My installation on the P3 test rig went very smooth & took a total of 1 hr. & 23 minutes… exactly the same as the April CTP installation.
The timer countdown started at 59 minutes & when it hit 1 minute I still had another 32 minutes to wait.

Here are a couple of screenshots.

First Desktop


About Windows


Windows Update




P3 Test Rig specs:
Dell 4100 Series, P3 CPU @ 1 GHz.
512 MB SDRAM
64MB GeForce 2 MX AGP
320GB WD Hdd
80GB WD Hdd (Storage)
DVD ROM/ CD-RW
Floppy
KVM 4- Port Switch

Very nice JD I've still got many hours to go with my snail mail download.

Interesting to see that Windows Update still defaults through to Windows Server 2003

I really do like this OS, shame I can't really test it at present time

JabbaPapa wrote:

I really do like this OS, shame I can't really test it at present time

I am using a hunk-of-junk rig... don't you have one of them laying around?



OT, i just noticed that the beta stamp on the lower rt. corner of the desktop screenshot i posted says 'Windows Windows Home Server' (very tiny) there.

Last night I backed up the x64 Test Rig (from within the Vista Home Premium OS) that is ‘Quad Booting’ & has 6 partitions/ drives, after viewing the backup it appears that WHS backed up all the drives, I haven’t opened them yet for closer examination tho.

BTW this first backup took almost 2 hours to complete.



Disk Management:


Windows Explorer/ System Drive:


Has anyone else tried WHS RC & want to share what they found.
OH ya i found the WHS blue 'First Desktop' wallpaper... 1024x768_24bit.BMP (2.25MB) in the Install folder.

I did a manual backup of XP (took 26 minutes) this AM & then opened the backup to take a look.

From XP I could access the XP, Lh Server (different partition, same drive) & Storage (different drive) but could not access the Vista Home Premium data (different partition, same drive). While browsing the folders I found that I could also drag & copy a file from the backup onto the XP desktop.

It does appear that WHS has got some of the kinks worked out in RC.

I wanted to take a look at the backup files from Vista so I opened the backup but first Vista/WHS(Connector) wanted to install some Software, so I let it.

Next I was able to open & view the Vista, XP, Storage & Lh Server backups, I did the first 3 separately then I discovered that they were all available by just opening the Storage drive backup. I tested it by dragging & copying a file to the Vista desktop…worked.

WHS Connector popup to install software


Backup Explorer window showing all drives folders/files accessible.

Last night I was successful at getting the (Verizon supplied) Actiontec M1424WR router configured so I can access My WHS Web Page.

Edit: I just tested from work & could access WHS @ home using the NO-IP & (server) URL,
both worked
Downloaded 2- things & uploaded 6 things too to be sure.

I downloaded the RC version, but had a rash of orders for computers so haven't had time to install it yet )-:
I had trouble with the CTP version not deleting older B/U's etc so the smaller hard drive int the test system quickly ran out of room unless I manually deleted them.

Well Daniel this RC build runs great for me, so far
I'm sure you will notice a improvement when you get it installed

Tonight I decided to try customizing the WHS Webpage…. Remember this is my first attempt to find a photo the correct size



I found out one can change out the webpage image at: c:\inetpub\home\images\i_landingpage_main.png
I just renamed that image & replaced it with one exactly the same size (759 x 316) using the old name.
Renaming the webpage can be done easily at the ‘WHS Console/settings/remote’ page, at the bottom.