Windows server 2003 manager

Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services. Privacy policy. Server Manager is a management console in Windows Server that helps IT professionals provision and manage both local and remote Windows-based servers from their desktops, without requiring either physical access to servers, or the need to enable Remote Desktop protocol rdP connections to each server.

Although Server Manager is available in Windows Server R2 and Windows Server , Server Manager was updated in Windows Server to support remote, multi-server management, and help increase the number of servers an administrator can manage. In our tests, Server Manager in Windows Server , Windows Server R2, and Windows Server can be used to manage up to servers, depending on the workloads that the servers are running.

The number of servers that you can manage by using a single Server Manager console can vary depending on the amount of data that you request from managed servers, and hardware and network resources available to the computer running Server Manager. As the amount of data you want to display approaches that computer's resource capacity, you can experience slow responses from Server Manager, and delays in the completion of refreshes.

To help increase the number of servers that you can manage by using Server Manager, we recommend limiting the event data that Server Manager gets from your managed servers, by using settings in the Configure Event Data dialog box. Configure Event Data can be opened from the Tasks menu in the Events tile.

If you need to manage an enterprise-level number of servers in your organization, we recommend evaluating products in the Microsoft System Center suite. This topic and its subtopics provide information about how to use features in the Server Manager console.

This topic contains the following sections. Review initial considerations and system requirements. Tasks that you can perform in Server Manager.

Export Server Manager settings to other computers. The following sections list some initial considerations that you need to review, as well as hardware and software requirements for Server Manager. Server Manager is installed by default with all editions of Windows Server No additional hardware requirements exist for Server Manager. If you are not running Server Graphical Shell, the Server Manager console runs, but some applications or tools available from the console are not available.

You cannot open dialog boxes for configuring Windows automatic updating and feedback when Server Graphical Shell is not installed; commands that open these dialog boxes in the Server Manager console are redirected to run sconfig. To manage servers that are running Windows Server releases older than Windows Server , install the following software and updates to make the older releases of Windows Server manageable by using Server Manager in Windows Server Note that when Remote Server Administration Tools is installed on a client computer, you cannot manage the local computer by using Server Manager; Server Manager cannot be used to manage computers or devices that are running a Windows client operating system.

You can only use Server Manager to manage Windows-based servers. On the start screen, click Server Manager. To view this setting, hover the mouse cursor over the upper right corner of the start screen, and then click Settings. If Show administrative tools is turned off, turn the setting on to display tools that you have installed as part of Remote Server Administration Tools. To perform management tasks on remote servers by using Server Manager, remote servers that you want to manage must be configured to allow remote management by using Server Manager and Windows PowerShell.

If remote management has been disabled on Windows Server R2 or Windows Server , and you want to enable it again, perform the following steps. The settings that are controlled by the Configure remote Management dialog box do not affect parts of Server Manager that use DCOM for remote communications. In the Properties area of the Local Servers page, click the hyperlinked value for the remote management property.

To prevent this computer from being managed remotely by using Server Manager or Windows PowerShell if it is installed , clear the Enable remote management of this server from other computers check box. To let this computer be managed remotely by using Server Manager or Windows PowerShell, select Enable remote management of this server from other computers.

To run Windows PowerShell as an administrator from the desktop, right-click the Windows PowerShell shortcut in the taskbar, and then click Run as Administrator.

This command also works in a command prompt that has been opened with elevated user rights Run as Administrator. Server Manager makes server administration more efficient by allowing administrators to do tasks in the following table by using a single tool. System Requirements Supported Operating System.

Install Instructions Click the Download link to start the download. In the File Download dialog box, select Save this program to disk. Select a location on your computer to save the file, and then click Save. In Windows Explorer, go to the location where you saved the downloaded file, double-click the file to start the installation process, and then follow the instructions.

The downloaded file is a Microsoft Software Installer. Don't change resource settings for a Plug and Play device unless it's necessary. When you manually configure a resource, the setting is fixed. So Windows can't modify resource assignments if that is required, and Windows can't assign that resource to another device. Use caution when you configure resource settings for a device. If you configure resources incorrectly, you can disable your hardware, and you can cause your computer to stop working.

Change resource settings only when you are sure that the settings that you want to use are unique and don't conflict with settings for other devices, or when a hardware manufacturer has provided you with specific resource settings for a device.

The Use automatic settings check box is unavailable and appears dimmed, both on devices for which there are no other settings to configure and on devices that are controlled by Plug and Play resources and which do not require user modification. In the Settings based on box, select the hardware configuration that you want to modify--for example, Basic configuration Under Resource type in the Resource settings box, select the type of resource that you want to modify--for example, Interrupt Request.

In the Edit Resource dialog box, type the value that you want for the resource, and then select OK. To view a list of resources and the devices that are using them by type or by connection, follow these steps:. The devices that are installed on your computer are listed in the right pane. The default view lists devices by type. To view a list of resources by type, select Resources by type on the View menu.

To view a list of resources by connection type, select Resources by connection on the View menu. A device conflict occurs when the same resources are given to two or more devices. Use Device Manager to search for device conflicts.

To do so, follow these steps:.