- Paperback: 912 pages
- Publisher: Sams; 1 edition (13 Sep 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0672329638
- ISBN-13: 978-0672329630
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 17.8 x 5.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 639,739 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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“Computer data can be immeasurably valuable, yet most people leave it totally vulnerable to damage or loss. Windows Home Server is the data equivalent to a home safe. We recommend Paul McFedries’s Microsoft®Windows®Home Server Unleashed as the best first step in getting a strong hold on securing and maintaining personal data at home.”
–Professor Michael L. Kleper
Editor, The Kleper Report on Digital Publishing
Windows Home Server is a brand new server operating system from Microsoft designed to be used in home settings. Windows Home Server is designed to reduce or eliminate the complexity of a typical network server and instead present home users with a simple, straightforward interface that focuses on four core areas: storage, sharing, backup, and remote access.
Microsoft® Windows® Home Server Unleashed is the first book on the market that takes a deep look at what makes this new server operating system tick. Inside you’ll learn how the Windows Home Server storage system combines multiple hard disks (both internal and external) into a single storage space that expands and contracts automatically as you add and remove hard disks, making it easy for home users to share folders, files, and digital media of all kinds. We show you how to access your files from any PC in the network and provide secure access to the network via the Internet for your users. We also show you how to automate the backup of every computer on your network, including performing complete system image backups of each computer and restoring previous versions of individual files.
Detailed information on how to…
- Access your files from any computer in the house or while you’re on the road
- Set up security--both local (user accounts) and remote (Internet access)
- Take advantage of the power of the Windows Server 2003 code underlying Windows Home Server
- Make working with Windows Home Server faster and easier
- Use real-world examples and network configurations that will help you get the most out of your Home Server set up
- Use Windows Home Server power tools to put you in complete control over your server and the network
Introduction 1
Part I—Unleashing Windows Home Server Setup
Chapter 1—Understanding Windows Home Server 7
Chapter 2—Installing Windows Home Server 23
Chapter 3—Setting Up Your Windows Home Server Network 41
Part II—Unleashing Windows Home Server Configuration
Chapter 4—Setting Up and Working with User Accounts 73
Chapter 5—Adding Devices to the Windows Home Server Network 101
Chapter 6—Configuring Windows Home Server 137
Chapter 7—Setting Up and Using Home Server Storage 169
Part III—Unleashing Windows Home Server Networking
Chapter 8—Sharing Folders and Files on the Home Server 187
Chapter 9—Making Connections to Network Computers 223
Chapter 10—Streaming and Sharing Digital Media 259
Chapter 11—Backing Up and Restoring Network Computers 287
Chapter 12—Monitoring Your Network 317
Chapter 13—Implementing Windows Home Server Security 3358
Chapter 14—Setting Up a Windows Home Server Website 373
Chapter 15—Running a SharePoint Site on Windows Home Server 407
Part IV—Unleashing Windows Home Server Performance and Maintenance
Chapter 16—Tuning Windows Home Server Performance 449
Chapter 17—Maintaining Windows Home Server 485
Chapter 18—Customizing the Windows Home Server Interface 513
Chapter 19—Troubleshooting Windows Home Server 543
Part V—Unleashing Windows Home Server Advanced Tools
Chapter 20—Working with the Windows Home Server Registry 577
Chapter 21—Using Windows Home Server's Command-Line Tools 603
Chapter 22—Using Other Windows Home Server Power Tools 661
Chapter 23—Scripting Windows Home Server 715
Part VI--Appendixes
Appendix A—Understanding TCP/IP 757
Appendix B—Setting Up a Home Network 779
Appendix C—Glossary 807
Appendix D—Windows Home Server Keyboard Shortcuts 823
Appendix E—Windows Home Server Online Resources 831
About the Author
Paul McFedries is a Windows expert and full-time technical writer. Paul has been authoring computer books since 1991 and has more than 50 books to his credit, which combined have sold over three million copies worldwide. His recent titles include the Sams Publishing book Windows Vista Unleashed and the Que Publishing books Formulas and Functions with Microsoft Excel 2007, Tricks of the Microsoft Office 2007 Gurus, and Microsoft Access 2007 Forms, Reports, and Queries. Paul is also the proprietor of Word Spy (www.wordspy.com), a website devoted to lexpionage, the sleuthing of new words and phrases that have entered the English language.
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Does exactly what it says on the tin. This book is well worth every penny if you want to create your own home network. It contains all the information you require to ensure a smooth setup and configuration of your home network. It also has suggestions on the type of hardware specification to consider for later expansion of you network with minimum disruption to your current configuration. If you new to networking this book should be read before, during and after installation, and is ideal as a reference for hardware compatibility and for any network troubleshooting errors that may arise.
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Paul McFedries' `Microsoft Windows Home Server Unleashed' is the first SAMS user-guide type publication I've purchased. I've previously bought titles like 'Windows Vista Inside Out' from MS Press, or 'Using Microsoft Outlook 2003' from Que Publishing.
It comes as no surprise that this SAMS `Unleashed' offering is very much of the same ilk as the `Inside Out' & `Using...' titles, if not as `pretty' (nor quite as large) as my 'Inside Outs' - though still quite hefty & excellently laid out.
