Yes. There are no known issues in WHS Disk Management caused by Power Pack 2.

Unlock the wireframe by clicking the padlock icon, then use the following mouse inputs and keyboard shortcuts:

• Use Left-click to select a drive bay
• Use Right-click to rotate
• Use Right-click + CTRL to move
• Use Mousewheel or Right-click + SHIFT to zoom

This issue appears to impact multiple Add-Ins, not just WHS Disk Management. It looks like WHS sometimes has an issue reading an MSI package for the first time, and logs incorrect information in the registry.

Luckily, WHS refers to Add-In MSI files by filename. If WHS doesn't show WHS Disk Management as a valid Add-In to install after you've copied it to the \\server\software\add-ins\ folder, try renaming the MSI file to "newWHSDiskManagement.x.x.x.x.msi" or similar.

For more information see this bug I posted on Microsoft Connect.

It is important that you uninstall the previous version first. Your settings will be preserved during the upgrade process.

Step-by-step instructions:

1. Uninstall the current version using the WHS Console.

2. Download the latest WHS Disk Management MSI to \\server\software\add-ins\.

3. (Optional) Delete the old MSI.

4. Install the latest version using the WHS Console.

Click the "cog-with-green-arrow" icon in the WHS Disk Management toolbar, on the top right of the window,

Windows Home Server "balancing storage" doesn't necessarily mean spreading files evenly across all disks. One disk with significantly higher usage than others doesn't indicate a problem.

For more information see the Drive Extender Whitepaper from Microsoft.

Prior to Power Pack 1, Microsoft only counted storage inside shared folders as taking up space in the Storage Pool. WHS Disk Management looks at all the space used on individual drives, including files outside the Storage Pool.

Some combinations of disks and disk controllers do not present this information to Windows via WMI. Sometimes rolling back to the default Windows drivers will work (reverting to stock Windows drivers works for NVIDIA nForce4 chipsets).

If your SATA controller has IDE emulation or compatibility mode enabled, your disks are identified as IDE. This can mean disk locations are erroneously identified as IDE Master or Slave.

Windows identifies SATA disks (that are not using IDE compatibility mode) as SCSI. This does not indicate an problem.

A red drive bay indicates that WHS Disk Management believes that the disk associated with that drive bay is missing. You will most likely see this for USB/1394 disks that you have disconnected.

If the disk will be missing for a long time, consider marking the drive bay as "Empty" in the Settings dialog.

This can be caused by an Add-In that allows you to minimise the WHS Console application.

To resolve the issue, restart your Windows Home Server or reset the console (Options --> Reset the WHS Console from the Console login screen).

We write all our settings to D:\folders\{AD6D2DAD-BBCB-4C4D-878C-A8A19935FD0A}\ on the server. Settings are preserved through upgrades of the Add-In; uninstalling the Add-In does not remove your settings.

If you want to entirely remove WHS Disk Management from your system, you will need to delete these XML files as well. The GUID folder cannot be deleted, however; if you delete the folder, WHS will recreate it on the next boot (this is a limitation of WHS Application Folders).

Sometimes WHS doesn't successfully uninstall some Add-Ins; you end up in a state where the WHS Add-Ins tab shows that an Add-In is installed, but the Add-In isn't loaded and you can't install an updated version.

To manually uninstall any WHS Add-In, follow these steps:

1. Make a note of the name of the Add-In that cannot be uninstalled ("WHS Disk Management 1.0.4.0" for example).

2. Log into WHS using remote desktop.

3. Locate the Add-In in Add/Remove Programs and uninstall it.

4. Open regedit and locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Home Server\RegisteredAdditions\.

5. Locate the subfolder that references the name of the problem Add-In ("WHS Disk Management 1.0.4.0" for example) and delete it.

6. Open and then close the WHS Console from within the remote desktop session (to free up any in-use files).

7. Navigate to C:\Program Files\Windows Home Server\.

8. If present, rename the Add-In file ("HomeServerConsoleTab.DiskMgt.dll" for example) to remove the DLL extension ("HomeServerConsoleTab.DiskMgt.xxx").

9. (Optional) Install the desired version of the Add-In through the WHS Console as normal.

No, WHS Disk Management does not run as a service. This means that when the Windows Home Server Console is closed, WHS Disk Management is not running and cannot send alerts.

