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Blogcast: Windows Server 2008 Server Manager

Keith Combs writes: The Windows Server 2008 Server Manager is a portal of sorts to the installation, configuration, management and monitoring of the roles and features. Your initial view of those roles and features will be rather empty because of course, you need to install the ones that are germane to your particular server.

This screencast starts to get into the meat of WS 2008. In Beta 3, there are seventeen roles that are available in the GUI version of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. The Core implementation of Enterprise has a different set of roles so we'll defer that discussion to some of the Core step-by-step screencasts I recorded.

None of the 17 roles are installed by default. None of the 35 features are installed either. That is by design. The firewall is running and blocking traffic on initial setup of WS 2008 but very little else (from an attack surface perspective) is enabled initially in the server. Role or feature installation is a wizard driven piece of cake. You can also install roles via the command line if needed. (more)

Blogcast: Windows Server 2008 Server Manager

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