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Microsoft® Windows® Home Server Unleashed
Second Edition
Covers PowerPacks 1, 2, and 3!
Paul McFedries
This is the most comprehensive, practical, and useful guide to Windows Home Server, including Microsoft’s major updates in PowerPacks 1, 2, and 3. Top Windows expert Paul McFedries brings together tips, techniques, and shortcuts available nowhere else and presents them all in plain English for every Windows Home Server user.
McFedries covers all facets of running Windows Home Server: configuration, file/folder sharing, networking, media streaming and sharing, backup/restore, monitoring, Web and SharePoint site deployment, performance optimization, maintenance, and customization. He thoroughly addresses Windows Home Server’s new Windows 7 support, as well as major improvements in areas ranging from remote access to storing TV recordings.
This edition presents comprehensive, up-to-the-minute guidance on Windows Home Server security, plus a full section of advanced solutions utilizing Microsoft’s power tools, the command line, and automated scripting. Throughout, McFedries demonstrates key techniques through real-world examples and presents practical configurations you can easily use in your own home.
Detailed information on how to…
- Set up Windows Home Server networks, user accounts, devices, and storage
- Integrate with Windows 7’s new file libraries, backup/recovery tools, and Windows Search 4.0
- Efficiently share folders, files, and digital media
- Ensure security for both local and remote users
- Automatically back up and restore all the computers on your home network
- Quickly set up web and SharePoint sites
Tune, maintain, and troubleshoot Windows Home Server
Use the new Remote Access Configuration and Repair Wizards
ON THE WEB:
Register your book at informit.com/title/9780672331060 to access all examples and source code presented in this book.
Category: Windows Server
Covers: Windows Home Server with PowerPacks 1, 2, 3
User Level: Intermediate–Advanced
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Microsoft® Windows® Home Server Unleashed
Second Edition
Covers PowerPacks 1, 2, and 3!
Paul McFedries
This is the most comprehensive, practical, and useful guide to Windows Home Server, including Microsoft’s major updates in PowerPacks 1, 2, and 3. Top Windows expert Paul McFedries brings together tips, techniques, and shortcuts available nowhere else and presents them all in plain English for every Windows Home Server user.
McFedries covers all facets of running Windows Home Server: configuration, file/folder sharing, networking, media streaming and sharing, backup/restore, monitoring, Web and SharePoint site deployment, performance optimization, maintenance, and customization. He thoroughly addresses Windows Home Server’s new Windows 7 support, as well as major improvements in areas ranging from remote access to storing TV recordings.
This edition presents comprehensive, up-to-the-minute guidance on Windows Home Server security, plus a full section of advanced solutions utilizing Microsoft’s power tools, the command line, and automated scripting. Throughout, McFedries demonstrates key techniques through real-world examples and presents practical configurations you can easily use in your own home.
Detailed information on how to…
- Set up Windows Home Server networks, user accounts, devices, and storage
- Integrate with Windows 7’s new file libraries, backup/recovery tools, and Windows Search 4.0
- Efficiently share folders, files, and digital media
- Ensure security for both local and remote users
- Automatically back up and restore all the computers on your home network
- Quickly set up web and SharePoint sites
Tune, maintain, and troubleshoot Windows Home Server
Use the new Remote Access Configuration and Repair Wizards
ON THE WEB:
Register your book at informit.com/title/9780672331060 to access all examples and source code presented in this book.
Category: Windows Server
Covers: Windows Home Server with PowerPacks 1, 2, 3
User Level: Intermediate–Advanced
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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.
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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