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Chapter 1Bringing Windows Home Server to LifeIn This Chapter Making great things happen with Windows Home Server Dealing with WHS’s limitations Con

What happens behind the scenesThe installer program on the Windows Home Connector CD accomplishesmuch, much more than doing the initial setup of the W

In addition to installing new software, the Connector CD is responsible forestablishing hundreds of default settings. In my experience, it performs th

What Windows Home Server won’t doBy and large, WHS can do anything you would expect a server to do, andmuch more. But there are a few shortcomings tha

acts like a puppet while you pull the strings from afar — must be runningWindows XP Professional, Windows Vista Ultimate, Vista Business, or Vista Ent

 If you run Vista Business, Enterprise or Ultimate, you can get at theprevious versions of files on the server using the same technique. If you have

 I know people who have tried to put a WHS server on a network that uses a dial-up Internet connection. They use Windows’ InternetConnection Sharing

The other, official minimal requirements are — truly — minimal. Every PCmade in the last five (maybe ten) years should be able to handle the load: aPe

 Fast Ethernet: You can run WHS on a plain-Jane 100Mbps Ethernet net-work connection (also called 100Base-T or, confusingly, “fast Ethernet”).But if

 A cool-looking case: No joke. If your WHS box looks cool, you’re morelikely to keep it somewhere that you can see it — so you’re more likelyto notic

I can’t recall any Microsoft product (except for Notepad, maybe) that works sowell, so easily, with so little fuss, right out of the box. If you have

 If you need to retrieve an old copy of a file, WHS makes it easy. I talkabout the ins and outs in Part V. WHS Backup lets you restore an entire har

As the Reverend C.A. Goodrich famously wrote in 1827, There is as much mean-ing in the old adage, and the observance of which let me urge you as a rem

If you have more than one hard drive on your WHS computer, backups get mir-rored automatically. Computer geeks tend to think of that as a RAID feature

Accessing your network from far afieldIf you so desire, Windows Home server can open up your entire home orsmall office network so you can log on to a

Having your own Internet-accessible repository can be really handy, and keepcasual surfers from leafing through your private pics. Instead of posting

Streaming mediaWindows Home Server doesn’t provide the media streaming capabilities thatyou find in Windows Media Center Edition, or Windows Vista Hom

1. Stick the Windows Home Server Connector CD into any computer on the network and run the Connector setup program (see Figure 1-6).The Connector setu