Manage User Accounts

Updated: March 30, 2011

Applies To: Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server 2011

The Users page of the Windows Home Server 2011 Dashboard centralizes information and tasks that help you manage the user accounts on your home network. For an overview about the Users Dashboard, see the topic Managing User Accounts in Windows Home Server 2011.

Managing user accounts

This section provides quick access to procedures and other information that describe how to use the Windows Home Server 2011 Dashboard to manage the user accounts on the home server.

• Understanding user accounts

• Add a user account

• View User Accounts

• Change the display name for a user account

• Deactivate a User Account

• Activate a User Account

• Remove a User Account

• Using the guest account

Managing password policies, passwords and user access

This section provides quick access to procedures and other information that describe how to use the Windows Home Server 2011 Dashboard to manage user account passwords and user access to the shared folders on the home server.

• Reset the password for a user account

• What should I know about password policies?

• Change the password policy

• Reset the home server password

• What level of access to shared folders should I allow?