2. Making supplemental components available
Microsoft designed Server Manager and the underlying framework
for managing components to be extensible. This makes it easier to
provide supplemental roles, role services, and features for the operating system.
You can make these components available for installation and
configuration by completing the following steps:
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Download the installer package or packages from the
Microsoft website. Typically, these are provided as a set of
Microsoft Update Standalone Packages (.msu) files.
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Double-tap or double-click each installer package to
register it for use.
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If Server Manager is running on the server, restart or
refresh Server Manager to make the new components available.
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In Server Manager, use the appropriate wizard to install and
configure the supplemental role, role service, or feature.
3. Installing components with Server Manager
Server Manager is the primary tool you’ll use to manage
roles, role services, and features. Not only can you use Server Manager to add or
remove roles, role services, and features, but you can also use
Server Manager to view the configuration details and status for these software
components.
By default, Server Manager is started automatically. If you
closed the console or disabled automatic startup, you can open the
console by tapping or clicking the related option on the taskbar.
Another way to do this is by pressing the Windows key, typing ServerManager.exe in the Apps Search box, and
then pressing Enter.
Server Manager automatically creates server groups based on
the roles of managed servers. When you select a role-based group in
the left pane, the Servers panel shows the managed servers that have
this role. As shown in Figure 1, the details
for the selected server group provide the following information for
all servers in the group:
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The status of related system services. You can manage a
service (and its dependent services) by pressing and holding or
right-clicking and then selecting Stop Services, Start Services,
or Restart Services. In many cases, if a service isn’t running
as you think it should, you can tap or click Restart Services to
resolve the issue by stopping and then starting the service.
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Error and warning events the related services and
components have generated recently. If you tap or click an
event, you get additional information about the event (if
available).
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Summary information about the related role services and
features, including the number of related role services and
features installed as well as the name and subpath of the
related role, role service, or feature in the UI. For example,
with Storage Services, the component type is listed as Role
Services and the path is listed as File And Storage
Services\Storage Services.
You can refresh the server details manually by tapping or
clicking the Refresh Servers button on the toolbar. Otherwise,
Server Manager refreshes the details periodically for you. If you
want to set a different default refresh interval, tap or click
Manage and then tap or click Server Manager Properties. Next, set
the new refresh interval in minutes and then tap or click
OK.
