Learn Windows Server 2012 (The last part)

In the previous section, Network Administrator showed you how to install Role and Feature on Windows Server 2012. In the following article, Network Administrator will show you how to work with Roles and Features that you have installed on Windows Server 2012 .

Working with Role and Feature

If you look at the illustration below, you will see the Server Manager Dashboard. However there are some points that you should pay attention to:

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First you can see the orange part near the center of the screen. This section is designed to help you quickly find the configured server.

As you can see in the figure, this section contains links that you can click to add Role and Feature, add other servers (Server) to manage, or to create server groups.

Just click on one of the links in the picture, you can access it quickly instead of taking the usual time-consuming steps.

Next in the left column. This column lists a number of different ways to manage the Server (Server Manager).

On the image you can see the View Control Panel selected, but you can switch to a different View by clicking View.

Some View lists are standard for Windows Server 2012. Dashboard, Server Local, all servers, File and Storage Services views are created by default.

Also View can exist just like the result you configured the server.

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For example, in the illustration on AD DS, DNS, and Hyper-V View exist as a direct result of the corresponding Role and Feature installation.

The following two items on the list are Servers Lab and Server Production. It is a group of computers created by Admin, users.

Network administrators will go a little deeper, talking about how View related to Role and Feature has been installed.

Before going to the main problem, you can see on the illustration. This section includes a series of boxes with Roles and server groups (Server Group) that exist on the server (Server).

As you can see in the figure, each cell corresponds to a specific Role or Server group. The boxes are color coded.

The box displays green to denote that there are no issues related to specific server roles or groups. In contrast, the red box indicates that there are issues that need to be resolved.

The boxes are designed to help you easily detect problems to solve. If you look at the picture again, you will see that each red box contains a number on the right side of the box name. That is the number of problems that need to be solved.

If you look below the title of each box, you will see a series of listed items (Ability to manage, event, service, performance, BPA results).

A red flag to the left of each item is a symbol indicating that there are issues related to that category that need to be addressed.

For example, in the figure on the Server Server group groups there are two management capabilities and a service-related issue needs to be resolved.

To try to solve a problem, simply click on the problem so that Windows displays the problem in detail. For example, when you click Manageability under Hyper-V, Windows will display a screen like the one below:

As you can see in the image above, the dialog determines the source of the problem. In this case, the server needs to be restarted.

If you look closely at the warnings that are being displayed, you will see that the server name and server IP address are all listed.

In the image above, the alerts displayed are attached to a remote server that even the remote server is not supported at this time.Therefore, when you see the warning message displayed in the Server Manager control panel, you cannot automatically assume alerts for local machines (Local Server).Typically, alerts relate to remote machines instead.

Adjusting this warning is as easy as turning on the mentioned server and then enabling it to reboot.

If there are serious problems, the alerts will show at least one suggestion which is the cause of the problem. The dialogs also contain the Go To Hyper-V button, which is used to open the interface as needed to fix the problem (in this case, Hyper-V View).

As mentioned earlier, many Views are specifically related to the Role or Feature installed on the server.When you click on a Role or Feature related to View, Server Manager displays some pieces of information related to that View.You can see an example of this in the illustration below.

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As you can see in the image above, when selecting the Hyper-V view, Windows displays Hyper-V servers, and events, Hyper-V-related Services.If you move your mouse down, you will see Best Practices Analyzer, Performance Monitor , and Hyper-V Role role.All of these tools can be accessed in different locations on the operating system, but Server Manager will put them together in a single place.

You can refer to some of the following articles:

1. Learn about Windows Server 2012 (Part 1)

2. Learn about Windows Server 2012 (Part 2)

3. Learn about Windows Server 2012 (Part 3)

Good luck!