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Microsoft Windows Home Server 2011 Product Details

Microsoft Windows Home Server 2011
Your life has gone digital - it is time to simplify your life so you can easily access your files, photos, videos, and music from any PC or TV in your home, or even while away from home. The Microsoft Windows Home Server 2011 was designed for households and home-based businesses that have more than one personal computer. If you have multiple PCs with increasingly large amounts of digital photography, music, video, and documents, then protecting, organizing, and connecting this digital media can be a challenging task. Help with managing your digital dilemmas has arrived. Order the Microsoft Windows Home Server 2011 today!

What It Is and Why You Need It:

  • Store and organize digital memories and media in one central location. Stream the digital content to Media devices.
  • Effortlessly backup your home computers daily and automatically.
  • Easily restore lost files or even entire hard drive contents in a few steps.
  • Get complete access to files from both inside and outside the home.
  • Share photos and home videos with friends and family with the built-in secure and personalized website address.
  • Easily extend the capabilities of the Server using software add-ins. Expand storage capacity easily as your needs increase.

Features:

Keep your important files safe with Automatic Backup
Windows Home Server helps keep your family's important files safe by automatically making an image-based daily backup of every computer on your network. Your files and folders are duplicated across multiple hard drives, so even if one hard drive fails, you can still recover all your data.







Restore files, folders, and entire computers easily
With Windows Home Server's data recovery capabilities, you can bring back individual files or folders for a home computer. You can even rescue a PC that's had an unfortunate accident or hard drive failure because Windows Home Server makes a copy of the entire contents of your home computer hard drive.







Keep your PCs running smoothly
Your computers stay healthy with home network health monitoring. You can see the exact condition of the computers in your home and make sure anti-virus and other protection software is up-to-date.








Secure your home network
Windows Home Server sits behind your firewall and has strong password controls to help secure your home network. You decide who sees what, so you can share what you want and keep the rest private.








Easily access your stuff from anywhere
Windows Home Server 2001 enables you to easily and more securely access your files and personal computers from inside and outside of your home. Using a personalized website address you can download and upload files to the shared folders on your home server.*










Connect to your home PCs from virtually anywhere
With Windows Home Server 2011, you can connect remotely to the computers in your home and access all your files, even run applications, just as if you were sitting in front of your home computer.**










Stream photos, music, and videos
Now the whole family can enjoy a common music collection, with Windows Home Server 2011 as the media hub. Smooth Video Streaming, Silverlight enabled slide shows and anywhere-anytime music access from your PC. And with an Xbox 360 or other supported digital media receiver, you can also listen to a shared music collection, watch a photo slideshow, or catch up on recorded TV shows and movies on your television.








Find your files easily
With Windows Home Server as your media server, store all your photos, movies, and more in a central location that can be accessed from any computer on your home network. And Windows Home Server uses a familiar interface that integrates with all your family's home PCs, making it even easier to find digital media.







Share photos, music, and videos
With Windows Home Server as your media hub, everyone in your family can create and access shared folders of photo albums, music, and movies from any computer in your home network. You can also access music and other entertainment content through your Xbox 360 or digital media receiver.







*You may need to add services from your broadband provider to use Windows Home Server's 2011 remote access features. For example, you will need certain "ports" to be open to use these features. Some broadband providers block certain ports for customers on some service plans. Also, some broadband providers' terms of service may limit or prohibit setting up and running of "servers" on their networks by some customers on some service plans. Make sure that your use of Windows Home Server 2011 features follows your broadband providers' terms of service. Please contact your broadband provider if you have questions about their terms of service.
**To connect to one of your home computers via Remote Access, your home computer needs to be properly configured and running one of the following operating systems:
  • Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 (SP3)
  • Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows Vista Business, or Windows Vista Enterprise
  • Windows 7 Professional and above

Specifications

Software Specifications
OS Compatibility PC
Packaging OEM
Software GS
Operating Systems Windows Server

Customer Reviews

4.6 (32 customer reviews)

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Value
 4.8
Features
 4.4
Quality
 4.6
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 4.6
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3.3
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 4.0
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 3.0
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 4.0
Performance
 2.0
Reviewer:
Shaun,
Date:
Jan 25, 2013
Runs more slowly than Windows Home Server v1

I installed this product on my virtual server. I created a VM that had 2 CPU's, 4 GB of RAM (double what I'm using from my old WHS server). Surprisingly, I have a couple of apps that run on the console, which run fine on the WHS v1 server, but are too laggy to run on the WHS 2011 server. I'm disappointed by this, and the removal of Drive Extender (which I knew in advance).

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5.0
Value
 5.0
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 5.0
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 5.0
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 5.0
Reviewer:
CowboyGeek
Date:
Oct 27, 2012
Great product - Windows Homer Server 2011

Great product, first time user with Windows Homer Server 2011. Been a Windows user ever since Windows 3.1. Windows Homer Server 2011 does everything I need plus more.

Overall
5.0
Value
 5.0
Features
 5.0
Quality
 5.0
Performance
 5.0
Reviewer:
JAZman 57,
Date:
Oct 22, 2012
This is the last of WHS

I needed to have a server at home; everyone is wired in and needing to print to various rooms (I send lists of chores to my kids that way and they send me papers to proof for them) and sharing music, content as well as backups for everyone. Having UAC, storage and group policy without the overhead of a domain controller is a great option. SBS 2012 is hard to justify for the home. The only drawback here MS has discontinued WHS after this release.

Overall
3.3
Value
 4.0
Features
 3.0
Quality
 3.0
Performance
 3.0
Reviewer:
DanJ
Date:
Sep 23, 2012
Software OK, not hardware. Antivirus a problem.

I purchased this as part of a bundle with a Fujitsu Primergy server. The OS itself is probably OK, but it would not install with the 2 GB RAM on the Fujitsu server (even though 2 GB is stated by Microsoft as being the minimum). I raised it to 4 GB, and that problem went away. The installation failed again, however, because Fujitsu does not include a driver for their Ethernet port; one has to search their website for the Windows Server 2008 driver. After that, it went well enough. I wish there were more antivirus programs available--few work on this OS, and that is a major drawback.

Overall
5.0
Value
 5.0
Features
 5.0
Quality
 5.0
Performance
 5.0
Reviewer:
Sparkydog,
Date:
Jul 20, 2012
Awesome

Why bother pirating it when you can purchase it for this excellent price?!

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