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windows home server
Christmas with the HP Media Smart Server. Ohhh! Twinkly! (Easter Egg discovered by mediasmartserver.net via wegotserved.co.uk) Technorati tags: Windows Home Server, HP Media Smart Server
Well that installation was faster; and look there on the right, a new image which greets you when you open the web site for remote browsing, which shows that WHS is fun for all the family; Actually the real pain was having to backup my music before installing, as RC1 doesn't upgrade from betas and wipes the hard drive (testers did receive a bunch of warnings this was going to happen) and the trick to avoid having to use Microsoft's idea of strong passwords on my user account no longer works. You can add the user to the Remote Desktop Users group...
A new CTP was announced by the Windows Home Server group today. The install is a lot smoother and allows you (finally) to choose the server name and regional settings. However they've introduced a new problem; strong passwords. My normal administrator password isn't strong enough, and neither is my user login. An option is provided to turn off the password complexity requirements; but it doesn't work. At all. By default the slide says it's medium, the requirements of which my password meets, however I'll be damned if I can actually enter it. So now in order to access shares on my...