Fixed: Resolved a rare crash if an ID number could not be found for a specific disk

Changed: IDE location now returns SCSI path if master/slave position cannot be determined (affects SATA controllers in IDE mode only)

Fixed: Resolved a rare issue where the WHS Disk Management settings tab would not load

Fixed: Resolved a rare crash when performance counters in Windows return corrupt data

Fixed: Resolved a rare issue where the WHS Disk Management settings tab would not load, causing "System.OutOfMemoryException: Error creating window handle" to be logged

Changed: Finalized localization support for all forms and controls

Changed: Refactored Enum processing for localization support

Changed: XML files are now tab-indented (more human readable)

Changed: Moved all new PP1 disk operation wizard strings to resource file ready for localization

Fixed: More gracefully handle malformed XML files

Added: Check disk status before running add/remove wizard (to work around no Notification sent when adding Server Backup Disk on Server Storage tab)

Changed: Cleaned up XML handling

Changed: Refactored Notification processing

Changed: No longer perform full refresh after canceling add/remove wizards

Fixed: Resolved lockup of Console when removing a disk in Server Storage tab

Fixed: LastBackupKey is now set when existing Server Backup Disk is plugged back in

Fixed: Error handling when External disk is not ejected successfully

Fixed: Now add/remove buttons are disabled until refresh is complete

Fixed: Fixed crash if removing last internal drive bay and external drive bays still remain. User is prompted to remove external drive bays first.

Added: Custom-sized Multi-disk Bays

Added: PP1 RC4 support

Changed: Add/Remove Disk wizards now much shinier

Changed: Add Disk wizard supports Server Backup disks

Changed: Remove Disk wizard supports Server Backup disks

Changed: Remove Disk wizard supports new PP1 removal verification routines

Changed: Main Tab shows Server Backup Disks as a separate group in the listview

Changed: Refresh is paused during disk remove and add operations

Fixed: Fixed crash if removing last internal drive bay and external drive bays still remain. User is prompted to remove external drive bays first.

Added: Custom-sized Multi-disk Bays

Added: Add-In is now ready for localisation (any takers for translations?)

Added: Wireframe colours manually customisable (whsdiskmgt.serverwireframe.xml, use valid HTML RGB codes or colour names, only save with Notepad in UTF-8)

Changed: Now disallow adding external disks until at least one internal disk is added

Fixed: Cleaned up wireframe wizard text

Fixed: External drive path showing as "Drive Path:"

Added: Non-disk drivebay (DVD etc) designation for wireframe

Added: Empty/unconfigured wireframe now shows "click here" text on Main tab

Added: Can manually edit case dimensions (MarginX, MarginY, MarginZ in whsdiskmgt.serverwireframe.xml; only save with Notepad in UTF-8)

Changed: A handful of icons ("Refreshing" indicator in particular is now much more Web 2.0)

Fixed: Crash in Edit on page4 if path doesn't exist

Fixed: Crash in Edit on page3 when unchecking Empty if path does not exist

Fixed: Crash in Add on page2 if returning from page3 (next is grayed out, combobox is unselected, selecting = crash)

Fixed: Full refresh while monitoring is enabled stopped temp/activity monitoring

Fixed: Starting storage wizards while monitoring is enabled stopped temp/activity monitoring

Added: Can now sort by column in the Main tab ListView (click column header for ASC, click again for DESC)

Added: Mousewheel zooms wireframe

Added: Missing disk path renders drive bay red

Added: Drive paths for External disks now include disk GUIDs (mulitple external disks on the same controller should now highlight individually)

Changed: Hid Repair toolbar button and context menu item (they were never hooked up)

Changed: Wireframe no longer reloads from saved XML after every selection change on Main tab (allows you to leave the wireframe rotated without saving changes)

Fixed: Sort order for disks numbered 10+ should now be correct

Fixed: Resolved crash on startup if a disk was missing

Fixed: Resolved crash while editing drive bay if disk was missing from path

Fixed: Now correctly updating ListView disk usage bar for non-pool disks

Fixed: Now correctly refreshing GUI after selecting non-empty drive bay with missing disk

Added: Drive bays can now share a drive path (to represent a RAID volume) - check the "Show all drive paths" box

Changed: Now cannot select an empty drive bay on the main tab

Fixed: Clicking arrows in advanced mode no longer crashes the Console if you haven't created the drive bay yet

Fixed: First drive bay in a multi-bay can now be marked as empty

Fixed: Disk usage bar now updates correctly when deselecting a drive bay on the main tab

Added: New 3D server wireframe system

Added: Customisable alert thresholds for disk and storage pool usage

Added: Add enable/disable for monitoring in Settings

Changed: Change wireframe creation to wizard system

Changed: Change disk usage bars to be more attractive

Fixed: Resolved issue with enumeration of drive paths on non-English versions of WHS

