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Windows Home Server Books: Your Input Required

Tue, Jun 19, 2007 | Terry Walsh

Further to yesterday’s post regarding the two new books announced for Windows Home Server, both authors have been in touch with the site separately to request your input.

Andrew Edney, author of Windows Home Server User’s Guide, (US Link) emailed me yesterday afternoon to request your thoughts on what areas of Windows Home Server should be covered in the book. He writes, “I would be very interested to hear from people what sort of things they might think would be useful in the book - so that I don’t forget something!”

Woody Leonhard, who’s currently writing Windows Home Server For Dummies (US Link) added a comment to yesterday’s post regarding his book: “I’m following the forum closely, so the best way to ensure your pet part of WHS gets coverage in the book is to post away - the good, the bad and the terminally warty. Those of you who have read my other books or followed the antics at www.AskWoody.com know that I’m available all day, every day at Woody (at) Ask Woody (dot) com. Drop by or drop a line…”

So, you’ve been using Windows Home Server now for a few weeks, or maybe a few months - whilst it’s simple and easy to use, imagine if you were not so confident with computers, but saw the potential in WHS. What would you want covering in the books? How about for more advanced users? What’s the next step after learning the basics of Windows Home Server?

Feel free to post any thoughts below and I’m sure Andrew and Woody will be interested! And guys, if there’s any mention in your books of great WHS community sites out there, remember your friends :-)

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2 Comments For This Post

  1. Colin Walker Says:
    June 19th, 2007 at 12:12 pm

    As this is going to be an OEM solution then installation isn’t needed (if your server dies then I presume the OEMs will offer restore CDs).

    All the obvious stuff will no doubt be included - page by page look at the UI and settings options, web UI and Connector software

    A run through of PC restore

    Configuring backup options would be good

    remote access setup - upnp support on routers etc.

    Adding drives etc. managing storage including overview of folder replication and what it entails

    Advanced stuff: add-ins, managing the PC by using normal windows server tools (MMC etc) rather than the console, manually configuring the website to use alternative port

    Just a few things off the top of my head ;)

  2. Woody Leonhard Says:
    June 19th, 2007 at 3:33 pm

    Colin -

    I’m covering installation. I assume WHS will be available to sufficiently, uh, motivated folks who have a spare machine lying around.

    I have many pages on the UI, but I’ve tried to group them in ways that make sense. For example, I’m seeing many messages on the support forum about passwords, and folks are confused. I was confused, too. So I’m putting all the password stuff in one place, trying to give an overview of what’s really happening.

    Restore: check. Backup options: check. Remote access: half a check. I find UPnP poke-throughs to be remarkably arcane - the methods vary so much from router to router.

    Drives, managed storage: check.

    I’m going to cover add-ins, but they have to arrive before we go to press.

    Windows Server tools won’t be covered to any great extent. The potential for self-inflicted pre-frontal lobotomies gives me the willies.

    Keep those cards ‘n letters comin’! Appreciate it…

    - Woody

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