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Today’s the day – the launch of PerfectDisk 11, our friends at Raxco have given us three sets of licences for PerfectDisk 11 Windows Home Server Bundle.
This newly renamed bundle includes a licence for your Windows Home Server and also a licence for one of your PCs.
So as we are at launch day, we are going to give away the final licence.
So, all you have to do to win today’s licence is leave a comment telling us what you think the one missing feature of Windows Home Server is.
Winners will be drawn at random and announced on UWHS on Wednesday.
Good luck, and stay tuned for lots of exciting giveaways coming up.
For more information on what’s new in PerfectDisk 11, click here: PerfectDisk11 Out Next Week
The 1st missing feature on WHS is OS backup. 2nd is Media Center softsled intergration. 3rd Easy system drive replacement.
I think WHS operating system backups are very important. Why backup to something that isn't backed up?
I think it should be easier to swap drive. Not just easier but faster.
Also, if your home server dies, there is no easy way totransfer the data. There should be a quick and easy way to do this.
I think that WHS hardware should come with an installation on SD card or SSD.
WHS software should have an unintrusive app store. (Maybe something like the mother of all add-ins).
Build in support for recording TV.
complete integration into Windows Media Center (e.g. functions Webguide used to have)
I think that Windows Update Status Reporting would be good.
A way to backup what is on the OS drive.
WHS drive backup.
i agree with the previous posters that whs os backup is needed. to be different, i'd like to see more client backup options like psp, ps3, linux, router settings, etc. basically anything in the house with a backup wizard would be nice to automate to the WHS.
WHS OS backup
I agree with what everyone has said about WHS backup, but I'll add something different rather than being a broken record.
Power Management (both client & server side)
Full-blown Media Center integration.
easy system backup
Content Filtering Web Proxy/Gateway
I'd go with "complete integration into Windows Media Center" but snce that already been extensiviely covered by others above, I'll go with something a bit more exotic:
For years now (really, about 15 or so), Microsoft had been promising to replace the FAT/NTFS file systems with one based on SQL Server. (It had always been planned for the "next version" of the OS until Longhorn/Vista when it was finally killed). Besides finally being able to do a full disk "dir" at a reasonable speed, every PC would essentally have SQL Express built into the OS, where it would be available to any app as a basic service.
The natural extension of this would be a network version of SQL Server built into the WHS OS.
I have to agree with most everyone else, an easy way to backup the OS would be nice.
It would also be nice to be able to duplicate individual folders instead of having to create whole new shares.
Since everyone has covered the major hang-ups but this one… FIX RESTORE DRIVER ISSUES!!!
Having said that I know that Vail is 64bit and because of this I suspect the 64bit driver issue will go away too. I have in fact restored VMs of Windows 7 64bit from a VM of Vail without a single drivers hiccup. How well that will translate into the final release of course waits to be seen.
As per my normal request since I write for you Andrew I feel I am not eligible for the prizes even as nice as they are. So once again I ask that I not be included in the drawing. It just wouldn
OS Backup!
Media Center Integration
OS backup
Put me down as another vote for easy WHS OS backup and restore.
yeah backup for me too
OS backup would be nice
Like previous posters have said. There needs to be a way to backup the OS itself.
Being able to use IIS on Home Server like you can on the Vista/7 and 2008 server based operating systems. You could drop your website on there or even have built in support for encoding those .wtv files in your recorded TV folder to Silverlight versions which could be watched on the web with the live smooth streaming of IIS. This would be like MS Media Center and MS Expression hooking up and getting their groove on in IIS.
at the risk of sounding repetitive…
at the risk of sounding repetitive…
OS backup
Yet another server backup/restore vote.
The ability to backup itself up
I would have to go with back-up, but not of the OS. I have a NAS which I thought I would be able to back-up with WHS. I know some of you are thinking, "HUH? Why would you want to do that?" Well, I've had two of them go bad (different intervals, different manufactures). Although the manufacture did give me another device, I still lost all of my data. I would have liked to have been able to use WHS to back-up and (hopefully never needed) recover my NAS.
I'm afraid to be repetitive….but WHS OS backup or at least a way to export user and other WHS configuration that can be impoted after a rebuild
The major draw back i see is the actual storage arrangement of the server itself. Using an expanded to store your media files is like sleeping on a soft cheap pillow, yeah it feels good at first, after you get all you media files store on the server, but if you add a drive to the HD space, expand that total storage and add more files, then one of those drives takes a dump you done, its back to the beginning …WHS should offer the user a choice between expanded and a RAID storage a 5 or 6, i want to sleep at night, if a drive dumps on you using a RaiD 5 or 6, no a file is lost, just pop out the bad drive and pop in the new one, it will rebuild and all files are back, and also performance is also better in a RAID then a expanded, well that's my two cents worth…i still like the concept..
Back-up of the WHS OS partition (and the ability to size it during installation) followed by Media Center recording and streaming capabilities.
Best software anywhere.