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Microsoft Releases Home Server Power Pack 1

After what seems like an extremely long wait Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 has been released.  If you have automatic updates enabled on your server then Power Pack 1 will be downloaded directly, but if you can’t wait for that then the download is up here.

Power Pack 1 includes several new features and fixes, most notable Vista x64 support and a fix to the nasty data corruption bug.  Other features include Home Server Shared Folder backup, improved remote access, and power consumption/performance improvements.

Hot on the heels of Power Pack 1, HP has also released their MediaSmart Server Update which adds a few additional features.

Read more on We Got Served and the Windows Home Server Team Blog.

Published Mon, Jul 21 2008 19:30 by chrisl
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# re: Microsoft Releases Home Server Power Pack 1

Updated my server last night (along with all of the clients). I had stopped relying on the file server functionality back when the data corruption bug was first announced, so even though it is nice to have fixed it wasn't a show stopper for me. The really nice thing is that I can backup my Vista x64 machine. There have been a couple times I've needed to use the WHS to restore a machine and it worked great. That in itself sold me on this product. Now if we could just get that media center functionality built-in, THAT would be a killer app.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:00 PM by James