Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/previewImages/100/488064_100x75.jpg Channel 9 - Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 BETA is available and includes a number of Windows 7 integration features. I stopped by to see CJ Saretto and get the latest on this Power Pack, the features, and where Home Server is heading in the future (of course). Some of the new features include: Win7 Libraries integration, Media Center integration, Win7 backup integration, and better support for netbooks.  You can participate in the WHS.PP3 beta by going to https://connect.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer/ en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:35:12 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:35:12 GMT Rev9 Re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Can one trust a beta with valuable backups?

 

WHS is a very nice product, just seems quirky. Every time I login to the WHS box via RDP, there are ~10 "send error report" boxes.

 

These new Windows 7 centric features are certainly welcome. 

posted by intelman

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c633873333960000000 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:36:36 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c633873333960000000 intelman Re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 I don't get it. "Now, everytime my media center puts content on my WHS, every PC in my house has automatic access to that content. So if you've got one machine recording tv in your house, now all your netbooks and laptops can watch that recorded TV just through the magic of powerpack 3." Hasn't that always been possible through the magic of shared folders?

 

Also, about the automatic library mapping: I have my music library on my WHS, which every machine in my house uses to play stuff. Except for my laptop, because I want to take my music with me when I go somewhere, so I have a copy of all the music in that WHS share on my laptop, and I configured media player on that laptop not to watch the server folder, or it'd index all my stuff twice. What if I upgrade my laptop to Windows 7 and install Power Pack 3? Will it still add that WHS share to my laptop's music library (thus indexing both the music on the laptop ad the folder) leaving me with duplicate songs in my library, or will I be able to disable that on a per-machine basis?

posted by Bas

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c633873363080000000 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:25:08 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c633873363080000000 Bas Re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Yes, but the Home Server Connector software does all the configuration.  You can still tell the Library to stop adding a server location if you don't want it on a specific machine.

posted by daSmirnov

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c633873458570000000 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:04:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c633873458570000000 daSmirnov Re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 As of this morning, PP3 is not on Connect Windows Home Server Downloads.

 

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posted by dick w

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c633874157270000000 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:28:47 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c633874157270000000 dick w Re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Perhaps a better option is to keep the media on the server and make it "Always Available" on your laptop. That will keep a copy on your laptop *and* keep it syncronised with the server and only indexed one time.

posted by urbanfly

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c633874564050000000 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:46:45 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c633874564050000000 urbanfly Re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 That's how I'm setup and it works well, I do have to cleanup conflicts after running Zune 3.1 (my library is over 120 GB and I change large parts of it at a time)

posted by Kacey Green

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c633875467370000000 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:52:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c633875467370000000 Kacey Green Re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 That's a good idea. What happens when I'm away from my network and add stuff to my music folder on my laptop? Does it get synced back to the server?

posted by Bas

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c633875890510000000 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:37:31 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c633875890510000000 Bas Re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 He talks alot about recorded T.V. Do people still watch T.V???

posted by Faa

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c633905339830000000 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:39:43 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c633905339830000000 Faa Re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Indexing does not occur twice. The WHS content is indexed on the server and remote queries are sent to the WHS box to return results. Therefore there is no duplication.

 

If you make such content "Available offline" then the content is synced down to the local machine. In that case, the content is indexed locally.

 

If you travel outside of the home, then the WHS folders included in your library are 'unavailable' since you are no longer connected to your home network. Once you connect back to the home network, they will be available again.

posted by Pentian

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c633905492700000000 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:54:30 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c633905492700000000 Pentian Re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Hi, not yet fully clear in my mind. Can WHS be fitted with 1 or more TV tuner card(s) and recording TV made through a Media Center Client (either a PC running Windows 7, or a Media Center Extender) ?

posted by fmw

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c633934622970000000 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:04:57 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c633934622970000000 fmw Re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 When and where can I get an ISO of Power Pack 3 so I can install it without turning on automatic updates? My server is not online and I have no intention of doing so. Will there be a direct download of a stand-alone .exe available soon? Nobody at Microsoft can seem to answer this question.

posted by jerrisn

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c633999892670000000 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:07:47 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c633999892670000000 jerrisn Re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 I don't get the whole WHS thing. Why not just have a normal Win 7 installation? So you get no driver issues, a Media Center, so you can stream also on that same pc to your tv. What does WHS do more, or better???

 

Greetzz

posted by choice2rejoice

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c634003980560000000 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:40:56 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c634003980560000000 choice2rejoice Re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 I have a Home Server because it is cheaper, faster and more secure for back-ups. I got tired of buying external drives, having the drives fail and the laborious back-ups. Even tried eSata, but even Seagate tech support said that their eSata connection doesn't really work. So I slapped together a server box with two 1.5 TB drives and now I have a Home Server. With the mirroring of the hard drives, data loss is unlikely. You can back your WHS to all of the external drives you wont need anymore!

 

 

posted by hstock

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c634085158690000000 Mon, 03 May 2010 20:37:49 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c634085158690000000 hstock Re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 posted by RAVI PAL

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c634300804240000000 Sat, 08 Jan 2011 10:47:04 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c634300804240000000 RAVI PAL Re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3


i enjoy your article. great job. keep it simple


posted by denos

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c634354509310000000 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:35:31 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c634354509310000000 denos Re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Went too http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946339 and followed it.
Did all the steps listed to start the service manually and reboot the system some 4 times now. Did the backup repair settings from the console and the console, every time crashes and fails - 4x now too. Went looking for system restore or recover to previous date - can't find it (since Backup services not working). Did a full power down too.
Event Viewer shows this: Faulting application HomeServerConsole.exe, version 6.0.2423.0, faulting module BackupCheck.dll, version 6.0.2423.0, fault address 0x000358ff. event error 1000.. No help online found. I have 4 drives in pool all 1.5T's, I back up 4 PCs & 1.5 T drive for the Server data backup.
Found another error in the viewer # 3001 being the Apple talk don't know a thing about that - no MAC here. And found the # 323 WMServer plugin one error for all of yesterday!

posted by looking for help

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c634354659080000000 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:45:08 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c634354659080000000 looking for help Re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 posted by Alexander

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c634372081720000000 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:42:52 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c634372081720000000 Alexander