Windows Home Server is a "server for the home" solution by Microsoft The core operating system is Windows Server 2003 SBS, and the Dashboard and an embedded website has been added to it. This server operating system released in 2007 to help families back up important information using a server. It was codenamed 'Quattro', based on the Windows Server 2003 codebase, and released around the same time as Vista. Users can log on remotely, can have personal file shares on the server, and can post images to the web using the embedded web site function (Remote Access)