EFS in Windows cannot function without a recovery agent, so there is always someone who can decrypt encrypted files of the users. Any non-domain-joined Windows computer will be susceptible to unauthorized EFS decryption by anyone who can take over the local Administrator account, which is trivial given many tools available freely on the Internet. Setting SYSKEY to mode 2 or 3 syskey typed in during bootup or stored on a floppy disk will mitigate the risk of unauthorized decryption through the local Administrator account.

In Windows , the user’s RSA private key is not only stored in a truly encrypted form, but there is also a backup of the user’s RSA private key that is more weakly protected. If an attacker gains physical access to the Windows computer and resets a local user account’s password, [7] the attacker can log in as that user or recovery agent and gain access to the RSA private key which can decrypt all files.

This is because the backup of the user’s RSA private key is encrypted with an LSA secret, which is accessible to any attacker who can elevate their login to LocalSystem again, trivial given numerous tools on the Internet. In Windows XP and beyond, the user’s RSA private key is backed up using an offline public key whose matching private key is stored in one of two places: the password reset disk if Windows XP is not a member of a domain or in the Active Directory if Windows XP is a member of a domain.

This means that an attacker who can authenticate to Windows XP as LocalSystem still does not have access to a decryption key stored on the PC’s hard drive. In Windows , XP or later, the user’s RSA private key is encrypted using a hash of the user’s NTLM password hash plus the user name — use of a salted hash makes it extremely difficult to reverse the process and recover the private key without knowing the user’s passphrase.

Also, again, setting Syskey to mode 2 or 3 Syskey typed in during bootup or stored on a floppy disk will mitigate this attack, since the local user’s password hash will be stored encrypted in the SAM file.

Once a user is logged on successfully, access to his own EFS encrypted data requires no additional authentication, decryption happens transparently. Thus, any compromise of the user’s password automatically leads to access to that data. Windows can store versions of user account passphrases with reversible encryption, though this is no longer default behaviour; it can also be configured to store and will by default on the original version of Windows XP and lower Lan Manager hashes of the local user account passphrases, which can be attacked and broken easily.

It also stores local user account passphrases as NTLM hashes, which can be fairly easily attacked using ” rainbow tables ” if the passwords are weak Windows Vista and later versions don’t allow weak passwords by default. To mitigate the threat of trivial brute-force attacks on local passphrases, older versions of Windows need to be configured using the Security Settings portion of Group Policy to never store LM hashes, and of course, to not enable Autologon which stores plaintext passphrases in the registry.

Further, using local user account passphrases over 14 characters long prevents Windows from storing an LM hash in the SAM — and has the added benefit of making brute-force attacks against the NTLM hash harder.

When encrypting files with EFS — when converting plaintext files to encrypted files — the plaintext files are not wiped, but simply deleted i. This means that, unless they for example happen to be stored on an SSD with TRIM support, they can be easily recovered unless they are overwritten.

To fully mitigate known, non-challenging technical attacks against EFS, encryption should be configured at the folder level so that all temporary files like Word document backups which are created in these directories are also encrypted. When encrypting individual files, they should be copied to an encrypted folder or encrypted “in place”, followed by securely wiping the disk volume.

Anyone who can gain Administrators access can overwrite, override or change the Data Recovery Agent configuration. Instead, you can allocate an Elastic IP address to your account and associate it with your instance.

As a result, some applications may only be partially migrated. Imported applications can be migrated but cannot be edited in SMS. They can, however, be edited in Migration Hub. VMs that are created as the result of a P2V conversion are not supported. A P2V conversion occurs when a disk image is created by performing a Linux or Windows installation process on a physical machine and then importing a copy of that Linux or Windows installation to a VM.

These drivers are not required unless you plan to use enhanced networking, which provides higher performance packets per second , lower latency, and lower jitter. For Windows Server , disable Windows driver-signing checks before migrating.

