This is where the "sexy" stuff comes in, at least for me. Application services can do all kinds of cool things, some of which might be fun to have on my home network. (Though Hyper-V is not one of them, cool though virtualization is!) I'm starting to think of setting up a server for file and printer sharing, and I wonder if I could get Amazon Unbox to run across my network? The chapter also goes into some depth concerning deploying applications through the web server role using IIS7 (good for anything that can run in a browser, which is more and more every day), and also touches on UDDI, print server, fax, and media services roles. One thing I found interesting was that Microsoft server applications are set up in such a way as to not need the Application Server role, which kind of surprised me on one level and wasn't surprising at all on another.
Note to self: Streaming Media Services are a downloadable update, not a part of the server OS!
Still haven't decided whether to "pull the trigger" on a server on the home network, but it's looking more likely.
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