Building a Windows 8 Home Server Step by Step Terry Walsh eBook
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Building a Windows 8 Home Server - Step by Step is We Got Served's essential guide to Microsoft's "re-imagined" Windows operating system... with a twist! Whether you're new to the world of home servers, thinking about upgrading from Windows Home Server or swapping your Network Attached Storage device for a real computer, this 360 page eBook will help you build, install and configure Windows 8 for home server use.
Written by Microsoft Windows Home Server MVP and We Got Served Editor Terry Walsh, Building a Windows 8 Home Server - Step by Step walks you step by step through your Windows 8 home server setup, illustrated with hundreds of detailed, full-colour screenshots.
From selecting hardware components, building your own home server PC, through installation, set-up and usage, Building a Windows 8 Home Server - Step by Step brings to life the most relevant new features of Windows 8, helping you build your home network around a Windows 8 PC. Detailed walkthroughs include a deep dive into Microsoft's all-new Storage Spaces feature, (the successor to Windows Home Server Drive Extender), File History and data backup options, configuring user accounts, homegroups and shared folders, navigating the brand new (and more than a little quirky) Windows 8 Start Screen and Apps, configuring Remote Access and in-home/mobile media streaming and much more. Finally for Windows Home Server enthusiasts, there's a bonus chapter on converging Windows Home Server 2011 client backup and remote access with Windows 8 - bringing together the best of both worlds!
Building a Windows 8 Home Server - Step by Step chapters include
Introduction
Windows 8 Home Server Hardware
Building Your Windows 8 Home Server
Configuring Your UEFI Motherboard
Installing Windows 8
A Lap Around the Windows 8 Desktop. Erm, Desktops
Windows 8 Storage and Storage Spaces
Managing User Accounts and Family Safety
Homegroups and Shared Folders
File History, Backup and Data Recovery
Windows 8 Media Streaming and Play To
Remote Access, Remote Media Streaming and the SkyDrive Cloud
Running Windows Home Server as a Virtual Machine in Windows 8
Building a Windows 8 Home Server Step by Step Terry Walsh eBook
I haven't finished the book yet, but so far, mostly satisfied with the purchase. I agree with a previous reviewer . . . too much time spent on the hardware side of things for my taste, but the promise of the book title would be incomplete without it.Skipping reviewing the hardware sections, since I already had a machine built, I moved right to the OS chapters. Overall, quite pleased so far with the level of detail provided. Written in clear, easy to understand language, and plenty of screenshots throughout to illustrate points.
My biggest complaint thus far -- no table of contents! Checked on both my Kindle and the Cloud Reader -- there is no table of contents for this book. Quite distressing, especially if you want to skip the sections that don't apply to you . . . like the hardware chapters.
This seems to be a big oversight to me, so I've knocked two stars off my rating for that.
Content = so far, so good. Navigation and ease of use = buyer beware.
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Building a Windows 8 Home Server Step by Step Terry Walsh eBook Reviews
First, I want to say that I am a long time (from its initial release) WHS v1 user and have found WGS to be an invaluable source of information for the home and small business user. As with most things tech related, my upgrade to a new Windows 8.1 based homeserver, which I also use for my small 3 person practice, was in response to a disaster. The first thing I did was purchase this book.
Let me say that it is a good, fairly comprehensive and basic walk through for building and configuring a new home server using Windows 8 as the OS and I wholeheartedly recommend it. I particularly appreciated the section on hardware and BIOS configuration. The caveat here is that each situation is different and each person should make their own assessment as to their server needs and expectations and do a fair amount of research. Also, if starting from scratch it is likely that the OS will be Windows 8.1 and the book could use an update to reflect this.
One of the reasons I stuck with WHS v1 rather than upgrade to 2011 was for its Drive Extender features. I have had several hard drive failures and DE has always enabled me to recover quickly. The ability to pull one of the other drives out and temporarily install it in my desktop Win 7 computer, configure sharing and have my office - 3 users - up and running in less than 2 hours without loss of data is critical. I was initially attracted to Storage Spaces in Win 8 and the discussion in the book is great. But, it is similar to a RAID array and from what I can tell the loss of a system drive might not result in loss of data but the data is not accessible until the OS is restored. So, I used a third party application to create a storage drive Stablebit’s Drivepool. A discussion of third party alternatives, in general, might be useful.
