Windows Home Server Installation and configuration experience

Goxia a simple experience with Windows Home Server (WHS) Two months ago, but because it's English or on remote hyper-V, it's pretty slow to test and recently installed Windows S on a Native Boot. Erver 2008 R2 Beta, so there is a ready-made Hyper-V environment Test virtual machine is a lot easier. On the first day of the Windows home Server signing MSDN & Technet subscriptions release, I completed the download, the next night to start the installation, the entire installation process is smooth but spent 1 hours of time, indeed long enough! Installation screenshot Dozens of contains each step, convenient for everyone to reference! Because the whole installation process is very simple, in addition to the key steps Goxia will do, other steps will not be too much to explain and introduce, mainly to look at the main map, but after the installation process is still necessary to learn to understand.

Before I start, I recommend that you understand the home network architecture based on WHS, you should have a router at home, a router that includes wireless network support and a PnP protocol, so that laptops or smartphones with wireless cards can be easily accessible to the network, and easy to WHS Configure the remote access feature. (Figure 1)

The screenshot below shows the installation process for the entire Windows home Server. Especially exciting is that, although it is the core of Windows Server 2003, but during the installation process we have been able to use the graphical interface to install the disk controller driver, save a lot of trouble! This feature is good if included in the basic Windows Server 2003 version! Such a deploy server will be much more convenient!

In addition, in the Cd-key part can also be skipped, indeed very convenient! However, it is important to note that although you can skip the completion of the serial number, the activation of Windows home Server must be completed within the next 30 days.

Throughout the installation process, I personally feel most important is the name of the home server, that is, "naming the home server," We need to create an easy to remember the name of our home server, preferably the name is not Microsoft Homeserver.com has been occupied by the host record. So, Windows home Server provides us with a level two domain name for remote access, such as su-family.homeserver.com, which is managed by Microsoft Homeserver.com and supports dynamic IP so that we don't have to secure Remember the home broadband network IP and directly through the memory of the domain name to access our WHS.

Last but not least, it's very important! The best disk to install WHS is a new hard drive, which does not contain any data, because it does not include steps to partition the disk during the installation process, and instead confirms that all data is automatically allocated by WHS!

There's nothing else to pay attention to, in terms of hardware! WHS also has no special requirements, after all, is based on the Windows Server 2003 core, compatibility is very good. But to do a decent WHS, I suggest that you should refer to the previous log: The features of the Windows home Server hardware platform. Well, let's take a look at the entire installation process first! Pay attention to the configuration section below!