Windows Home Server 2011

Glenn · Jun 03, 2011, 07:02:48

Now available from CCL for £69.97 http://www.cclonline.com/product/58706/CCQ-00128/Operating-Systems/Microsoft-Windows-Home-Server-2011/SFT0108/

Steve · Jun 03, 2011, 07:20:31

It seems to be at a reasonable price as well

Ray · Jun 03, 2011, 08:32:54

Good price, Glenn, it was £89 at Amazon when I checked a couple of days ago and not available till the end of June.
Now ordered delivery on Monday.

Ray · Jun 04, 2011, 08:36:03

Glad I ordered mine on Friday it's gone up to £84.28 now.

Glenn · Jul 04, 2011, 13:45:38

£44.69 inc P&P http://www.ballicom.co.uk/not-shown-25/microsoft-windows-home-server-2011-64bit-1-pack-english.p684983.html

Ray · Jul 04, 2011, 13:56:23

That's cheap, Glenn, thought I was doing well when I got mine for just over £69.

Glenn · Jul 04, 2011, 14:39:55

I just ordered a copy, I missed out on the first one.

Ray · Jul 04, 2011, 15:17:56

I've just ordered one of these 2TB WD Elements external drives to use as my Server backup drive.

Steve · Jul 05, 2011, 09:49:10

It would appear that I can install this on my headless Scaleo so maybe worth the upgrade although I'll have to plan the change as I believe drive extender has gone.

Ray · Jul 05, 2011, 10:19:22

It has, Steve.

Steve · Jul 05, 2011, 15:12:54

I've currently got a 40gb install partition with the rest extended on 3 drives I guess I'll need possibly software, data and backup

Glenn · Jul 05, 2011, 15:41:33

I'm looking at swapping out the 2 x 80Gb drives my server came with, and fitting 2 x 2Tb drives in addition to the 2 x 750Gb drives already fitted. I need to find space to backup my data before I can upgrade though, my 1Tb external drive is too small.

Technical Ben · Jul 05, 2011, 15:48:57

No idea what it is your talking about... but are extended drives safe? I thought they were rather problematic. IE, if 1 fails, they all loose data.

Much better to have some sort of managed partitions, or some such. If drive extender manages it safely, ignore my comment.

Steve · Jul 05, 2011, 17:37:04

In the WHS Drive extender, multi disk redundancy was an option,it was a very easy way to configure a raid array (JBOD) and in fact there was huge disappointment when this was discontinued. I guess I'll be setting up Raid 1 at least if I move to WHS 2011.

Steve · Jul 07, 2011, 11:29:35

Quote from: Glenn on Jul 04, 2011, 13:45:38
£44.69 inc P&P http://www.ballicom.co.uk/not-shown-25/microsoft-windows-home-server-2011-64bit-1-pack-english.p684983.html

Ordered late Tuesday,now installed . My server is headless so I had to remove the 1st drive and install/setup on a PC and then remove it at first reboot. Not had chance to play but it's working.

Ray · Jul 07, 2011, 11:36:04

I've been using it for about a month now with no problems, did a Server backup to my new 2TB external drive yesterday - 250GB in total.

Steve · Jul 08, 2011, 07:06:35

The Mac support is a joke, it just doesn't work (but I wasn't expecting it to) you can fiddle it to back up but it won't restore so there's no point. I've managed to copy all my previous data across,backup one PC and the server itself. I'm trying the addin Lights Out as I tend to backup the PC's at night, which seems a useful piece of software once I'd managed to get 'hibernate' to work via CLI.

Glenn · Jul 18, 2011, 17:52:24

Can WHS 2011 read a WHS v1 backup?

I have taken a backup, I plan to replace the 2 x 80Gb original drives with 2 x 1.5Tb drives, to add to the 2 x 750Gb drives already fitted, then install WHS 2011 before importing the backup.

Steve · Jul 18, 2011, 18:10:26

Not sure Glenn, I think the answer maybe no as some client backups will just contains references to file locations on the server for restore purposes. I just backed up the data and left the backups. I must admit I did drag a PC next to the server and I've never seen a backup done so quickly with 2 x 1GB NICs.

esh · Jul 19, 2011, 11:33:08

There is pretty limited info on this product. It sounds like it is basically a file server. Can it support DHCP/DNS, interface bridging and/or routing? Or am I expecting way too much from this?

Steve · Jul 19, 2011, 12:38:57

The wegotserved forums is a place to enquire,it's based on Windows server 2008 R2 so to a certain extent it's configurable like the version 1 was.

Ray · Jul 24, 2011, 10:22:24

I've just found a solution for a client restore failing on WHS 2011, it would appear that the registry value for the 'Windows Server Solutions Computer Restore Driver' is installed incorrectly which prevents the driver from loading or initialising and thus the restore to fail.

The solution is detailed in this thread on the social.microsoft.com forums.

Edit: sorted url link

Rik · Jul 24, 2011, 10:25:44

Glenn · Jul 24, 2011, 10:26:37

Which thread, Ray, you haven't linked to one, or it's not opening?

Ray · Jul 24, 2011, 11:05:14

Should be ok now, Glenn.