Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008: Implementation and Administration

7.4. Server Manager

Windows Server 2008 continues the trend of consolidating utilities on the Start menu into multi-functioned interfaces. Server Manager incorporates nearly all of the Windows Server 2008 management utilities into a single console, giving you a single place from which you can perform almost all of your important configuration tasks. Windows Server 2008's Server Manager (now at version 6.0) is more complete, more logically organized, and easier to use than previous versions of this utility. As Microsoft adds the organizational concept of "roles" and "features," you'll find that when a role or feature isn't working properly it is marked as not functioning in the Server Manager. In many instances when something isn't working this ...