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You will see that good old Notepad opens right up for us. We never had to navigate anywhere in the Programs folder in order to find and open it. In fact, we never even had to touch the mouse, which is music to the ears for someone like me who loves doing everything he possibly can via the keyboard: [ 25 ] Getting Started with Windows Server Chapter 1 An even better example is to pick something that would be buried fairly deep inside Settings or the Control Panel.

How about changing the amount of time before the screen goes to power save and turns itself off? The traditional server admin will open Control Panel if you can find it , probably navigate to the Appearance and Personalization section because nothing else looks obviously correct, and still not find what they were looking for.

After poking around for a few more minutes, they would start to think that Microsoft forgot to add in this setting altogether. But alas, these power settings are simply moved to a new container, and are no longer accessible through Control Panel at all.

We will discuss the new Settings screen momentarily in this chapter, but ultimately for the purposes of this example you are currently stuck at the point where you cannot find the setting you want to change. What is a quick solution? Press your WinKey to open the Start menu, and type monitor or power, or just about anything else that would relate to the setting you are looking for. You see in the list of available options showing in the search menu one called Choose when to turn off the screen.

Click on that, and you have found the setting you were looking for all along: You will also notice that you have many more options on this Search screen than what you were originally searching for. Search has provided me with many different items that I could accomplish, all relating to the word monitor that I typed in. I don't know of a more powerful way to open applications or settings on Windows Server than using the search bar inside the Start menu. Give it a try today! Whether you have sought out a particular application by browsing manually through the Start menu, or have used the Search function to pull up the program that you want, you can simply right-click on the program and choose Pin to taskbar in order to stick a permanent shortcut to that application in the taskbar at the bottom of your screen.

Once you have done this, during future logins to your session on the server, your favorite and most-used applications will be waiting for you with a single click. As you can see in the following screenshot, you also have the ability to pin programs to the Start menu, which of course is another useful place from which to launch them regularly: Many readers will already be very familiar with the process of pinning programs to the taskbar, so let's take it one step further to portray an additional function you may not be aware is available to you when you have applications pinned.

The power of right-clicking We are all pretty familiar with right-clicking in any given area of a Windows operating system in order to do some more advanced functions. Small context menus displayed upon a right-click have existed since the mouse rolled off the assembly line. We often right-click in order to copy text, copy documents, paste the same, or get into a deeper set of properties for a particular file or folder.

Many day-to-day tasks are accomplished with that mouse button. What I want to take a minute to point out is that software makers, Microsoft and otherwise, have been adding even more right-click functionality into application launchers themselves, which makes it even more advantageous to have them close at hand, such as inside the taskbar.

Very simple stuff. If I right-click again on the smaller menu option for Command Prompt, I have the ability to perform the same functions, but I could also get further into Properties, or Run as administrator. So, I get a little more enhanced functionality the deeper I go: However, with other programs you will see more results.

And, the more you utilize your servers, the more data and options you will start to see in these right-click context menus.

Two great examples are Notepad and the Remote Desktop Client. On my server, I have been working in a few text configuration files, and I have been using my server in order to jump into other servers to perform some remote tasks.

I have been doing this using the Remote Desktop Client. Now, when I right-click on Notepad listed in my taskbar, I have quick links to the most recent documents that I have worked on: [ 28 ] Getting Started with Windows Server Chapter 1 When right-clicking on my RDP icon, I now have quick links listed right here for the recent servers that I have connected to.

I don't know about you, but I RDP into a lot of different servers on a daily basis. Having a link for the Remote Desktop Client in the taskbar automatically keeping track of the most recent servers I have visited, definitely saves me time and mouse clicks as I work through my daily tasks: These right-click functions have existed for a couple of operating system versions now, so it's not new technology, but it is being expanded upon regularly as new versions of the applications are released.

It is also a functionality that I don't witness many server administrators utilizing, but perhaps they should start doing so in order to work more efficiently, which is why we are discussing it here. Something that is enhanced in the Windows 10 and Server platforms that is also very useful on a day-to-day basis is the Quick access view that is presented by default when you open File Explorer.

We all know and use File Explorer and have for a long time, but typically when you want to get to a particular place on the hard drive or to a specific file, you have many mouse clicks to go through in order to reach your destination.

Windows Server 's Quick access view immediately shows us both recent and frequent files and folders, which we commonly access from the server. We, as admins, often have to visit the same places on the hard drive and open the same files time and time again. Wouldn't it be great if File Explorer would lump all of those common locations and file links in one place?

That is exactly what Quick access does. A feature like this can be a real time-saver, and regularly making use of these little bits and pieces available to you in order to increase your efficiency, demonstrates to colleagues and those around you that you have a real familiarity and comfort level with this latest round of operating systems: [ 30 ] Getting Started with Windows Server Chapter 1 Using the newer Settings screen If you work in IT and have been using Windows 10 on a client machine for any period of time, it's a sure bet that you have stumbled across the new Settings interface—perhaps accidentally, as was the case for me, the first time I saw it.