Unless I missed it there is no discussion of Power Management. As a server the machine needs to be always on and Windows out of the box is not set up this way.
Other areas where more clarity could be useful are in data backup and remote access. As far as I can tell Win 8's “File History” function will only back up files in certain system folders and libraries. While storage Spaces duplicates data it is still useful to be able to backup data from the pool elsewhere - NAS, cloud, or otherwise off site. Again, this will require a third party solution.
As for remote access, there are 2 scenarios - accessing the headless server from another computer on the same network and over the internet. The book uses Logmein for both but does not discuss Windows inherent Remote Desktop applications. The issue I have with Logmein as a solution is that it gives users full access to the server desktop when all I want to do is give them the ability to access files in the storage pool. This was one of the best features of WHS and is not available in Win 8. So, again I am looking for an alternative solution, possibly using WebDAV which also has capabilities to connect with some mobile apps.
Overall I would recommend this book to anyone contemplating building a modern home server.
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Background
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I love my old WHSv1 box. I use it for 4 functions
1. File Server - it hold very important files (photos, home videos, etc) and media files (DVD rips)
2. Backup - Great backup for both clients and server (at least the files on the server)
3. VM Server - I use VMWare Server to host VM that provide other services (ex OpenVPN server).
4. Media Server - shares media via Windows Shares, DLNA, Plex, etc
WHSv1 is approaching EOL. It is 32-bit, so it cannot host 64-bit VMs. It can only access 4GB of RAM. WHS2011 doesn't provide SS or DE. Win8 with SS seemed like a good replacement.
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This Book
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This book seemed to be just what I was looking for.
I'm very interested in using Windows 8 to replace my WHSv1. I'm interested in using Storage Spaces (SS) to replace Drive Extender (DE). I'm interested in Backup. I'm interested in running WHS 2011 as a VM to utilize its great backup.
This book covers the right high level topics, but spends more time on screenshots than depth of any topic.
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Here is what I was looking for
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1. Is SS a good replacement for DE?
Does SS handle growing the storage pool over time like DE? It appears parity based SS don't grow very well because the pools are not rebalanced. How about mirrored SS? There is no discussion of that. How well do SS handle drive failures? I would love to see a walk through of a drive replacement.
There is no discussion of SS performance in comparison to DE.
2. How to Backup the Server
The book explains that Win8 doesn't have any feature like WHSv1 client backup (expected). But, it doesn't talk about server backup.
What is the best way to make off-site backups of data on the storage spaces? Is Windows 8 File History a good option? Can you backup to multiple destinations (daily backups to attached external hard drive, quarterly backups to drive that goes in fire safe, annual backups that are taken off-site).
3. WHS as a VM
The books walks through the VirtualBox VM creation wizard. I'm interested in
How well does running WHS 2011 as a vm really work? Can you use the guest (whs 2011) to backup the host (win8)? What is the benefits of using VirtualBox instead of Hyper-V that comes with Windows 8 Pro?
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Conclusion
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This book didn't provide me with the answers I was looking for.
Too much devoted to computer build, not enough to server side of Windows 8, but informative enough to warrant buying.
Haven't got trough the whole book, but the chapters advertised on the website as exclusive only to the book were not too comprehensive.
There seems to be a lot of info left to discuss and a lot of assumption are taken that could cause people to get lost. I also had trouble following with the text and example images provided.
I haven't finished the book yet, but so far, mostly satisfied with the purchase. I agree with a previous reviewer . . . too much time spent on the hardware side of things for my taste, but the promise of the book title would be incomplete without it.
Skipping reviewing the hardware sections, since I already had a machine built, I moved right to the OS chapters. Overall, quite pleased so far with the level of detail provided. Written in clear, easy to understand language, and plenty of screenshots throughout to illustrate points.
My biggest complaint thus far -- no table of contents! Checked on both my and the Cloud Reader -- there is no table of contents for this book. Quite distressing, especially if you want to skip the sections that don't apply to you . . . like the hardware chapters.
This seems to be a big oversight to me, so I've knocked two stars off my rating for that.
Content = so far, so good. Navigation and ease of use = buyer beware.
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