My work stuff-meeting notes, and so on-and my personal stuff-photos, home video, the music collection, and more-are all on there. The issue here was simple: Drive Extender really was the heart of WHS, in my opinion, and that's largely true because of the way I use the product. While I tried to adopt a public "wait and see" approach, my gut was telling me that WHS was finished and that I would never be able to use or recommend this new version. For me, recommending or using WHS means the latest product version, WHS 2011, or going with something else entirely.) I can't do this, personally, if only because of what I do for a living. (For readers of this site who are current WHS users, there is of course another possibility: You can simply continue using the current version of the product, which does offer Drive Extender capabilities. Could I ever recommend a version of WHS in which Drive Extender was removed? Would I use such a product myself? And if not, what would I use instead of WHS 2011? But this still left some major questions.
And, I was told on the side, Microsoft had some ideas for some minor functional enhancements to the product that wouldn't make up for the lack of Drive Extender necessarily, but would somewhat soften the blow. In fact, WHS 2011 would have an additional pre-release milestone (later revealed to be the release candidate, or RC) which would give customers a chance to evaluate a Drive Extender-less version of the product before the final version shipped. But they told me, no, they were not discontinuing WHS. To their credit, the folks from Microsoft seemed genuinely confused by this question.
(SBS 2011 Essentials and WSS 2011 Essentials seemed less reliant on Drive Extender and more reliant on the new add-in extensibility infrastructure.) Indeed, my first question was whether that meant Microsoft was simply discontinuing WHS. Removing Drive Extender was the equivalent of driving a dagger right through the heart of the product. I mean devastating to me personally, as I've come to rely on this technology as the basis for my own home technology infrastructure, and because I've been evangelizing and recommending Windows Home Server to others for years.
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I don't want to overstate my reaction to this news, but suffice to say it brought the entire meeting to a halt for a good half hour, much to the bewilderment of my Windows IT Pro co-workers, none of whom (understandably) realized how devastating this was.Īnd I don't mean devastating generally, though it is, if you know and understand Drive Extender and its role in the current, outgoing version of Windows Home Server. In an October 2010 Microsoft briefing, representatives of the Small Business Server team revealed to me that the company would be eliminating the Drive Extender technology from its entire "Colorado" server line, which includes Windows Home Server 2011 ("Vail"), Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials ("Aurora") and Windows Storage Server 2011 Essentials ("Breckenridge").
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