Just in time for the holidays, Woody Leonhard’s Windows Home Server for Dummies is now available and shipping from Amazon. The book provides a guide to using Windows Home Server, sharing and storing files will hints and tips to help you get the most out of your home server. Here’s the blurb:
If you work in an office, you probably don’t lose much sleep worrying about whether your files are safe if your PC melts down. Company IT departments handle those things for business networks. But how about all those precious photos, address lists, the family genealogy, and everything else that lives on your home network? Windows Home Server can save the day if one of your personal PCs hiccups, and Windows Home Server For Dummies serves up all the stuff you need to know to put it to work.
Forget everything you’ve heard about previous versions of Windows Server; this all-new variation has been designed for people who don’t wear white lab coats or pocket protectors. Woody Leonhard has tested it and it passed with flying colors. If you have a home or small business network, this book shows you how Windows Home Server helps you
- Share files among all the PCs in your home
- Access your files from anywhere
- Make regular backups automatically
- Store files securely
- Play music, TV shows, or movies on your XboxShare multimedia across your network
- Keep your virus protection and system upgrades up to date
- Get regular reports on the overall health of your network
Windows Home Server For Dummies provides sage advice on choosing a version of Windows Home Server, installing it, setting up users and passwords, using remote access, scheduling automatic scans and backups, and having fun with multimedia. Trust Woody— you’ll sleep better.
You can pick up the book now from all good bookstores (and probably a few bad ones too).
November 21st, 2007 at 3:53 am
Hello~ from Seoul, South Korea.
I’ve been reading your posts over half a year. I studied your hidden agenda. I’ve bought a copy of WHS OEM kit from US. We are not served yet here in Seoul. But, I’ve been hosting a small web cafe ( http://cafe.naver.com/vistamce ) about Windows Vista Media Center and Windows Home Server. Korean people are so soaked into Web Services hosted by the biggest portal called Naver (http://www.naver.com). Anyway, we are not quite familiar with English language. I’ll be your Korean replicant(?, ^^) for promoting WHS community here in Seoul. Good luck! Terry!