Windows Home Server Users Guide (Expert's Voice)
If you?re searching for a practical and comprehensive guide to installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Microsofts Windows Home Server, look no further. Inside Windows Home Server User?s Guide, you?ll learn how to install, configure, and use Windows Home Server and understand how to connect to and manage different clients such as Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Media Center, and more. It?s straightforward and easy-to-understand style will help you maximize all the benefits that Windows Home Server can bring. This guide includes the following: - Step-by-step instructions for configurations
- Lots of troubleshooting tips
- Comprehensive coverage of different clients that can connect to, manage and be managed by Windows Home Server
- Many useful illustrations for a quick-to-learn approach
Packed with handy hints, tips, and extensive walkthroughs to get you up and running as quickly and painlessly as possible, author Andrew Edney is your expert guide to help you get the most out of Windows Home Server. What you?ll learn- Discover the benefits of Windows Home Server.
- Centrally back up all of your home machines.
- Manage the configuration and operation of all computers in your household.
- Configure centralized storage so all computers can store files in one location.
- Bring many of the benefits of a Windows Server?based domain to your house without the overhead and expense of a traditional server product.
- Understand how to monitor and maintain the health of all of your machines.
Who is this book for?This book is for IT administrators, or anyone with some professional IT experience, who wants to learn about the Windows Home Server and how it can be used in their homes. Experience with Windows Server will be beneficial, but even with only some general computing experience, you will find this book a valuable companion to Windows Home Server. Related Titles from Apress- Windows Vista: Beyond the Manual
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Windows Home Server Users Guide (Expert's Voice) Reviews
If you still want to buy this book - Buy mine, I am selling it on Amazon for a good price ;-). This book is nothing but screen shots and step by step instructions on how to configure and use a very straight forward operating system. I don't normally go out of my way to trash a book. If you feel comfortable using most Windows operating systems, you DON'T need this book.
Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned pro there is something for you within the books 300+ pages.
Thoroughly recommended and defiantly one of the best WHS books currently on the market.
What Andrew has managed to do is write a complete guide of getting the most out of your Windows Home Server.
So is the User's Guide from author Andrew Edney any good.
Yes, Yes and Yes.
Well as I have said there are currently 6 Windows Home Server (WHS) books on the market and i'v read them all (yikes).
Andrew also includes a network primer and details on how to build your own Windows home Server as well.
Starting with what WHS is (just in case you didn't know), Andrew then takes us in detail, through the features of the product including how to install and most importantly the steps you should follow once installation has finished.
The truth is, WHS is pretty straightforward and there's not a whole lot to it. In fact, the same goes for every other task. The main critique seems to be that the book isn't meaty enough. Instaed of installing it and trying to figure it out later, I used this book as I went along and had no problems.
The only really tricky task that I found was getting Remote Access to work and this book got me through it with flying colors. Having used it to get me through my first WHS install and two subsequent ones, I find that charge a bit, well, unfair. It's precisely the concise nature of the book that makes it so useful. For the life of me, I don't understand the harsh review this book got. But I found that every single feature I was interested in was covered in more than enough detail to get me through it but never got longwinded or boring. What you see on the tabs if pretty much what's there other than Add-ins and the System Settings.
The book essentially goes through each Tab in the Windows Home Server console - that much I agree with in the other review. The author does a phenomenal job of getting to the point, telling you what you need to know and not confusing it with stuff you won't care about. The *only* thing I found tricky other than configuring remote access (and it's not the WHS side that's the problem, it's the router) was syncing user accounts on WHS with other accounts to machines I hooked up with Connector. Overall, it's an excellent book and the perfect WHS companion.
Although I would have been pleasantly surprised to find a little more on the WHS SDK, every single important topic is covered and covered well. It's light and small, you can easily store it near the computer and you can *find whatever you want quickly* in it.
