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We recently received an amazing story that we had to share! It’s an inspirational story from a family that endured a disaster and highlights how their Windows Home Server helped them start the process of recovering their life. Thanks for sharing with us Daniel. Your words have been inspirational and we’re thankful everyone is OK!

Here’s the story in Daniel Mihajlovic’s own words:

Earlier this week Tranquil PC announced the release of the Leo HS4 from Tranquil PC, powered by Windows Home Server 2011.  The powerful central processor supplied with the Leo HS4 ensures that you will benefit from the latest features supplied with WHS 2011, including on-the-fly media transcoding and fast disk management virtualization.

One thing I love about Windows is that there is such a strong base of super knowledgeable enthusiasts doing cool, fun things with the platform. Whether it’s building high powered gaming rigs with modified cases, tiny home theater PC’s or customizing the Windows experience to make it do exactly what you want it with software or settings, it seems there is an expert for every scenario. When those experts share that knowledge it strengthens the community, benefits enthusiasts everywhere and inspires others to join in and collaborate.

Today, the Home Server engineering team signed off the release version of WHS 2011. An exciting milestone which now starts the process to make it available for purchase.

Affordable and easy-to-use, Windows Home Server 2011 is the ideal solution to help families keep their important digital files and data automatically backed up, organized, and accessible from virtually anywhere.

Today we are pleased to announce the availability of the Release Candidate for Microsoft Windows Home Server 2011 (formerly Windows Home Server Code Name “Vail”). Affordable and easy-to-use, Microsoft Windows Home Server 2011 (WHS) is the ideal solution to help families keep their important digital files and PC’s automatically backed up, organized, and accessible.

Hi, it is a rough day for Vail, and I have been dreading today for a while as an avid Vail user myself. We know this is popular feature in regards to our home server product, and as such all expected that it would have created this type of outreach from our community. Today was about the high level reasons on why we made the DE decision in-regards to all three products - Vail, SBS 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Server Essentials.

When we first started designing Windows Home Sever code name “Vail” one of our initial focuses was to continue to provide support for multiple internal and external hard drives. Drive Extender provided the ability to take the small hard drives many small businesses and households may have acquired, and pool them together in a simple volume. During our current testing period for our SBS 2011 Essentials and Windows Home Server code name “Vail” products, we have received feedback from partners and customers about how they use storage today and how they plan to use it moving forward.

A recent case study was conducted to show the benefits of Windows Home Server in Bunten & Associates, a small business located in Covington, Kentucky.

If you’re a developer that is familiar with Windows Home Server v1 SDK, or someone who wants to develop Vail, this blog post may be of some interest to you!