If you choose a license type that is incompatible with your VM, the replication job fails with an error message. The possible values are:. Detects the source-system operating system OS and applies the appropriate license to the migrated virtual machine VM. The default value is Auto. Linux operating systems support only BYOL licenses. Run on a Dedicated Host Dedicated Hosts. Activate using Microsoft keys that you provide or are used in your key management system.

You must account for the fact that when you start an Amazon EC2 instance, it can run on any one of many servers within an Availability Zone. You must account for this fact in light of the limitations on license reassignment as described in Microsoft Volume Licensing Product Terms, available at Licensing Terms , or consult your specific use rights to determine if your rights are consistent with this usage. The server itself required no video card or peripherals; it was designed to require only an Ethernet card and at least one Windows XP , Windows Vista or Windows 7 computer.

Windows Home Server Drive Extender was a file-based replication system that provided three key capabilities: [21]. With drive extender, users could add larger capacity hard disk drives and then could offline lesser capacity drives to upgrade capacity online.

For example, if the user was reaching capacity of the share with five terabytes of the six-terabyte capacity used with six one-terabyte drives then the user could offline one of the one-terabyte drives and physically replace it with a two-terabyte drive. The WHS automatically equalizes the redistribution of used space across all available drives on a regular basis.

The offline process would compress the used data across the minimum amount of drives allowing for the removal of one of the lesser capacity drives. Once replaced with a drive of higher capacity the system will automatically redistribute used capacity among the pool to ensure space capacity on each drive. Users specifically those who configure a family’s home server dealt with storage at two levels: Shared Folders and Disks. The only concepts relevant regarding disks was whether they had been “added” to the home server’s storage pool or not and whether the disk appeared healthy to the system or not.

This was in contrast with Windows’ Logical Disk Manager which requires a greater degree of technical understanding in order to correctly configure a RAID array. Shared Folders had a name, a description, permissions, and a flag indicating whether duplication redundancy was on or off for that folder.

If duplication was on for a Shared Folder which was the default on multi-disk Home Server systems and not applicable to single disk systems then the files in that Shared Folder were duplicated and the effective storage capacity was halved.

However, in situations where a user may not have wanted data duplicated e. TV shows that had been archived to a Windows Home Server from a system running Windows Media Center , Drive Extender provided the capability to not duplicate such files if the server was short on capacity or manually mark a complete content store as not for duplication.

A known limitation of Drive Extender was that it in some cases changed timestamp of directories and files when data was moved around between disks. According to Microsoft this was expected behavior. This caused unexpected behavior when using clients that sort media based on date. The aforementioned programs worked fine with WHS; however, files may have appeared out of order due to this caveat. Criticism of Drive Extender’s removal mainly related to it being seen as a core feature of Windows Home Server and a key reason for adoption.

Windows Home Server Computer Backup automatically backs up all of the computers in a home to the server using an image-based system that ensures point-in-time-based restoration of either entire PCs or specific files and folders. This technology uses Volume Shadow Services VSS technology on the client computer to take an image based backup of a running computer.

Because the backup operates on data at the cluster level, single instancing can be performed to minimize the amount of data that travels over the network and that will ultimately be stored on the home server.

This single instancing gives the server the ability to store only one instance of data, no matter if the data originated from another computer, another file, or even data within the same file. Computer backup images are not duplicated on the server, so if a server hard drive fails, backups could be lost.

The “Server Backup” feature added in Power Pack 1 does not include duplication of backup images. The system also offers an SSL secured web browser based interface over the Internet to the shared file stores. The web interface also allows the uploading to and downloading of files from the content stores. The system also supports Terminal Services Gateway , allowing remote control of the desktop of any Windows computer on the home network.

The web interface also supports embedding the Remote Desktop ActiveX control, to provide remote access to home computers from within the web interface directly. Remote sessions can also connect to the Home Server console to configure the server over the internet. Regular use of the computer such as running programs, printing, or surfing the Internet does not trigger UAC prompts.

