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If you work in an office, you probably don’t lose much sleep worrying about whether your files are safe if your PC melts down. Company IT departments handle those things for business networks. But how about all those precious photos, address lists, the family genealogy, and everything else that lives on your home network? Windows Home Server can save the day if one of your personal PCs hiccups, and Windows Home Server For Dummies serves up all the stuff you need to know to put it to work.
Forget everything you’ve heard about previous versions of Windows Server; this all–new variation has been designed for people who don’t wear white lab coats or pocket protectors. Woody Leonhard has tested it and it passed with flying colors. If you have a home or small business network, this book shows you how Windows Home Server helps you
- Share files among all the PCs in your home
- Access your files from anywhere
- Make regular backups automatically
- Store files securely
- Play music, TV shows, or movies on your Xbox
- Share multimedia across your network
- Keep your virus protection and system upgrades up to date
- Get regular reports on the overall health of your network
Windows Home Server For Dummies provides sage advice on choosing a version of Windows Home Server, installing it, setting up users and passwords, using remote access, scheduling automatic scans and backups, and having fun with multimedia. Trust Woody— you’ll sleep better.
From the Back Cover
Have a home network? Make it safer and more useful
Share your stuff, access it remotely, back it up, and play movies on your Xbox
What happens when your hard drive hiccups, or the kids accidentally let loose an unfriendly computer virus? If you have Windows Home Server installed, your precious pictures and documents are still safe, and you can access them from anywhere. This friendly guide helps you get it up and running and shows you all its cool tricks!
Discover how to:
Choose and install Windows Home Server
Set up users and use shared folders
Share multimedia across your network
Play music or video on your Xbox
Set up automated backups
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Format:Paperback
Much of this text appears out of date presumably since Service Pack 1 update. Returning this to Amazon as most of the installation is intuitive with the book hindering rather than helping. Most of the work rounds are already handled by the update or add-ins.
Format:Paperback
This bok answered a few questions that I did not Know about windows home server
Cleared a few problems in my decision making
Cleared a few problems in my decision making
Format:Paperback
Woody Leonhard's `Windows Home Server for Dummies' is just what you'd expect if you've ever read any Dummies title before: which makes many of the criticisms here unwarranted.
The 357 pages are organised into 7 large parts consisting of 21 chapters with the 16 page index following. The `Click to Look Inside' feature shows this clearly. Leonhard guides you through all the basics of setting up Windows Home Server (WHS) - including `Positioning the Server in Your Home of Office' - up to Remote Access or restoring individual files from Backup, etc. If you've never used WHS before (or any sort of server), this is a hugely useful title and if you decided against it, you'll still need to used another title.
The strengths are common to all the Dummies titles, so it's very accessible: technical jargon is explained simply, or avoided; and the text layout is injected with a multitude of pictorial symbols, headings, screen shots and formatting variations which make it very easy to follow. While it is a short volume (especially for a computer book) it still covers pretty much all the issues you'll need to get your server running. And it's cheap!
But it also suffers the same weaknesses as all the other Dummies titles: most significantly, when you do have a complex problem, these titles don't take you far enough towards an answer. But it's the nature of the beast. If you want bells-and-whistles, go for Sams `WHS Unleashed' - but that will cost two or three times as much.
While it's also easy to criticise this Dummies title for being `out of date', all WHS titles published in 2007 will now be out of date. This means sections like `Wake on LAN' and, more significantly, Windows Media Centre (WMC) are not up-to-date (it's now quite straight forward to enable WMC features on WHS): I can view photos and videos stored on the server instantly through my Xbox, though this edition of the Dummies book was no help here!
I'm sure Leonhard will be publishing a second edition `WHS Dummies' book soon (however, I'll be purchasing `WHS Unleashed' when the second edition arrives). I bought an old desktop to convert to a server and this `WHS for Dummies' was, quite simply, indispensible for getting it up and running. This is well worth the (small) cost: recommended (an updated second edition would be 5 stars).
The 357 pages are organised into 7 large parts consisting of 21 chapters with the 16 page index following. The `Click to Look Inside' feature shows this clearly. Leonhard guides you through all the basics of setting up Windows Home Server (WHS) - including `Positioning the Server in Your Home of Office' - up to Remote Access or restoring individual files from Backup, etc. If you've never used WHS before (or any sort of server), this is a hugely useful title and if you decided against it, you'll still need to used another title.
The strengths are common to all the Dummies titles, so it's very accessible: technical jargon is explained simply, or avoided; and the text layout is injected with a multitude of pictorial symbols, headings, screen shots and formatting variations which make it very easy to follow. While it is a short volume (especially for a computer book) it still covers pretty much all the issues you'll need to get your server running. And it's cheap!
But it also suffers the same weaknesses as all the other Dummies titles: most significantly, when you do have a complex problem, these titles don't take you far enough towards an answer. But it's the nature of the beast. If you want bells-and-whistles, go for Sams `WHS Unleashed' - but that will cost two or three times as much.
While it's also easy to criticise this Dummies title for being `out of date', all WHS titles published in 2007 will now be out of date. This means sections like `Wake on LAN' and, more significantly, Windows Media Centre (WMC) are not up-to-date (it's now quite straight forward to enable WMC features on WHS): I can view photos and videos stored on the server instantly through my Xbox, though this edition of the Dummies book was no help here!
I'm sure Leonhard will be publishing a second edition `WHS Dummies' book soon (however, I'll be purchasing `WHS Unleashed' when the second edition arrives). I bought an old desktop to convert to a server and this `WHS for Dummies' was, quite simply, indispensible for getting it up and running. This is well worth the (small) cost: recommended (an updated second edition would be 5 stars).
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WHS for dummies
Delivered on time and without damage. Haven't opened the book yet so can't comment on the content, but I'm very happy with the service
Published on 23 Mar 2009 by Murf Man
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Good read, however I though it would cover some more advanced steps like VPN's etc
Published on 21 Mar 2009 by Mr. A. Edge
I Bought the software
After reading this book I was able to install and build a server to my purposes, rather than worry about wasting money on something I wasn't going to use.
Published on 24 April 2008 by D. Haigh
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