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

2. 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?

3. 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

4. System Properties – Computer Name

5. System Properties

6. Application Performance The processor-scheduling caching option in Windows server 2012. 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)

7. 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

8. 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…)

9. 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)

10. 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.

11. Task Manager

12. 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.

13. Task Manager

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

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

16. 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”