Windows Home Server - Announcing Power Pack 2

Microsoft releases Windows Home Server Power Pack 2

Microsoft releases Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:09:16 GMT

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johncz — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:58:42 GMT

Thank you! Keep up the excellent work. Can't wait to see what is next.

re: Windows Home Server - Announcing Power Pack 2

djloewen — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:22:25 GMT

Thank you for a wonderful product. Please bear with me as I get this short rant out of the way...

It tortures me that Microsoft continues to ignore the existence of the .mkv file format. What's the logic? Why not just be able to play everything? Even with a splitter installed, .mkv files will not play on a Media Center Extender, and they can't be added or sorted (via metadata) in the Media Center or Media Player libraries. This cripples the functionality of what would otherwise be a fantastic container, one that is seeing growing support (moreso than mp4) in the video enthusiast community, and one that has recently been adopted by DivX as their new "it works anywhere" format. Grr, grr, and grr again.

But back to reality, the WHS team is truly making the world a better place. Thanks.

Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 and TechNet/MSDN downloads available

tentacleBlog — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:42:55 GMT

Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 and TechNet/MSDN downloads available

Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 Announced

Windows Experience Blog — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:13:07 GMT

The Windows Home Server Team announced today Power Pack 2 . The English version of Power Pack 2 will

Windows Home Server bekommt "Power Pack 2" im März !

Deutschsprachiger Microsoft Media Center BLOG — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:33:35 GMT

Endlich ist es soweit: Das "Power Pack 2" für den Windows Home Server (WHS) darf endlich das Licht der Öffentlichkeit erblicken! Neben den vielen allgemeinen neuen WHS Funktionalitäten wie der überarbeitete Remote Access (Konfiguration und Handhabung)

Windows Home Server uppdateras med Power Pack 2

Microsoft Sverige - Nyhetsblogg — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:16:43 GMT

Windows Home Server är kanske vårt mest okända operativsystem. Det levereras på speciella hemmaservrar

Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 Enhances Media Center

BloggersBase Internet — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:01:30 GMT

Coming with many fixes and new features, Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 is available for download. The Windows Home Server user experience will be definitely improved through the enhancements...

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leazes — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:06:26 GMT

It is hugely pleasing to see tighter integration between WHS and WMC. I do sincerely hope that this is not the end of the story (I appreciate that PP2 is minor update so I was not expecting the world).

From my perspective, enabling WHS to host the Media Center experience would be enormously beneficial as it would reduce energy costs (WHS runs 24*7 & HTPC WMC runs whenever an extender is on) and make planning home media environments much easier.

I think it would increase the value proposition of WHS tremendously, offer amazing promotional opportunities, bring more partners to the table (both vendors of WHS and Extender technology) and would not, in my opinion, detract from the value of Windows Vista/7.

I hope that as future builds of WHS are likely to be based on the Vista/7/Windows Server 2008 stack then this may become a possibility.

Windows Home Server Power Pack 2

Entretenimento Digital — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:47:11 GMT

O Power Pack 2 para Windows Home Server (um service pack com um nome diferente), ficou disponível hoje

THANK YOU!

gmoshe27 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:05:00 GMT

I created an account just to say thank you! Last night I copied over all of my videos from my local media center machine to the home server. I planned to find a way to have media center serve the videos from the home server onto the 360 extender. With PP2 you made this a hands off approach! I'm loving the updates, keep them coming. You made what was going to look like a problem simple and easy. Thanks!

Windows Home Server users get Power Pack 2 today

TechNet Flash Feed — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:27:26 GMT

I know from past interest in Home Server content in TechNet Flash that many IT Pros have Windows Home

This post is misleading. Please correct it.

TedHoward — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:03:45 GMT

"Windows Media Center Extenders can access and stream multimedia content stored on the home server."

I *seriously* doubt this to be accurate. I did not take this quote out of context as it was the majority of a bulletpoint. With no context, this says to me that any Media Center Extender can play content on my Windows Home Server with no interaction with any Windows Media Center machine.

Will we be able to play all Home Server content on a Media Center Extender without having a Media Center machine available? I would love the answer to be "Yes" but I doubt it is.

Please alter the post to accurately state the requirements for the feature you are advertising.

WHS Power Pack 2 begins to arrive, WHS added to MSDN

Microsoft News — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:25:10 GMT

Microsoft today announced the availability of Windows Home Server (WHS) Power Pack 2 (PP2), previously

WHS Power Pack 2 begins to arrive, WHS added to MSDN

Gadgets — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:25:13 GMT

Microsoft today announced the availability of Windows Home Server (WHS) Power Pack 2 (PP2), previously

M&M Time!

I Hate Linux — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:17:13 GMT

As is the custom… this morning I put 1 pound of M&M’s outside of my door to celebrate my 1 year anniversary

Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 Released

Nick Whittome - The Naked MVP — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:11:47 GMT

Just yesterday I was demonstrating Power Pack 2 RC at a Microsoft event in Dublin (TechDays). The great

re: Windows Home Server - Announcing Power Pack 2

EchoDelta — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:37:00 GMT

For those that don't read release notes (like me)

Windows Media Center

The following is a known issue with the Windows Media Center Connector:

• You cannot run the Windows Media Center Connector (MCWHSSetup.exe) on 64-bit versions of Windows 7 Beta.

