Windows Home Server – Tweaked
Fellow MVP Drashna has published a version of Windows Home Server known as the "X:\Files Edition".
Now at version 1.4, the X:\Files Edition is basically the Power Pack 1 version of Windows Home Server with updates, drivers, add-ins and tweaks integrated into the installation media.
For example the installation image includes all Server 2003 and WHS updates, Windows Media Player 11, Internet Explorer 7 and driver packs for mass storage devices, network cards and chipset drivers amongst others. And these drivers are also present in the Restore image to enable an easier restore experience too.
Also included are 17 add-ins as well as registry tweaks and system utilities such as LLTD Responder, AnyService Installer and the Server 2003 Resource Kit, enabling a "fuller" Windows Home Server system when installed from scratch.
Drashna states that the X:Files Edition is meant solely for people with legitimate copies of Windows Home Server
More details are available from here.
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Why PP1? Let’s get to PP2?
Why not PP2? Because of the way WHS installs. Its not an issue of just slipstreaming in an updated. All the WHS specific stuff gets installed after SBS finishes installing, so there we’d have to wait till afterwards. And the update file requires that you have already run the OOBE Wizard… At this point, it is much easier to run the Update wizard and get PP2 that way, as you’ll already have most of the updates. 🙂
And great post, boils my nice long page to a few lines. 🙂
The restore disk works better than the stock WHS. I may try out the full disk when I get my HP EX485 and move my files on that off my home built server which I can then tinker with more. Great work!
Can anyone tell me how to get version 1.4 of X:\Files Edition for WHS?