FYI: Microsoft's Windows Home Server corrupts files......

Microsoft's Windows Home Server corrupts files
Gregg Keizer
December 26, 2007 (Computerworld) Microsoft Corp. has warned Windows Home
Server users not to edit files stored on their backup systems with several
of its programs, including Vista Photo Gallery and Office's OneNote and
Outlook, as well as files generated by popular finance software such as
Quicken and QuickBooks.

"When you use certain programs to edit files on a home computer that uses
Windows Home Server, the files may become corrupted when you save them to
the home server," Microsoft said in a support document posted last week.

The document went on to list the software, which includes Windows Vista
Photo Gallery, Windows Live Photo Gallery, OneNote 2003, OneNote 2007,
Outlook 2007, Microsoft Money 2007 and SyncToy 2.0 Beta. Others programs,
however, may also corrupt files stored on a home server powered by
Microsoft's operating system.

"Additionally, there have been customer reports of issues with Torrent
applications, with Intuit Quicken and with QuickBooks program files," the
document said. "Until an update for Windows Home Server is available, we
recommend that [you] do not use the programs that are listed to save or to
edit program-specific files that are stored on a Windows Home Server-based
system."

Microsoft blamed the problem on a glitch within Windows Home Server's shared
folders. The company said it had reproduced the bug and would post any new
information to the document tagged as KB946676.

"Our development team is working full-time through the holidays to diagnose
and address this issue," claimed an anonymous posting last Thursday to the
Microsoft blog dedicated to Windows Home Sever.

Windows Home Server, which was unveiled nearly a year ago by Chairman Bill
Gates at the Consumer Electronics Show, is a heavily modified version of
Windows Server 2003 designed for consumers and small businesses.
Hewlett-Packard Co. launched the first hardware powered by Windows Home
Server, its $599 and $749 MediaSmart Servers, last month and is now shipping
systems to customers.



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http://www.computerworld.com/action/...icleId=9054178

Nothing against Microsoft....just thought you may need to know.

jim

* jim fired off this tart reply:

> Microsoft's Windows Home Server corrupts files
>
> Nothing against Microsoft....just thought you may need to know.
>
> jim

Then wny did you stick a linux ng into the xpost? We would be highly
unlikely to use WHS, when we have NFS, Samba, sshfs, AFS, and probably a
few other distributed file systems available to us.

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Linonut wrote:

> * jim fired off this tart reply:
>
>> Microsoft's Windows Home Server corrupts files
>>
>> Nothing against Microsoft....just thought you may need to know.
>>
>> jim
>
> Then wny did you stick a linux ng into the xpost? We would be highly
> unlikely to use WHS, when we have NFS, Samba, sshfs, AFS, and probably a
> few other distributed file systems available to us.

Indeed, yet another INNOVA~1 Microsoft solution for a nonexistent problem.

Jeez, I've been running a Home File Server on GNU/Linux for about a decade.

Cheers

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> Linonut wrote:
>
>> * jim fired off this tart reply:
>>
>>> Microsoft's Windows Home Server corrupts files
>>>
>>> Nothing against Microsoft....just thought you may need to know.
>>>
>>> jim
>>
>> Then wny did you stick a linux ng into the xpost? We would be highly
>> unlikely to use WHS, when we have NFS, Samba, sshfs, AFS, and probably a
>> few other distributed file systems available to us.
>
> Indeed, yet another INNOVA~1 Microsoft solution for a nonexistent problem.
>
> Jeez, I've been running a Home File Server on GNU/Linux for about a decade.
>
> Cheers

Windows Home Server.

"If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good."

--Bill Gates, Microsoft

> >>> Microsoft's Windows Home Server corrupts files

That is _just_ a trifle farcical, considering that Windows 95 (and just
about anything since) makes a perfectly good small server. Doesn't corrupt
files, either.


http://tinyurl.com/2a8pxw

Generl misunderstanding of Windows Home Server!! Most likely "posters" have
had no experience with it.

For instance Home Server provides centralized backup for "all" computers on
the network - in addition it utilizes two or more HDs as a RAID
configuration (e.g. if you have one 300 gig drive and two 100 gig drives -
home server treats them as one 500 gig drive)./

It provides for backup redundacy and balances HD usage.

"Anteaus" <> wrote in message
news:ED8EFEC1-1ABF-4738-8D59-...
>> >>> Microsoft's Windows Home Server corrupts files
>
> That is _just_ a trifle farcical, considering that Windows 95 (and just
> about anything since) makes a perfectly good small server. Doesn't corrupt
> files, either.
>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2a8pxw
>

"Linonut" <> wrote in message
news:N5Odj.55828$L%. ..
>* jim fired off this tart reply:
>
>> Microsoft's Windows Home Server corrupts files
>>
>> Nothing against Microsoft....just thought you may need to know.
>>
>> jim
>
> Then wny did you stick a linux ng into the xpost? We would be highly
> unlikely to use WHS, when we have NFS, Samba, sshfs, AFS, and probably a
> few other distributed file systems available to us.

Most of the actual posters of this group that I have read also must support
users that use Microsoft software. They will find this information useful
if they find themselves having to support Microsoft's Windows Home Server.

There are trolls here that only live to praise Linux and bash Microsoft, but
I wasn't really aiming for them.

jim

jim wrote:

>
> "Linonut" <> wrote in message
> news:N5Odj.55828$L%. ..
>>* jim fired off this tart reply:
>>
>>> Microsoft's Windows Home Server corrupts files
>>>
>>> Nothing against Microsoft....just thought you may need to know.
>>>
>>> jim
>>
>> Then wny did you stick a linux ng into the xpost? We would be highly
>> unlikely to use WHS, when we have NFS, Samba, sshfs, AFS, and probably a
>> few other distributed file systems available to us.
>
> Most of the actual posters of this group that I have read also must
> support users that use Microsoft software.

Well, they would support them with a real server. That excludes
automatically anything coming from MS
You are aware that using windows on client machines does not make it
necessary to use it on the server also?

> They will find this information useful
> if they find themselves having to support Microsoft's Windows Home Server.

I certainly can't see any circumstances where I would find myself in such a
dismal situation

> There are trolls here that only live to praise Linux and bash Microsoft,
> but I wasn't really aiming for them.
>
> jim

Well, you can be reasonably sure that few (except the dumbest of posters,
like DFS, billwg or Hadron Quark) would ever recommend using WHS.
It is far easier to set up a linux server doing more with less than that
POS.
Why anyone would feel a need to use such garbage is a mystery

And no, you will be hardpressed to find "linux trolls" on linux newsgroups.
You will find plenty of single-digit-IQ windows trolls, though
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