There is a known bug in the 64-bit versions of Windows 7 Beta. To fix the issue, add the following registry key, and then reinstall the Windows Media Center Connector:

Path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center

Key: Ident

Value (REG_SZ): 6.0

re: Windows Home Server - Announcing Power Pack 2

sbattagl — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:43:40 GMT

TedHoward, in response to your post, I found the following in the release notes:

Media Center Extenders that are connected to a computer running Windows Media Center can now access content on your home server without using the guest account.

This Week on C9: New SDKs, Silverlight 3, Web utilities and cool Show Off Projects

ComponentGear.com Feed — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:43:48 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's developer news including: - DreamSpark now

re: Windows Home Server - Announcing Power Pack 2

Griffon — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:09:27 GMT

I think it is great that you guys released PP2. I really truly think WHS is one of the best MS products to come out in years, it shows a strong desire to own the garage, though there is a ways to go yet (clients for others OS's for a small fee maybe, gasp :), true time machine integration etc ).

I was really excited when I was reading through though initial press release stuff for PP2 the language was a bit ambitious about the MCE support but gave me hope.

Sadly, this was not what I was hopping for though it's nice to have.

I really, and so would MANY others, like to see WHS be able to serve MCE. Even if it's not a full MCE package at least let it serve the blade to the xbox 360 so folks can use my movies etc really make use of extenders with a visual move collection the way it should be. The straight file browse experience is totally lacking on the 360 but needing run a completely separate box (or VM like many of us do) just to server a extender UI is pretty wasteful and the sort of in garage own the garage kind of tech we need from WHS.

This is even more important as more web content gets streamed and cached through MCE.

Please get with the Win7 team and work it out, this situation is nutty.

New SDKs, Silverlight 3, Web utilities and cool Show Off Projects

GeeksEngaged — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:48:41 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's developer news including: - DreamSpark now

powerpack 2 not through automatic updates

stensol — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:14:40 GMT

Hello guys,

you did a great job on releasing PP2, but I've just seen reviews so far as my WHS doesn't get that update at all. Through remote desktop I confirmed that automatic updates are in fact ON. So I tried using update.microsoft.com, but no results as well :-(

I don't understand why there isn't any full redistributable download available on Connect or Technet, as it now seems my homeserver would never update to PP2. Ofcourse a legitimate COA, and updates always went fine.

Through Settings > Resources I've the following versions installed:

WHS Console 6.0.1771.0

WHS Backup & Restore 6.0.1771.0

WHS Drive Extender 6.0.1771.0

WHS Remote Access 6.0.1771.0

WHS Server Storage Manager 6.0.1771.0

My backup database has some errors from the past and the repair-function doesn't help any, so I'd like to see what PP2 can repair for me, and ofcourse will make the life of my MCE a little bit happier and excited :-)

I hope you guys can assist me in some way on this issue. Maybe you've heard about this problem more often?

Thanks in advance for your valuable assistance and goodluck with engineering WHS to a new level of UI and raise the platform to a whole new level.

Best regards,

Bart Stens, The Netherlands

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homelife — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:56:26 GMT

After the auto-update to PP2, I enabled the Windows Home Server Connector for media center extenders. Immediately afterwards my brand new Samsung MediaLive extender failed to connect to the media center PC. I have also posted this issue on The Green Button here:

http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/permalink/345928/350496/ShowThread.aspx#350496

Can someone please help me resolve this?

Thanks,

Ryan

re: Windows Home Server - Announcing Power Pack 2

homelife — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:19:32 GMT

Follow up to my previous post about the Samsung extender issue: It appears to be related to a conflict with AVG free 8.5 antivirus software and not with PP2.

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CodePoet — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:28:23 GMT

I also cannot update to PP2. Windows Update does not see the update for my WHS. I had to manually update to PP1. Anything we can do to update to PP2. On the properties of the WHS, it shows I'm currently running PP1.

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djdikaioo — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:08:56 GMT

First, let me say, I love my WHS. I love having access to my files on the go, love knowing that my Netbook is consistantly backed up, and love having a Terrabyte (vs. my Netbook's 16 Gig) to put my music collection on to.

However, when is Microsoft going to properly provide us a fix so that the Windows Media Extender on the Xbox 360 will truly play nice with the WHS? I've paid to have access to that pretty Xbox UI so that when I choose "My Xbox > Windows Media Center" I actually can do something other than click "Continue" a bunch of times, then be told to go to xbox.com/pcsetup, and if I do that on the WHS be told to use the Xbox Dashboard. If I wanted to use the Dashboard I could have just bought an inexpensive NAS.

If WHS is to succeed, you're going to have to make it THE Media Center of the home. I agree with Griffon, I shouldn't have to (and don't plan on) purchasing another computer to run Windows Media Center on so I have something to connect my Xbox to.

Add that, and have a manufacturer add a Tuner with DVR functionality to the console and WHS would be the absolutly perfect server configuration.