Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st Jan 2009 17:50 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
"You probably have seen or heard about HomeGroup by now. We demonstrated it at PDC this year during Steven's keynote, it was mentioned a few times at WinHec, and some of you may have even tried it on your PCs with the PDC pre-beta build of Windows 7. HomeGroup represents a new end-to-end approach to sharing in the home, an area in which Windows has provided many features before - the intuitive end to end is what's new. HomeGroup recognizes and groups your Windows 7 PCs in a 'simple to set up' secure group that enables open access to media and digital memories in your home. With HomeGroup, you can share files in the home, stream music to your XBOX 360 or other devices, and print to the home printer without worrying about technical setup or even understanding how it all works. This blog post is designed to give you a behind-the-scenes look at how we designed HomeGroup."
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There have always been two, workgroups and domains are completely different things.
Not they aren't. A domain is simply a workgroup with a few extra features, like centralized authentication. From the perspective of a non-member, there is no difference between a domain and a workgroup. There is also an easy upgrade path from workgroup to domain as all you need to do is add a domain controller (then clients can be added to the domain at will).
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This all looks fine, but now there are two different network discovery/management systems in Windows.
There's the old domain/workgroup system, and this new "homegroup" system. The homegroup system requires less management overhead, and is significantly easier to use.
How long before small businesses start to want these features?
Or worse, if a small business sets up a "homegroup" network then wants to upgrade to a domain-based network, they are pretty stuck (since, it appears that domains are only available for NLA "work" networks and homegroups are only available for NLA "home" networks, a single network cannot have both domain and homegroup functionality).