{"id":11249,"date":"2026-03-19T13:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/the-latest-windows-home-server-version-unveiled-a-closer-look-at-vail\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T13:00:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:00:57","slug":"the-latest-windows-home-server-version-unveiled-a-closer-look-at-vail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/the-latest-windows-home-server-version-unveiled-a-closer-look-at-vail\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest Windows Home Server Version Unveiled: A Closer Look at &#8220;Vail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest preview of Windows Home Server, codenamed &quot;Vail,&quot; is now available for download, as announced on Microsoft&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/windowsteamblog.com\/windows\/b\/windowshomeserver\/archive\/2010\/08\/16\/new-vail-beta-build-come-and-get-it.aspx\">Windows Team Blog<\/a>. This refreshed preview introduces numerous updates and enhancements across various features, such as remote access, Homegroups, video streaming, and storage management.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the remote access networking now supports OpenDNS and multi-NIC configurations for wireless connections. Additionally, users will benefit from a new storage summary page, which presents an overview of storage usage directly on the server.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is encouraging beta testers to download this updated preview and provide feedback through the Windows Home Server Team&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/windowshomeserver?wa=wsignin1.0\">Connect site<\/a>. Alongside the preview, the Vail preview SDK is also accessible, offering users comprehensive documents to assist in building add-ins, as well as API references that help in addressing extensions and management of Windows Server code-named &quot;Vail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest preview of Windows Home Server, codenamed &quot;Vail,&quot; is now available for download, as announced on Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Team Blog. This refreshed preview introduces numerous updates and\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}