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Update for Windows Home Server Due Tuesday November 25th

Set automatic updates to "On" as it's time once again for an update to your favourite home server platform

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Update Your Home Servers - KB950193 Is Here

 There's a new update waiting for your home server - go grab it.

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Windows Home Server Team Announce Power Pack 1 Public Beta With Data Corruption Bug Fix

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 [...]

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Another Windows Home Server Bug Fixed - No, Not That One.

The Windows Home Server Team today announced that a fix for a well documented “random expiration notice” bug would be hitting Windows Update this evening. Those of you with OEM systems (for example, the HP MediaSmart Server) may have noticed the bug already - you receive a random notification that Windows Home Server has expired, with a [...]

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Windows Home Server Data Corruption Bug Fix Slated for June 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 [...]

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Data Corruption Bug - List of Potential Applications Affected Grows

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 [...]

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Data Corruption Bug - HP Guidance for MediaSmart Server Customers

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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

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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Known Issue: Windows Home Server 120 Day Evaluation Version Expires Without Warning

So, today we had our second monthly update call with the Windows Home Server team. These basicially work as 1 hour conference calls in which the MVPs can raise things we’d like to discuss with the team, and the team can give us an update on what’s happening at their end. Whilst I’m not allowed [...]

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