Power Pack 1 and Data Corruption Issue Update
As I’m sure you are aware, Microsoft has been asking your opinion on wether they should release Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 (PP1) along with, or before the data corruption fix.
Taking your feedback into consideration from the WHS forums the Windows Home Server Storage and Test teams felt strongly that a combined release is the best option because it will result in a better quality product.
So the current plan is to combine the fix for the data corruption bug (KB946676) with the release of Power Pack 1.
The team has also stated that they are making great progress on the data corruption issue, and plan on releasing a beta of Power Pack 1 with the data corruption bug fix to hardware and software Partners, Microsoft MVP’s, Windows Home Server Insiders, and Microsoft Employees sometime in April. Based on feedback and additional testing, they currently plan on releasing a public available beta in May.
If you want to participate in a future public beta, make sure you register at http://connect.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer. When the Power Pack 1 software is ready for public testing, Microsoft will contact the people that have already registered at the Windows Home Server Connect site with more details on the public beta program.
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will Power pack 1 address 64bit connector compatibility issues
WHS has another design flaw, that’s shared with 2000/XP/Vista OS systems. Whenever you map a network resource, and have it reconnect at login, on a wireless connection, you suffer every time the same old message that the network resource wasn’t able to reconnect.
It’s just a timing issue, as obviously the wireless client needs time to establish that connection to a network resource which the operating system has not been design to allow for his action.
Only on wired conenctions using RJ-45 does this work. And Microsoft thinks and says Vista and perhaps even Server 2008 are new stuff, just copied from before, and is why it still has the same old problems. Customers just pay again for the same design flaws….
Will WHS PP1 finally provide support for Vista Bitlocker?
On both versions for 32/64bit platforms?
It’s a crying shame that Microsoft is already developing and talking about it’s next WHS version 2 called “Vail” when it hasn’t even got version 1 working right, that continues to experience data corruption (KB 946676) and delays even the resolution since Christmas last year until June 2008.
Why should anyone having bought and purchased WHS be told to pick between having Vista support as for 64bit, or data corruption fix?
WHS PP1 shouldn’t even be called “Power Pack 1” as that’s just made up in truth. Patches shouldn’t be delayed when their critical like data corruption.
Adding Vista support if even just for 64bit should have been included from day one! And Not be called “Power Pack” whatever when it’s one of Microsoft’s own products.
Does it take a “Power Pack” these days to get basic support to work with now? That’s work with Microsoft’s own software? Being how Vista is Microsoft’s flagship that doesn’t work with WHS.
And yes, Vista Bitlocker still doesn’t work with WHS!!! That’s in both versions of Vista 32/64bit folks.
Call it was it is, Microsoft crapware, because only Microsoft had created it’s own software, denying everyone else from knowing it’s source code to improve it. Meaning you got stuck with their crapcode, and is why like here you pray to get resolution, pray to get patches, pray to get service packs and hope and pray you got your money’s worth for doing it.
How can anyone blame everyone for wanting more than this?
Be honest!
Next Windows Home Server release due this spring!
You see more proof Microsoft is ditching WHS version 1, to forced everyone who’s an early adapter to upgrade to yet another unproven WHS version.
We are tried of all this beta crap! We want a final working version, not more tinkering around hobbyist on our time experience!
Should have been George Bush Senior, as he said, “Read My Lips” etc…
Bloody Oops! I forgot in all the excitement to provide you folks with the URL for the above article! Pardon…
blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1082
“Microsoft is privately testing the next release of its Windows Home Server (WHS) operating system” – Mary Jo Foley
The Windows Home Server team has NOT made great progress on the data corruption issue! Christmas –> January, February, March, April, May, June 2008! That’s Great?
For a bug, a glitch, of a sort? Call it what you will, it all boils down to customers dissatisfactions! Disappointments and data corruption of their data, video, music, photos and document files!
You know, if WHS was actually a real home server product, we all wouldn’t be seeing post about patches, service packs renamed as power packs, and the sort! He he…
Instead, we would be hearing about real customers using WHS without DATA CORRUPTION risks and worries, and we would be having wonderful post about how WHS works without waiting until JUNE 2008 hope.
Think about it… Why is there so much hard selling of WHS, as it’s NOT a “WOW” experience, as every customers needs to install third party add-ins which are all mostly beta quality.
Why cannot the fanboi club have something to really offer us consumers, being how that’s the only thing you “guys” want us to spend our money for…
Is it any wonder why everyone wants better from WHS?
Which WHS PP1 is really lame, it basically gives what you should have already had and for that we are suppose to thank Microsoft?
