Hi!
I'm following your Building a Home Server in Windows 8.1 right now - I've used it through building, bios, and installing Windows, and I'm reading ahead and making checklists for storage solutions (looking like stablebit drivepool based on your writing and some google searches), user accounts, etc... which brings me to my question:
In your book you advocate using a Microsoft account on your server. All well and good, I'm fine with having a Microsoft account, in fact I have one, and that's what I'm worried about. I've integrated my Microsoft account for my xbox live account, my desktop, and my Surface. If my soon-to-be 24/7 server is logged in as my "true" identity, as an Administrator, are there any security hiccups when that same Administrator is seen popping up in multiple other spots in the network? It hasn't mattered until now because the other devices don't fundamentally talk to one another. The server will change all that and I don't want to screw this up.
If I don't use my true microsoft identity, do you know off-hand if a local account can still do purchases through the app store? I'll need to get windows media center (or whatever the kit is that it's contained in), so if not I'll need to create a secondary microsoft identity.
Thanks in advance.