User Account Control asks for credentials in a Secure Desktop mode, in which the entire screen is dimmed, and only the authorization window is active and highlighted. The intent is to stop a malicious program from misleading the user by interfering with the authorization window, and to hint to the user about the importance of the prompt. Symantec used over 2, active malware samples, consisting of backdoors , keyloggers , rootkits , mass mailers, trojan horses , spyware , adware , and various other samples.

Each was executed on a default Windows Vista installation within a standard user account. UAC effectively blocked over 50 percent of each threat , excluding rootkits. Internet Explorer 7 ‘s new security and safety features include a phishing filter, IDN with anti-spoofing capabilities, and integration with system-wide parental controls.

For added security, ActiveX controls are disabled by default. Also, Internet Explorer operates in a protected mode, which operates with lower permissions than the user and runs in isolation from other applications in the operating system, preventing it from accessing or modifying anything besides the Temporary Internet Files directory.

Changes to various system configuration settings such as new auto-starting applications are blocked unless the user gives consent. Whereas prior releases of Windows supported per-file encryption using Encrypting File System , the Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Vista include BitLocker Drive Encryption , which can protect entire volumes , notably the operating system volume.

However, BitLocker requires approximately a 1. In normal circumstances, the only time this partition is accessed is when the computer is booting, or when there is a Windows update that changes files in this area, which is a legitimate reason to access this section of the drive. The area can be a potential security issue, because a hexadecimal editor such as dskprobe.

A variety of other privilege-restriction techniques are also built into Vista. An example is the concept of “integrity levels” in user processes, whereby a process with a lower integrity level cannot interact with processes of a higher integrity level and cannot perform DLL—injection to processes of a higher integrity level. The security restrictions of Windows services are more fine-grained, so that services especially those listening on the network cannot interact with parts of the operating system they do not need to.

Obfuscation techniques such as address space layout randomization are used to increase the amount of effort required of malware before successful infiltration of a system. Code integrity verifies that system binaries have not been tampered with by malicious code. As part of the redesign of the network stack, Windows Firewall has been upgraded, with new support for filtering both incoming and outgoing traffic.

Advanced packet filter rules can be created that can grant or deny communications to specific services. The bit versions of Vista require that all device drivers be digitally signed, so that the creator of the driver can be identified. While much of the focus of Vista’s new capabilities highlighted the new user interface, [82] security technologies, and improvements to the core operating system, Microsoft also adding new deployment and maintenance features:.

Windows Vista includes a large number of new application programming interfaces. Chief among them is the inclusion of version 3. Version 3. These technologies are also available for Windows XP and Windows Server to facilitate their introduction to and usage by developers and end-users.

There are also significant new development APIs in the core of the operating system, notably the completely re-designed audio, networking, print, and video interfaces, major changes to the security infrastructure, improvements to the deployment and installation of applications ” ClickOnce ” and Windows Installer 4.

There are some issues for software developers using some of the graphics APIs in Vista. Games or programs built solely on the Windows Vista-exclusive version of DirectX , version 10, cannot work on prior versions of Windows, as DirectX 10 is not available for previous Windows versions. Also, games that require the features of D3D9Ex, the updated implementation of DirectX 9 in Windows Vista are also incompatible with previous Windows versions.

Windows Vista unifies the previously separate OEM and retail distributions of Microsoft Windows; a license for the edition purchased determines which version of Windows Vista is eligible for installation, regardless of its originating source.

OEM and retail versions of Windows before Windows Vista were maintained separately on optical media—users with a manufacturer-supplied disc could not use a retail license during installation, and users with a retail disc could not use an OEM license during installation. Windows Vista also does not include the Windows XP ” Luna ” visual theme, or most of the classic color schemes that have been part of Windows since the Windows 3. The “Hardware profiles” startup feature has also been removed, along with support for older motherboard technologies like the EISA bus, APM and game port support though on the bit version game port support can be enabled by applying an older driver.

