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
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 70 books to his credit, which combined have sold more than three million copies worldwide. His recent titles include the Sams Publishing book Windows 7 Unleashed and the Que Publishing books Networking with Microsoft Windows Vista and Tweak It and Freak It: A Killer Guide to Making Windows Run Your Way. 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. Please drop by Paul's website at www.mcfedries.com or follow Paul on Twitter at twitter.com/paulmcf.
Book Details
- Paperback: 792 pages
- Publisher: Sams; 2 edition (April 19, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0672331063
- ISBN-13: 978-0672331060
- File Size: 15.0 MiB
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