Setting up a Windows Home Server

re: Setting up a Windows Home Server

Shawn Burke - MSFT — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:34:15 GMT

Oh, and I haven't thought much about Vail. I'm interested, but am a little wary to perturb a working system. So we'll see.

re: Setting up a Windows Home Server

Shawn Burke - MSFT — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:33:39 GMT

HI Brian. Sort of. I moved my web hosting to a real provider and since I"ve got a media center runnning anyway, I moved zune to that. But the WHS itself is still cranking along beautifully, and the setup above did work very well for me until Zune started requireing DirectX support that the Mesh terminal server session didn't seem to provide.

I'm considering consolodating down to one machine by putthing Virtual Server onto my MCE and runnign WHS out of that, however. The MCE has more than enough power to do both and it's one less machine to manage.

re: Setting up a Windows Home Server

Brian — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 04:09:24 GMT

Are you still running this configuration? Have you considered going to WHS 2011 (Vail) when it is released? Would you still run Virtual Server 2005 or is there a way to run the Hyper-V version from Windows Server 2008...without actually buying Windows Server 2008?

re: Setting up a Windows Home Server

Shawn Burke - MSFT — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:55:12 GMT

@tean tan - yep, I'm still running this config without major issues. It's been runing happily now for about 2 years. There have been a few times (very few) where the USB is flakey. You'll get a warning from the console that there's something wrong with the drives, and usually just unplugging them and plugging them back in solves it. This is about once very 6 months or so, if that often.

My current config is a Dell Vostro 1400, 2x250 GB WD Passport drives, 2x750GB Maxtor drives.

re: Setting up a Windows Home Server

tean tan — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:26:18 GMT

Are you still running your laptop as window server, I am thinking of doing the same. Any additional features/output or input devices have added on since your last post?

Any reliability problems esp. the laptop hard drive and others?

re: Setting up a Windows Home Server

8675309 — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:38:48 GMT

heres another odd setup whs in a nas box

http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/whshardware/thread/a94c582b-e018-499c-a64c-9cf441467c2a

re: Setting up a Windows Home Server

8675309 — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:47:15 GMT

it seems theres an issue with remote access & domain name setup i keep on getting error 80072efd

re: Setting up a Windows Home Server

8675309 — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:11:47 GMT

does App-V have any remote gpu options?

re: Setting up a Windows Home Server

8675309 — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:17:29 GMT

just to say the battery dont work for more than 30mins. so its just the power brick that works & the fan runs because of the nvidia told hp & other companys to change the fan settings

heres an dv600 series article that has a comment section full of stories about unhappy people

http://www.pcmech.com/article/hp-pavilion-dv6000-notebook-review/

re: Setting up a Windows Home Server

Shawn Burke - MSFT — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:13:25 GMT

If your laptop has a SATA port, that's a big plus. The USB works but it's slow.

On the hibernate angle, why would you want your server to hibernate? The main goal for using a laptop here is that it's got much, much lower power consumption, which is nice since it's always on.