Administrator Guide
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Server Manager roles, role services, and features
Server Manager is a management console that manages remote and local servers from a desktop without physical access or Remote
Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections.
Server Manager allows you to:
• Add remote servers to a pool of servers.
• Create or edit a group of servers (for a specic purpose or geographic location).
• Install or uninstall roles, role services, and features and view or change local or remote servers.
• Get status of your servers and roles remotely.
• Determine server status, identify critical events, analyze, and troubleshoot conguration issues or failures.
• Customize the events, performance data, services, and Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) results that are displayed on the Server
Manager dashboard.
• Perform tasks on multiple servers at one time.
Starting and exiting Server Manager
Server Manager starts by default when an administrator logs in to the system. If you exit Server Manager, perform any one of the
following tasks to restart:
• On the task bar, click Server Manager.
• On the Start screen, click Server Manager.
• In the Windows PowerShell environment, at the command prompt, enter servermanager (case-insensitive).
To exit Server Manager, close the Server Manager window.
Installing or uninstalling Server Manager roles, role
services, and features
In Windows Storage Server 2016 or 2012 R2, the Server Manager console and Windows PowerShell cmdlets for Server Manager enable
you to install roles, role services, and features. You can install multiple roles and features by using the Add Roles and Features Wizard or
Windows PowerShell session.
NOTE
: To install or uninstall roles, roles services, and features by using the Add Roles And Features Wizard and Windows
PowerShell cmdlets, see technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831809.aspx#BKMK_installarfw.
Accessing administrative tools for your NAS system
Many Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-ins are listed in the Administrative Tools folder.
To access administrative tools folder, complete any one of the tasks here:
• In Server Manager, click Tools to access the Administrative Tools.
• Click the Windows logo key. In the Start menu, click Administrative Tools tile.
• In the start menu, click Control Panel, click System and Security > Administrative Tools.
Accessing computer management
To access the Computer Management tools, in Server Manager, go to Tools > Computer Management. The Computer Management
window is displayed that has all the tools segregated in to three groups. These tools are described here.
Initial
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