I have watched a number of people now bump into the Settings interface for the first time when trying to view or configure Windows Updates. You see, Settings in Windows Server are just what the name implies, an interface from which you configure various settings within the operating system. What's so hard or confusing about that?

Well, we already have a landing platform for all of the settings contained inside Windows that has been around for a zillion years. It's called Control Panel. The Settings menu inside Windows isn't a brand new idea, but looks and feels quite new when compared to Control Panel. Windows Server and R2 had a quasi-presence of settings that as far as I know went largely unused by systems administrators. I believe that to be the effect of poor execution as the Settings menu in was accessed and hidden behind the Charms bar, which most folks have decided was a terrible idea.

We will not spend too much time on technology of the past, but the Charms bar in Server was a menu that presented itself when you swiped your finger in from the right edge of the screen. Yes, you are correct, servers don't usually have touchscreens. Not any that I have ever worked on, anyway. So, the Charms bar also presented when you hovered the mouse up near the top-right of the screen. It was quite difficult to access, yet seemed to show up whenever you didn't want it to, like when you were trying to click on something near the right of the desktop and instead you clicked on something inside the Charms bar that suddenly appeared.

I am only giving you this background information in order to segue into this next idea. Much of the user interface in Windows 10, and therefore, Windows Server and , can be considered a small step backward from the realm of finger swipes and touch screens. Windows 8 and Server were so focused on big app buttons and finger swipes that a lot of people got lost in the shuffle. It was so different than what we had ever seen before and difficult to use at an administrative level.

Because of feedback received from that release, the graphical interface and user controls, including both the Start menu and the Settings menu in Windows Server , are sort of smack-dab in the middle between Server and Server This backwards step was the right one to take, and I have heard nothing but praise so far on the new user interface.

Some settings in Windows now only exist in this interface, but many can still be accessed either here or through the traditional Control Panel. The goal seems to be a shift toward all configurations being done through the new menu in future releases, but, for now, we can still administer most setting changes through our traditional methods if we so choose. I mentioned Windows Updates earlier, and that is a good example to look over.

Traditionally, we would configure our Windows Update settings via the Control Panel, but they have now been completely migrated over to the new Settings menu in Windows Server Search Control Panel for Windows Update, and the only result is that you can view currently installed updates. But, if you search the new Settings menu for Windows Update, you'll find it right away. Hit your WinKey and type Windows Update, and you'll be given quick links that take you straight into the appropriate Settings menus.

For the moment, you will have to use a combination of Control Panel and the Settings menu in order to do your work. It gets confusing occasionally. Sometimes, you will even click on something inside the Settings menu, and it will launch a Control Panel window! Try it out. Click on Ethernet in the left column. Here, you can see the status of your network cards, but you can't change anything, such as changing an IP address.

Then, you notice the link for Change adapter options. Oh yeah, that sounds like what I want to do. Click on Change adapter options, and you are taken right into the traditional Network Connections screen with the Control Panel look-and-feel: [ 33 ] Getting Started with Windows Server Chapter 1 Two ways to do the same thing Potentially confusing as well, until you get used to navigating around in here, is that you can sometimes accomplish the same task in either Control Panel or the Settings menu, but the process that you take in each interface can have a vastly different look and feel.

Let's take a look at that firsthand by trying to create a new user account on our server, once via Control Panel, and again via Settings. Creating a new user through Control Panel You are probably pretty familiar with this. Open Control Panel and click on User Accounts. Then, click on the User Accounts heading. Now, click on the link to Manage another account. Inside this screen is your option to Add a user account.

Click on that and you get the dialog box where you enter a username and password for your new user: [ 34 ] Getting Started with Windows Server Chapter 1 Creating a new user through the Settings menu Let's take this newer Settings interface for a test drive.

Open the Settings menu, and click on Accounts. Now, click on Other users in the left column. There is an option here to Add someone else to this PC; go ahead and click on that: [ 35 ] Getting Started with Windows Server Chapter 1 What in the world is that? Not what I expected, unfortunately.

To my surprise, the old Control Panel user account launches a nice, fresh-looking interface from which I can create new user accounts.

Accessing user accounts via the newer Settings console launches me into the old Local Users and Groups manager. Technically, from here I could definitely go ahead and create new user accounts, but it seems like there is some sort of a disconnect here.

You would naturally think that the new Settings would initiate the newer, nicer screen for adding new user accounts, but we found the opposite to be true. We walked through this simple example of attempting to perform the same function through two different interfaces to showcase that there are some items which can and must be performed within the new Settings menu context, but there are many functions within Windows that still need to be accomplished through our traditional interfaces.

