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If you’re planning a network of more than just a few computers, you need to make a big decision: whether or not to use Windows Server. The Server versions provide a raft of networking services that Windows 8 doesn’t have, but you must learn how to configure and support them.
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When we talk about Windows Server here, we mean the business Server versions. There was a product called Windows Home Server, but it’s meant just to let you back up files across the network.
Table 18.1 lists the primary trade-offs between the regular desktop versions of Windows and Windows Server.
Table 18.1. Primary Differences Between Desktop ...
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