Windows Home Server Brings It All Together

If you have multiple PCs with increasingly large amounts of digital photos, music, video, and documents, protecting, organizing, and connecting this digital media can be a challenging task. Help with managing your digital dilemmas has arrived. Take a look.

• Your family's digital memories and media organized in one central location

• Home PCs backed up daily, automatically

• Simple recovery of lost files or even entire PCs

• Complete access from networked PCs to all your Windows Home Server files

• A personalized Web address for sharing your photos and home videos

• Easy and quick setup

• Expandable storage space for future use

• Innovative third-party applications

Simple to set up and easy to use, Windows Home Server helps you safely store and share your family's digital content all in one place. It's the hub that keeps your family connected, whether they're in the same room, or across the country.*

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Check out the Protect, Connect, Organize, and Grow sections to see how Windows Home Server brings it all together.

*You might need to add services from your broadband provider to use Windows Home Server's remote access features. For example, you will need certain "ports" to be open to use these features. Some broadband providers block certain ports on some service plans. Also, some broadband providers' terms of service might 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 features follows your broadband providers' terms of service. Please contact your broadband provider if you have questions about their terms of service.

That video of your baby's first steps isn't gone forever. Windows Home Server can bring back individual files or folders for any computer in your home, using snapshots of previous versions of important files or folders that might have been accidentally deleted or modified. You can even rescue a PC that's had an unfortunate accident, effectively turning back the clock and fully restoring the system.

Imagine the peace of mind that comes from automatic daily backups. Windows Home Server helps keep your family's important files safe, backing up every computer in your home, every day. Your files and folders are automatically duplicated across multiple hard drives, so even if one fails, you can still recover what's important.

Your family's PCs stay healthy with home network health monitoring. You can see the exact condition of the computers in your home and make sure everyone's software and virus definitions are up-to-date.

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.

Use your free Internet address to share digital memories and more with anyone you want. All they'll need is Web access, a browser, and a log-in password from you. And don't worry about Mom seeing the wrong pictures; you decide who gets to see what.*

With Windows Home Server, home is just a click away. 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.**

Keep in tune with what your kids are listening to. Now the whole family can enjoy each other's music, from your wife's jazz standbys to your daughter's new favorite pop song. Use your Xbox 360 or other supported digital media receiver to listen to your family's shared music collection, watch a photo slideshow, or catch up on recorded TV shows and movies.

*You might need to add services from your broadband provider to use Windows Home Server's remote access features. For example, you will need certain "ports" to be open to use these features. Some broadband providers block certain ports on some service plans. Also, some broadband providers' terms of service might 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 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 2 (SP2)

• Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005

• Windows XP Tablet Edition with SP2

• Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows Vista Business, or Windows Vista Enterprise

Stop the spread of digital clutter. When you store all your files together, you can get to them as quickly and easily as if they were on your PC's hard drive. Windows Home Server uses a familiar interface that integrates with all your home computers.

Stop wondering where last year's Christmas pictures are and put your family photos where you can all see them. Get and stay organized with a single, easy-to-access location for all your important files.

Turn your home into a digital democracy. With Windows Home Server, everyone in your family can create and access shared folders of photos, music, and movies from any PC in your network. You can also share music through your Xbox 360 or digital music receiver.

Now you don't have to choose between your photo albums and music albums. You'll have all the space you need—simply connect a new hard drive to your Windows Home Server. Of course, all your family's videos, photos, and music are still safely stored together.

Imagine controlling your home security system through Windows Home Server. Designed with new products and services like this in mind, Windows Home Server will keep growing and getting better. Software and hardware developers are already working on innovative add-ins, such as home webcams, family information management software, home automation, and other innovations that work with your home server.