Support for the original release of Windows Vista without a service pack ended on April 13, Mainstream support for Windows Vista officially ended on April 10, For IT pros or users who needed to make specific fixes to the commercial Windows code, Microsoft required an extended hotfix agreement, which provided an additional 90 days from April 10, As part of the Extended Support phase, Vista users were still able to get security updates, and could still pay for support per incident, per-hour, or in other ways.

Microsoft also made Windows Vista product information available through its online Knowledge Base. Windows Vista shipped in six different editions. For consumers, there are three editions, with two available for economically more developed countries.

Windows Vista Starter edition is aimed at low-powered computers with availability only in emerging markets. Windows Vista Home Basic is intended for budget users. Windows Vista Home Premium covers the majority of the consumer market and contains applications for creating and using multimedia. The home editions cannot join a Windows Server domain. For businesses, there are three editions as well. Windows Vista Business is specifically designed for small and medium-sized enterprises , [] while Windows Vista Enterprise [] is only available to customers participating in Microsoft’s Software Assurance program.

Windows Vista Ultimate contains the complete feature-set of both the Home and Business combination of both Home Premium and Enterprise editions, as well as a set of Windows Ultimate Extras , and is aimed at enthusiasts.

All editions except Windows Vista Starter support both bit x86 and bit x64 processor architectures. Similar sanctions exist in South Korea. Windows Vista has four distinct visual styles. Windows Vista’s Basic and Classic interfaces work with virtually any graphics hardware that supports Windows XP or ; accordingly, most discussion around Vista’s graphics requirements centers on those for the Windows Aero interface.

The required server connections for this utility are no longer available. Although the installation media included in retail packages is a bit DVD, customers needing a CD-ROM or customers who wish for a bit install media can acquire this media through the Windows Vista Alternate Media program. The maximum amount of RAM that Windows Vista can support varies, depending on both its edition and its processor architecture, as shown in the table.

The maximum number of logical processors [] in a PC that Windows Vista supports is: 32 [] for bit; 64 [] for bit. Microsoft occasionally releases updates such as service packs for its Windows operating systems to fix bugs, improve performance and add new features.

The initial deployment of the service pack caused a number of machines to continually reboot, rendering the machines unusable. The synchronized release date of the two operating systems reflected the merging of the workstation and server kernels back into a single code base for the first time since Windows Support for the remaining 31 languages was released on April 14, A white paper, published by Microsoft on August 29, , outlined the scope and intent of the service pack, identifying three major areas of improvement: reliability and performance, administration experience, and support for newer hardware and standards.

One area of particular note is performance. Areas of improvement include file copy operations, hibernation, logging off on domain-joined machines, JavaScript parsing in Internet Explorer, network file share browsing, [] Windows Explorer ZIP file handling, [] and Windows Disk Defragmenter. Service Pack 1 introduced support for some new hardware and software standards, notably the exFAT file system, [] Booting a system using Extensible Firmware Interface on x64 systems was also introduced; [] this feature had originally been slated for the initial release of Vista but was delayed due to a lack of compatible hardware at the time.

Two areas have seen changes in SP1 that have come as the result of concerns from software vendors. One of these is desktop search; users will be able to change the default desktop search program to one provided by a third party instead of the Microsoft desktop search program that comes with Windows Vista, and desktop search programs will be able to seamlessly tie in their services into the operating system. In June , Google claimed that the changes being introduced for SP1 “are a step in the right direction, but they should be improved further to give consumers greater access to alternate desktop search providers”.

An update to DirectX 10, named DirectX Graphics cards will be required to support DirectX An updated downloadable version of the Group Policy Management Console was released soon after the service pack. SP1 enables support for hotpatching, a reboot-reduction servicing technology designed to maximize uptime. It works by allowing Windows components to be updated or “patched” while they are still in use by a running process.

Hotpatch-enabled update packages are installed via the same methods as traditional update packages, and will not trigger a system reboot. Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server was released through different channels between April [] and June , one year after the release of Windows Vista SP1, and four months before the release of Windows 7.

However, it did not include Internet Explorer 8 , but instead was included in Windows 7 , which was released four months after Vista SP2.

