Wiley Windows Home Server For Dummies 978-0-470-18592-6 ユーザーズマニュアル

In This Chapter

Making great things happen with Windows Home Server

Dealing with WHS’s limitations

Controlling Windows Home Server with a “headless horseman” console

Choosing a fabulous Windows Home Server — cheap

Sticking the Home Server box in your home or small office

Installing the shrink-wrapped version of Windows Home server

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s a first approximation, you should think of your Windows Home Server
as a washing machine.

Okay, okay. It’s a washing machine with a LAN cable and a gaggle of 
hard drives. Picky, picky. I’m pushing the analogy a bit. But in many ways, 
your Windows Home Server box just sits there. No keyboard to soak up 
spilled coffee. No mouse accumulating gunk on its slick little feet. No 27-
inch widescreen LCD monitor with Dolby 7.1 surround sound and an 
independently powered subwoofer that pushes more air than a Lear Jet.

Naw, it just sits there.

Once you get the hang of it, and customize the software in a couple of 
ways, your Windows Home Server sort of fades into the background. Then 
you needn’t lift a finger. You can completely forget about it. Until the day 
the hard drive on one of your PC dies, or you discover that one bit in your
magnum opus flipped and Word can’t read it anymore, or you’re vacationing
on Mt. Denali and the boss calls to say she needs that report you left back at
the house right now, or the kids invite a friendly little rootkit to take up 
residence on the family computer.

That’s when you’ll thank your lucky stars that Windows Home Server’s sittin’
in the background doin’ its thing.

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