Windows Home Server 2011

Windows Home Server 2011 (codenamed Vail) is the successor to Windows Home Server released on 6 April 2011. Its components are based on the Essentials SKU of Windows Small Business Server 2011. Similarly to the previous release of Windows Home Server, this release was also short-lived with support having ended on 12 April 2016.

With the release of Windows Server 2012, the Windows Home Server product line and its functionalities were merged into the mainline Windows Server family of operating systems.