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Windows Home Server 2011 Update Rollup 1 Now Available: What’s Coming?

By on August 23, 2011 in News, Windows Home Server

You’ve heard of Service Packs and Power Packs – how about Update Rollups? Well, Windows Home Server 2011 owners, it’s an Update Rollup that’s on its way to you today, courtesy of Windows Update. Hardly any new features (that’s a Power Pack) and not big enough to be classed a Service Pack – Update Rollup 1 (UR1 to its friends) fixes a number of bugs in the RTM edition of WHS 2011, and as such is a recommended download.

New Features

Wait for it….

  • This update adds an alert that reminds you to enable Microsoft Update. 
Erm, that’s it.

Bug Fixes
  • You cannot register a Remote Web Access domain name that contains two or more root domain levels (such as testuser.com.uk). (That would be testuser.co.uk, Microsoft)
  • In the Alert Viewer window, you select an alert, and then you click Ignore the alert to stop receiving notifications for this alert. However, the notifications still appear.
  • The Client Deployment Wizard fails with an authentication failure if one of the following conditions is true:

    • The server password contains a backslash and a double quotation mark (\”).
    • The server password ends with a backslash (\).
    • The server password contains a double quotation mark (“) but does not end with a double quotation mark.
  • When the server and the clients are in an OpenDNS network environment, you cannot connect to the server or the clients through the Remote Web Access webpage.
  • You have a server that is running Windows Home Server 2011. You change the current system time to a time that is earlier than the time that you installed Windows Home Server 2011. You restart the server. You change the system time back to the original setting. In this scenario, the machine certificate becomes invalid and cannot be recovered. Additionally, most of the Windows Server services do not start after the server restarts.
  • When the machine certificate is changed incorrectly or is removed, you are not prompted by any troubleshooting measures.
  • A backslash (\) may be displayed incorrectly in Korean or Japanese content.
  • “Connect site” is translated incorrectly in a non-English dashboard.
  • Some important non-English instructions or guides are truncated in a non-English dashboard or wizard.

UR1 is waiting for you now…

More: Microsoft Knowledge Base

 


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  • Maenxe

    yawn

  • fladude

    Agreed. Yawn.

    While I wasn't expecting a lot of new features, it would have been nice to see something.

    Of course technically in MS speak, a rollup is just a bunch of bugfixes to begin with.

  • toy4x4

    Yes, zzzzzzzzzzz

  • FormerMarineSgt

    I thought a roll up had something to do with dried fruit!

  • Cubanblood

    WOW!! Good job MS

  • Whosellsthis

    What a great product, so good you can't buy it!! why are we getting updates for a product no one has?

  • Fam

    While this update is boring, the following makes it worthwhile for me. This has been bugging(no pun intended) me since I installed 2011.

    In the Alert Viewer window, you select an alert, and then you click Ignore the alert to stop receiving notifications for this alert. However, the notifications still appear.

  • James Quintin

    oh dear…

    Just applied this to my EX475 (with 2011) and it rebooted without connecting to the network.. I can't access it!!

    Help!

  • Kevin Baldwin

    After the Rollup was installed – an update to the connector software was also pushed out to all my client PCs – which required a reboot. I suspect that this may be your problem James

    • james quintin

      No its not that, I can’t even ping the machine…

    • Greybat

      The only indication I received that an update to the connector had been pushed was a new icon in the system tray (on clients). Left-clicking this icon did nothing. Double-clicking did nothing. Right clicking popped up a context menu with 2 options: "Display notification" and "Postpone notification". Clicking either of these options did nothing! Hovering over the icon showed "Windows Home Server 2011 Connector Update". Really helpful!

      After seeing this post, I rebooted the clients, and the icon disappeared, so thanks for that, Kevin!.

  • Tomen8r

    The client updated associated with this update busted my RealTek wireless card. I've got to uninstall the client update associated with this rollup … UGH >… MS still doesn't test enough prior to deployment ..

  • Joseph

    im staying with old school WHS; good luck boys and girls

  • Alex

    And this is why I am making my switch to Apple. Have been a die hard Windows user since 3.0. They have screwed me once too many times. WHS was really the straw that broke the camels back so to speak. Really glad I never bothered with WHS 2011.