the antivirus, you'll know about it.
Microsoft is going to give a domain for it through Windows
Live
Interesting name here, it's codenamed "Q" (formerly "Quatro".
Now I know Q uses Abyss so it's not him.
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"At the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las
Vegas this week, Microsoft previewed its long-awaited
Windows Home Server (WHS) product, a Windows Server
2003 R2-based server for consumers that dispenses with
the complexities of most Windows Server versions and
provides the core storage, sharing, and remote access
functionality that digital media and home networking
enthusiasts require. It's an innovative and exciting product,
and I'm happy to finally be able to discuss it. Chances are,
if you read this site regularly, you're going to want
Windows Home Server."
Paul Thurrott's SuperSite WHS Review.
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interested in finding out about it. I'm pretty sure I want it,
it has a new imaging program that can back up every PC on
your network and really compressed.
"If you have a copy of foo.dll on five machines, only one copy
will be saved". This only applys to XP and Vista though but
that's probably all I'm going to be using for a while now. This
can let you store up to 15 terrabytes on about 300 gigs of
hard drive space.
It monitors the health of all computers on the network so if
someone turns off the antivirus, you'll know about it.
Microsoft is going to give a domain for it through Windows
Live
Interesting name here, it's codenamed "Q" (formerly "Quatro".
Now I know Q uses Abyss so it's not him.
<hr width="50%" align="left">
"At the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las
Vegas this week, Microsoft previewed its long-awaited
Windows Home Server (WHS) product, a Windows Server
2003 R2-based server for consumers that dispenses with
the complexities of most Windows Server versions and
provides the core storage, sharing, and remote access
functionality that digital media and home networking
enthusiasts require. It's an innovative and exciting product,
and I'm happy to finally be able to discuss it. Chances are,
if you read this site regularly, you're going to want
Windows Home Server."
Paul Thurrott's SuperSite WHS Review.
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Comments
-Q
I do have a copy of the beta I got from the duff, but haven't tried it yet.
I personally think it's a good idea.
-Q
Please be a joke :P
Don't get me wrong, from a parental point of view for home administration it sounds like a good idea, globalised filtering of internet serching, locking out of files to prevent little Billy from damaging the whole system, but I just don't see the point in making such an OS when many people at the moment don't have more than say 3 pc's in their home. I'm basing this on people having a family pc, the mothers laptop (and or fathers) and the older siblings because they wanted more freedom for playing games.
I just personally beleive it is them wanting to make more money through scamming people into beleiving that having the ability to turn your Xbox360 (which I read some where will be supported by Win Quattro/Q Home Server but unkown if it was true) on or off from a room away is possibly the greatest ting since the theory of evolution. As I say though thats just my personal feeling towards it, any and every one is entitled to their opinions and I can see why you think it's a good idea, but I just don't feel the same way over it.
That all aside, I only know one person with more then 3 PCs (Not me, as one of mine is a Macintosh) (Fish) in their place.
What this WOULD be good for, notwithstanding the name, is a small-ish business/school.
-Q
-Q
Frankly, MS's releasing this 2003-base OS after Vista is going to create some confusion. I would've suspected they'd wait untill they got LH server out, then base it on THIS. That would give them a seemingly unified codebase across the board. As it is I suspect they'll try and do this later.
-Q
It's for the normal home user who wants a way to keep track of what their kids are doing, and to store everytrhing in the same place.
server. It's supposed to be a whole new product that has some
wonderful new ideas incorporated. It does erase whatever hard
drive(s) you have hooked up when it's installed. I don't know if
it has a different file system (non-NTFS).
It doesn not use RAID, the MS spokesman said "RAID is an insect
spray!". This uses some brand new method of backing up to a
second hard drive.
The complete backup of all systems online is done by storing
only one of each file and that's compressed. If you have five
machines with foo.dll on them then it just saves one foo.dll
unless there is differences in each one.
I don't know if it's "dumbed down" but the whole thing is set
up to be much more simple.
Sorry I posted again but I thought I'd pulled my old stunt of
going to preview and being satified, backing out without
posting. I didn't see it had been moved here. I was hoping to
elicit more info on this new product 'cause I'm really interested.
I've never had a network and this looks like just what I need.
I don't mind dedicating another machine to it.
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http://connect.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer
-Q
-Q
The article said they weren't running a beta on it 'cause MS had
hired a private firm to beta test it. I'm going to sign up and hope
that it's referred to the testing company. They didn't say who
so I had no idea where to volunteer.
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I'm getting it now via my 2000 VM!
-Q
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Data is mirrored at the shared folder level, so that two copies of a folder are always stored on two different physical hard drives. It's quite different from RAID, Headrick says. "RAID is an insect spray," he cracked. "With RAID, you must understand the technology, add disks in sets, and its hard to remove drives."
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Did you get any idea how large it was Q? I found a torrent that
didnt' work but it said it was 1.38 GB.
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-Q
An odd thing merty told me was that it started with a PE type
interface and then when it was ready it installed and then it
downloaded the files it needed from the internet. If that's so then
there's no telling how large the installed OS will be until it's over.
I didn't think it would be nearly as large as that. It does a lot
more than just serve though. The download files from the
internet thing might just be for the beta though.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Home_Server
All that is is software raid.