Skip to main content

Download New Windows Home Server Beta Preview for Windows 7 SP1 Beta

Microsoft has made available for download a new development milestone of the next generation of its home server.
Although the latest release of Windows Home Server code name "Vail"marks a new stage in the development process, the Redmond company has steered clear of labeling the Build either a Beta or a Release Candidate (RC).
In all fairness, considering the fact that the first Beta for Windows Home Server code name "Vail" was released earlier this year, the latest Build should be either Beta 2 or RC.
However, Microsoft only noted that “Windows Home Server code name "Vail" Public Preview has been refreshed!”
“Since releasing our first Vail beta we have received lots of great suggestions for "Vail" and quite a few interesting bugs. Thanks to all of you who are beta testing! We love having you part of our extended team and appreciate your help,” revealed Jonas Svensson, Community Program Manager.
“This new build has plenty of enhancements and improvements over the original build and can be downloaded from the downloads section of our connect site.
“You can provide feedback about the new build through our Connect site and even log ideas or feature suggestions for future versions of Windows Home Server,” Svensson added.
There are of course a number of changes in the August 2010 Preview of the new Windows Home Server Vail Preview, including support for the Beta releases of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.
“This release supports installation of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Beta and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Beta,” Microsoft informed.
However, since Windows Home Server codename Vail August 2010 Preview is still pre-release software, there is an issue related to Windows 7 SP1. “Setup fails when starting from a USB hard disk drive or a USB flash drive,” the company explained.
Microsoft also detailed the solution for this problem:
1.Verify that the boot order in the BIOS does not list USB devices first.
2.Press F12 after the BIOS finishes Post to get the boot order menu, and then select the USB device as the boot source.
If the boot menu is not displayed after pressing F12, check the manufacturer’s information to determine which function key to press to display the boot menu.
3.If the computer does not start from the USB device after selecting it from the boot menu, verify that the USB device is not inserted in a lower level USB connector receptacle. Check the manufacturer’s information on the system board to determine which USB connector receptacles are lower-level.

If you do not have information about the system board, move the USB device to another USB connector receptacle, and then restart the computer until the computer starts from the USB device.”

Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Beta and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Beta are available for download here.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

SHORT CUT TO REMOVE PENDRIVE

Rather than clicking on the task bar and then safely removing the pendrive you can eaily do so creating a shortcut: The Steps are:- 1)Create shortcut on your desktop by right click and selecting new shortcut from the menu. 2)Type "RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll" click next and then finish. shortcut is created and now you can assign a shortcut key to it. just right click on it and select properties-> Click on Shortcut Tab -> Assign a Shortcut key to it(it will take Ctrl+Alt by default)eg: if you press 1 shortcut will be Ctrl+Alt+1.
Post a Comment
Read more

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Beta Review and Download

                                                                                   Which browser do you use for daily surfing chances are you would say Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera etc… anything but Internet Explorer. However, Microsoft has just unleashed the beta version of IE9, which could make you change your mind about browsers. The first look I would say, It's very minimalist: the box is both the address bar and the search box. The default is of course Bing, but you can change that. Next to that are tabs; to the far right of the screen are discreet icons for your home page, your favor...
Post a Comment
Read more

uTorrent and BitTorrent beta comes to Android, available on Google Play

Earlier this year, we heard reports that BitTorrent Inc., was working on an Android version of its popular uTorrent and BitTorrent client.  Fans of the uTorrent and BitTorrent torrent clients can now rejoice!, your  favorite  desktop torrent clients are now  available  on your mobile devices, because BitTorrent Inc. has launched a beta apps of uTorrent and BitTorrent clients for any mobile or tablet running Android OS. These are fully functional, standalone clients unlike the Remote apps that were available until now.   There are many torrent clients already available on Google Play, but most of them are have limited functionality and are ad-supported unless you have a paid version but both of these apps are currently free, with features like RSS feeds for serialized downloads , unlimited upload/download speed, and running and downloading over WiFi in background, currently there are no limits on download sizes either. Both  apps suppo...
7 comments
Read more