Amazon's hugely useful `Look Inside!' feature reveals how it is divided up; five large parts deal with everything from initial set-up to `Advanced Tools' & appendices.
I spent some considerable time trying to sort out which WHS book to get. I eventually decided to wait a few months because (at the time) none of the current publications covered Power Pack 2 or above: when I got this, it included Power Pact 3 updates, so I was chuffed with that. I began with 'WHS for Dummies', which was helpful with initial set-up but, as is usual for the Dummies series, while it was very easy to follow, it just didn't go anywhere near far enough.
I also considered titles like 'WHS User Guide' from Expert's Voice but despite some positive, if superficial, reviews, at just 334 pages, I plumped for this `Unleashed' 750+ page offering.
`WHS Unleashed' a very useful publication, very well laid-out, with McFedries' writing style managing to convey enthusiasm and authority without being tediously academic: he's informal and accessible but treats his readers like grown-ups (not experts).
I got WHS specifically for automated backups. It's a lot of cash to shell out for just that, with a (second-hand) PC and everything, but well worth it. WHS Unleashed will explain the whole process - even how that is achieved within the server OS - as well as describe some rather more technical `under the bonnet' aspects (Command Line and Power Tools, etc.). However, I've never needed any of them; I think the stability of WHS is secured by a relative lack of customisation.
Like every other technical computer help book I've purchased, when I do have a problem 'WHS Unleashed' doesn't seem to go quite far enough into explaining how I should solve it: For instance, connection to server failures. Only the MS internet user-groups helped in the end.
WHS Unleashed will also happily explain how WHS can do much more than just backups & command line jiggery-pokery though. However, other potentially useful stuff - like streaming video, etc. - is so pernickety it becomes pointlessly complicated. (Not necessarily WHS's fault, but when MS products like the Xbox 360 can't deal with `ordinary' Windows files, you know your on a hiding to nothing.)
In the end, if you get WHS (a hugely beneficial purchase, well worth the outlay), you'll have to get some sort of instruction book: the Dummies book is cheap and very easy to understand but I'd recommend this one any day. It's every bit as good as Que or MS offerings but, ultimately, much more useful than the Dummies title.
It comes as no surprise that this SAMS `Unleashed' offering is very much of the same ilk as the `Inside Out' & `Using...' titles, if not as `pretty' (nor quite as large) as my 'Inside Outs' - though still quite hefty & excellently laid out.
Amazon's hugely useful `Look Inside!' feature reveals how it is divided up; five large parts deal with everything from initial set-up to `Advanced Tools' & appendices.
I spent some considerable time trying to sort out which WHS book to get. I eventually decided to wait a few months because (at the time) none of the current publications covered Power Pack 2 or above: when I got this, it included Power Pact 3 updates, so I was chuffed with that. I began with 'WHS for Dummies', which was helpful with initial set-up but, as is usual for the Dummies series, while it was very easy to follow, it just didn't go anywhere near far enough.
I also considered titles like 'WHS User Guide' from Expert's Voice but despite some positive, if superficial, reviews, at just 334 pages, I plumped for this `Unleashed' 750+ page offering.
`WHS Unleashed' a very useful publication, very well laid-out, with McFedries' writing style managing to convey enthusiasm and authority without being tediously academic: he's informal and accessible but treats his readers like grown-ups (not experts).
I got WHS specifically for automated backups. It's a lot of cash to shell out for just that, with a (second-hand) PC and everything, but well worth it. WHS Unleashed will explain the whole process - even how that is achieved within the server OS - as well as describe some rather more technical `under the bonnet' aspects (Command Line and Power Tools, etc.). However, I've never needed any of them; I think the stability of WHS is secured by a relative lack of customisation.
Like every other technical computer help book I've purchased, when I do have a problem 'WHS Unleashed' doesn't seem to go quite far enough into explaining how I should solve it: For instance, connection to server failures. Only the MS internet user-groups helped in the end.
WHS Unleashed will also happily explain how WHS can do much more than just backups & command line jiggery-pokery though. However, other potentially useful stuff - like streaming video, etc. - is so pernickety it becomes pointlessly complicated. (Not necessarily WHS's fault, but when MS products like the Xbox 360 can't deal with `ordinary' Windows files, you know your on a hiding to nothing.)
In the end, if you get WHS (a hugely beneficial purchase, well worth the outlay), you'll have to get some sort of instruction book: the Dummies book is cheap and very easy to understand but I'd recommend this one any day. It's every bit as good as Que or MS offerings but, ultimately, much more useful than the Dummies title.
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Windows Home Server will be in the path of a good number of families. The need is there, whether you go for WHS or something else is a matter of choice. But if you choose WHS you need to know all about it and this book really tells you that.
Not only it gives you a reference on WHS but also recommendations and general knowledge about server options and networks and the way that all fits together. You can go with WHS on your own but this book puts at your fingertips much faster and more detailed information that otherwise would take you months to obtain (if ever).
Are you into WHS? Well, just buy this book!
Not only it gives you a reference on WHS but also recommendations and general knowledge about server options and networks and the way that all fits together. You can go with WHS on your own but this book puts at your fingertips much faster and more detailed information that otherwise would take you months to obtain (if ever).
Are you into WHS? Well, just buy this book!
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