Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Announced, Adds Enhancements for Windows 7 PCs

Windows Home Server

The Windows Home Server Team has announced today the beta of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 (PP3). And if you’re running Windows 7, Windows Home Server PP3 comes with several new features designed to take advantage key Windows 7 features:

  • Full Image-based Backups of Windows 7 PCs. After the Windows Home Server Connector is installed on your Windows 7 PCs, Action Center should no longer display that your files are not being backed up.
  • Windows 7 Libraries Support. Music, Photos and Videos shared folders from your Windows Home Server will be added to Windows 7 Libraries. Content saved to these shared folders will be able to be quickly accessed through your Windows 7 Libraries. And any application, like Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center, will be able to access content saved on your Windows Home Server through Libraries as well.
  • Windows Search 4 is now included. With Windows Search 4, PP3 offers improved query search times, indexing times and reliability. Easy search through a Library in Windows 7 with files stored in multiple locations.
  • Windows Media Center Enhancements. Archive old recorded TV shows onto your Windows Home Server in a variety of formats. Use Console Quick View to see statistics about your Windows Home Server through Windows Media Center.

More in-depth information on these features – see their blog post on PP3.

The Windows Home Server Team does not yet have a final release date for PP3 however they are shooting to have PP3 available shortly before GA of Windows 7. If you’re running Windows Home Server and have several Windows 7 PCs – I encourage you to give PP3 a try and help the Windows Home Server Team make PP3 rock.

To beta test PP3, please sign up as a beta participant of the Windows Home Server program on Microsoft Connect. Once you’ve signed up, you’ll be able to download PP3.

Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 will be a free update to existing Windows Home Server users via Windows Update.

I’ll be installing PP3 on my HP MediaSmart Server EX470 either tonight or sometime over the weekend. I’m stoked about the Windows 7 integration!

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  1. Briantist
    Posted on: July 17, 2009 at 4:56AM  

    I set up a LAN with several Windows 7 RC machines with all the media and documents on a server.

    Windows Search 4.0 on the server makes all the workstation searches instantanious, with Media Player and Media Centre benefiting hugely.

    Finally Microsoft, you get LAN media searching right!

  2. 1uk3
    Posted on: July 17, 2009 at 6:26AM  

    Great news!  Shame that when I try to sign up to the Beta program it says it ended in 2007 though so can't get the download.

  3. Tero Huttunen
    Posted on: July 19, 2009 at 4:48AM  

    Does Power Pack 3 include fix for Volume Shadow Copy? I'd really like to see Previous Versions working. In my book WHS media sharing is already as good as it needs to be, but fileserver features are lacking.

  4. Kurt Ryker
    Posted on: July 22, 2009 at 3:06AM  

    I opened this account because MSN has completely ruined my computer.  I cannot surf the internet because of their MSN; and they give me no way to uninstall their program or communicate with them.

    They have totally ruined my computer.  I want them off.  Please pass this on.

    I cannot comunicate with them because they will not give me a way to do it.

    They have totally ruined my computer.  I cannot even surf the web now.  I want them OFF!!!!

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