Microsoft Releases Windows Home Server Power Pack 1
Posted by Christopher Vendemio on 21 July 2008 - 17:12 · 16 comments & 6602 views
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#1 Posted by Budious on 21 Jul 2008 - 17:15
- About damn time... I've had a WHS with faulty storage and no Vista x64 backup support for the better part of a year now. I hope it works as promised this time.
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#2 Posted by thealexweb on 21 Jul 2008 - 17:22
- Power? What's wrong with Service? Do they mean the same thing?
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#2.1 Posted by Budious on 21 Jul 2008 - 17:25
- No, because WHS is build on Windows 2003 Server SP2 code. When SP3 for Windows 2003 Server comes out, it will apply to WHS. "Power" pack only addresses the component features of the Windows Home Server product.
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#2.2 Posted by TRC on 21 Jul 2008 - 17:43
- They should have called it a feature pack then, power pack sounds like something a bunch of lame marketing guys came up with.
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#2.3 Posted by thealexweb on 21 Jul 2008 - 18:16
- (TRC said @ #2.2)They should have called it a feature pack then, power pack sounds like something a bunch of lame marketing guys came up with.
Yeh TRC is right it doesn't suggest what it is in my view. -
#2.4 Posted by Kushan on 21 Jul 2008 - 19:24
- (TRC said @ #2.2)They should have called it a feature pack then, power pack sounds like something a bunch of lame marketing guys came up with.
I think Microsoft have had "power packs" for a while now. They've definitely had power TOYS and I can't help but feel the term "power pack" is somewhat familiar in this context, although I don't see why it also includes bug fixes and updates, those should really be separate unless it's a service pack. -
#2.5 Posted by MioTheGreat on 21 Jul 2008 - 20:09
- (TRC said @ #2.2)They should have called it a feature pack then, power pack sounds like something a bunch of lame marketing guys came up with.
Odds are they did.
Look at Powershell:
Monad->Microsoft Shell -> Powershell -
#2.6 Posted by jwjw1 on 22 Jul 2008 - 02:13
- (TRC said @ #2.2)They should have called it a feature pack then, power pack sounds like something a bunch of lame marketing guys came up with.
time will tell when you start seeing Power Pack 2...3...4...5...just a patch in marketing disguise. -
#2.7 Posted by Budious on 22 Jul 2008 - 04:12
- (jwjw1 said @ #2.6)(TRC said @ #2.2)They should have called it a feature pack then, power pack sounds like something a bunch of lame marketing guys came up with.
time will tell when you start seeing Power Pack 2...3...4...5...just a patch in marketing disguise.
Why do you even care what it's called? They may as well call it "Oops, We'll get it right next time #1" release. WHS was essentially a broken product on the market for the past year, this update actually adds the first hint of reliability to the system. -
#2.8 Posted by PureLegend on 22 Jul 2008 - 07:07
- (Budious said @ #2.1)No, because WHS is build on Windows 2003 Server SP2 code. When SP3 for Windows 2003 Server comes out, it will apply to WHS. "Power" pack only addresses the component features of the Windows Home Server product.
I doubt that, Vista is built on Windows 2003 as well. -
#2.9 Posted by hornetfighter on 22 Jul 2008 - 07:45
- (PureLegend said @ #2.
I doubt that, Vista is built on Windows 2003 as well.
Yes, but the point here is that Windows Home Server is Windows Server 2003 with special licensing and additional user-mode services to tie certain things together. The same with Windows Small Business Server. These products are developed on top of an underlying operating system. Small Business Server 2008, developed on top of Windows Server 2008 is due late this year (from memory). -
#2.10 Posted by Budious on 22 Jul 2008 - 11:22
- (PureLegend said @ #2.I doubt that, Vista is built on Windows 2003 as well.
I guess we're speaking semantics here, because I pointed the same thing out to you in an earlier forum post. "built from" implies that it uses the same exact source code version and resulting compiled binaries of the same version. Vista is a "descendant" of Windows 2003 source code, it only served as the starting point for a new generation of features and rewrites, the source code version is now incompatible with the parent code. In this case, "WHS is Server 2003" is an accurate statement, they use the same underlying versions of binaries, WHS has it own unique components slapped on top of that framework.
You can right-click on "My Computer" of a WHS machine, click properties, and see that it is not identified as WHS, but as Windows Server 2003 SP2.
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#4 Posted by Smigit on 22 Jul 2008 - 14:04
- Been running the RC for about a month and no issues but updated now anyway. About time really as it's pretty weird they went so long without official x64 connector support and the like. Heres hoping no future data corruption bugs occur too.
Additionally, Power Pack 1 also includes for the bug described in KB Article 946676 in which files could possibly become corrupted on a Windows Home Server computer that contains more than one hard drive.
If you have Windows Update set to "Automatic", Power Pack 1 will be downloaded automatically and installed for you. The setup file can also be manually downloaded from Microsoft's website.