Managing Server 2012 Lecture 3 Lecturer: Dr. Simon Tran Course: IT 442

Lab 1 – At Work Verifying Windows version, memory, CPU – Version information: for licensing, application requirements, Critical hotfix roll-out – Memory or CPU: for application requirements, fulfill the business needs and demands Verifying IP and ping the gateway – IP in the same segment – local communication – IP in different segment – communication across segments – What happens when you can ping other devices, but the server doesn’t respond to ping from other devices?

System Properties Management Four Tabs: Computer name: Computer name, domain, and workgroup settings Hardware: Device manager, driver installation settings Advance: Application performance, virtual memory usage, user profile, environment variables, and startup and recovery Remote: remote desktop connection

System Properties – Computer Name

System Properties

Application Performance The processor-scheduling caching option in Windows server Determining the application responsiveness. There are 2 options: – Program: provide active applications the best response time. Helpful when using the server as the desktop operating system – Background services: giving background applications a better response time (used for production servers)

Server Manager Dashboard Server manager dashboard, the central hub for administrative tasks: – Adding servers for remote management – Initiating remote connections to servers – Configuring the local server – Managing installed roles and features – Managing volumes and shares on file servers – Configuring NIC teaming – Viewing events and alerts – Restarting servers

Server roles and features Server roles: set of software components to allow a server to perform specific functions – Example: DNS, AD Domain Services, File and Storage Services Role service: software component that provides the functionality for a server role (one role can have multiple role services) – Examples: File and Storage Services => File and iSCSI services, Storage Services Features: software component that provides additional functionality (GPO, RSAT, Telnet client…)

Navigating Server core Server core with minimal interface: Windows Logon screen Notepad (notepad.exe), Registry editor (regedit.exe) Task manager (tasksmgr.exe) Command prompt, PowerShell prompt System information (msinfo32.exe) Windows installer (msiexec.exe) Date/time panel (timepdate.cpl), Regional and language Server configuration utility (sconfig)

Managing Apps & Processes Task Manager – Summary: shows apps run in the foreground – Expanded: shows running processes, system performance, connected users, and configured services Task Manager – details tab – Administer processes including name, user name, cpu, memory, status, description.

Task Manager

Task Manager - Details Base priority: prioritize system resources for specific process CPU time: total time since the process started DEP: enabled or disabled for the process Elevated: specify processes run with elevated privilege Non Page pool: an area of system memory for objects that can’t be written to disk. *** Analyze wait chain: for troubleshooting locking problems.

Task Manager

Computer Management Central point of controlling services, disk space, shared folders, event viewer, and tasks

Services Start, stop or set logon as a different user (for third party application control)

Reading Material Lecture 3 – Stanek (2012) Chapter 2, Managing roles, role services, and features Chapter 2, Managing System Properties Lab 2 – Lynn (2013) Chapter3, section “server manager” – Stanek (2012) Chapter 2, section “managing system properties”