14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has launched a package of updates for Windows Home Server 2011, now available to customers through Windows Update as of earlier this week. Update Rollup 1 for Windows Home Server 2011 is designed to introduce a new feature, as well as resolve a number of bugs that survived past the RTM development milestone of the home server platform.
Windows Home Server 2011, formerly codenamed Vail, was released to manufacturing in March 2011, and is the second major iteration of the server operating system.
Customers that already made the jump to Windows Home Server 2011 and experience issues should at least consider deploying Update Rollup 1, since it’s designed to deal with a number of glitches.
The software giant offers additional information on Windows Home Server 2011 Update Rollup 1 via KB 2554634.
According to the Redmond company, a single new feature is offered with UR1: “This update adds an alert that reminds you to enable Microsoft Update. The alert appears after you install Windows Home Server 2011 and complete the "Getting Started" tasks on a computer. The alert displays the following message: ‘Microsoft Update is not enabled - Microsoft Update is not enabled on this computer. You will not be notified when updates for other Microsoft products are available’.”
It’s important to note that Windows Home Server 2011 Update Rollup 1 is a server-side collection of refreshes. There’s also a client-side update, but more on that later today, just make sure to keep your eyes on this space.
According to the information supplied by Microsoft, Update Rollup 1 resolves no less than nine issues that affect the RTM Build of Windows Home Server 2011.
In this regard, customers need to make sure to deploy Windows Home Server 2011 Update Rollup 1 as soon as possible, especially if they have already some across problems with their home server OS:
Here is a summary of the problems that UR1 is set up to fix, according to Microsoft:
“Issue 1 - you cannot register a Remote Web Access domain name that contains two or more root domain levels (such as testuser.com.uk).
Issue 2 - in the Alert Viewer window, you select an alert, and then you click Ignore the alert to stop receiving notifications for this alert. However, the notifications still appear.
Issue 3 - the Client Deployment Wizard fails with an authentication failure.
Issue 4 - when the server and the clients are in an OpenDNS network environment, you cannot connect to the server or the clients through the Remote Web Access webpage.
Issue 5 - the machine certificate becomes invalid and cannot be recovered. Additionally, most of the Windows Server services do not start after the server restarts.
Issue 6 - when the machine certificate is changed incorrectly or is removed, you are not prompted by any troubleshooting measures.
Issue 7 - a backslash (\) may be displayed incorrectly in Korean or Japanese content.
Issue 8 - "Connect site" is translated incorrectly in a non-English dashboard.
Issue 9 - some important non-English instructions or guides are truncated in a non-English dashboard or wizard.”