Custom built windows home server

Thanks for taking the time to comment Comp, appreciate it. I have no plans to replace my NAS straight away, I do plan on just playing with the beta of V2 until it is released. I am only really planning this just now as I have suffered an achilles tendon injury and am pretty much housebound. This will take my mind off it a bit. I have had a look at those seagate drives you mentioned and while they do look very nice I am looking for a Pata drive so that i can keep the 4 sata ports on the MB for storage drives.

But I assume that getting a rpm drive would be worth it? If so i may go the route of a 3. One of the reasons i was thinking of putting the 4gb of ram in was to cut down on paging file use on a slow drive.

As for the storage capacity, I curently use lovefilm movie rental which also has an on demand service so i cant legally keep digital copies of movies. Dont get me wrong there are the odd few of my favourites that i will purchase and rip to mp4 or similar for watching again but not many.

In relation to my NAS which has 0. While Vail is available for download and its nice to play with it I can not tell you enough not to rely on it for anything because its not really ready and it is a beta with known issues which you should review.

I am not trying to discourage you from it just want to make certain you understand there are issues with. Obviously I do run Windows Home Server v1 on 4 servers and I built a test unit just to run Vail but mostly just to play with it and see what it had to offer and it does do some nice things but I am much more happier with WHS v1.

In time I know Vail will be released but there are some things I have to be concerned with and so I have to get back on the Microsoft Connect Site to see whats happening with Vail to confirm if what others have to say about it is true.

Anyway I do urge you to read as much as you can about Vail and I do encourage you to play with and and learn from it but understand it does have know issues that may or may not pop up on you so read everything you can so you will understand what your getting into and understand how to work around issues as they arise. Posted: Sun Sep 19, pm. This guide demonstrates how to create customized Windows 11 images, using a collection of scripts that are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center.

You can use the images you create to deploy to a line of devices, complete with customizations like apps, drivers, languages, and settings. Now that you've gathered your collateral, you can configure your technician PC to start creating images. The image creation process described in this lab is based on the Images. Extract the contents of Images. Here's a description of what each folder is for. Many of these folders will be empty when you extract images.

The scripts in Images. The steps in this lab use the scripts for each of the image creation and deployment phases. Now that you have the folder structure and scripts on your hard drive, add packages from your collateral into the Images folder.

These files are:. Some Languages require the optional fonts package e. This file will be customized with the information you will be asked to provide during CreateImage. Place all. Updates in these folders will programmatically update the Install.

You must match the WinRE languages with the preinstalled Windows languages. If you're building an English only image, you can leave the folder empty. If you'll be deploying your image over a network, you'll need to make youe Images folder available over the network.

Ensure that your network is set as Private, and your firewall rules allow for sharing a folder over a network. Now that you have your environment setup, you can start using the Images. We'll first use CreateWinPE. Before you can start creating a custom Windows image, create a new project. Harnessing the power of the Web, I would also like to link to a real-time weather application so that if it was going to rain, for example, then the lawn sprinklers wouldn't turn on.

Likewise, the system could download daily sunset and sunrise times so that the outside lights would go on at sunset and shut off at daybreak. Furthermore, if your Exchange calendar showed that you were on vacation, the furnace would stay at a low maintenance temperature. From a developer perspective, experimenting with Windows Home Server has offered some exciting challenges and it's great to see the immediate results. I've enjoyed creating new applications that link my appliances in ways that make them more useful and accessible to me even when I'm away from home.

For more possibilities, see msdn. In his spare time he enjoys hiking and making furniture with his wife, Melinda. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode.