{"id":74,"date":"2007-02-28T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/02\/28\/windows-home-server-first-impressions\/"},"modified":"2007-02-28T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T08:00:03","slug":"windows-home-server-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/28\/windows-home-server-first-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Home Server &#8211; first impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s excellent &#8211; in a word&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>I have to say it&#8217;s a very impressive bit of software &#8211; the most stable and functional piece of Beta 2 software I think I&#8217;ve ever used. I got my invite 36 hours ago &#8211; an overnight download, and an install the following night have got me to this post&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The install was painfully simple &#8211; pop the DVD in, boot and about 5 (possible more like 3) clicks later &#8211; it&#8217;s done&#8230;. so simple even my dear old Mum could probably manage it!<\/p>\n<p>The initial user experience is good &#8211; it&#8217;s a very simple\u00c2\u00a0desktop &#8211; think stripped down Windows 2003. The console connection is clear and easy to use, and overall it&#8217;s a doddle.<\/p>\n<p>My only complaint so far is the keyboard &#8220;support&#8221; there&#8217;s no option to choose what keyboard you have &#8211; so it defaults to US&#8230;. not a huge issue I hear you say &#8211; but it&#8217;s a PITA when you use @ or &#8221; in your initial password &#8211; they&#8217;re reversed on UK \/ US keyboards &#8211; so logging in from a UK laptop later means you think you&#8217;ve gone mad for a couple of minutes \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also no obvious way to change the administrator password once you&#8217;ve set it &#8211; so if it&#8217;s compromised &#8211; you&#8217;re SOL as far as I can see at the moment &#8211; I&#8217;ll do some more testing on this one tonight and post more if I find it.<\/p>\n<p>PC Backups are very cool &#8211; you install the connector software, it automagically finds the server,\u00c2\u00a0gives you a link to the shares and the console software and you can then setup the backups from the console in a matter of minutes &#8211; pick what you want to exclude &#8211; rather than what you want to backup &#8211; novel idea &#8211; and quite nice I think&#8230;. means you&#8217;re less likely to miss something important (and it automagically removes stuff like your pagefile and temp directories &#8211; very clever) The backup then kicks off &#8211; and it looks pretty fast &#8211; I don&#8217;t have an exact time as I got booted off the PC &#8211; WAF still counts for something \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post more in the coming days as I try to work out how to migrate my data across (4 drives in a Firewire enclosure) &#8211; should be fun \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 Well, it&#8217;s excellent &#8211; in a word&#8230;.. I have to say it&#8217;s a very impressive bit of software &#8211; the most stable and functional piece of Beta 2 software I think I&#8217;ve ever used. 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