At least with Linux, it works, it’s FREE and if we actually want support it’s given. No need to prove you were born 365 days a year too!
a positive note
I to am an early adopter and i was initially dissatisfied with WHS. When after i installed it i used lusrmgr.msc and it broke the console user interface and had to reinstall from scratch. BUT i am Extremely satisfied with the client backup features this product affords. recently my wife’s hard drive failed, as all hard drives do, and after installing a new drive and using their boot restore cd, successfully did a complete system restore from the night prior. that alone made this PRICELESS for me.
Unfortunately, “Mac” overpaid for the ability to restore his data. That’s because it doesn’t take $800 dollars like a HP EX475 MediaSmart Server to do it.
If Microsoft had just offered in Windows XP this ability to backup the operating system, there wouldn’t have been the need for a server, or even the many third party solutions out there which some of them offer for FREE.
Even Acronis True Image can do a better job here, for less. And it also restores the OS even on NEW and DIFFERENT hardware which WHS cannot!
So why get so excited about putting something back that it should have been able to do in the first place?
and guess what, just as hard drives crash and fail, in WHS there isn’t even the method offered to backup the WHS operating system, which means the more you trust it to save you, the greater the RISK your end up losing all your backup images created by WHS when it fails itself.
Acronis doesn’t need a server to back up or restore your OS, and unlike WHS which is limited to the same hardware, Acronis gives you freedom to work with your data even on new hardware, as in like buying a new PC.
So anyone buying WHS is just locking themselves into a higher risk in the long run, knowing their messiah isn’t immune itself leading to total failure down the road.
And why in the world would anyone want to use a PROVEN known design flaw that leads and causes data corruption in WHS? See Microsoft’s own KB 946676
[…] It’s been another month now, so what great progress on the data corruption (KB 946676) issue is being made? […]
WHS Public Beta PP1 Screen Shots
http://www.m2cross.com/50226711/e_windows_home_server_power_pack_1_134209.php
Pirate Bay WHS Public Beta PP1 Torrent Release is out too!
In January at CES, Microsoft announced Home Server Power Pack 1 and said it would not only fix a number of minor issues in the software, but also give users the ability to perform full Home Server data backups on external storage devices, including the backup database.
However, Todd Headrick, marketing director for Windows Home Server, said the ability to back up the backup database has been dropped from Power Pack 1. But, Todd blames WHS customers by stating “consumers may hork their backup database by doing an incomplete backup or interrupting the restore process” rather than stating the actual truth in that this promised featured still has remaining bugs to which haven’t even passed Microsoft’s own internal quality bar standards.
So… basically you’re saying “we’re cutting this feature because we think our users are too stupid to use it correctly”.
Don’t you just love how Microsoft blames it’s customers while Microsoft was NOT taking responsibility for it’s own crappy code!
This is the same problem with the data corruption design defect, as only Microsoft itself had created the fatal flaw in WHS and then delayed ever since last year to fix it. In fact, Microsoft’s own software doesn’t even work with WHS and again Microsoft blames everything else and everyone but their own blunders in creating this design defect more than a year ago.
After a .sys faillure on the data drive and after backing up a 80Gigabyte file with nearly 300.000 items in it, where the client said it was unable to copy a .rar file and denied it the server is ever since continuesly balancing the storage, there where it never balanced before for a long period of time.
And as a dutch user I called MS Holland and they give you one simple anwser, sorry, we can’t help you, you can email about this problem. Directed to the developers page, explained the problems I still have to get any anwser back. Signed up for the PP1 beta program but quess what, you can’t join, all ya get is an aite with a “error”.
So the story continous, XP SP3 has its problems with manny security programs, Vista was also left out some new features, WHS is not bullit proof but you “may” wait age’s to get bugfixes or patches and all the news we read around on the net is how bussy they are developing the next OS, Windows 7, scheduled for 2009.
If MS refuses to learn to bug users in this way then this will be my last machine running a MS based OS cause I am tired of the long wait on fixes. Instead of willing to invest 46billion dollar in Yahoo try to serve your users a bit better and set a bigger team on the problems so problems can sooner be solved. And when MS distributing new Service Packs, please then make sure it works.
My 2 cents to the problems. I use MS products from the DOS period 14 years ago and had all the between then and current day OS’es but since Gates left and gave the hammer over to Ballmer it all went a bit downhill. And I hope for the future, like the MAC, make sure that all the hardware developers buils hardware based on the OS, so we get less bugs in all those drivers. The Mac uses one hardware profile with a written OS on it but I refuse to use A Mac with it’s software, leaving us with Linux. Time for changes, or time to fade away in historie tbh cause everything has its limit !