Microsoft Windows Home Server Expert Reviews

It's been over nine months since Microsoft announced the Windows Home Server at CES 2007 in Las Vegas. There has been a lot of hype, and a very strong enthusiast community stands behind it. Mi...

Simple to administer for non-geeks, Great centralized storage for media and documents, Remote access to computers and files over Secure HTTP,

Can't stream all media types to capable Windows Media Connect hardware (no H264 to an Xbox 360 that can play it back), Backup agent slows PC down during backup,

Is Windows Home Server worth the spare parts, possibly new hard drives, and $185? The answer is probably yes, especially if you are in a multi-PC household with multiple users, and with devices and media that can take advantage of Windows Media ...

Microsoft's Windows Home Server offers solid storage, backup, and remote-control abilities for your home network.

Good NAS features, image-based backup with file-by-file recovery, and bare metal restoration. Good remote access feature. Robust SDK gives rise to plug-in development culture.

Disk-driver support is critical to building your own. Remote access requires UPnP home router or skill at reconfiguring your firewall (or both). Lacks parental controls. Lacks Windows SP and security-update download caching.

Windows Home Server is a respectable first attempt at a software-based, home-oriented network-attached-storage environment. From a full-fledged home server perspective, however, the company missed the boat on features such as parental controls and ...

Access to the content server from certain audio and video, simple administration of the server, domain name associated with the server provided, automatic backup of his home PC .

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|| The dedicated server software to the general public is more promises. It allows you to easily administer a file server. It automatically saves the hard drive of his PC home network. And it allows you to access remotely and from certain devices (Xbox 36...

| | Your documents and files are scattered over several computers in your home and you want to centralize everything in one space Windows Home Server, the server software first public Microsoft, trying to meet this need .

Access to the content server from certain audio and video, simple administration of the server, domain name associated with the server provided, automatic backup of his home PC .

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This software server dedicated to the general public is more promises. It allows you to easily administer a file server. It automatically saves the hard drive of his PC home network. And it allows you to access remotely and from certain devices (Xbox 360,...

The expectations around Windows Home Server was quite encouraged by the long period between the announcement and eventual launch. But now is the time and the news seems good, although the name does not quite cover the load .

You can have as many disks as you want to connect to Windows Home Server, but you always just a great drive - makes the administration easier. Windows Home Server can be duplicates of each folder you create and spread over several drives. If one disk fail...

The expectations around Windows Home Server was quite encouraged by the long period between the announcement and eventual launch. But now is the time and the news seems good, although the name does not quite cover the load .

The expectations around Windows Home Server was quite encouraged by the long period between the announcement and eventual launch. But now is the time and the news seems good, although the name of the cargo not covered