WHS URP1?

[voorhees]

Hi,

I am looking to buy a copy of WHS (actually I did buy one, but it is a long and painful story) and I noticed that Amazon has a version call "Microsoft Windows Home Server OEM with URP1," is URP1 just a different name for Power Pack 1?

Or, if anyone has any recommendations as to where to buy a copy, they would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by voorhees

Hi,

I am looking to buy a copy of WHS (actually I did buy one, but it is a long and painful story) and I noticed that Amazon has a version call "Microsoft Windows Home Server OEM with URP1," is URP1 just a different name for Power Pack 1?

Or, if anyone has any recommendations as to where to buy a copy, they would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Buy it from Newegg. $99.

Gerry

[voorhees]

Originally Posted by gplasky

Buy it from Newegg. $99.

I may, again. I bought one from them over 3 weeks ago, but it was a bad disc. It was not recognized by three different computers. The delays and problems with their customer service have me questioning whether I want to try and order from them again or not. Therefore, I was looking around.

Any idea if URP1 is power pack 1 or not?

Thanks.

[vhurst]

While I'm still not offering an answer to your original question about URP1 (I haven't a clue). I have found issue with M$ media. I have a lot of new media from M$, due to my Action Pack subscription, and none of it will read in any of my Lite-On LH-20A1H DVDRW drives. This includes WHS. Flash latest drive firmware, still no good. I have to connect a different drive for the install, or create ISO's on a different machine to mount with Daemon Tools on a PC w/ the Lite-On drive to install software.

I have no idea what kind of drives you may have in your 3 different tested PC's, but just a suggestion to watch out for.

[Motofreak75]

a simple search via google says its PP1

[S_M_E]

Originally Posted by Motofreak75

a simple search via google says its PP1

Actually, URP1 is update roll-up package 1, which includes PP1 but it also includes other updates so it's not just another name for PP1.

[voorhees]

Originally Posted by vhurst

While I'm still not offering an answer to your original question about URP1 (I haven't a clue). I have found issue with M$ media. I have a lot of new media from M$, due to my Action Pack subscription, and none of it will read in any of my Lite-On LH-20A1H DVDRW drives. This includes WHS. Flash latest drive firmware, still no good. I have to connect a different drive for the install, or create ISO's on a different machine to mount with Daemon Tools on a PC w/ the Lite-On drive to install software.

I have no idea what kind of drives you may have in your 3 different tested PC's, but just a suggestion to watch out for.

I will have to remember that and give it a try if I run into this again. Two of the computers are new (in the last 6-months) DELL computers (XPS 420 desktop and Studio 1535 laptop) with the original CD/DVD drives and drivers, and the other was a new SageTV server I built. All three computers would start installing both Windows XP and Vista versions I had laying around, therefore it did not look like it was a issue with the drives or the new computer since they all behaved the same on each install DVD. Strange...

Originally Posted by S_M_E

Actually, URP1 is update roll-up package 1, which includes PP1 but it also includes other updates so it's not just another name for PP1.

Thanks. I looked around, but I guess I did not know where to look. Thanks again.