Windows Vista and Windows Server share a single service pack binary, reflecting the fact that their code bases were joined with the release of Server It includes major new components that shipped with Windows 7 , as well as updated runtime libraries. It consists of the following components:. Although extensive, the Platform Update does not bring Windows Vista to the level of features and performance offered by Windows 7.

In July , Microsoft released the Platform Update Supplement for Windows Vista and Windows Server , which contains several bug fixes and performance improvements. While Windows Vista support ended on April 11, , support could be unofficially extended by installing Windows Server updates, this allowed Windows Vista users to install security updates until the Windows Server end of support date of January 14, The Text Services Framework was compromised by a privilege escalation vulnerability CVE – that could allow attackers to use the framework to perform privileged operations, run software, or send messages to privileged processes from unprivileged processes—bypassing security features such as sandboxes or User Account Control.

If Windows Defender scanned a specially crafted file, it would lead to memory corruption, potentially allowing an attacker to control the affected machine or perform arbitrary code execution in the context of LocalSystem ; the vulnerability was exacerbated by the default real-time protection settings of Windows Defender, which were configured to automatically initiate malware scans at regular intervals. The first version of the Protection Engine affected by the vulnerability is Version 1.

Microsoft released a patch to address the issue. Windows Vista support ended on April 11, , and no more updates were released for the OS apart from the rare out-of-band patches. In July , Microsoft introduced a web-based advertising campaign called the “Mojave Experiment”, which depicts a group of people who are asked to evaluate the newest operating system from Microsoft, calling it Windows ‘Mojave’.

Participants are first asked about Vista, if they have used it, and their overall satisfaction with Vista on a scale of 1 to They are then shown a demo of some of the new operating system’s features, and asked their opinion and satisfaction with it on the same 1 to 10 scale. After respondents rate “Mojave”, they are then told that they were shown a demo of Windows Vista. The object was to test “A theory: If people could see Windows Vista firsthand, they would like it.

Windows Vista received mixed to negative reviews at the time of its release and throughout its lifespan, mainly for its much higher hardware requirements and perceived slowness compared to Windows XP.

It received generally positive reviews from PC gamers who praised the advantages brought by DirectX 10, which allowed for better gaming performance and more realistic graphics, as well as support for many new capabilities featured in new GPUs. In mid, benchmarks suggested that the SP1 update improved performance to be on par with or better than Windows XP in terms of game performance.

Peter Bright of Ars Technica wrote that, despite its delays and feature cuts, Windows Vista is “a huge evolution in the history of the NT platform [ In terms of the magnitude and extent of these changes, Vista represents probably the biggest leap that the NT platform has ever seen.

Never before have significant subsystems been gutted and replaced in the way they are in Vista. In its first year of availability, PC World rated it as the biggest tech disappointment of , [] and it was rated by InfoWorld as No. Computer manufacturers such as Dell , Lenovo , and Hewlett-Packard released their newest computers with Windows Vista pre-installed; however, after the negative reception of the operating system, they also began selling their computers with Windows XP CDs included because of a drop in sales.

A Gartner research report predicted that Vista business adoption in would overtake that of XP during the same time frame Within its first month, 20 million copies of Vista were sold, double the amount of Windows XP sales within its first month in October , five years earlier. The internet-usage market share for Windows Vista after two years of availability, in January , was This figure combined with World Internet Users and Population Stats yielded a user base of roughly million, [] which exceeded Microsoft’s two-year post launch expectations by million.

Windows Vista received mixed reviews. Criticism targets include protracted development time 5—6 years , more restrictive licensing terms, the inclusion of several technologies aimed at restricting the copying of protected digital media, [] and the usability of the new User Account Control security technology.

Moreover, some concerns have been raised about many PCs meeting “Vista Premium Ready” hardware requirements and Vista’s pricing. While in Microsoft claimed “nearly all PCs on the market today will run Windows Vista”, [] the higher requirements of some of the “premium” features, such as the Aero interface, affected many upgraders.

