The operating system was short-lived, with support having ended on 8 January 2013. Users can remotely log onto an online server dashboard, host personal file shares on the server and publish images to the Internet-all of which is achieved through the use of the Home Server Connector software. Ī key functionality of Windows Home Server is the Console, which allows the administrator to configure certain aspects of the server, such as managing computers in a network, viewing the status of disk drives and the ability to create and modify user accounts through a dashboard application. Along with the launch of Windows Home Server, a children's book titled Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? was released to promote the then-new operating system.
It was first released to manufacturing on 16 July 2007 and was made generally available on 4 November 2007. It was formally announced by Bill Gates, then-CEO of Microsoft, on 8 January 2007 during the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Windows Home Server (codenamed Quattro) is a home server solution developed by Microsoft, based on Windows Small Business Server 2003, itself a spin-off of Windows Server 2003.
