We Got Served

Well it’s here guys, and you can try it, Microsoft has made Power Pack 1 RC available for download on Microsoft.com

Windows Power Pack 1 is stuffed full of cool features and enhancements heavily influenced by community requests and feedback.

Power Pack 1 also fixes the ‘corruption bug’ in Windows Home Server which affected a small set of Windows Home Server users saving to Windows Home Servers with multiple drive configurations.

This public Release Candidate (RC4)  follows the Windows Home Server team’s die hard approach to taking customer feedback very seriously and the team looks forward to any and all feedback from the community regarding this release candidate.

Amongst the features included in the release are:

• The ability to run Home Server Connector on x64 Vista.
• Backup of the home server Shared Folders.
• Remote Access improvements.
• Improved Power Consumption.
• Support for Chinese and Japanese Languages.

I personally have been running PP1 for a while now and I can honestly say I love it. I have had basically no issues at all. I’ve never experienced the corruption bug with PP1 and I run 12 drives on my WHS and save from many applications directly onto the shares. Performance has also never been better. I saw a nice CPU drop on my WHS with PP1 and haven’t seen any errors in my event log for a long time

I think the WHS Team should be very proud of this release. It very much follows the quality of the original product. I think we’ve got some amazing things still to come from this team, and if the quality of PP1 is anything to go by, I think we’re all going to be very happy.

To access the build, visit http://connect.microsoft.com/windowshomeserver (if you haven’t already!)

Check out our preview of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1for a run through of all the features, with screenshots.

Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 – Coming Your Way!
Power Pack 1 In Depth - Remote Access
Power Pack 1 In Depth - External Backup
Power Pack 1 In Depth - WHS Connector Walkthrough