Power Pack 3 for Windows Home Server coming on 24th November

Microsoft has announced that it will be making Power Pack 3 for Windows Home Server available for download this Tuesday, i.e. on 24th November. Power Pack 3 (PP3) will be available via Windows Update. Users wishing to get the latest Power Pack, are required to have Power Pack 2 (PP2) running on their Windows Home Server OS. The release will be available in Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish languages.

Power Pack 3, mainly  focuses on improving Windows 7 and Windows Media Center experience, by enabling backup and restore support for Windows 7 based computers, integrating Windows 7 libraries and other exciting stuff.

Power Pack 3 features

Listed below are the new features that PP3 will be bringing for Windows Home Server:

• Windows 7 Libraries integration
  When you install the Windows Home Server Connector and log on a computer running Windows 7, you can access the Windows Home Server shared folders from the Windows 7 libraries.
• Windows 7 Action Center backup warning suppression
  After you install the Windows Home Server Connector to enable the home server backup for your computer running Windows 7, you can suppress the Action Center warning reminding you that Windows Backup has not been set up.
• Windows 7 power settings
  You can configure your computer running Windows 7 to wake up at a scheduled backup time and then go back to sleep after the backup finishes.
• Console support for Windows 7
  Windows 7 is properly displayed as the operating system shown in the Computers & Backup tab.
• Windows Search
  Windows Search 4 is included to improve query search times, indexing times, and reliability. Extended Remote Discovery increases the efficiency of searching across all your libraries running Windows Search 4.  Files encrypted with EFS are now supported.
• TV archive
  Windows Home Server can automatically archive recorded TV by moving your recordings from a Windows Media Center computer to your home server in the format of your choice.  This enables playback in the correct format for your home computers and/or portable devices.
• Console view
  You can view information about your home server’s storage space, hard drives, backup status, and more from Windows Media Center.

Back in July, Microsoft released a Beta for Power Pack 3. At that time, Microsoft intended to release Power Pack 3 before the public launch of Windows 7, which clearly did not happen. Anyhow, it will finally arrive this Tuesday. If you are interested in knowing more about the Power Pack 3 beta, please visit the following link

Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta

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