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...Friday, December 28, 2007
Ed Bott has more news on the data corruption bug, specifically the scenario in which the bug occurs and some behind the scenes context around the KB article - worth a read. There’s been a huge amount of online vitriol poured out around this issue, which is probably to be expected given the seriousness of the [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, December 23, 2007
If, in the next few days, you open up a big present and inside you discover a Windows Home Server, then you’re pretty much guaranteed a fun (and busy) holiday period setting up your new home server and learning about what it can do. Sometimes, with any computer, you can hit a problem, or need to ask [...]
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
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