Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Announced, Adds Enhanc
Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Announced, Adds Enhanc
Posted: 17 Jul 2009
The Windows Home Server Team has announced today the beta of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 (PP3). And if you’re running Windows 7, Windows Home Server PP3 comes with several new features designed to take advantage key Windows 7 features:
Full Image-based Backups of Windows 7 PCs. After the Windows Home Server Connector is installed on your Windows 7 PCs, Action Center should no longer display that your files are not being backed up.
Windows 7 Libraries Support. Music, Photos and Videos shared folders from your Windows Home Server will be added to Windows 7 Libraries. Content saved to these shared folders will be able to be quickly accessed through your Windows 7 Libraries. And any application, like Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center, will be able to access content saved on your Windows Home Server through Libraries as well.
Windows Search 4 is now included. With Windows Search 4, PP3 offers improved query search times, indexing times and reliability. Easy search through a Library in Windows 7 with files stored in multiple locations.
Windows Media Center Enhancements. Archive old recorded TV shows onto your Windows Home Server in a variety of formats. Use Console Quick View to see statistics about your Windows Home Server through Windows Media Center.
The Windows Home Server Team does not yet have a final release date for PP3 however they are shooting to have PP3 available shortly before GA of Windows 7. If you’re running Windows Home Server and have several Windows 7 PCs – I encourage you to give PP3 a try and help the Windows Home Server Team make PP3 rock.
To beta test PP3, please sign up as a beta participant of the Windows Home Server program on Microsoft Connect. Once you’ve signed up, you’ll be able to download PP3.
Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 will be a free update to existing Windows Home Server users via Windows Update.
I’ll be installing PP3 on my HP MediaSmart Server EX470 either tonight or sometime over the weekend. I’m stoked about the Windows 7 integration!
Sounds brilliant...I'll definately be grapping a copy of this. I do want to investigate further though. I want to know things like minimum specs required etc but it sounds like just what i need
Sounds brilliant...I'll definately be grapping a copy of this. I do want to investigate further though. I want to know things like minimum specs required etc but it sounds like just what i need
Is this on technet ? would love to see it there......
Nice. This is EXACTLY what I need! For both my home, and perhaps I can get my boss to use this...... Hmmm....
Just to ask: I would use this to set up a server to access from multiple computers and places. Is there a way, and how, to set this up to access from the internet?
System Manufacturer/Model Number: Hera OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64, Mint 9 CPU: Intel i5-2500k Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 Pro Memory: 2x 4Gb Corsair VENGEANCE DDR3-1600 Graphics Card: NVidia GeForce N260GTX Twin Frozr Sound Card: Realtek HD OnBoard Audio Monitor(s) Displays: ASUS 24" Monitor Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Keyboard: Razer Tarantula Mouse: Razer Lachesis PSU: Cooler Master Real Power Pro 750W Case: Cooler Master Haf 932 Cooling: Fans Hard Drives: G.SKILL Phoenix Series 60GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3R 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA II Internet Speed: not fast enough
Nice. This is EXACTLY what I need! For both my home, and perhaps I can get my boss to use this...... Hmmm....
Just to ask: I would use this to set up a server to access from multiple computers and places. Is there a way, and how, to set this up to access from the internet?
~Lordbob
Absolutely...Web access is part of the product. The bare metal restore can't be beat and shared folders for the home network simplifies administration. Unattended backup and administration of backup retention works really well. Looking forward to the integration of the Win7 libraries. This product already works with Win7 both x86 and x64. You can connect, backup, and administer up to 10 pc's to each WHS. Outstanding product.
