Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 BETA – Includes enhancements for Windows 7-based computers

re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 BETA – Includes enhancements for Windows 7-based computers

Helmer.hzNET — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:57:16 GMT

I'm already signed up as a beta participant for Windows Home Server at MS Connect, but I only can see the PowerPack 1 download :-(

How can I get the WHS PowerPack 3 download?

re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 BETA – Where is it?

gcoupe — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:43:44 GMT

Same here - I'm already a participant in the WHS program, but no sign of PP3 in the Downloads...

re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 BETA – Includes enhancements for Windows 7-based computers

zombiefly — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:32:58 GMT

...and me too!

where is pp2 & 3?

I only see pp1. I'm guessing it pp3 will appear on the connect site at some point in the future?

re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 BETA – Includes enhancements for Windows 7-based computers

veridian3 — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:22:10 GMT

Same here, can only see Power Pack 1.

Also just one bit of clarification... if we install the beta, i assume when the final version is released it will just install over the top?

re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 BETA – Includes enhancements for Windows 7-based computers

htolino — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:22:38 GMT

Will the TV Archiving feature work with shows recorded with an ATI Digital Cable Tuner w/CableCard? If not now, perhaps after the (notoriously) upcoming firmware upgrade from ATI?

re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 BETA – Includes enhancements for Windows 7-based computers

veridian3 — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:29:18 GMT

Its there now, and I can confirm the beta needs to be uninstalled prior to installing the final version.

re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 BETA – Includes enhancements for Windows 7-based computers

dmiannay — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:55:17 GMT

That's odd... I've had the WHS PP2 Connector running on all the Pre-RTM Win7 releases for the past 6 months and backups have worked flawlessly. What am I missing regarding the Windows 7 full image backup capability with PP3?

Doug

re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 BETA – Includes enhancements for Windows 7-based computers

Tyrax — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:13:14 GMT

I'm really glad that you have now added windows search 4.0. I got a little ahead of myself with that first came out since remote indexing is so much better that I installed it on the WHS box myself. Has anyone tried installing PP3 on top of a box running PP2 and WDS 4.0 already on it?

Where to ask questions: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 BETA – Includes enhancements for Windows 7-based computers

Jonas Svensson — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:16:05 GMT

A new forum has been created for questions and discussions of the features for this beta release.

http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/whspowerpack3beta/threads

-j

re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 BETA – Includes enhancements for Windows 7-based computers

archbish99 — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:31:39 GMT

@dmiannay:

The post is a little misleading.... It's not that WHS backup didn't work before on Win7, but that Win7 would nag you to set up Windows Backup despite having WHS handling your backups. The PP3 connector tells Windows Backup to keep quiet.

re: TV Archiving

enki42 — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:29:21 GMT

Does the TV Archiving do the transcoding on the MCE machine? Does it take advantage of multiple CPUs?

If you have it set at "TV – Original Resolution" will it mostly appear the same quality as the original recording, including HD recordings? i.e. use a much more efficient encoding then HD comes in as to make the resulting file much smaller without sacrificing quality. (I realize any transcoding can hurt the quality but it can be very limited depending on the final output)

Is there a way to limit how much space TV shows can take up on the WHS? And then a way to expire the shows as they age so when the space set aside for TV gets filled the oldest shows get deleted first? Would seem like this could allow having a small hard drive on the MCE box and transcode all your shows onto much bigger storage on the WHS box.

Will the metadata from the TV shows stay attached to the file?

Will the content show up as a shared library? (i.e. look the same as tv content from another Windows 7 MCE machine on the network)

The already asked question about it working with ATI Digital Cable Tuner w/CableCard is an important issue with me to.

re: Windows Home Server 2

Duro — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:45:21 GMT

Just wondering if you folks have any dev info you're willing to share about the progress of Win Home Server 2..

Things are very quiet about this updated release..

re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 BETA – Includes enhancements for Windows 7-based computers

masl — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:44:32 GMT

I really want to try out the new beta to help fixing bugs.... but the problem is.. I cannot install it.. I have got a german WHS, and the update sais, it cannot install because of different language..

can anyone please help me out?!