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With so little for Microsoft to celebrate over the past year, after defeats in Europe and Vista sales a depressing disappointment worldwide, the news breaks that a small bright spot, Windows Home Server, has some serious troubles.

So much a problem that Microsoft has issued a warning to users of the product derived from Server 2003. Something occurred in the derivation process, as now Microsoft admits that during periods of stress (high usage), the WHS product can corrupt files - specifically picture files. The problem is further complicated by the fact that the client side applications that cause the corruption are almost all from Redmond too.

The offending programs are Windows Vista Photo Gallery, Windows Live Photo Gallery, OneNote 2003 or 2007,  Outlook 2007, Money 2007, or SyncToy 2.0 Beta. Other non - MS programs may cause problems, but it is not verified. Anecdotal tales of problems with Quickbooks, Quicken, and torrent applications have been cited.

Microsoft does not yet seem to have a handle on the problem, as the only response from the company is to avoid using the offending programs until further notice.

www.tvofyourlife.com_images_alvinshowclyde02 Clyde Crashcup says caution is the watchword for the new year!

Some might say that WHS was rushed to market, but then who knew that small changes to the solid Server 2003 code would break the model. It does seem to point to either changes in the dumbed-down UI or the strange way that the storage bounds are expanded and duplicated, neither of which I thought was a good idea at the outset.

300px-Jacques_Clouseau and Inspector Clouseau is on the case!

Again, the advice from Redmond is cold comfort to those wishing to use the advertised features of the program - “do not use the programs that are listed in this article to save or to edit program-specific files that are stored on a Windows Home Server-based system. You can still use the Windows Home Server home computer backup to back up and restore files from and to your home computers.”

Home theater users may or may not find this a problem, but forewarned is forearmed! Perhaps those ideas about the use of Fedora 8 or any other Linux distribution as the basis of a home server for entertainment and data backup are not so wild after all! Also, Myth TV works better on Linux.

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Posted in General on January 2nd, 2008

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