Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 | LarryLarsen

intelman

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.

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

In reply to intelman

#Aug 31st @ 9:36 AM

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?

daSmirnov

In reply to Bas

#Aug 31st @ 10:25 AM

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.

dick w

As of this morning, PP3 is not on Connect Windows Home Server Downloads.

And as of this afternoon, Itttsss Baaaccckkk.

urbanfly

In reply to Bas

#Aug 31st @ 10:25 AM

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.

Kacey Green

In reply to urbanfly

#Sep 1st @ 7:46 PM

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)

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

In reply to urbanfly

#Sep 1st @ 7:46 PM

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?

Faa

He talks alot about recorded T.V. Do people still watch T.V???

Pentian

In reply to Bas

#Aug 31st @ 10:25 AM

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.