Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Public Beta
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 22.5.2008
Microsoft has detailed its plans to release a public beta of its Windows Home Server Power Pack.
The update will include a fix for the data corruption issues that have plagued the OS since its release.
In a message to potential testers the company said:
"Due to the nature of the shared folder data corruption bug (KB #946676) a broad beta test program with sufficient time for feedback is required. The time line for a final release will depend on this feedback and testing, in order to deliver a fix of the highest quality. To meet our goals for the beta test we need the number of beta testers who are actively using and testing the Power Pack 1 beta to ramp up very quickly"
The company is asking for anyone currently using Home Server to sign up to the beta to ensure the data corruption issue is fixed.
source:
connect.microsoft.com
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in january at ces, microsoft announced home server power pack 1 and said it would not
only fix a number of minor issues in the software, but also give users the ability to
perform full home server data backups on external storage devices, including the backup
database.
however, todd headrick, marketing director for windows home server,
said the ability to back up the backup database has been dropped from power pack 1. but,
todd blames whs customers by stating “consumers may hork their backup database by doing an
incomplete backup or interrupting the restore process” rather than stating the actual
truth in that this promised featured still has remaining bugs to which haven’t even passed
microsoft’s own internal quality bar standards.
so… basically you’re saying
“we’re cutting this feature because we think our users are too stupid to use it
correctly”.
don’t you just love how microsoft blames it’s customers while
microsoft was not taking responsibility for it’s own crappy code!
this is the
same problem with the data corruption design defect, as only microsoft itself had created
the fatal flaw in whs and then delayed ever since last year to fix it. in fact,
microsoft’s own software doesn’t even work with whs and again microsoft blames everything
else and everyone but their own blunders in creating this design defect more than a year
ago.
whs public beta screen shots
www.m2cross.com/50226711/e_windows_home_server_power_pack_1_134209.php
taken from the “windows home server team forum” on the 23rd of may 2008:
“we
do not believe the internal testing and private beta testing we have done is sufficient
for us to feel we have “proven” that there are no additional bugs.”
“we cannot
promise that we missed any bugs (kb946676) …the whole point of doing this public beta is
to verify that we did not miss anything.”
“we will not ship the update until we
feel that we have proven that the product meets our quality goals.” — which just didn’t
happen the first time around way back in april 2007.
how much confidence does
this provide whs users with a proven data corrupting design flaw in their paid products
still needing relief from the data corruption experience?
do you know if whs public beta pp1 deals with all the issues identified in the latest kb
946676:
• photoshop elements
• zune software
• apple itunes
•
tagscanner
• mozilla thunderbird
• adobe lightroom
• intuit quicken
•
ms digital image library
• mp3bookhelper
• acdsee
• winamp
• windows
media player 11
• microsoft office excel
• visual dataflex
… or will
we still wind up with caveat????
microsoft isn't going to resolve all of the data corruption issues in whs drive extender
that is causes. that's because all third party software isn't wanted, only microsoft's
own.
unfortuntely, even microsoft's own software isn't going to function
correctly here as well, for example outlook 2007 pst files...
this is all
planned by microsoft because it insures anyone using whs must depend upon microsoft at all
times to deliver constant patches, fixes and security updates keeping customers loyal to
microsoft.
heaven forbid if anyone needs to reinstall whs. that's because the reinstall itself
takes almost an hour. plus any required drivers. plus windows updates. plus any needed
reboots. plus restarting the console after every add-in. and then you have any
non-standard applications.
now why wouldn't just backing up the os system be
better?
unless, you're microsoft of course thinking to make everything the
most difficult for your paying customers!
be sure whs users read that part that pp1 states, “i understand that i might permanently
lose some backups while attempting to repair the backup database”.
which is
even more ironic when them database backup files are not allowed in pp1 to be backed up on
an external source!
ken warren mvp from the microsoft whs forum stated, “the reinstallation itself could
conceivably take days if you have a data pool with terabytes of data.”
why
should whs need many days just to reinstall whs?
why should reinstalling whs
needing days to complete be reasonable for paying customers, when all this could be
avoided in the first place just to provide the means to backup the full complete package
rather than just user folders and accounts?
who wants to sit around for days to
have whs reinstall?
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PP1 Removes the Database Backup for Users
By Richard on 24.05.2008 - 18:05