Windows Home Server Feature Focus 1 PC Applications
This package contains doc, docx and pdf versions of the Windows Home Server Feature Focus #1. The feature focus document contains steps for testing Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 with some common Windows applicaions.
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"Downloading and burning DVDs can be very unreliable. We have seen literally hundreds of instances where Windows Home Server setup fails with all sorts of weird errors where the root cause was either (a) an ISO image corrupted during download, (b) an unverified burn of the DVD, (c) poor quality DVD media, (d) mis-matched DVD media (e.g. DVD-R used in a DVD+R drive), and (e) malfunctioning DVD-ROM readers.
To prevent these problems from affecting you please do the following when downloading and burning DVD images:
- Use a CRC check utility to verify the ISO file you downloaded was not corrupted. We post the CRC value for each ISO on Connect. You can find a lot of free CRC utils on the web if you do not have one. This is a CRC32 Checksum (Meaning it was generated using the CRC32 algorithm).
- Do not burn your DVDs at "maximum" write speed. Use a lower speed setting in your DVD burning software to reduce the risk of errors.
- Use a DVD burning software package that supports verification (e.g. DO NOT use dvdburn.exe). If you use Nero, make sure you turn on the data verify option on the page before you start the burn.
- Use high quality DVD media that is matched to your DVD writer and reader.
- Make sure your machine has at least 512MB RAM. WinPE 2.0 in the mode we use it in (WIM) requires something well north of 256MB and will fail in obscure ways if there is not enough memory.
- Check that the BIOS in your server is the most recent. In some cases, a PC will not boot any WinPE 2.0 based disk (including Vista RTM) until the the BIOS is upgraded.
Windows Home Server setup has been extensively tested. If you encounter any failures during setup, including notifications of corrupted or missing files, blue screens, or other faults it is most likely due to a DVD problem."