Windows Home Server update delayed
Microsoft said problems discovered during testing are prompting it to delay a planned Power Pack 3 update to the Windows Home Server product.
The software maker had hoped to release the update ahead of Windows 7, but said in a blog posting this week that it has had to delay the release until later this year.
"As with past software releases, our team will not ship the official final release of Power Pack 3 until the community has validated our work," Microsoft said. "We expect to deliver before the end of the year."
Although Power Pack 3 is designed to offer improved compatibility with Windows 7, the software maker discovered during testing that in some cases there were problems backing up data with Windows 7 PCs in conjunction with home servers.
The initial release of Windows Home Server also faced issues including, most notably, a bug that caused data to become corrupt in rare circumstances. That issue was addressed in the first Power Pack update.
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I was hoping to be able to upgrade to Windows 7 when it first comes out, but have no problem waiting for the latest WHS Power Pack to come out before making the move.
Thanks for holding the release MS. I respect it much more than releasing a Power Pack that somehow destroys a server.
Win XP works perfectly, WHS works perfectly, why invest all this effort just to get to same point ?
Win7 is nice, but does it worth the time and money ? NO.
In other news, I'm glad to see Microsoft fixing was IS broken, and that was a potential WHS and W7 backup issue.
- by Seaspray0 September 29, 2009 12:06 PM PDT
- Ina. You said that the first release fixed a bug with windows 7 and the power pack 3 testing has an issue backing up windows 7. Does this mean the current released version does not have an issue backing up windows 7?
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- by DrtyDogg September 29, 2009 12:10 PM PDT
- My pp3 beta and Windows 7 RC back up just fine, on 3 different machines, not saying there isn't a problem, but it isn't a problem on all instances.
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- by Auri_Rahimzadeh September 29, 2009 3:56 PM PDT
- I haven't had any backup issues with WHS Power Pack 2 and Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.
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- by txlakeside September 30, 2009 2:17 PM PDT
- No problems with WHS, SP 2 and 3 different machines running Vista Ultimate, Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit (RTM, clean install) and Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit (upgrade from Vista Business). Works great with no obvious issues. Backups work, remote access works .... WHS and Win 7 is the best thing MS has ever sold me! Try it and you will be a convert!
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