Windows Home Server (continued)

OK so recently I bought an HP Mediasmart Home server (EX 470). This is the one that has 500GB of disk space on one disk. It hast 3 drive bays empty so you can expand storage.

Some observations:

-You cannot schedule individual backups for PC's. The backup program handles all the scheduling. So you can't specify that PC A backs up at 10:00am and PC B backups up at 2pm. Don't work that way.

-Although you can't use remote desktop to get into XP Home or Vista Home Premium, you can use remote desktop connections to get into the server. Once there you get numerous warnings that anything you do can "break" Windows Home Server, and you'd be better off to use the Windows Home Server console.

-During setup I could not change the workgroup. I had to remote in and do it through the computer properties. Once that was changed I got all my pc's and the server into the same workgroup.

That's about it. I am deciding whether or not to keep the server. I could return it in 30 days.

Quicken - Conclusion

OK, after a number of months devoted to the "quicken problem" the conclusion is....Nothing.
Intuit support was unable or unwilling to fix the problem. And it's time to move on now. I have a work-around for my client. He does not want to use the work around. And since I didn't write the quicken code, I cannot fix it myself.

So I make this recommendation to Quicken users. Do stuff manually and then if you want, download. The manual entries will serve as a double-check for the downloaded entries. I would recommend that if you have investment accounts, to download them as they tend to be complicated to put in manually. Fidelity investments seems to work fine, so I would highly recommend them.

That's it for today.

Peace,

Dave