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Windows Home Server Users Guide (Expert's Voice)
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by Andrew Edney
Sales Rank: 130439
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Discount: 34 %
List Price: $34.99
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Paperback: 334 pages
Publisher: Apress October 29, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590598989
ISBN-13: 978-1590598986
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.9 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Product Description
If you’re searching for a practical and comprehensive guide to installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Microsofts Windows Home Server, look no further. Inside Windows Home Server User’s Guide, you’ll learn how to install, configure, and use Windows Home Server and understand how to connect to and manage different clients such as Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Media Center, and more. It’s straightforward and easy-to-understand style will help you maximize all the benefits that Windows Home Server can bring. This guide includes the following: - Step-by-step instructions for configurations
- Lots of troubleshooting tips
- Comprehensive coverage of different clients that can connect to, manage and be managed by Windows Home Server
- Many useful illustrations for a quick-to-learn approach
Packed with handy hints, tips, and extensive walkthroughs to get you up and running as quickly and painlessly as possible, author Andrew Edney is your expert guide to help you get the most out of Windows Home Server. What you’ll learn - Discover the benefits of Windows Home Server.
- Centrally back up all of your home machines.
- Manage the configuration and operation of all computers in your household.
- Configure centralized storage so all computers can store files in one location.
- Bring many of the benefits of a Windows Server–based domain to your house without the overhead and expense of a traditional server product.
- Understand how to monitor and maintain the health of all of your machines.
Who is this book for?
This book is for IT administrators, or anyone with some professional IT experience, who wants to learn about the Windows Home Server and how it can be used in their homes. Experience with Windows Server will be beneficial, but even with only some general computing experience, you will find this book a valuable companion to Windows Home Server. Related Titles from Apress - Windows Vista: Beyond the Manual
About The Author
Andrew Edney has been an IT professional for over 12 years and has over the course of his career worked for a range of high-tech companies, such as Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and Fujitsu Services. He has a wide range of experience in virtually all aspects of Microsoft's computing solutions, having designed and architected large enterprise solutions for government and private sector customers. Over the years, Andrew has made a number of guest appearances at major industry events, presenting on a wide range of information systems subjects, such as an appearance at the annual Microsoft Exchange Conference in Nice where he addressed the Microsoft technical community on mobility computing. Andrew is currently involved in numerous Microsoft Beta programs, including next-generation Windows operating systems and next-generation Microsoft Office products, and actively participates in all Windows Media Center Beta programs.
Customer Reviews & Comments
Chances are, if you are reading about this book you have heard about Windows Home Server from Microsoft. Perhaps you are a computer enthusiast who wants to "roll their own" solution using the OEM version of the software (Microsoft Windows Home Server OEM); or maybe you are looking into a pre-packaged hardware solution like the offers from HP (HP EX470 MediaSmart Home Server (AMD Live/ 64 Bit Sempron Processor, 500 GB Hard Drive)); or maybe you just want to read more about what Windows Home Server (WHS) is and see if it meets your needs. Whatever level you are at, "Windows Home Server User's Guide" will help you learn more about WHS, guide you through what it can do and hopefully help you with your decision on what to buy, or help you decide if WHS is for you. There are a number of books that are coming onto the market about WHS. Many of them are large techical books that can drown the non-geek user with information that goes into too much detail about what goes on behind-the-scenes. Many of the books assume you are using the OEM software and building your own system. Instead of helping the user learn more about WHS, they confuse them with meaningless jargon and technical details -- precisely what Windows Home Server was meant not to do. Luckily, in this book the author has done a good job of keeping the book on a level that can be understood by all. He doesn't assume that you are using one solution or the other, but rather walks you through what WHS is and how it can help you regardless of the solution you end up using. Each chapter walks you through features of WHS and how it can help connect your digital home and family, and shows you how to get the most out of it. Throughout the chapters the author has put in side notes that give you alternative ways of doing tasks, suggesting where to go for more information or warning you about potential risks. The chapters themselves are concise and full of illustrations and actual screen shots to help you understand what steps need to be taken. In short, this is the manual Microsoft should have included with the software! I particularly enjoyed how the author covered more "geek" features of the product by talking briefly about them (such as the API -- or Application Programming Interface) but then instead of devoting pages on pages of text to something that both changes frequently and is too much information for the average WHS user simply points you to resources where you can find out more about it if the subject interests you. In this way the author stays true to the audience without trying to make this a "catch all" type book. In short, if you are getting ready to purchase Windows Home Server or are deciding on if this is a solution for you, I would highly recommend you pick up a copy of this book and read it. It will help you make a more informed buying decision and double as a great getting started guide to getting Windows Home Server setup and running in your house.
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