For more information about the Launchpad, see Overview of the DashboardĮrm, I think that link should be “Overview of the Launchpad.”…Īfter item 6 follows an extensive Important text box. From the Launchpad link, you can access the shared folders shortcut, configure computer backups, address alerts, and open the Remote Web Access site. OK, let’s carry on… Under the “ To connect your computer to the server” section, item 6, we read:Ī. Using IT jargon ( dynamic disks) without any further reference does not help – and this is supposed to be the online Help… This isn’t the last time this mistake will be made in the online Help… It is, I assume, the same as for the original version of WHS, that is, ordinary home consumers who have possibly a number of PCs, some or all of which will be holding digital media or documents, which need to be protected against loss. Let’s just think about the target audience for WHS2011 for a moment. More importantly, in the text box labelled “Important”, there is reference to dynamic disks on client computers, without any further reference as to what, precisely, dynamic disks might be. Here, there’s a minor typo in the third bullet point of the “Before you begin” section – a missing space between the words 2011 and when… So, back on the first subheading and link on the section “ Connect computers to the server using the Connector software”, we arrive at the “ How do I connect computers to the server page”… There’s a minor omission on the last subheading “ Troubleshoot connecting computer to the server” – a missing indefinite article.
It states baldly: “ Install the Connector software?” when in fact what is implied is “ How do I install the Connector software?”. Three of the headings start with the phrase “ How do I…”, yet for some reason the second item does not. The first four subheadings are all to do with the concept of “How do I… (do a particular task)”.
The correct text would be operating systems.įurther down the page, it has a section on how to “ Connect computers to the server using the Connector software”.
The section provides information about the Connector software, the operated systems that are supported by Windows Home Server 2011, etc.
Under the “Prepare to connect computers to the server” heading it says: Oh, here’s a link about connecting computers to the Server… ( Note: since writing this blog entry, Microsoft has dropped the original web pages, and moved all the help text into the TechNet Library. None of the typos/grammar/errors/text have been changed in the move, so my criticisms are still valid…) Let’s start with the entry page of the help system: