Secure and share your digital f iles at home.
Access them from virtually anywhere.
Photos. Tax records. Personal correspondence. Music and movies. Your home network contains much of what's vital to your life in today's digital world. You need to secure and back up those files. You need to be able to access them from anywhere—home, work, or on the road.
Windows Home Server makes automatic backups and easy access the norm. If you see the word "server" and think "difficult," stay with us. This book shows you how simple using Windows Home Server can be.
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Define your needs and choose the Windows Home Server product that best meets them
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Install Windows Home Server and get it running properly
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Create and use accounts and permissions for shared resources
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Manage automatic backups appropriately for your needs
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Set up a system to facilitate data storage on Windows Home Server
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Learn how to recover lost data
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Monitor the health of your network and enhance your security
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Explore the enhanced functionality of add-ins
About the Author
Rick Hallihan is an industry expert with a wide range of experience in technology, networking, and software development. Over the years he has developed software using Java, C, C++, and C#. Rick also has experience managing servers running Linux, Windows 2000 Server, and Windows Server 2003, including Active Directory and Group Policy management, and building networks with Cisco routing and networking hardware.
In addition, Rick has been an active technology enthusiast for many years. He has been blogging about Microsoft technologies and the Internet since March 2004. His blog can be found at http://onemanshouting.com. In January 2006, Rick was selected by Microsoft to participate in “Search Champs,” a collection of industry participants that meet in Redmond, WA, to learn about, discuss, and provide feedback on Microsoft’s Internet-oriented products and services.
Rick began his involvement with Microsoft’s Windows Home Server unknowingly with a blog post in January 2005, where he outlined a vision for a “Windows Server, Home Edition” that would leverage Microsoft’s Small Business Server platform. Little did Rick know that Microsoft was already hard at work building something similar. Soon after Windows Home Server was announced to the public, Rick was afforded the opportunity to discuss the product in-depth with Charlie Kindel, Microsoft’s general manager for Windows Home Server, mostly because of that predictive posting that he had made two years before.
Because of his involvement with the community, Rick was granted Microsoft’s MVP Award for Windows Home Server. Rick looks forward to being part of the emerging community that is developing around Windows Home Server.
