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WHS won't be on MSDN [WHS won't be on MSDN]

sodapop — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:50:05 GMT

The post does say 'at this time', but come on. :(

http://blogs.msdn.com/msdnsubscriptions/archive/2008/01/14/windows-home-server-a-follow-up.aspx

I wish I hadn't bought my home server now. I've been anxious to start developing an add-in for it, but I refuse to do it on my actual home server. I've got too many important files and backups on it. It is sitting there taunting me to screw it up.

I'm very disappointed by this decision. I think the limited number of add-ins for it is due to the lack of availability on MSDN.

I'm a huge MS advocate and I convinced my mgmt team to buy MSDN licenses for all of our developers, but I keep having to explain to mgmt that not all developer/development related products are on MSDN after I told them they were. The last big mess was the Expression Suite. At least they don't care about WHS, but the development team all bought a WHS and they are all ticked too.

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Vista to Vista rdp not working [Vista to Vista rdp not working]

sodapop — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:23:39 GMT

Basically I have two instances of Vista running in two separate locations. If I try connecting from Vista to Vista, I will get a black screen and Remote Desktop will just sit there all day until I close it. If I move my mouse over the window I get the new 'waiting' pointer. When I attempt to close Remote Desktop, it takes a few minutes for it to close. Normal RDP sessions close immediately.

At both locations port 3389 is setup to forward to the machines (they are behind firewalls and both are being nat'd). Network wise, nothing has changed since these were XP machines and RDP worked fine.

I can be on an XP machine in the same subnet as either computer and connect to the remote Vista machine and it will connect fine. So xp to vista is ok, vista to vista gets black window in Remote Desktop.

I have a similar problem connecting to Server 2003 file shares in our DMZ. Explorer will hang and the system will run poorly until I reboot. It seems that something in the WorkStation service gets stuck in a loop.. the service can't be restarted once this starts happening. I can HTTP or telnet to systems in the DMZ all day, but RDP is super slow (it at least works) and file share access hangs explorer. I can step over to an XP machine on the same subnet and it can access the shares in the DMZ reliably all day long.

Has anyone else seen these types of problems? Are there additional ports that need to be opened for Vista to Vista rdp or in the case of file shares, Vista to Server 2003 to work correctly? Suggestions?

This is the only problem I haven't been able to get fixed in Vista.. everything else has been poor 3rd party drivers. This is just killing my productivity.

Oh.. and for the rdp problem, if I setup a VPN connection between the two locations I can rdp from vista to vista just fine. Unfortunately, this isn't a viable long term solution for me. You would think a straight connection to port 3389 would be more reliable than tunneling through vpn, but that is what has me thinking I need another port open.

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Vista & Line-In & explorer hang [Vista & Line-In & explorer hang]

sodapop — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:18:10 GMT

So I listen to sirius at work and my receiver is connected to the line-in on my sound card. I just recently installed vista (complete reinstall) and I can't figure out how to have the line-in be anything but an input source for recording. I just want to do pass-through so I can use my speakers for windows and for the sirius. Anyone know how to do this in Vista?

I know the line-in is working as I can record from the port. I just can't figure out how to get the line-in audio to pass through.

Also.. anyone had problems with Explorer hanging in vista when connecting to a network share? I have one server on my network that will hang explorer every time I connect to it. I can connect to other servers without issues. The only difference is the server that causes the hang is in our DMZ. My xp box can connect to the server all day without problem. I thought the problem started when I turned on the network discovery service, but I have since turned the service off and the problem continues.

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Re: IE 7 [Re: IE 7]

sodapop — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:45:11 GMT

shooby wrote:
But, my furry friend, you say your application needs a browser for some things, and its bound and determined to use IE not Firefox

Does Firefox expose a COM component so other apps can use it? It's so easy to use IE in your app I can see why so many apps use it.

shooby wrote:
After cramming the 'File Edit View.... Help' thing down our throats they have decided we just dont need that stuff.

I don't get the complaints about this.. File, Edit View, etc.. are all there, just hidden. Hit your ALT key and there's the menu. I wish there was a way to turn this on for all apps. I'd rather have the screen space that the stupid menu showing up when I don't need it.

shooby wrote:

And besides that, it just plain sucks compared to Firefox 2.0.

yeah, memory leaks ROCK!

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