{"id":273,"date":"2008-06-10T06:34:54","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T06:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2008\/06\/10\/try-out-and-help-test-windows-home-server-power-pack-1.aspx"},"modified":"2008-06-10T06:34:54","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T06:34:54","slug":"try-out-and-help-test-windows-home-server-power-pack-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"Try Out and Help Test Windows Home Server Power Pack 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Windows Home Server Team has announced the availability of the Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Release Candidate for download on Microsoft Connect. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/homeserver\/archive\/2008\/06\/09\/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-public-beta.aspx\">read Charlie Kindel&#8217;s post<\/a> announcing today&#8217;s release on the Windows Home Server Team Blog.  <\/p>\n<p><b>Microsoft Connect: <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/windowshomeserver\">Windows Home Server<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Power Pack 1 for Windows Home Server contains numerous bug fixes &#8211; including the <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/946676\">data corruption issue<\/a> &#8211; as well as many new enhancements to Windows Home Server many users will enjoy: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support for PCs running Windows Vista x64 editions\n<li>Backup of Windows Home Server Shared Folders\n<li>Easier, enhanced remote access capabilities\n<li>Better energy efficiency\n<li>Improved performance\n<li>Chinese and Japanese versions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently running the Power Pack 1 Release Candidate on my <a href=\"http:\/\/h71036.www7.hp.com\/hho\/cache\/533929-0-0-225-121.html\">HP MediaSmart Server<\/a> and enjoying new functionality Power Pack 1 adds to my Windows Home Server. I recently added several harddrives putting my storage at 1.1TB. Having more storage allows me to utilize Folder Duplication for my Shared Folders. I also have 1 drive setup specifically for backups of my Shared Folders. I utilize my Shared Folders for quite a bit of data storage so I really appreciate having this functionality to ensure the data is safe (on top of Folder Duplication). Having more storage also lets me store my <em>CompletePC Backups<\/em> from my Windows Vista PCs on my Windows Home Server as well &#8211; but I will talk more about this in a later blog post. I am also enjoying the ability to backup my PCs to my Windows Home Server running Windows Vista Ultimate x64 with the Windows Home Server Connector that now runs on 64-bit versions of Windows Vista. On top of data storage and backups, I utilize my Windows Home Server for remote access when traveling as well.  <\/p>\n<p>Your testing of the Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Release Candidate is very important to the Windows Home Server Team. They will not ship the final release of Power Pack 1 until the community validates their work in Power Pack 1.  <\/p>\n<p>Remember &#8211; Power Pack 1 is a Release Candidate and is not the final version &#8211; essentially it&#8217;s a beta. If you choose to run the Release Candidate on your main Windows Home Server (aka your &#8220;production&#8221; Windows Home Server) you should make a backup of everything prior to installing the Power Pack 1 Release Candidate. <\/p>\n<p>To leave feedback for the Windows Home Server Team &#8211; you can head on over to the public <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.microsoft.com\/WindowsHomeServer\/default.aspx?SiteID=50\">Windows Home Server Forums<\/a>. Make sure you file any bugs you find with Power Pack 1 on Microsoft Connect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Windows Home Server Team has announced the availability of the Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Release Candidate for download on Microsoft Connect. You can read Charlie Kindel&#8217;s post announcing today&#8217;s release on the Windows Home Server Team Blog. Microsoft Connect: Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 for Windows Home Server contains numerous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}