The Best Damn Windows Server 2003 Book Period- P9:The latest incarnation of Microsoft’s server product,Windows Server 2003, brings many new features and improvements that make the network administrator’s job chapter will briefly summarize what’s new in 2003 and introduce you to the four members of the Windows Server 2003 family: the Web Edition, the Standard Edition, the Enterprise Edition, and the Datacenter Edition. | 46 Chapter 2 Using Server Management Tools The Internet Printing Protocol Windows Server 2003 enables users to print to printers over the Internet or an intranet. Users have to know the URL for the printer so that they can connect to it via their Web browsers. For servers running Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003 the URL http server printers shows the printers available on the server. At this URL users can connect to a printer review the queue and manage printers and jobs for which they have permissions. Figure shows an example of viewing a queue using a Web page. Internet Printing requires Internet Information Services IIS to be running on the server. Internet Printing is installed by default on Windows 2000 but on Windows Server 2003 it has to be specifically installed as does IIS which is also not installed by default . Figure Viewing a Printer Queue using a Web Page Using the Graphical Interface Most of the time you will use the graphical interface for managing can start it in a number of ways Select Start Programs Administrative Tools Computer Management. In the Computer Management window expand Services and Applications and then click Services. Create a custom Microsoft Management Console that contains the Services snap-in. Select Start Programs Administrative Tools Services. Using New Command-Line Utilities In addition to the graphical interface Windows Server 2003 has a number of command-line-based programs to manage and troubleshoot services and perform a few other server tasks. These are executable programs rather than scripts so they do not need to be run with the cscript command. In the following sections we examine each program. Using Server Management Tools Chapter 2 47 The program communicates with the Service controller and has twenty-four different options. We won t examine them all here but you can refer to the online help for more information. In general sc is used to configure services and manage .
