Digital Home Thoughts - News & Reviews for the Digital Home

I've been running Windows Home Server for a while now, being one of the early beta testers, and for the most part I was quite impressed with the beta and RC1 versions of the software. When I got the final version and installed it though, things didn't work so well. My biggest problem was with the Connector software - the piece of software that you install on each PC, and that serves as the control point for your server, enables the back-up of that PC, etc. Well, the problem was that I simply couldn't get it installed on several of my PCs. I detailed the problem in this Windows Home Server Forum thread, but the short version was that I kept seeing this error message when trying to install the software:

An Error Occurred
This operation cannot be completed at this time.
Please try again later. If the problem persists, please contact window home server support

An error occurred? What kind of a useless haiku is that? No specifics, no details - who programmed that error dialogue, an Apple OS X developer? I'd put in my password for the server, and get that error - no other details were given about what was going wrong. Read more...