Windows Home Server has a lot to offer — it serves as a centralized and secure location for all of your data, allowing you to store, organize and share your documents easily between multiple computers.

These free introductory videos will provide you with some good Home Server basics — including what you can do with your Windows Home Server.

Enjoy the videos and leave a comment to let me know what you think!

 
- Scott Lowe
  (MCSE, CNA)

Lesson 1: Course Introduction This short introductory video will provide you with an outline of what the Windows Home Server training course covers.

Lesson 2: My Windows Home Server Lab Setup In this video I will show you my home lab setup, explaining what each piece of hardware does and how it is connected to my Windows Home Server. This short demo will help you get ideas to see what you can do with your Home Server. I will also walk you through setting up wireless networking on your Xbox so that we can connect the Xbox to our Windows Home Server.

Lesson 3: Networking and TCP/IP Understanding the basic mechanics that make up your home network is crucial because there are many options when it comes to networking the various devices in your home. In this video you will learn about your wireless networking options and security, power line networking, network adapter types and cabling your home. I will also provide you with a quick explanation of TCP/IP which is an integral part of your home network.

Lesson 4: Client Computer Configuration The next step is connecting individual client computers and devices to your Home Server, and in this video I will show you just how to do that. We’ll talk about the role of a network adapter, creating user accounts, and naming or renaming computers on your network. I will also show you how to configure an IP address in both XP and Vista using DHCP.

Lesson 5: Windows Home Server Feature Introduction Now we’re getting to the good stuff! This video is all about Windows Home Server. We’ll talk about all of the features and options that are available on Windows Home Server including file storage and resource sharing, remote access, video and music sharing, and how to use add-ins to extend the capabilities of your Home Server.

 

About Your Instructor: Scott Lowe is the Chief Information Officer at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri where he puts his 14 years of Information Technology experience to work serving the needs of the campus community. By night (and sometimes weekends, lunch, and every minute in between!) Scott writes technical articles for CNet’s TechRepublic and Microsoft. For TechRepublic, for whom he has written more than 500 articles, Scott writes the weekly Exchange newsletter tip as well as the biweekly storage newsletter. He is also the author of O’Reilly’s Home Networking: The Missing Manual and a coauthor of Microsoft Press’ Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Administrator’s Companion.

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9 Responses to “Free Windows Home Server Training Videos”

• 8675309 Says:

  September 23rd, 2009 at 1:57 pm

  i have been looking @ moca(coax) networking since my neibourhood is polluted with routers(modem combos that isp sells), my home wiring is old, i cant pull ethernet cabling but i have cable.

  some devices like ds, psp are terrible so i dont want to relie on wifi.

  i would add that mac address filtering is an extra solution to wep since i have found the other protos slow it down. plus there are other optons like wps, aoss/nintendo wifi connector.

  it would be nice to see the retailers burn through their supply of draft n hardware quicker so the manufactures can release new hw revisions that support the final specs.

• Rob Says:

  December 15th, 2009 at 11:44 am

  This is great and informative. I’ve always felt with some education and training, this Windows Home Server is going to be a big boon to home users. It’s very affordable.

  Build a Home Server

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• Kevin Evans Says:

  July 16th, 2010 at 8:11 pm

  Videos could do with updating:
  Latest HP hardware types (e.g EX495 etc)
  Comments re Wireless-N

• Kasia Grabowska Says:

  August 6th, 2010 at 11:34 am

  Hi Kevin,

  Thanks for your comment. Sorry, these videos are a little out of date, our WHS course is already a couple years old and Windows Home Server is continually being advanced and updated.

  Although I don’t think we will be updating the videos, we’ll try to fill in the blanks with some more up to date articles on this.

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