• Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 coming November 24

    Microsoft has announced that Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 will be available on November 24. I’m a little slow getting this posted – apologies.

    Think of PP3 as the Windows 7 extensions to Windows Home Server, with a little bit of new Media Center stuff thrown in. One of the glaring omissions in the Win7 launch was a way to automatically get the Windows Home Server shared folders tied into your Win7 libraries automatically. Power Pack 3 takes care of that little problem, and adds several new features as well. More details on the WHS Blog.

    If you have WHS set up for automatic updates (and, yes, as I explain in Windows Home Server For Dummies, I do turn on automatic updates for WHS), you’ll automatically get Power Pack 3 on November 24. If you suddenly discover that your Win7 computers have picked up the Server folders in their libraries, you know what caused it.