Today, the Home Server engineering team signed off the release version of WHS 2011. An exciting milestone which now starts the process to make it available for purchase.
Affordable and easy-to-use, Windows Home Server 2011 is the ideal solution to help families keep their important digital files and data automatically backed up, organized, and accessible from virtually anywhere.
To help with questions we hear during this time of the product release cycle, I have provided further guidance below. If you have a specific question, please feel free to post in comments, on our WHS forum.
- When will OEM’s offer WHS 2011? Many OEM’s and System Builders have already started building specific form factors and solutions based on WHS 2011. We expect to start seeing them in the market starting May.
- What languages is WHS 2011 available in? WHS 2011 will be released in 19 languages including Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan), Chinese (Hong Kong), Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.
- When will the Evaluation for WHS 2011 be made available? The evaluation experience for WHS 2011 will be released in early April.
- When will I be able to download WHS 2011 via my TechNet or MSDN subscription? WHS 2011 will be made available on MSDN and TechNet also in early April.
- What is the difference between V1 of WHS and WHS 2011? You can learn more about differences in our comparison datasheet.
During this time we would also like to thank all our MVP’s, partners and customers that have helped us get to this point. We look forward to sharing more information with you over the coming weeks.
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After running the Vail CTP/Betas the moment they announced Drive Extender being pulled I looked for other alternatives for home data storage.
I'll miss the backing up PC's automatically etc, but just bought True Image for this and just bought a 5 bay Drobo as my network attached data for redundancy.
As a HOME consumer this product changed to not be a HOME product but a SMALL BUSINESS product and thus should have been called Microsoft Smaller Business Server 2011
I'll miss the backing up PC's automatically etc, but just bought True Image for this and just bought a 5 bay Drobo as my network attached data for redundancy.
As a HOME consumer this product changed to not be a HOME product but a SMALL BUSINESS product and thus should have been called Microsoft Smaller Business Server 2011
So the last comment I read on the WHS blog post here http://tinyurl.com/4bk52e4 trying to tell us the WHS 2011 was so much better and no one really needed DE was perfect:
silicon_ghost:
"Continuing to create these "unicorns poop rainbows" posts when you know full well you screwed the pooch on WHS 2011 is insulting your customers."
I find it hard to add anything new to the comments section when a single post concludes with a sentiment that exactly describes the situation in its entirety. And for the record, I too will not be upgrading thanks to MS shortsighted decision to rip out the heart of WHS.
Or to place it in simpler terms:
MS: WHS is great DE was never needed is the first place we did it all so much better this time. It is magical and revolutionary it is exactly what home users need.
WHS community:
"Wrong again monkey boy"
Without DE, WHS is dead to me.
WHS can suck it. I'm tired of being screwed over my Microsoft.
I'll build my own solution.
WHS can suck it. I'm tired of being screwed over my Microsoft.
I'll build my own solution.
@justin we have Drobo's at work and honestly they are super slow, even over a 1gig network connection. They are also very costly.
Trueimage is good, but not as the good as the WHS solution.
DE was great and its a bummer they pulled it. That said it was one of MANY great features in WHS that are still in the solution.
I have a Synology NAS box that I use for Hyper V testing (iSCSI). I tried using it in place of WHS after the DE removal. Well about 3 weeks into it, the power supply died in the box. Synology support was good but I was down for a week or more waiting for a replacement. When I tried to access the data on the hard drives in the Synology, I had to use a work around (Unbutu VM in VMware Workstation) so I could read the EXT4 partition, just for a few files.
Had this been my home grown WHS box, I would have ran down and bought a new power supply or accessed the drives via any Windows computer.
WHS 2011 has many great features, especially if you have Windows computers, Media Center, and an Xbox 360
Trueimage is good, but not as the good as the WHS solution.
DE was great and its a bummer they pulled it. That said it was one of MANY great features in WHS that are still in the solution.
I have a Synology NAS box that I use for Hyper V testing (iSCSI). I tried using it in place of WHS after the DE removal. Well about 3 weeks into it, the power supply died in the box. Synology support was good but I was down for a week or more waiting for a replacement. When I tried to access the data on the hard drives in the Synology, I had to use a work around (Unbutu VM in VMware Workstation) so I could read the EXT4 partition, just for a few files.
Had this been my home grown WHS box, I would have ran down and bought a new power supply or accessed the drives via any Windows computer.
WHS 2011 has many great features, especially if you have Windows computers, Media Center, and an Xbox 360
