After what seems like an extremely long wait Windows Home
Server Power Pack 1 has been released.
If you have automatic updates enabled on your server then Power Pack 1
will be downloaded directly, but if you can’t wait for that then
the download is up here.
Power Pack 1 includes several new features and fixes, most notable
Vista x64 support and a fix to the nasty data corruption bug. Other features include Home Server Shared
Folder backup, improved remote access, and power consumption/performance improvements.
Hot on the heels of Power Pack 1, HP has also released their
MediaSmart
Server Update which adds a few additional features.
Read more on We
Got Served and the Windows
Home Server Team Blog.
Updated my server last night (along with all of the clients). I had stopped relying on the file server functionality back when the data corruption bug was first announced, so even though it is nice to have fixed it wasn’t a show stopper for me. The really nice thing is that I can backup my Vista x64 machine. There have been a couple times I’ve needed to use the WHS to restore a machine and it worked great. That in itself sold me on this product. Now if we could just get that media center functionality built-in, THAT would be a killer app.