Windows Home Server is software that enables families with multiple PCs to easily connect their digital experiences, providing a reliable and familiar way to protect, organize and share treasured digital images, music, video, and documents.

Later this year, a variety of manufacturers, including Fujitsu-Siemens, Gateway, HP, Iomega, LaCie, Medion and others will be offering products powered by Windows Home Server, providing a complete hardware and software solution.

Mac users have the ability to save to and remotely access Windows Home Server. The Windows Home Server Console and pre-configured PC automatic backups works on Windows Vista and Windows XP.

Windows Home Server is a unique, integrated solution that provides backup and restore of home computers, centralized expandable storage, and access from anywhere to your digital photos, music, videos, documents and home PCs. It is a lot more than extra storage. Unlike other home storage, backup, or remote access tools currently available, Windows Home Server offers unprecedented simplicity and ease of use.

Windows Home Server provides automated "no touch" backup for all of the PCs in the home. It will automatically backup your home computers, including the operating system, applications and data, and allow you to easily restore the entire computer or an individual file or folder to a previous point in time. The Windows Home Server Backup solution uses an innovative system to backup only the data that has not already been backed up before.

a software platform, Windows Home Server will offer software partners tremendous opportunities to build innovative products that meet the needs of the digital home. We expect that a wide range of third-party applications will emerge, such as virus and malware protection, media sharing, and home security and automation.

Windows Home Server provides unprecedented simplicity for home users and it was designed to solve problems for households with multiple PCs. More than just storage, Windows Home Server uniquely provides a single pool of storage for your content and pre-defined shared folders, such as "Music" or "Photos," making it easier to organize and find your files.

Xbox is quickly becoming an important living room entertainment hub, in addition to the leading next-generation video game platform. As such, customers can use Xbox 360 and other devices to access and enjoy photos, music and videos located on Windows Home Server and experience them on the TV. This functionality can be achieved through Windows Media Connect technology.

Windows Server virtualization, previously codenamed Viridian, is a hypervisor-based technology that is a part of Windows Server “Longhorn”. It provides a scalable, secure and highly available virtualization platform. It is part of Microsoft’s ongoing effort to provide our customers and partners with the best operating system platform for virtualization.

Windows Home Server unleashes the power of your existing home network-it allows you to protect, connect, and organize your photos, movies, music, and more. It lets you remotely access your information and your home computers anytime, anywhere, while easily and securely sharing files with friends and family.

BackOffice Server and its components such as Exchange, SQL will work on Windows 2000 however specific service pack's/fixes are required for the products to enable full functionality. A list of fixes needed are listed at http://www.microsoft.com/backofficeserver/prodinfo/win2000sps.htm.

There are some new timeout problems during negotiation (I think). An LDAP option has been set in version 1.2, and it has resolved this issue.

Customers who invest the .vhd file format – the format used by Virtual Server, as well as a multitude of vendor licensees - will have a clear path forward to Windows Server virtualization. Customers can work with Microsoft’s partners who provide solutions to conveniently migrate from VMware to Windows Server virtualization.

Which operating system you decide to use should depend on what features you need. For example, if you are already using IIS, ASP, VBScript, Windows Media, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, or Visual InterDev, and you don't have the time to learn Unix-based solutions, you'll have to choose a Windows NT or Windows 2000-based host. Just because your desktop is Windows-based doesn't mean you should use a Windows host.

Yes, Telnet Magic runs on Windows Terminal Server (Windows NT Server 5.0 Terminal Server Edition and Windows 2000 Terminal Services) and on Citrix MetaFame. Telnet Magic configuration is handled in the same manner as when installing Telnet Magic on a network server used by multiple users. See the License Agreement for licensing requirements and review "Using Telnet Magic on an Intranet (Network)" in the "How to..

The answer depend on what GRBackPro version you have installed. Version 5.x run on both Windows Workstation and Windows Server. Version 6.x has two different licenses: A Single User license for installation on Windows Workstation and a Server license for installation on a Windows Server. If you backup from a Windows Server edition then a Server license should be used for 4-5 users. If your server handle more users you need a Site license. This license has been created to handle companies.

Windows Server virtualization provides customers an ideal platform for key virtualization scenarios, such as production server consolidation, business continuity management, software test and development, and development of a dynamic data center. Windows Server virtualization provides key functionality which an ideal virtualization platform should provide - scalability, high performance, reliability, security, flexibility and manageability.

If the server in your home is a "mission critical" server, then by all means YES. However, it must meet the minimum guidelines for connecting to our systems (see specifications for details). I only have 1 file server that I use for Accounting. My secretary backs it up on a daily basis and we don't have any problems. Why do I need this product? We're not having any problems.. Please read "Some reasons why you need Patroldog".

If you specifically require ASP, IIS, MS SQL server or any other Microsoft products then you will probably want to opt for a Windows server. Otherwise, Linux is a far more reliable, secure and economical solution. Administering a Linux system does requires some level of technical expertise.

No. Mainsoft applications are pure Java applications that can be run on any server that runs a Java Virtual Machine. Mainsoft applications have been deployed on various hardware architectures including System z, Power, SPARC, and Intel running various operating systems including Linux, zOS, Windows, and AIX.