Now that Microsoft have released a public version of WHS Vail, it’s time to start looking at it in more detail. In this article we show you how to install the new Connector software.
Installing the connector on your computers for use with Vail is pretty straight forward.
The first thing you need to do is to uninstall any existing WHS V1 connector.
Then, open up your Internet browser and browse to http://servername/connect where servername is the name you gave your server, in my case vailserver
Click on the Connect this computer to the server button, and then click on the Run button when prompted.
You server will then be located.
When your Vail server has been located, click Next to continue.
After your computer has been checked and the connection requirements met, click Next to continue.
Next the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 with Service Pack 1 is installed for you.
You then have to enter your server admin password and click Next to continue.
You can add a computer description in if you wish, then click Next to continue.
As you did in V1, decide if you want the computer to be woken from sleep in order to be backed up, then click Next to continue.
Choose if you want to participate in the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program (and given this is a technical preview you really should say yes) then click Next to continue.
The connector software will be configured – just be patient.
And that’s it – all done!
Nothing to it – stay tuned for more Vail articles soon.
I am having trouble with this. My server's name is vailserver. I type: http://vailserver/connect into the address bar and I get absolutely nothing! Do I have something configured wrong somewhere? Any help would be appreciated!
Chris
Hi Chris
Can you ping vailserver?
Can you get to it using the IP address instead of vailserver?
Andrew