Server Manager in Windows Server 2012: what's new?

About what's new in Windows Server 2012, various authors write a lot. Not spared and update Server Manager. About innovations tell and show Michael Ooty and Don Jones. We invite interested persons under cat.

So, the list of innovations in Windows Server 2012 Server Manager.

1. New interface. The first thing you notice about the new Server Manager is the new interface. During the installation of Windows Server 2012, a graphical interface is used - as opposed to the Server Core mode, the Server Manager is the first thing you see after the system boots. Previous versions of Server Manager, with their roles and functions panel, have been replaced with the Metro interface.
2. Control Panel - Server 2012 Server Manager opens immediately from the control panel. The control panel is the first entry point in Windows Server 2012 in non-Server Core mode. The welcome window immediately includes three blocks: Quick Start (Quick Start), What's New (What's news) and Learn More. The “Quick Start” block shows a list of steps that need to be taken to manage the environment, such as “Configure this local server”, “Add roles and features” and so on. Additional options are displayed at the top of the Control Panel, Manage, View Tools (Tools Views) and Help (Help).
3. Local server management –Server 2012 allows you to manage the local server on which it is running. The “Configure this local server” option allows you to modify most of the important settings of the local computer, including the computer name, domain name, firewall status, remote desktop, remote control and NIC Teaming. By selecting “Add roles and features”, you can add server roles for the local server, such as Hyper-V or Active Directory Domain Servers, or functions such as BitLocker Drive Encryption and Failover Clustering.
4. Multi-server management - Unlike previous Server manager versions in Windows Server, in Server 2012 Server Manager you can easily manage several remote Windows Server systems at once. Click “Add other servers to manage” and add other computers to the network that can be placed via AD, DNS or IP address. Once added, remote servers are displayed in the “All Servers” panel.
5. Server groups - In addition to the ability to remotely manage servers, Server 2012 Server Manager also allows you to manage groups of servers. Any action that you take with a group is displayed on all servers belonging to this group. So you can create a group to manage multiple servers by clicking “Create a server group” in the control panel, specify the name and select the servers included in the group.
6. Event Logs - Server Manager allows you to access event logs on both local and remote servers. If you are in the Local Server or All Server viewing mode, then you can switch between events for both local and remote servers before switching between different types of viewing in the navigation panel. Events can be filtered, by clicking on any of them detailed information is displayed.
7. Services (Services) - The new Server Manager also adds the ability to manage services on local and remote servers that are managed. If you are in the Local Server or All Server view mode, scroll to the “Event” section (Event) in the Service Manager Server section. You can filter the results. The context menu on the service allows you to start, stop, restart the service, as well as pause and resume its work.
8. Best Practices Analyzer - Another new feature in Server Manager is the ability to run the Best Practices Analyzer (BPA). Click on the Tasks drop down menu, run BPA to scan the local or remote server.
9. Performance - And again, if you chose a local or remote server, scroll to BPA in the “Performance” section. The Tasks menu allows you to select the performance frameworks you want to track. Call the context menu on the server name and start or stop collecting performance statistics.
10. Administrative tools - Since the disappeared from the Start menu, in Server 2012 it was necessary to implement simple access to administrative functions; The “Tools” option at the top provides one. The “Tools” menu shows a list of management options that also look like we used to see them in the old Administrative Menu. Some of these management options include iSCSI Initiator, ODBC Data Sources, Resource Monitor, Services (Services) and “Task Scheduler”.

You can see everything described above in the video that Don Jones recorded (in English).


And you can work (if you do not have Windows Server 2012 installed) in Virtual Labs .
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