The list of patches due to be released next week for various Windows platforms has been announced, and in there you’ll see an update for Windows Home Server.
- Update for Windows Home Server (KB957825)
Locale: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Japanese Spanish
Deployment: Automatic Updates, Windows Update, and Microsoft Update
Classification: High Priority, Non-Security
Target platforms: Windows Server 2003
Approximate file sizes: ~ 16095KB
Description:
Install this update to resolve an issue with Windows Home Server. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.
Whilst the announcement does not mention which issues in particular will be resolved with the update (and the relevant Knowledge Base article has not yet been published) I know the team have been working on a couple of relatively well known annoyances, and so if indeed these are the issued resolved, then you’ll definitely want to ensure you have this patch installed next week. More info as we get it.
More Info: Microsoft Knowledge Base
23. November 2008 at 5:18 pm
C’mon automatic server backup!!!!!
Oh, and backing up the system partition would be nice too.
23. November 2008 at 5:48 pm
This won’t be a feature upgrade, I promise you. More likely to be fixes…
23. November 2008 at 7:52 pm
Any idea if it will fix the file conflict warnings that won’t go away? That’s really the only issue I have with my WHS setup right now.
24. November 2008 at 9:27 am
yes, something to stop me from balding (or ripping my hair out) These file conflicts don’t make any sense to me.
25. November 2008 at 12:17 am
Fingers crossed for VSS and Previous Versions fix.
25. November 2008 at 6:23 pm
This update contains the following improvements.
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Shared Folders and Server Storage
Issue 1
Before this update is installed, the ability to copy large files or folders from a home computer that is running Windows Vista to a shared folder on the home server is limited by the free space on the primary hard disk drive of the Windows Home Server-based system. After this update is installed, the file size is limited to the free space on the target hard disk drives that are connected to the home server.
Issue 2
Sometimes, Windows Home Server generates lots of notification messages about the files that are stored in shared folders. These notifications may cause high CPU utilization on the home server for applications that are accessing these files. This behavior causes slow performance on the home server. After this update is installed, applications such as the Microsoft Zune software, that may be running at the same time, no longer consume excessive processor resources.
Issue 3
Under certain conditions, Windows Home Server disables duplication on shared folders after a new user account is created. After this update is installed, creation of user accounts no longer affects the status of shared folder duplication.
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Home Computer Backup
When you restore files and folders from a Home Computer Backup, the Home Computer Backup process may stop when it is 79 percent complete. This update provides new functionality to help prevent this issue.
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Home Server Backup
Some issues may occur when you restore files and folders from a Home Server Backup on an external hard disk drive to the software shared folder on a Windows Home Server-based system. This update adds functionality to prevent the unintended restoration of older versions of the Windows Home Server Connector software from overwriting newer versions of the files.
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Remote Access
When you use the search functionality on the Remote Access Shared Folders tab to perform a search that includes accented characters, such as ã or ó, you may receive the following Web page error:
Windows Home Server Remote Access has encountered an error.
This update lets you use accented characters with the Remote Access search.
25. November 2008 at 7:14 pm
Have successfully applied this update and the server restarted with a couple of errors. Have not had chance to test these fixes, but at least nothing seems broken.
EDIT: One service failed at startup. After checking the event logs it seems to be DCOM.
DCOM got error “The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. ” attempting to start the service WHSTransportService with arguments “” in order to run the server:
I also got:
A fatal error occurred when attempting to access the SSL server credential private key. The error code returned from the cryptographic module is 0×80090016.
25. November 2008 at 7:17 pm
Correction: I can no longer access the remote access web site for WHS. Presuming that this is to do with the Secure Certificate problems in the event log – any ideas? Will Google around!
26. November 2008 at 5:02 am
@A. Haines – Hi, Haines, can you try to reboot the server and see if the problem still exists?
26. November 2008 at 11:46 am
@H.Ira – Yes, problem is still there – rebooted three times now and it still doesn’t work.
May I ask why? Have you had this error and then it go away with a reboot?
26. November 2008 at 2:23 pm
@A. Haines -
Someone met similar problem before which disappears after reboot. I want to help.
28. November 2008 at 2:47 pm
Still having the problems even after cold power ups…