As I said in my first weekend roundup, I was going to install a copy of Windows Home Server this past week. Well, I ended up doing so, using VMWare Server on my “real” home server that runs Windows Server 2008 RC0 beta (and I will reserve the future rant of VMWare NOT SIGNING the kernel drivers for VMWare Server, thus causing me nothing but pain) and dedicated two physical drives to the virtual machine. Everything is up and running after I got the setup driver issues figured out (VMWare SCSI support).
My first thoughts:
- Lack of x64 Connector support! This rules out two of my machines. Actually, what I would prefer is the ability to add the computers running x64 to the “Computer” list so I can get the RWW-like Remote Desktop feature to work. But alas, I couldn’t hack it to get this support.
- The enforcement of what MS considers to be strong passwords. I can disable password complexity for normal computer accounts, but not for any that are accessible remotely. My password is as secure as I want it to be, but WHS is demanding that I change it to work remotely and even to use the computer. There should be a way to relax the password requirement from the current requirement to something that is a bit more reasonable.
I’m still playing with it, but it is a good product, even with these limitations….
