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Having your own Internet-accessible repository can be really handy, and keep
casual surfers from leafing through your private pics. Instead of posting pics
of your new toddler, uh, toddling, on photo-sharing sites such as Flickr or
dotPhoto or Webshots, you simply stick the pics in a shared folder on your
own Windows Home Server and give all your family and friends the Web
address and password that’ll let ’em in.
Keeping the home fires burning
Windows Home Server constantly monitors all the computers on your network
and gives you a concise, centralized “health report” (see Figure 1-5).
Windows Vista computers on your home or small office network keep WHS
abreast of the current status of patches and virus signature file updates. Vista
computers also notify the WHS server if they’re running out of disk space.
Windows XP and Vista machines both keep WHS apprised of their backup
status.
For a thorough look at the warnings on offer — and what to do about them —
see Chapters 16 and 20.
Figure 1-5:
The
Windows
Home
Server
network
health
report.
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