I’ve been a Windows Home Server user for a while now, and it made media sharing and backup management at home miles easier. Actually, to be honest it made backups possible, full stop! The one downside was a rather nasty data corruption bug, which doesn’t affect backups or media sharing and is possible to workaround, but nasty none the less. Well, the Home Server team has been hard at work and today they released the first public beta of Power Pack 1. I’ve been testing it for a while now, but in short here’s what new in Power Pack 1:

• The data corruption bug has been fixed
• Performance and power management improvements
• Connector support for Windows Vista 64-bit
• Backup of Home Server shared folders
• Remote access improvements

You can download the release candidate from Connect, but bear in mind that this is still a beta product, so install at your own risk. There are also more details on the Windows Home Server Team Blog.