Windows Server 2008: What's New / What's Changed Part #4 of 12: Chapter 3 - Server Management
This snippet from Chapter 3 of my new book Windows Server 2008: What's New / What's Changed is brought to you by SAPIEN Press. Get your copy at http://www.sapienpress.com/Windows_Server_08.asp.
Server Manager
Once you've completed and closed the Initial Configuration Tasks wizard, you're greeted with a new MMC console called Server Manager. Server Manager is Server 2008's consolidation of many of the previously-separated administrative consoles into a single location. This unified console can manage all the Roles, Role Services, and Features configured for your server. Additionally, many of the items previously found in the Manage context menu for My Computer are now found within Server Manager. Heck, you even get to Server Manager by right-clicking on Computer and choosing Manage.
More after the fold...
Other than Roles and Features, which we'll discuss in a minute, you'll also see here many of the common tasks you typically perform on a Windows Server, now aligned into three categories.
- The Diagnostics category includes Event Viewer, Services, Reliability and Performance Monitor, and Device Manager.
- The Configuration category includes Task Scheduler, local settings for the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security, WMI Control, and Local Users & Groups.
- The Storage category includes Windows Server Backup and Disk Management
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