According to the Official Windows Home Server blog, Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 will be available for install on November 24th!
The Windows Home Server Team is pleased to announce that Power Pack 3 will be available in all shipping languages (Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish) on November 24th, 2009. Power Pack 3 will be made available to existing users via Windows Update. Users need to have Windows Home Server with Power Pack 2 already installed on their home server. Power Pack 3 will automatically install as part of Windows Update if Automatic Updates is enabled on the home server.
Details on what’s new:
Windows 7 Backup & Recovery
While backup of Windows 7 clients worked prior to Power Pack 3, there were definitely some noticeable problems, such as when a Windows 7 PC was sleeping, when it woke up, there was no guarantee it would do the backup or not. Having run Power Pack 3 for the past week, my two Windows 7 PCs haven’t missed a backup yet! Additionally it suppresses that pesky Windows 7 backup warning designed for single PC homes!