But. if you just wished your home server came with an instruction manual, then this book makes a fine instruction manual, but nothing more. First of all, I would like to say I'm a big fan of most books published by Apress. I found no added insight from this no-meat itemization of each field presented. This is a common sample of the useless type of "extra information" that you can expect to get from this book. If the information. This book does nothing more than to painstakingly itemize each and every tab and dialog that you will ever see in an attempt to bulk up a book that really tells you nothing. this is taken directly from the book:.
If you are comfortable with your computer, then my 1 star stands, and my orginal review is what is written after this next paragraph. When I got this book, I already had my server running for a few months, and was looking for deeper knowledge than could be found from just clicking all the features and figuring them out. nothing). "You will notice a series of error codes in the log file; for example, 0x8007000e.
contained in the installation log file is not very helpful, you might try doing a search on the Internet for. some assistance.". In summary, Apress is a publisher that I have grown to trust, but after this piece of swill, I will be focusing a more critical eye on them before I purchase sight-unseen again. The rest of the text is nothing more than lots of pictures of each and every screen and dialog you will ever see, accompanied by write-ups similar to the one I have given. In fact, to find this example, all I did was randomly pick a page out of the book to prove this point. Anybody that had what it takes to get their home server running could have written this book. "Windows Home Server Users Guide" is the first book from this publisher I've gotten where I feel like they let a book get past their editors that is nothing more than a fluff piece attempting to cash in on a new technology. there is nothing in this book that added to my knowledge (really.
So, if your looking for an instruction manual, maybe this will work for you, as for me, the review below still stands:. After reading some other reviews, I am editing this. I did not look for a particularly bad example, but just the first example that I opened to. I find the majority of them through on their given topic, and well written. Let's look at an example of where the writer attempt to expand on interpreting the log file if you have an error. that error code, or contacting Microsoft Product Support and telling them the error code and asking for.
Each chapter walks you through features of WHS and how it can help connect your digital home and family, and shows you how to get the most out of it. Throughout the chapters the author has put in side notes that give you alternative ways of doing tasks, suggesting where to go for more information or warning you about potential risks. In short, this is the manual Microsoft should have included with the software. The chapters themselves are concise and full of illustrations and actual screen shots to help you understand what steps need to be taken. Perhaps you are a computer enthusiast who wants to "roll their own" solution using the OEM version of the software (Microsoft Windows Home Server OEM); or maybe you are looking into a pre-packaged hardware solution like the offers from HP (HP EX470 MediaSmart Home Server (AMD Live/ 64 Bit Sempron Processor, 500 GB Hard Drive)); or maybe you just want to read more about what Windows Home Server (WHS) is and see if it meets your needs. It will help you make a more informed buying decision and double as a great getting started guide to getting Windows Home Server setup and running in your house.
Luckily, in this book the author has done a good job of keeping the book on a level that can be understood by all. Many of them are large techical books that can drown the non-geek user with information that goes into too much detail about what goes on behind-the-scenes. There are a number of books that are coming onto the market about WHS. In this way the author stays true to the audience without trying to make this a "catch all" type book. Chances are, if you are reading about this book you have heard about Windows Home Server from Microsoft. I particularly enjoyed how the author covered more "geek" features of the product by talking briefly about them (such as the API or Application Programming Interface) but then instead of devoting pages on pages of text to something that both changes frequently and is too much information for the average WHS user simply points you to resources where you can find out more about it if the subject interests you. Many of the books assume you are using the OEM software and building your own system.
Instead of helping the user learn more about WHS, they confuse them with meaningless jargon and technical details precisely what Windows Home Server was meant not to do. Whatever level you are at, "Windows Home Server User's Guide" will help you learn more about WHS, guide you through what it can do and hopefully help you with your decision on what to buy, or help you decide if WHS is for you. He doesn't assume that you are using one solution or the other, but rather walks you through what WHS is and how it can help you regardless of the solution you end up using. In short, if you are getting ready to purchase Windows Home Server or are deciding on if this is a solution for you, I would highly recommend you pick up a copy of this book and read it.
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