While Control Panel continues to exist, and probably will for a very long time, you should start navigating your way around the Settings menu and figure out what is available inside, so that you can start to shape your ideas for the best combination of both worlds in order to manage your servers effectively.

By that I mean we are setting something to either one option or another. Historically, these kinds of configurations were handled by either drop-down menus or by radio buttons. That is normal; that is expected; that is Windows. Now, you will start to see little swipe bars, or sliders, that allow you to switch settings on or off, like a light switch. Anyone who has used the settings interface of any smart phone knows exactly what I am talking about.

This user interface behavior has now made its way into the full Windows operating systems, and is probably here to stay. One of the goals for Windows Server is to be even more useful and reliable than any previous version of Windows Server has been. So, it only makes sense that we finally remove Task Manager altogether, since it simply won't be needed anymore, right?

I'm kidding, of course! While Server will hopefully prove itself to indeed be the most stable and least needy operating system we have ever seen from Microsoft, Task Manager still exists and will still be needed by server administrators everywhere.

If you haven't taken a close look at Task Manager in a while, it has changed significantly over the past few releases. The first thing you'll notice is that very little information exists in this default view, only a simple list of applications that are currently running.

This is a useful interface for forcing an application to close which may be hung up, but not for much else. Go ahead and click on the More details link, and you will start to see the real information provided in this powerful interface. We immediately notice that the displayed information is more user-friendly than in previous years, with both Apps and Background processes being categorized in a more intuitive way, and multiple instances of the same application being condensed down for easy viewing.

This gives a faster overhead view at what is going on with our system, while still giving the ability to expand each application or process to see what individual components or windows are running within the application, such as in the following screenshot: [ 38 ] Getting Started with Windows Server Chapter 1 Make sure to check out the other tabs available inside Task Manager as well.

Users will show us a list of currently logged-in users and the amounts of hardware resources that their user sessions are consuming. This is a nice way to identify on a Remote Desktop Session Host server, for example, an individual who might be causing a slowdown on the server. The Details tab is a little bit more traditional view of the Processes tab, splitting out much of the same information but in the older style way we were used to seeing in versions of the operating system long ago.

Then, the Services tab is pretty self-explanatory; it shows you the Windows services currently installed on the server, their status, and the ability to start or stop these services as needed, without having to open the Services console separately.

The tab that I skipped over so that I could mention it more specifically here is the Performance tab. This is a pretty powerful one. Inside, you can quickly monitor CPU, memory, and Ethernet utilization. As you can see in the following screenshot, I haven't done a very good job of planning resources on this particular virtual machine, as my CPU is hardly being touched but I am almost out of system memory: [ 39 ] Getting Started with Windows Server Chapter 1 Another useful piece of information available inside this screen is server uptime.

Finding this information can be critical when troubleshooting an issue, and I watch admins time and time again calculating system uptime based on log timestamps. Using Task Manager is a much easier way to find that information!

If you are interested in viewing more in-depth data about server performance, there is a link at the bottom of this Task Manager window where you can Open Resource Monitor.

Two technologies provided inside Server for monitoring system status, particularly for hardware performance, are Resource Monitor and Performance Monitor. Definitely open up these tools and start testing them out, as they can provide both troubleshooting information and essential baseline data when you spin up a new server. This baseline can then be compared against future testing data so that you can monitor how new applications or services installed onto a particular server have affected their resource consumption.

Moving back to Task Manager, there is just one other little neat trick I would like to test. Still inside the Performance tab, go ahead and right-click on any particular piece of data that you are interested in. I will right-click on the CPU information near the left side of the window. This opens up a dialog box with a few options, of which I am going to click on Summary view. This condenses the data that was previously taking up about half of my screen real-estate, into a tiny little window, which I can move to the corner of my screen.

This is a nice way to keep hardware utilization data on the screen at all times as you navigate through and work on your server so that you can watch for any spikes or increases in resource consumption when making changes to the system: [ 40 ] Getting Started with Windows Server Chapter 1 Task View Task View is a new feature as of Windows 10 and Windows Server , which carries over to Server It is a similar idea as that of holding down the Alt key and then pressing Tab in order to cycle through the applications that you currently have running.

For anyone who has never tried that, go ahead and hold down those two keys on your keyboard right now. Depending on what version of Windows you are running, your screen might look slightly different than this, but, in effect, it's the same information. You can see all of the programs you currently have open, and you can cycle through them from left to right using additional presses of the Tab button.

When you have many windows open, it is perhaps easier to simply use the mouse to jump to any specific window: Task View is quite a bit more powerful than this, because it adds the capability of managing multiple full-desktops' worth of windows and applications. For example, if you were working on two different projects on the same server, and each project required you to have many different windows open at the same time, you would start to burn a lot of time switching back and forth between all of your different apps and windows in order to find what you were looking for.

