I guess WHS isn't really meant for short term storage but only long-term storage. I'd hate to dedicate a large hard drive to "temporary unzipping operations" but it looks like that is the only solution?

In short if you could take PP1 WHS 1.0 backups, and restore them into a shiny new 2.0 WHS, and almost everything got configured correctly, that would probably be sufficient. I don't expect to see …

I have two MSI files in shared folders/software/add-ins folder: The Toolkit I downloaded directly from Microsoft and an MSI File from McAfee for Homeserver specifically on a provided link from McAfee. …

Just installed WHS. Using it with a mixture of home PC's (5). This is a great forum to get clued in on. However I have a few questions that seem obvious yet I dont see them answered here fully.

I have just installed my 2nd WHS, It is the RTM version for download to test the new beta with. My other server is OEM I bought after the original beta was over. When I installed the connector cd it DID NOT …

Aug 25, 2008 · But strange enough - with nslookup WHS I get an IP address reported from back my router, which is in the DHCP range, but has no relation to the fixed address of WHS since installation …

I moved the My Documents folder from my local machine to WHS so that I can access it from my laptop as well. This seems to work just fine, with one downfall. When stored locally, I have backups through …

Now with WHS and the storage pool I am concerned what would haappen to my large ammounts of data if the D partition is spanned between not only the boot drive but any added drives. What happens to …

I don't really need the search companion for my own purposes, I'm helping out lot's of other users on the WHS forum to solve their problems, and often the lack of a quick well defined search without getting …

WHS uses a new technology called Drive Extender to manage the storage on the server, without users having to worry about and do the math about which data to go where and all. So all the disks that …