So I'm still having problems getting my XP laptop to back up to the home server but while looking around I found a load of ideas for what could be added to Windows Home Server to improve its experience even further. I got a few of my own but heres a few I found while looking around.
- Memory Stick Backups – A service that will run on my desktop or laptop and automatically back up my USB memory stick whenever I plug it in. Each memory stick should be backed up to the same location on the server no matter which computer I plug it in to.
- Download Manager – Automatically hand off regular downloads from Internet Explorer to be downloaded and stored on my home server.
- User Account Sync – Automatically create user accounts on client PCs for each Windows Home Server user account. Automatically update passwords.
- Favorites Sync – Sync my favorites to a folder on WHS. (I know I can do this with foldershare. Add-in would be much better.) Also include Desktop Sync, My Documents Sync, etc.
- Activesync backups – How cool would it be if Activesync backups were also included in backups but as another machine.
- Bit Torrent client/server with TVRSS – Someones got add this one day soon, I mean imagine utorrent or azureus which both can be run headless or from the web, inside of home server. Also imagine being able to make any file or folder a torrent to share with friends and family.
- Podcast client – Same as the bit torrent one really but just RSS.
- Notifications – I would like to see notifications via email, im and other means.
- VPN – VPN tunnel between two or more home servers, so you can maybe sync up with off-site backup or a friends server.
- Rar support – Yes I could install Winrar but I don't want to and its about time windows generally supported rar like it supports zip.
- Webdav – Ideally it all shares would have the option of being a webdav share too. People are hacking this already using IIS.
- DAAP – Someones got to hack this into the home server at some point. I've already noticed people asking for itunes support on the windows home server forum.
- XBSP – No where near essential but support for the xbox media centre streaming protocal would be nice too.
- Zeroconf – Yes universal plug and play is ok but we need some zeroconf/bonjour/mdns to hook up to things like mac products and some of the devices you can now get.
