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The WHS Team Blog has announced that PP1 is close to being released for testing. Details on how to register for the beta are in their post.
Interested in participating in the beta program for Windows Home Server Power Pack 1? We need your help! You are encouraged to sign up and install the latest build of Windows Home Server from https://connect.microsoft.com/windowshomeserver in preparation for the Power Pack 1 download. Additional information on how to prepare a home server for testing the beta of Power Pack 1 is outlined on the Microsoft Connect site.
The Power Pack 1 download is planned to be available in early June. We intend to allow for adequate time for feedback and thorough testing during the beta process. The timeline for a final release will depend on feedback and testing, in order to deliver a fix of the highest quality. Thanks for your support!
The Windows Home Server Team
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Media Centre: Apache H-21BK Case, Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3, Intel E8400, 4GB 800Mhz RAM, nVidia 8600GT, 500GB/750GB SATA, 19" Dell FP LCD & Fujitsu 19" LCD, Hauppauge NOVA T-500 dual digital tuner, ICE TV, Vista Ultimate with XBOX360 Prox2, Fujitsu 42" P42HHA40US Plasma, AUSID HD Dig Tuner
WHS: Dell 9150 (aka XPS400) D940 3.2GHz dual core, 2GB 667MHz RAM, 500GB/400GB,/320GB SATA/500GB USB, MSI nVIDIA NX6200TC Video, WHS PP1 with clients - 2 x Vista Ultimate, 1 x Vista Home, 2 x XP Pro, 2 x XBOX360
Why not give it a week or so after initial release of the beta to see how it goes for others then join up. Main thing at this point is to register for the beta on Connect.
I'm putting it on a seperate WHS system from my production system. I can't wait to play with some of the PP1 features but I'm not putting any of my real data at risk (and the WHS team have been at pains to point out the risk and need to have any data backed up)
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Media Centre: Apache H-21BK Case, Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3, Intel E8400, 4GB 800Mhz RAM, nVidia 8600GT, 500GB/750GB SATA, 19" Dell FP LCD & Fujitsu 19" LCD, Hauppauge NOVA T-500 dual digital tuner, ICE TV, Vista Ultimate with XBOX360 Prox2, Fujitsu 42" P42HHA40US Plasma, AUSID HD Dig Tuner
WHS: Dell 9150 (aka XPS400) D940 3.2GHz dual core, 2GB 667MHz RAM, 500GB/400GB,/320GB SATA/500GB USB, MSI nVIDIA NX6200TC Video, WHS PP1 with clients - 2 x Vista Ultimate, 1 x Vista Home, 2 x XP Pro, 2 x XBOX360
The Windows Home Server PP1 beta (RC4) is now up on the Microsoft Connect site - available for download by those who have registered for the beta. It's a 23.5mb file.
For more detail there's a post on the Beta release in the WHS FAQ thread
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Media Centre: Apache H-21BK Case, Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3, Intel E8400, 4GB 800Mhz RAM, nVidia 8600GT, 500GB/750GB SATA, 19" Dell FP LCD & Fujitsu 19" LCD, Hauppauge NOVA T-500 dual digital tuner, ICE TV, Vista Ultimate with XBOX360 Prox2, Fujitsu 42" P42HHA40US Plasma, AUSID HD Dig Tuner
WHS: Dell 9150 (aka XPS400) D940 3.2GHz dual core, 2GB 667MHz RAM, 500GB/400GB,/320GB SATA/500GB USB, MSI nVIDIA NX6200TC Video, WHS PP1 with clients - 2 x Vista Ultimate, 1 x Vista Home, 2 x XP Pro, 2 x XBOX360
Last edited by bodogbodog; 11th June 2008 at 07:17 AM.
I will be testing this one out thoroughly as soon as I can get the time. Hopefully this weekend...I feel like a bit of pain from an early adoption once in a while...let's see if I get my fix this time! Win Win either way I say. I will report back on how I go...a fresh install on my old now dead (HDD RAID Failure...long painful story there) first Vista Media Centre Machine.
SPECS are...
HDD TBC...probably start with 200GB IDE drive and build from there....needs a BIOS update for larger drives I think.
Gigabyte 955X Mobo
Intel PentiumD 2.XGHz 805D Processor
GeForce 2600TC V/C
1 or 2GB DDR2 533 Ram
DVD Rom
...any forseable issues let me know....will update to full spec details when I get into it.
I imagine that most people running WHS would be using a multi HDD system otherwise you'd tend to run out of space pretty soon so there should be no shortage of testers for this scenario.
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My 3 PC 's specs are listed here.
More pictures and details will be added eventually.
so there should be no shortage of testers for this scenario.
and there are also many who held off moving to 2 HDD's to avoid the data corruption bug - 1TB HDD's provide a reasonable amount of room to play with. That's why I made the point about multi disk systems
Personally I was atracted to mutliple spindles to provide the duplication functionality that WHS provides out of the box.
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Media Centre: Apache H-21BK Case, Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3, Intel E8400, 4GB 800Mhz RAM, nVidia 8600GT, 500GB/750GB SATA, 19" Dell FP LCD & Fujitsu 19" LCD, Hauppauge NOVA T-500 dual digital tuner, ICE TV, Vista Ultimate with XBOX360 Prox2, Fujitsu 42" P42HHA40US Plasma, AUSID HD Dig Tuner
WHS: Dell 9150 (aka XPS400) D940 3.2GHz dual core, 2GB 667MHz RAM, 500GB/400GB,/320GB SATA/500GB USB, MSI nVIDIA NX6200TC Video, WHS PP1 with clients - 2 x Vista Ultimate, 1 x Vista Home, 2 x XP Pro, 2 x XBOX360
Re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Beta
Win Win either way I say. I will report back on how I go...a fresh install on my old now dead (HDD RAID Failure...long painful story there) first Vista Media Centre Machine.
