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Microsoft delivers Home Server data-corruption fix in Power Pack 1

By | July 21, 2008, 9:31am PDT

Summary: On July 21, Microsoft announced that the final version of the Power Pack 1 update for Windows Home Server is available for immediate download.

On July 21, Microsoft announced that the final version of the Power Pack 1 update for Windows Home Server is available for immediate download.

Power Pack 1 is basically a feature pack. It adds 64-bit Vista support, shared-folder backup, remote-access improvements and power-consumption functionality to Windows Home Server. Power Pack 1 also includes a fix to the data-corruption bug that had plagued a number of Home Server customers.

Microsoft decided to delay delivery of Power Pack 1 to include the data-corruption fix, a choice that met with a mixed reception among Home Server users. In mid-May, Microsoft acknowledged it had cut the expected database-backup functionality from Power Pack 1 in order to ship the Power Pack sooner rather than later.

Windows Home Server users who want Power Pack 1 can get it now from the Microsoft Download Center.

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Data Corruption, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Microsoft Corp., Power Pack 1, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Mary Jo has covered the tech industry for more than 25 years for a variety of publications and Web sites, and is a frequent guest on radio, TV and podcasts, speaking about all things Microsoft-related. She is the author of Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft plans to stay relevant in the post-Gates era (John Wiley & Sons, 2008).

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RE: Microsoft delivers Home Server data-corruption fix in Power Pack 1
jackson1984-24316069205748857739440257893812 10th Oct
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Trouble getting to Windows Update.
bjbrock 21st Jul 2008
Are they down?
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RE: Microsoft delivers Home Server data-corruption fix in Power Pack 1
el vego 22nd Jul 2008
Microsoft delivers a solid crash, or rather, a an endless reboot wallup. After loading this abomination and restarting, I repeatedly received a desktop screen with a message that a critical problem had occurred, and that windows would automatically restart in one minute. After about 12 restarts, I gave up. This service pack is lethal!
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Success download and install...but
genebigham@... 22nd Jul 2008
Downloaded and followed instructions, it installed, server rebooted and appears to be running. But, tried to add a Vista 64 bit computer for back up and got an error that the disk images could not be handled, to do a disk error check on the machine to be backed up, this is being run right now to see. It has two hard disks in NTFS format. We have been waiting on the promised 64 bit support while backing up all the 32 bit machines on our home network. Remains to be seen if this will work for backing up our two 64 bit machines.
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RE: Microsoft delivers Home Server data-corruption fix in Power Pack 1
cindywilson 23rd Jul 2008
Did you install the 64-bit client computer software (Home Server Connector Software) after you installed PP1? See instructions for how to do this at:
http://www.mediasmarthome.com/blog/entry/10446/HP-MediaSmart-Server-Update-Release-Notes/
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RE: Microsoft delivers Home Server data-corruption fix in Power Pack 1
jackson1984-24316069205748857739440257893812 10th Oct
Usually I usually do not submit on weblogs, but I nfljersey would individually want to say that this publish genuinely pressured me to undertake so. Definitely wonderful submit!

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