My installation of Windows Home Server RC CTP on a older Dell 'Dimension 4100' P3 @ 1Ghz rig went very smooth & took a total of 1 hour, 23 minutes until I hit the desktop.
I started the installation from the DVD after restarting the PC & hitting any key.

WHS will format all the hard drives & will give you warnings that its going to do that.

Once the installation begins one can leave the PC alone for over an hour as no operator interaction is needed.



After the WHS timer hits '0' minutes the installer begins doing updates, checking your disks & restarting (several times) for another ½ hour±



Once on the desktop the user is asked to provide a 'strong password'.

I did not take any shotshots up front but probably will later on. Adding hard drives is a snap. Just insert the new hard drive and just click on add drive. If you do not add the hard drive then you will see a neetwork error on your work stations. I will see about adding a snapshot later.

My clean install was on June 12, 2007

With this Windows Home Server RC build one gets a 180 day trial period.

@ Start/ Run/ Winver




BTW this is what my Windows Home Server, Remote Access web site looks like (w/ Add-In), if your thinking about setting one up.

https://cutback.livenode.com/home/

That is EXACTLY what I want to do plus more. I will probably be writing a lot of my pages in MS Expressions....

I be dang, I just rebooted my Home server and there is a button there that says WebSite Management. Looks like I will have my work cutout for me when I get home. Plus tryign to catchup here for two weeks missed at PROnet will be something also.

NT50 wrote:

That is EXACTLY what I want to do plus more. I will probably be writing a lot of my pages in MS Expressions....

Wow, you can do that.. I got to see one when you get one ready

NT50 wrote:

I be dang, I just rebooted my Home server and there is a button there that says WebSite Management. Looks like I will have my work cutout for me when I get home.

Congratulations on the Website Management button showing up, you sure all you did was reboot



Looking forward to you getting home & hearing your stories

After reading about others OS Restore Successes, I wanted to try that also.

I backed-up Vista Home Premium x86 to WHS RC
Waited about 1/2 hour for the WHS PC to settle down (balancing) & restarted both PCs.

Booted off the Restore CD (I tried the regular & the '512' CDs)

Wizard starting


After the wizard did its thing & couldn't find the SERVER (each or my 3 attempts), I went to the 'Manual' search... no joy w/ that either.




So much for me having any PC Restore success today with Windows Home Server RC.