The setup of Windows Home Server 2007 would be somehow a hybrid setup. It begins with a boot on boot.wim and then launch qs.exe (Q installer) to later on use the i386 file structure. Visually "Q installer" looks similar to the setup written in .NET we can find on : - Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs (WinFLP), - Windows Embedded for Point of Service and - Windows Embedded POSReady 2009. Do you know more ?
In my case, I not sure they have made Windows Home Server 2007.. I do believe Windows Home Server 2011 (Base on Windows Server 2008 platform) again, no such made this older version Windows Home Server 2007! ATGPUD2003
Yep, the first release of Windows Home Server launched in 2007 is based on Windows Small Business Server 2003.
It was a brilliant idea for the time (and today is still pretty usable at least for people not sick with the idea of x64 at any cost). But MS didn't have the balls to evolve the concept. And WHS 2011 came castrated of its main feature. Thanks God DrivePool exist, making any windows SKU more capable than WHS 2007 was
To get back on the subject of this discussion thread, what do we currently know about the Q setup/installer (aka qs.exe) from WHS (2007) ?
Frankly isn't a thing that I find specially interesting. AFAIR It's just an automated setup at the end of the proper server 2003 installation, if you doubleclick on qs.exe it runs even on Win11