For the past month I have had one machine on my network that would not backup to the Windows Home Server. It has been driving me a 100% crazy. Well it turns out that Microsoft .Net 2.0 was the culprit.

Digging deep in Google I found an answer. It said to repair .net 2.0 well when I tried the repair attempt failed. Un-installing failed as well. I had to resort to brutal tactics and found a .net removal tool.

After deleting .net 2.0 the hard way and then reinstalling it the backup is working fine. I am a geek and burrowed my way through this but I can guarantee that a non geek would have never figured this out.

This is something Microsoft is gonna have to deal with. If it caused me pains it’s gonna cause others the same trouble. While I love my HP Windows Home Server this little issue has definitely made me look at how I am using it much closer.