Fixed: Disk location columns are no longer empty on refresh

Fixed: Storage pool usage bar is now recalculated after all disk data is pulled

Changed: You can now copy/paste a single line from Disk Details window

Fixed: Resolved erroneous white border around main window form elements after closing Settings

Fixed: Rebuilt MSI package using latest WiX/Votive to prevent Vista from marking the installer as invalid

Added: Close/Done button on Disk Details window

Added: Copy button on Disk Details window to copy disk information to the clipboard

Changed: Settings tab now updates main window on settings close

Fixed: Buttons are no longer erroneously disabled after closing Disk Details window

Added: Real-time Disk Temperature display on main window, with adjustable refresh rate in Settings

Added: Real-time Disk Activity display on main window, with adjustable refresh rate in Settings

Added: Button on main window to globally start and stop temperature and activity monitoring (button state persists between sessions, monitoring is off by default)

Added: Tooltips for most controls

Changed: WMI data gathering speed has been significantly improved

Changed: Add-In now receives notifications from WHS when a disk is changed/added/removed and refreshes automatically

Changed: Removed "Refreshing" progress bar, replaced with animated image on main window

Changed: Disk Information window has had a makeover

Fixed: Resolved crash when opening Disk Details window for a Missing disk

Fixed: Resolved issue with displaying Add-In when WHS is set to a non-standard font size

Added: Each drive bay now has a user-editable comment field (currently only displayed in the Settings dialog)

Changed: Drive bay settings dialog now has Update/Replace functionality (previously you had to delete the old drive bay and recreate it if you wanted to make a change)

Changed: Shadow copy size is now correctly deducted from "Used Space" counters (this is more intuitive)

Changed: Misc UI improvements in Settings dialog

Fixed: Unhealthy System disks now correctly show in the Attention Required category

Known issue: Unmanaged disks mounted as mountpoints are displayed as requiring attention

Added: Disk Information now includes Volume Shadow Copy size

Changed: Storage information panel on main tab now shows disk space statistics (used, free, shadow copy size) per disk and globally

Changed: Removed disk controller and SCSI path info from storage information panel (this data is still present in the hidden listview columns and the Disk Information dialog)

Changed: Moved Disk Information button to toolbar

Fixed: Unmanaged disks with multiple drive letters are now displayed correctly

Fixed: Perpendicular/Vertical drive bays can now break to a new row manually (check the "Row End" box when adding the last bay in a row)

Fixed: Storage Wizards now cannot be closed while they are working

Fixed: Storage Wizards now show your customized disk name (if present)

Fixed: Storage Wizards now properly handle long disk names

Known issue: Unmanaged disks mounted as mountpoints are displayed as requiring attention

Fixed: Apply button now works (and settings save) when wireframe scale slider is changed

Fixed: Wireframe scale value is now read on each refresh of wireframe image

Added: Added routine to descramble HP EX74x hard drive serial numbers (it appears that the SiS 0182/1182 RAID Controller mangles disk serial numbers)

Added: Editable disk names - open the Disk Info window (double-click the disk), edit the disk's name in the drop down at the top

Added: Disk SMART status and temperature in the Disk Info window

Added: Perpendicular/Y-Axis stacking disk bays

Changed: Significant reworking of external/empty disk bays - check the appropriate boxes in the Settings dialog when adding a drive bay

Changed: Main tab list view now has disk categories (Attention Required, Storage Pool, and Unmanaged Disks)

Changed: Main tab sort order is now by Disk number

Fixed: Apply button in Settings dialog now works as expected

Added: Right-click menu for disk operations

Added: Disk information detail. Select a disk and click the info button, double click a disk, or right click a disk and select Details

Added: Non-storage pool disks with drive letters now show details (accurate free space, drive letter etc)

Added: External disks now show in wireframe (make sure you put external disks in the last column for proper drawing)

Added: Vertical internal drive bays

Changed: Color scheme for wireframe changed

Fixed: Now allow backspace in column/bay text box on Settings dialog

Fixed: Misc UI elements now disabled/enabled correctly

Fixed: Misc redraw issues with server wireframe

Fixed: Bug when opening Settings for the first time. Invalid trackbar value caused the Type drop down box to fail to build.

Fixed: Potential dataloss issue when removing disks from the storage pool.

Added: Server case wireframe diagram + customizable case configuration (see below for instructions)

Added: Progress bar for disk information refresh

First release