HP MediaSmart Server - User Guide

Start Using Your Server

• Computers & Backups—View and customize backups. Also, view the status of your home

computers. For more information, see Computers & Backup in the Windows Home Server

Console Help.

• User Accounts—Add, remove, and modify user accounts. For more information, see User

Accounts in the Windows Home Server Console Help.

Shared Folders—Add, open, remove, and view the properties of the shared folders on your server.

For more information, see Shared Folders in the Windows Home Server Console Help.

• Server Storage—View, add, repair, and remove hard drives from server storage. For more

information, see Server Storage in the Windows Home Server Console Help.

• Network—Displays health notifications from your server and your home computers. For more

information, see Network Health in the Windows Home Server Console Help.

• Settings—Configure general settings, such as date and time, backups, passwords, media sharing,

remote access, add-ins, resources, and more. For more information, see Server Settings in the

Windows Home Server Console Help.

• Help—Access the Windows Home Server Console Help.

FIRST STEPS

PC Backup and Restore

After running the Software Installation Disc on a computer it is automatically added to the list of

computers that are backed up by the HP MediaSmart Server each night. The entire computer is

backed up by default.

Complete the following steps to customize the hard drive volumes to back up, or to exclude

folders from the backup.

1. At the PC, double-click the Windows Home Server icon

in the system tray and log on.

At the Mac, select Launch Home Server Console from the Server menu

2. Click the Computers & Backups tab.

3. Select a computer and click Configure Backup.

Follow the instructions in the Backup Configuration Wizard.