Windows Home Server, Day 3

re: Windows Home Server, Day 3

Steve Loughran — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:55:37 GMT

Regarding power schemes, there are a few power management options that arent exposed in the GUI for fear of scaring people. However, if you were to locate the relevant API calls and structs you could produce an app that would give you more control. But there is no need to do that, when POWERCFG can do the dirty work for you, and show and set the AC/DC CPU throttle params, which are the ones that control fan noise the best

re: Windows Home Server, Day 3

MikeB — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:27:52 GMT

Wow, very cool stuff. This seems like a great product from what I have read. Many applications, do you forsee a public Beta?

re: Windows Home Server, Day 3

Matt Pietrek — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:32:49 GMT

Re: POWERCFG. Thanks! I'll certainly have a look at that when I get home later.

Re: Public Beta. Keep your fingers crossed. :-)

re: Windows Home Server, Day 3

Kevin Blakeley — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:54:52 GMT

Great blog, I will be following this closely as this product sounds very promising. By the sounds of it you were able to purchase your own hardware and install the OS on it. Is this how the product is going to retail as well?

re: Windows Home Server, Day 3

Lachlan Grant — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:48:04 GMT

Could you create a "WinHomeServer" or similar tag so we can keep a track on all related posts? ;-)

re: Windows Home Server, Day 3

DevR — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:38:32 GMT

I'm dying to get my hands on this so I can try it out for myself as a replacement for SBS at home.

Do you have any invites up for grabs? Pretty please? :)

re: Windows Home Server, Day 3

onovotny — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:32:44 GMT

While WHS doesn't use AD (is not a domain controller), do you know if it's possible to join it to a domain and take advantage of existing domain accounts? That would be critical for me.

re: Windows Home Server, Day 3

Michael Waterman — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:13:16 GMT

One thing I always missed in a home scenario was having central user accounts. I was wondering if this would be possible with whs?