System Manufacturer/Model Number: Systemax N2000 Gaming PC OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 CPU: Q6600 @2.4ghz (G0 stepping) Motherboard: XFX nforce 680i LT Memory: 8 gb OCZ vista essential sli PC-6400 Graphics Card: Dual 9800gt in SLI mode Sound Card: Integrated 8.1 High Definition Audio Monitor(s) Displays: Dual Sceptre x246w 24 inch monitors Screen Resolution: 1920 x 1200 each monitor Keyboard: MS Intelitype 6000 v2.0 Mouse: MS Intelipoint 6000 PSU: Cooler Master Real Power Pro 1250W Case: N2000 server tower Cooling: Thermaltake Bigwater 760 is Hard Drives: 500 GB SATA II / 7500 rpm Internet Speed: Wi-power 1.5GB up / 512k down Other Info: Windows 7 Ultimate x64, Windows 7 Pro x64, Windows Home Premium X86, Windows XP pro, Windows Home Server x86, Ubuntu 10.4 x86 and x64, Ubuntu server 10.4, SQL Server 2005, MySQL 5.0
How would I access the server from, say another state/country? Say I set this up at home with stuff on it, like pictures. I go over a few states for vacation, and want to get some work done with the pictures, but they are not on my laptop. Is there a way to access the files? More importantly, HOW?
System Manufacturer/Model Number: Hera OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64, Mint 9 CPU: Intel i5-2500k Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 Pro Memory: 2x 4Gb Corsair VENGEANCE DDR3-1600 Graphics Card: NVidia GeForce N260GTX Twin Frozr Sound Card: Realtek HD OnBoard Audio Monitor(s) Displays: ASUS 24" Monitor Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Keyboard: Razer Tarantula Mouse: Razer Lachesis PSU: Cooler Master Real Power Pro 750W Case: Cooler Master Haf 932 Cooling: Fans Hard Drives: G.SKILL Phoenix Series 60GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3R 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA II Internet Speed: not fast enough
System Manufacturer/Model Number: HP IQ770 OS: Windows 7600 x64 Ultimate Activated & 100% Genuine CPU: AMD 2 x x64 Memory: 4GB RAM Graphics Card: Nvidia Sound Card: Soundmax Monitor(s) Displays: 20" Touch Screen Keyboard: HP Bluetooth Mouse: HP Bluetooth Hard Drives: 500GB internal
500GB external Internet Speed: 5GB
How would I access the server from, say another state/country? Say I set this up at home with stuff on it, like pictures. I go over a few states for vacation, and want to get some work done with the pictures, but they are not on my laptop. Is there a way to access the files? More importantly, HOW?
~Lordbob
Assuming that you don't have a hard coded IP address from your ISP (which makes it easy with the IIS server in the WHS) you can sign up for a free subdomain name administered by Microsoft's Windows Live Custom Domains service via the homeserver.com site which will take the form of "mydomain.homeserver.com". This does require a windows live id, but it is a dynamic DNS service so even if your router's IP address changes, your subdomain will be updated to point to the new address. (Windows Home Server periodically polls the router for its current IP address and sends that address to the dynamic DNS server on homeserver.com. The server then updates its DNS database with the current IP address of your router.) and Walla....you can get there from anywhere.
You could also use a pay for Dynamic DNS service but why pay for what is freely provided with your WHS.
For detailed how to information related to WHS I highly recommend the book "Microsoft Windows Home Server Unleashed". Great book.
System Manufacturer/Model Number: Systemax N2000 Gaming PC OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 CPU: Q6600 @2.4ghz (G0 stepping) Motherboard: XFX nforce 680i LT Memory: 8 gb OCZ vista essential sli PC-6400 Graphics Card: Dual 9800gt in SLI mode Sound Card: Integrated 8.1 High Definition Audio Monitor(s) Displays: Dual Sceptre x246w 24 inch monitors Screen Resolution: 1920 x 1200 each monitor Keyboard: MS Intelitype 6000 v2.0 Mouse: MS Intelipoint 6000 PSU: Cooler Master Real Power Pro 1250W Case: N2000 server tower Cooling: Thermaltake Bigwater 760 is Hard Drives: 500 GB SATA II / 7500 rpm Internet Speed: Wi-power 1.5GB up / 512k down Other Info: Windows 7 Ultimate x64, Windows 7 Pro x64, Windows Home Premium X86, Windows XP pro, Windows Home Server x86, Ubuntu 10.4 x86 and x64, Ubuntu server 10.4, SQL Server 2005, MySQL 5.0