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After you’ve created your homegroup, accessing and sharing les among the various PCs—or other
devices—in your home is like having all your data on a single hard disk drive. For example, you might
have digital photos stored on a PC in your den. With HomeGroup, you can easily access those photos
from a laptop or any other PC in the home-
group from anywhere in your home. Similarly,
if there’s a printer connected to a PC in your
homegroup, the printer is set up automatically
on PCs that join the homegroup. In addition,
with HomeGroup, you can specify exactly
what you want to share so you can choose to
keep private things private.
HomeGroup also works for PCs that are
connected to a work domain. When your
domain-joined work PC is joined to a home-
group, you automatically have access to your
shared home printer and any content shared
with the homegroup. However, for a domain-joined PC, HomeGroup le sharing is turned off by default,
and IT professionals can use Group Policy to stop employees from joining a homegroup. (See “Group
Policy Improvements in the IT Professionals” section for more information.)
Homegroup gives you control over
what to share with other PCs.
Devices in a homegroup can
share les and printers.
Small businesses that do not have a server can also use HomeGroup to easily share documents and
printers across multiple PCs running Windows 7.