Ī key functionality of Windows Home Server is the Console, which allows the administrator to configure certain aspects of the server, such as managing computers in a network, viewing the status of disk drives and the ability to create and modify user accounts through a dashboard application. Along with the launch of Windows Home Server, a children's book titled Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? was released to promote the then-new operating system. It was first released to manufacturing on 16 July 2007 and was made generally available on 4 November 2007. It was formally announced by Bill Gates, then-CEO of Microsoft, on 8 January 2007 during the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center. So if the Installation aborts, take the USB-Stick from your HP and remove the Line to start again.Windows Home Server (codenamed Quattro) is a home server solution developed by Microsoft, based on Windows Small Business Server 2003, itself a spin-off of Windows Server 2003. This is a little tweak to save the system, that it doesn’t reinstalls every time. The Problem is, that Windows is extending your „cfg.ini“ with the line „Processed=true“. – point your browser to – follow the Web Site for the InstallationĪttention: I had the problem that the Installation abort during the initial Partition creation. – check you Router for a new Server with an IP – the server tries to restart (in my case it booted again from the usb stick and nothing happened after that) – the Server Installation will be started and the Installation Files will be copied to the OS drive – start the HP (if you have a USB Stick with a LED it should start blinking after a while) – place the USB Stick in the Bottom Rear Slot – put the hard disks which should be the new OS drive into Slot 4 (because my system doesn’t boot from USB Stick, if there is a HDD in Slot 1 with nothing on it) – create the necessary config file (cfg.ini) for the headless installation and copy it to your USB-Stick

– create a bootable USB-Stick with the Help of a Microsoft Tool ( ) There are a lot of them out there, but nothing of them really helped me out, because I stumbled into some stupid User Failures and Hardware Limitations. (on MSDN/Technet)Īfter I found the news (thx to Twitter) I started some hours later the download and searched for some Tutorials, how to install it.

The last weeks, I waited for the News, that the Windows Home Server 2011 is available.

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