Get Extended Access to Windows Home Server with Advanced Admin Console

But what if youre an advanced user and want more control over various administrative functions?

The Advanced Admin Console Addin gives you exactly that.

Windows Home Server is definitely easy to use even for the beginning computer geek.

Note: This addin is meant for advanced users who are familiar with server administration.

If you start changing the wrong tweaks you might crash your server.

Next open WHS Console and click controls then Add-ins and under Available Add-ins choose the available tab.

Youll see the Advanced Admin Console AddIn that we just copied to the Add-Ins folder and click Install.

Then the Installation Succeeded screen will pop up telling you WHS Console will be closed and restarted.

This gives you access to all of the advanced server functions right from the WHS Console on any machine.

Now you wont need to RDP into the server to do administrative tasks.

Here we take a look at the control panel view in the WHS Console under Advanced Admin Controls.

you could easily start accessing different aspects of the server.

For instance in this shot we pulled up the Firewall and can begin applying changes.

There will be a series of buttons on the toolbar under the main buttons in the Console.

The following are the locations available…

Some of them are listed in the dropdown menu on the right of the toolbar.

Also you have all of your standard choices that youd normally have if you were actually on the server.

Here is a look at all of the Administrative Tools with Event Viewer currently pulled up.