Windows Home Server RTM Installed

Yesterday I finally got around to upgrading my Windows Home Server from RC to RTM. If you had the RC and are planning to do an upgrade soon, here are some tips for you.

First, this isn't really an upgrade, but rather a reinstall of the OS partition. As noted in the menu option of "Reinstall Server". It can be a little scary given that you have lots of data on your server at this point probably, but fear not it just wipes the OS partition.

Before you begin locate any drivers that you needed for this hardware. As you have probably already had to track down the drivers need for your hardware once, make sure you make a copy of all the drivers in a place that you can get it after the OS is installed. I forgot and had to hunt them down again.

Since the OS partition is what we are reinstalling that is what holds any custom installs you had done on your Windows Home server and you will need to reinstall those after you perform the RTM install. For me this was reinstalling Firefox, Torrent client, etc. You will also have to reinstall any add-ins that have been added to your server.  These are saved and available, just not installed/reinstalled with the OS. You might want to check if there are newer versions of the add-in however. 

Speaking of Add-ins...any custom configurations that you may have done with any will have to be redone. For me I had to setup my Whiist photo galleries for sharing family photos again. Speaking of Whiist, anyone have a better gallery app to use with it IIS?

Oh and don't forget to install the RTM Windows Home Sever Client software on all your clients because the RC client will not work with Windows Home Server RTM.

Hope this helps