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Windows Home Server Beta Sign Up

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Windows Home Server Beta Sign Up

Published by JNRidgway15
13th February 2007

Windows Home Server Beta Sign Up

Welcome to the Windows Home Server page on Microsoft Connect – Microsoft’s community destination for downloading beta products.

Thank you for your interest in Windows Home Server. Our goal is to provide availability of Windows Home Server Beta 2 to as many eligible people as possible.

Who is an ideal candidate to participate in the Windows Home Server Beta 2 program (English-only version)?

People with:
- Two or more PCs
- A broadband connection and router
- A spare PC or server that can be dedicated to Windows Home Server software

We will contact qualified participants as we expand the Windows Home Server Beta 2 program and will provide instructions about how to participate. Unfortunately, we won’t be able to invite all candidates.

If you feel you meet the criteria listed above, please fill out this survey:

Windows Home Server Beta 2 Survey

Thanks,
Windows Home Server Team

Windows Connect

Please Note You have to be signed out of connect to register.

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By Astrotoy7 on 13th February 2007, 09:48 PM

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great

I have been interested in WHS from the get go. MS is pushing its relative user friendliness, we'll have to wait and see...

*signs up*

astro

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By Harlequin on 13th February 2007, 10:27 PM

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Signed up. Been trying to get my hands on this for a while... I now have 9 PCs in my house and REALLY need to set up a central storage solution...

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By Astrotoy7 on 14th February 2007, 04:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Harlequin

Signed up. Been trying to get my hands on this for a while... I now have 9 PCs in my house and REALLY need to set up a central storage solution...

Interesting, you seemed pretty cluey with server 2003 and DFS etc already.... I imagined that you had already built an equivalent solution yourself

Servers and the like are one of the grey spots of my knowledge - so a solution aimed at average user appeals to me(and my clients)

astro

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By Quazza on 14th February 2007, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Astrotoy7

Interesting, you seemed pretty cluey with server 2003 and DFS etc already.... I imagined that you had already built an equivalent solution yourself

Servers and the like are one of the grey spots of my knowledge - so a solution aimed at average user appeals to me(and my clients)

astro

Yeah I am definitely interested in this as well got 6 pc's and the daughter now wants a laptop

So if I already have a machine with server 2003 on it will this replace that ?

Any thoughts ?

Cheers Quazza

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By agent86oz on 14th February 2007, 09:49 AM

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For those not familiar with Windows Home Server here is a good site http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/whs_preview.asp

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By Gorlaz on 14th February 2007, 10:01 AM

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Thanks for the post JNRidgeway - I've been keen on this since I saw it come out, but didn't realise the Beta was ready for trial

Love the thought of a home Windows server without having to sign up to msdn etc. Will be interesting to see how the client licenses are handled (ie same as win2k3? server licence comes with x client ones, then buy in packs of 5+)

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By vbap on 14th February 2007, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Gorlaz

. Will be interesting to see how the client licenses are handled (ie same as win2k3? server licence comes with x client ones, then buy in packs of 5+)

Can't imagine a CAL setup for a home product.
Can imagine the Redmond police barging in to Joe Citizen's home to do a license audit

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By Scuffs on 14th February 2007, 12:04 PM

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There will probably be a hard limit on licences. A home server is likely to support no more than 4 or 5 machines at one time. Which kinda sucks since I know more than a few people one laptop per person in a 5 person household, and there is always at least one desktop machine.

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By andysl on 14th February 2007, 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by agent86oz

For those not familiar with Windows Home Server here is a good site http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/whs_preview.asp

Cheers for the link.

The screenshots really show how simple they have made it!
Hope i can get my hands on a copy of this.

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