Using Task View, you could leave all of your open windows for the first project on your first desktop, and open all of the windows dealing with the second project on a second desktop. Then, with two clicks you can easily switch back and forth between the different desktops, using the Task View button. By default, Task View is the little button down in the taskbar, immediately to the right of the Search magnifying glass near the Start button.

The difference is the little button near the top-left corner that says New desktop. Go ahead and click on that now: Now, you will see Desktop 1 and Desktop 2 available for you to use.

You can click on Desktop 2 and open some new programs, or you can even drag and drop existing windows between different desktops, right on this Task View screen: [ 42 ] Getting Started with Windows Server Chapter 1 Task View is a great way to stay organized and efficient by utilizing multiple desktops on the same server. I suppose it is kind of like running dual monitors, or three or four or more, all from a single physical monitor screen. Summary This first chapter on the new Windows Server is all about getting familiar and comfortable navigating around in the interface.

There are various ways to interact with Server and we will discuss many of them throughout this book, but the majority of server administrators will be interfacing with this new operating system through the full graphical interface, using both mouse and keyboard to perform their tasks. If you have worked with previous versions of the Windows Server operating system, then a lot of the tools that you will use to drive this new platform will be the same, or at least similar, to the ones that you have used in the past.

New operating systems should always be an evolution of their predecessors, and never all new. I think this was a lesson learned with the release of Windows 8 and Server With Server , we find a great compromise between the traditional familiarity of the prior versions of Windows, and the new benefits that come with rounded edges and touchfriendly screens that will be used more and more often as we move toward the future of Windows-based devices. In the next chapter, we will look into installing and managing the Windows Server.

Questions 1. In Windows Server , how can you launch an elevated PowerShell prompt with two mouse clicks? What is the keyboard combination to open this Quick Admin Tasks menu? What is the name of Microsoft's cloud service offering? What are the two licensing versions of Windows Server ? How many virtual machines can run on top of a Windows Server Standard host? What installation option for Windows Server does not have a graphical user interface?

What is the correct tool from which to change configurations on a Windows Server , Windows Settings or Control Panel?

Reading about technology is never as good as experiencing it for yourself, so we want some rubber to meet the road in this chapter. One of the biggest goals of this book is to make sure we enable you to use the product. Rattling off facts about new features and efficiencies is fine and dandy, but ultimately worthless if you aren't able to make it work in real life.

So, let's make this chunk of raw server metal do some work for us. In this chapter, we will be covering the following: Requirements for installation Installing Windows Server Installing roles and features Centralized management and monitoring Windows Admin Center WAC Enabling quick server rollouts with Sysprep Installing and Managing Windows Server Chapter 2 Technical requirements When planning the build of a new server, many of the decisions that you need to make reflect licensing-type decisions.

What roles do you intend to install on this server? Can Server Standard handle it, or do we need Datacenter Edition for this guy? Is Server Core going to be beneficial from a security perspective, or do we need the full Desktop Experience? In these days of Hyper-V servers with the ability to spin up virtual machines on a whim, we oftentimes proceed without much consideration of the hardware of a server, but there are certainly still instances where physical equipment will be hosting the Windows Server operating system.

In these cases you need to be aware of the requirements for this new platform, so let us take a minute to list out those specifics. I can tell you that it is possible to install and run Desktop Experience with far fewer than 2 GB such as inside a test lab , but you have to understand that performance will not be on par with what it could be.

The minimum storage space requirement is 32 GB, but Desktop Experience consumes about 4 GB more space than Server Core, so take that into consideration.

Those are sort of the bare minimum specs, if you just want to spin up Server and poke around at it. For production systems, increase these numbers by a lot. There is no magic answer here, the specs you need depend on the workloads you expect to throw at your server.

There are additional components that would be good to look for when building a new system that are required for particular roles and features as well.

Things such as UEFI and a TPM chip are quickly becoming mainstream and used by more and more services with every operating system update. In particular, if you are interested in security and protection via BitLocker, or working with strong certificates or the new Shielded VMs, you will want to make sure that your systems include TPM 2.

I assume that a lot of you,, as IT professionals, are also the de facto neighborhood computer guy, being constantly asked by friends and family to fix or rebuild their computers. If you're anything like me, this means you are still occasionally rebuilding operating systems such as Windows XP. Looking at the bright blue setup screens and finding a keyboard with the F8 key are imperative to this process. To spend 2 hours simply installing the base operating system and bringing it up to the highest service pack level is pretty normal.

Compared to that timeline, installation of a modern operating system such as Windows Server is almost unbelievably fast and simple.