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WHS Data Corruption Issue: KB 946676 - Only Applies to Multi-Drive Home Servers

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 [...]

WHS Data Corruption Issue: KB 946676 Updated

Sunday, December 30, 2007

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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 [...]

Ed Bott Has More on the Data Corruption Bug

Friday, December 28, 2007

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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 [...]

Help! I Have a Problem With My New Home Server…

Sunday, December 23, 2007

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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 [...]

Potential Data Corruption Issue - KB 946676

Saturday, December 22, 2007

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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 [...]