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

• Digital memories and media stored and organized in a central location
• Home computers backed up daily, automatically
• Simple restore of lost files or even entire hard drive contents
• Complete access to files from both inside and outside the home
• A secure and personalized website address for sharing photos and home videos
• Easily add storage space and new software

• Computer with 1 GHz Pentium III (or equivalent) or faster processor
• 512 MB RAM or more
• 70 GB or larger ATA, SATA, or SCSI hard drive as the primary hard drive and any number of additional hard drives of any size
• DVD drive, your home server must be capable of booting from this drive
• VGA or higher-resolution monitor for software installation
• Keyboard and Microsoft® Mouse or compatible pointing device (needed only during initial home server installation)
• 100 Mbps or faster Ethernet network interface card

To run Windows Home Server, your home network must meet the following minimum requirements

• A broadband router/firewall device with a 100 Mbps or faster wired Ethernet connection for your home server
• Windows Home Server assumes that your home computers get their IP address from the router/firewall device on your home network
• Note: Connecting your Home Server to your home network using a wireless connection is not supported. You must have a wired Ethernet port available on your router/firewall device for your home server. However, home computers connected wirelessly to a wireless router/firewall device in your home is supported.
  
• Actual requirements will vary based on your system configuration

Supported Operating Systems

• Windows Vista Home Basic
• Windows Vista Home N (European Union only)
• Windows Vista Home Premium
• Windows Vista Business
• Windows Vista Business N (European Union only)
• Windows Vista Enterprise
• Windows Vista Ultimate
• Windows XP Home with Service Pack 2 (SP2)
• Windows XP Professional with SP2
• Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 with SP2 and Rollup 2
• Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 with SP2
• Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 with SP2
• Windows XP Tablet Edition with SP2