News - Windows Home Server ‘Vail’ Release Candidate arriving soon?

[HEXUS]

Tweet signals the end of the beta period as devs sign off on near final code.

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[MadduckUK]

it's looking unlikely that it'll magically reappear.

Yup. No extender, no care.

[Moby-Dick]

which is why I'm decomisisoning my WHS box as I speak - its been replaced by something more power efficient and smaller.

[[GSV]Trig]

And something without a raid array for you to break?

[pollaxe]

My WHS box has also been retired, mainly due to the drive extender withdrawal. I was messing around with FreeNAS for a while too but, unfortunately, I own a Samsung tv so DLNA etc. can be a bit of a pain.

[Jay]

I love my WHS box I really don't know what I would move to.

[jim]

No drive extender still?

I'll be running WHS 2003 for at least the next few years then, by the looks of it.

[Saracen]

No drive extender still?

I'll be running WHS 2003 for at least the next few years then, by the looks of it.

That's about the size of it, yeah.

My attitude always has been .... don't upgrade if the existing version does what I need and want. And 2003 does.

I could add to that .... don't 'upgrade' if the new one does considerably less of what I want than the existing one does. "Vail" is, as far as I'm concerned, a downgrade not an upgrade.

[mikerr]

Has microsoft split out the network drive imaging yet as an install for regular windows server at all?

[Shooty*]

Someone explain drive extender in words of one syllable, please? It's a phrase chucked around in so many things I get confused.

[pollaxe]

Need more space? Just add a disk and it goes into the storage pool; the WHS box does it all, no need for fancy RAID or that kind of thing.

It was simple and brilliant and they've take it away. Idiots.

[Singh400]

Yup. No extender, no care.

Took the words out of my mouth fella!

[TheAnimus]

That's about the size of it, yeah.

My attitude always has been .... don't upgrade if the existing version does what I need and want. And 2030 does.

I could add to that .... don't 'upgrade' if the new one does considerably less of what I want than the existing one does. "Vail" is, as far as I'm concerned, a downgrade not an upgrade.

Can I get on the beta for the 2030 version

But your right, what is the killer feature going to be? Right now it does everything I want, except perhaps for RDP https tunneling, that is a total ballache and I've never found a set up that works reliably.

Ultimately thou what does Vail offer me to upgrade? Loss of a very useful feature only.

[Saracen]

Can I get on the beta for the 2030 version

I'm sure I can arrange that for you ..... for a small () fee.






Typo amended, by the way.

[Shooty*]

Oh, right, so the five disks I have in mine that appear as one, that won't work anymore?

IDIOTS. It's the best feature