As is being widely reported Windows Home Server RC1 has been released and is now available to the general public.

Unfortunately for people who’ve been running the beta/CTP releases it requires a clean-install. Temporarily moving 600GB of data to external drives and PCs, then back again, wasn’t a particularly fun experience but a couple of overnight robocopy sessions did the trick.

Apart from a noticeably better installation process RC1 seems to be nearly visually identical to the CTP. As you’d expect the more obvious bugs are gone, but all in all there’s little that I can see in terms of added functionality.

Unfortunately RC1 came at a slightly inopportune time regarding Whiist. I believe the current version of Whiist won’t install on RC1, and a rewrite of several areas coupled with a busy Real Life™ has meant I haven’t been able to roll out an update as quickly as I’d have liked.

An updated version should be available sometime today or tomorrow.