Windows Home Server

"The center of your digital life!"


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. Windows Home Server was designed for households and home-based businesses that have more than one personal computer.

Windows Home Server at a glance - much more than NAS
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. Windows Home Server does more than Network Attached Storage (NAS) - take a look.

Back up and restore files and PCs
Windows Home Server completes an image-based back up of every home computer every day, so you can restore a single file or an entire computer.
* 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.

Access your data anywhere
You and your family can now access the home network-at home, in the office, or even on the road.
* 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.

Store and share digital files
Organize your digital media in a central location, making it easier to share photos, music, videos, and more.
* 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. Learn more about media server sharing.

Add-Ins
Easily increase the functionality of your Windows Home Server with an add-ins.