According to the UK newspaper The Times in May , the full set of features “would be available to less than 5 percent of Britain’s PC market”; however, this prediction was made several months before Vista was released. Criticism of upgrade licenses pertaining to Windows Vista Starter through Home Premium was expressed by Ars Technica ‘ s Ken Fisher, who noted that the new requirement of having a prior operating system already installed was going to irritate users who reinstall Windows regularly.

On the first install, Windows will refuse to activate. The user must then reinstall that same copy of Vista. Vista will then activate on the reinstall, thus allowing a user to install an Upgrade of Windows Vista without owning a previous operating system.

Initially, the cost of Windows Vista was also a source of concern and commentary. A majority of users in a poll said that the prices of various Windows Vista editions posted on the Microsoft Canada website in August make the product too expensive. Windows Vista supports additional forms of DRM restrictions. Depending on what the content demands, the devices may not pass premium content over non-encrypted outputs, or they must artificially degrade the quality of the signal on such outputs or not display it at all.

Drivers for such hardware must be approved by Microsoft; a revocation mechanism is also included, which allows Microsoft to disable drivers of devices in end-user PCs over the Internet.

Proponents have claimed that Microsoft had no choice but to follow the demands of the movie studios, and that the technology will not actually be enabled until after ; [] [] Microsoft also noted that content protection mechanisms have existed in Windows as far back as Windows ME , and that the new protections will not apply to any existing content, only future content.

Although User Account Control UAC is an important part of Vista’s security infrastructure as it blocks software from silently gaining administrator privileges without the user’s knowledge, it has been widely criticized for generating too many prompts.

End-users of licenses of Windows 7 acquired through OEM or volume licensing may downgrade to the equivalent edition of Windows Vista. Customers licensed for use of Windows 8 Enterprise are generally licensed for Windows 8 Pro, which may be downgraded to Windows Vista Business. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Personal computer operating system by Microsoft released in Closed-source Source-available through Shared Source Initiative [1].

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Windows Home Server code-named Quattro [4] is a home server operating system from Microsoft. It was announced on 7 January at the Consumer Electronics Show by Bill Gates , [5] released to manufacturing on 16 July [6] and officially released on 4 November Windows Home Server was based on Windows Server R2 and was intended to be a solution for homes with multiple connected PCs to offer file sharing , automated backups, print server , and remote access.

It is paired with the Windows Home Server Console—client software accessed from another computer on the network to provide a graphical management interface. Windows Home Server , the next version of this operating system, was released on 6 April Windows Home Server was the brainchild of Charlie Kindel who was the General Manager for the product from through Microsoft has ended support for Windows Home Server on January 8, The configuration interface was designed to be user-friendly enough that it could be set up without prior knowledge of server administration.

The configuration interface, called the Home Server Console , was delivered as a Remote Desktop Protocol application to remote PCs while the application ran on the server itself, the GUI was rendered on the remote system. The server itself required no video card or peripherals; it was designed to require only an Ethernet card and at least one Windows XP , Windows Vista or Windows 7 computer. Windows Home Server Drive Extender was a file-based replication system that provided three key capabilities: [21].

With drive extender, users could add larger capacity hard disk drives and then could offline lesser capacity drives to upgrade capacity online. For example, if the user was reaching capacity of the share with five terabytes of the six-terabyte capacity used with six one-terabyte drives then the user could offline one of the one-terabyte drives and physically replace it with a two-terabyte drive. The WHS automatically equalizes the redistribution of used space across all available drives on a regular basis.

The offline process would compress the used data across the minimum amount of drives allowing for the removal of one of the lesser capacity drives. Once replaced with a drive of higher capacity the system will automatically redistribute used capacity among the pool to ensure space capacity on each drive.

Users specifically those who configure a family’s home server dealt with storage at two levels: Shared Folders and Disks. The only concepts relevant regarding disks was whether they had been “added” to the home server’s storage pool or not and whether the disk appeared healthy to the system or not. This was in contrast with Windows’ Logical Disk Manager which requires a greater degree of technical understanding in order to correctly configure a RAID array.

