Comments on: Remote Desktop in Windows 7 With Windows Home Server – Go Pro

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:56:04 +0000

Live Mesh totally screwed my pc up…. never again!!

By: pm"tucson sam"

pm"tucson sam" — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:18:21 +0000

all righty then…so i guess if i don't upgrade my tablet laptop running "Xp tablet pc edition 2005 ver.2002 sp3" i can remote my whs from it??
the truth is i am overwhelmed on all this windows 7 " ?" to use i have 5 computers here at home using 3 have two in storage thinking of a home server for file and print maybe a email server and the hp thing looks great for movie sharing around home and on the road but it seems like every things needs a upgrade to work ….
wtf shoould i do?'
thnks tucson sam here

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:31:24 +0000

It can only be a matter of time before the clever people who came up with the termsrv.dll hack(s) for Windows Vista Home Premium do the same for Windows 7.

I am typing this on my main Vista Premium (64) desktop whilst remote desktop'd from my netbook downstairs

By: jasonp

jasonp — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:21:17 +0000

The Microsoft comparision of Home Premium and Pro does not list this as a difference, thus Home Premium must be able to host remote desktop.

I found a few old postings claiming a difference (posted befroe MS published the final comparision)

Is there a MS source which states that home premium will not support it?

By: Boggy

Boggy — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:22:33 +0000

PaulG. Initially I also that that lack of BitLocker meant no HD disk encryption at all. I wish Microsoft would do a little bit better job on providing detailed information. I still not understand why would MS not include Remote Desktop access for Home Premium (HTPC need it for sure), or simple disk encryption (laptops, net-books are getting so popular, and one would think that EVERYBODY would need some kind of data protection). It almost seems like a negligence on MS part. So many SKU's simply is too confusing.

By: JohnBick

JohnBick — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:52:09 +0000

Is there a discounted upgrade option to go from Vista Ultimate to Win7 Ultimate?

By: PaulG

PaulG — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:29:33 +0000

Sorry Boggy — I stand corrected. I just read about EFS, as compared to BitLocker.

By: PaulG

PaulG — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:57:10 +0000

@Boggy: When you refer to "disk encryption," are you talking about BitLocker? If so, I think that option is available only in Ultimate. See: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/produ...

By: Boggy

Boggy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:46:23 +0000

Mesh remote support …. suks: It too slow, It is not tied to WHS. Let's not forget about features that exist in Professiona, and are missing from the Home version like: XP mode or disk encryption. These two are worth extra $45 on the special upgrade promotion.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:48:05 +0000

@Mitch – This has always been the case.

@MarTen – Correct. You can Remote Desktop into WHS from pretty much any Windows client. This post was about not having the ability to Remote Desktop into a client machine with W7 Home Premium due to it not having that feature.

By: MarTen

MarTen — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:33:16 +0000

This is good news. If I understand this correctly; it will be possible to access WHS using Remote Desktop from a PC using Windows 7 Home Premium?

By: Mitch

Mitch — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:34:48 +0000

Windows 7 Home Premium comes with the Remote Desktop Client. You can still connect to other machines that have the Remote Desktop Host.

So the only limitation will be that you can't remote desktop TO your machine that has Windows 7 Home Premium.