A post in the last few minutes over on the WHS Team blog has announced a forthcoming public beta of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 in May, which will be bundled with a fix for the long-standing data corruption bug. The team report that “great progress is being made” on the bug fix, and a [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 28, 2008
I had the opportunity to catch up with Allen Buckner from the HP MediaSmart team yesterday, regarding progress on the data corruption bug. He told me that HP share Microsoft’s point of view that the bug has only hit a very small percentage of their customers, although reiterating that whilst it’s an obscure bug, it [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 10, 2008
At long last, Microsoft today released a number of communications around the long-standing Windows Home Server Data Corruption bug, providing more details on the cause of the bug and outlining plans to release a fix for the issue in June 2008. In a post today on the Windows Home Server Team blog, the team stated that Microsoft now understood [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, March 8, 2008
Seems like we’ll all get an update at some point on Monday from Microsoft regarding the status of the data corruption bug. Stay tuned to WGS, the Windows Home Server Team Blog and Microsoft Knowledge Base.
Continue reading...Thursday, February 21, 2008
Microsoft today updated KB 946676 which is the Knowledge Base article covering the Windows Home Server data corruption bug. This bug causes data to be corrupted when you try to edit or save certain files directly on the home server within certain applications. As well as fixing the original publication date of the article, worrying, Microsoft states [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 15, 2008
As you’re aware, an obscure, but particularly nasty bug was highlighted in Windows Home Server’s Drive Extender technology in December, that in some cases could corrupt files on the home server that were being edited in certain applications. The Microsoft Knowledge Base article communicating the bug was updated this week, bizarrely removing a lot of the background [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 8, 2008
You may be thinking that whilst the guys from the Windows Home Server team are out here at CES working the crowds, no-one’s back in Redmond nailing that data corruption bug. From discussions I had with the team yesterday, they have nothing official to share right now in terms of timings on a fix, but [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 2, 2008
One little nuggest of information came out of our monthly MVP call with the WHS Product Team tonight. The data corruption bug you’ve been hearing about will not occur on home servers running with just a single drive. Home Servers with multiple hard drives are at risk of the bug occurring (once again, check the KB [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, December 30, 2007
Those of you tracking the data corruption issue which was reported last week will be interested to know that the Knowledge Base article outlining the issue has been updated. The update provides more details on how the issue occurs and reassures users that computer backup and restore is not affected. Update as of December 28, 2007 This issue [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 22, 2007
Overnight (here in the UK) the Windows Home Server team posted on their blog about a potential data corruption issue that WHS users have experienced when using the following products to save files to Windows Home Server: Windows Vista Photo Gallery Windows Live Photo Gallery Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Microsoft Money 2007 SyncToy 2.0 Beta Various Bittorrent [...]
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Wednesday, April 2, 2008
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