Shared Folders had a name, a description, permissions, and a flag indicating whether duplication redundancy was on or off for that folder. If duplication was on for a Shared Folder which was the default on multi-disk Home Server systems and not applicable to single disk systems then the files in that Shared Folder were duplicated and the effective storage capacity was halved.

However, in situations where a user may not have wanted data duplicated e. TV shows that had been archived to a Windows Home Server from a system running Windows Media Center , Drive Extender provided the capability to not duplicate such files if the server was short on capacity or manually mark a complete content store as not for duplication.

A known limitation of Drive Extender was that it in some cases changed timestamp of directories and files when data was moved around between disks. According to Microsoft this was expected behavior. This caused unexpected behavior when using clients that sort media based on date. The aforementioned programs worked fine with WHS; however, files may have appeared out of order due to this caveat.

Criticism of Drive Extender’s removal mainly related to it being seen as a core feature of Windows Home Server and a key reason for adoption. Windows Home Server Computer Backup automatically backs up all of the computers in a home to the server using an image-based system that ensures point-in-time-based restoration of either entire PCs or specific files and folders.

This technology uses Volume Shadow Services VSS technology on the client computer to take an image based backup of a running computer. Because the backup operates on data at the cluster level, single instancing can be performed to minimize the amount of data that travels over the network and that will ultimately be stored on the home server.

This single instancing gives the server the ability to store only one instance of data, no matter if the data originated from another computer, another file, or even data within the same file. Computer backup images are not duplicated on the server, so if a server hard drive fails, backups could be lost. The “Server Backup” feature added in Power Pack 1 does not include duplication of backup images. The system also offers an SSL secured web browser based interface over the Internet to the shared file stores.

The web interface also allows the uploading to and downloading of files from the content stores. The system also supports Terminal Services Gateway , allowing remote control of the desktop of any Windows computer on the home network.

The web interface also supports embedding the Remote Desktop ActiveX control, to provide remote access to home computers from within the web interface directly. Remote sessions can also connect to the Home Server console to configure the server over the internet. Windows Home Server allows for developers to publish community and commercial add-ins designed to enhance the Windows Home Server with added functionality.

Files stored on Windows Home Server are also available through a Windows share , opening compatibility to a wide variety of operating systems.

Also, the Administration console is available via Remote Desktop, allowing administration from unsupported platforms. However, unofficial workarounds allow Connector software to work on XP x Windows Home Server has not officially supported Domain Controller capability and cannot readily join a Windows Server domain. Wireless networking is supported.

Dedicated devices will have the operating system pre-installed and may be supplied with a server recovery disk which reloads the OS over a network connection. The first release of Windows Home Server, RTM release to manufacturing , suffered from a file corruption flaw whereby files saved directly to or edited on shares on a WHS device could become corrupted. Even though the issue was first acknowledged in October , [37] Microsoft formally warned users of the seriousness of the flaw on 20 December This issue was fixed by Power Pack 1, released on 21 July Power Pack 1 added the ability to back up files stored on the Shared Folders, to an external drive.

However, there remains no way to back up the installed server operating system. Backing-up of the client backup database is available either manually using the instructions provided by Microsoft on page 24 of this document or can be done using the WHS BDBB add-in written by Alex Kuretz and available from this website. Some computer systems are available only with a bundled Windows Home Server license. As is the case with other versions of Windows it is possible to request a refund of the license fees paid for Windows Home Server.

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Windows Server R2 with SP2 Simplified Chinese Enterprise EditionActivate Here shows windows server product key. The product key sticker attached to OEM computers, prior to Windows 8, Windows Server R2 Enterprise Edition x86, XHPV3-PTCWJ-7Y94F-Q6BVH-JJ. Volume License Activation Key Service – KMS. GitHub Gist: instantly Windows Server R2 Datacenter Y4TGP-NPTV9-HTC2H-7MGQ3-DV4TW. Windows Server