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Microsoft OEM Home Server - WIN32 1PK CD/DVD 10CLT URP1 (PC CD) | 
| From: Microsoft OEM Licence
Category: Software
Buy New: £105.13
New (3) from £78.01
Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 232
Format: Closed-captioned
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: DVD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP/Windows Vista/Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Legal Disclaimer: Disclaimer: This OEM product is intended for system builders and may or may not be transferrable to another PC once it is installed. This product is for New and/or Fresh Installation and is NOT Retail nor Upgrade product. The purchaser of this product is required to comply with the terms of the System Builder license, including the responsibility of providing all end user support for the software.
MPN: CCQ-00061
Model: CCQ-00061
UPC: 882224627276
EAN: 0882224627276
ASIN: B001E5Q8CO
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1 to 3 weeks
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Just what I needed... December 24, 2008
S. J. Loveridge (Taunton, England)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've just purchased this having installed the free 120 day evaluation version which is available directly from Microsoft. In that time, it's dropped 30 in price!!
This is a server operating system based on MS Server 2003, which I have installed on my daughter's old AMD Athlon 1800+ desktop which became surplus on the arrival of a new laptop last birthday. I've not had any experience of servers before and the installation process was a doddle - you put the CD in the drive of your spare computer, plug it into a wired network socket on your router and away it goes to become your new Home Server. Once it's finished, every other computer on your network needs to install Home Server client software..and hey presto, you're up and running.
OK, but what does it do?? I'm not sure I've even scratched the surface yet, but this is what mine does...
I've installed Samsung Laser and HP Inkjet printers on it and it acts as print server for any computer in the house. (XP drivers seem to work fine for basic printers, but from reading forums I don't think scanners etc will work).
This means that you never have to plug a laptop into a printer again, just sit working wirelessly on your laptop on the sofa, click print in the usual way..and the print spools out of the printer connected to the Home Server.
All of our music, files and photographs are in folders on the Home Server which are shared and available to me, my wife and daughter with varying degrees of security and access (e.g. I have full control, whereas my daughter can only look at the photographs (not delete or change), but she can write new music to the Home Server when she rips new CDs.
This means that, no matter which computer you log onto, all of your files are available to you.
The Home Server backs itself up and also backs up each client computer.
This means that, using the supplied rescue disk you should be able to restore any computer or data if you have a serious problem.
Each computer has a new notification icon on the Windows toolbar which changes colour if anything needs attention. This means that, for example, I get a warning if my daughter's virus software finds a problem, or is out-of-date.
The Home Server can be enabled to provide a web-site and address, as well as remote access, so that you can log onto your home network from any internet enabled computer, anywhere in the world and download from / upload files to your Home Server (provided it's turned on) and even print out a document on a printer at home from anywhere in the world if you really want to!). Note - we have relatively slow broadband where we live so this is fairly slow for large files, but it's a good trick.
A few things you need to consider...
Disc Storage Space - there's no point in building a server unless it can handle all the data you need, so I installed 2 x 500GB HDDs in my Home Server. This gives me about a TB of storage in theory, but I've got full back up turned on, so this really provides 500GB of fully backed up storage (WHS automatically copies all data across both drives, so if one fails, the data isn't lost).
Energy Usage - a PC turned on all the time will burn a lot of electricity (especially if you use an ond one like mine) - and get quite warm, so I've stripped out everything it doesn't need (Sound card, fancy graphics card, floppy disc drive, DVD burner) and added a big fan to keep it cool. I've also changed the network card for one fitted with Wake on LAN (WOL) which means that, if a piece of software called Lights Out is installed, the Home Server will go to sleep if no clients are active on the network and then wake up automatically when it detects an active client.
This brings me onto one final point - read the "We Got Served" forum - this is excellent for all aspects of WHS...and gives you details of loads of Add Ons (such as Lights Out) most of which are free to download for installation.
I've also installed Firefly Media server on my Home Server. This provides a central "point" for iTunes to access its music from - so no more messing around with the frustrating business of libraries etc. All of our computers can now access all of our music through iTunes- with no input from me at all now!
You can probably tell that i'm impressed with this - yes, there are a few glitches and it took me a while to get my head around the difference between the Home Server desktop and the Home Server Console, but I'm no computer expert by any stretch of the imagination..so if I can do it, so can anyone else with a bit of patience.
Recommended
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