Windows Home Server - x64 Support Announced

Published 7 January 8 1:2 PM | Charlie Russel

The Windows Home Server Team Blog announced that Microsoft will soon be releasing (H1, 2008) a free, automatic, upgrade to Windows Home Server called "PowerPack 1" (PP1 for short.)

PP1 has lots of new features I think are important, including a new option for backing up the server itself to an external disk, but the most important new feature is support for Windows Vista x64. 

WHS is an exciting product and one I use every day to keep my desktops backed up. But until they release an update to resolve the potential data corruption issue (see the WHS Team Blog and the MS KB Article), please do NOT directly edit documents, pictures, videos or anything else that is stored on the WHS server. Instead, bring a copy down to your desktop, edit it, and then re-post it up to the server. It's a nuisance, but not as much of a nuisance as screwing up your only copy of something.

I've read enough to convince me that backups are safe from the issue causing problems with editing directly on the shared version of a picture or document, and that simple file copies are also fine. And I know that this is getting addressed as the highest possible priority inside the WHS team. As well it should be. But still, I want that fix more even than I wanted a 64bit connector.

Charlie.

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Comments

# ALH said on February 16, 2008 11:59 PM:

is that Vista 64-bit, XP x64, or both?

# Charlie Russel said on February 17, 2008 12:46 AM:

Vista 64 only, I'm afraid.