Administrating Windows Servers

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With linux servers you will generally do your work through shell or through a web based GUI like webmin, how are Windows servers usually worked on remotely?
 
I've got very little experience with this so go easy, but wouldn't running a GUI on the server reduce performance and take up resources? Or is it not too bad?

I'm really going to have to get a book or something :)
 
Windows is already running a GUI so it has little additional impact, only loading extra libraries that the new user needs to remain in a seperate session from the console.
 
I use logmein.com for most remote desktop work, much nicer than microsoft remote desktop (If you are accessing over web)
 
Wardie said:
I've got very little experience with this so go easy, but wouldn't running a GUI on the server reduce performance and take up resources? Or is it not too bad?

I'm really going to have to get a book or something :)
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The performance hit has been minimal, but a GUI is always running on the machine anyway, although the 'core' version of 2008 will not inlcude a GUI for the first time in a Windows product.

Burnsy
 
Never been a fan of RD, since you don't take direct control of the admin session we've had it screw up things in AD a few times.

Use a propper RD tool like VNC.
 
VNC, CA's RCO, PC-Anywhere are all similar.

Remote Desktop is fine, if you set it up properly and it depends on how your box's are set up, domains, etc.

I would use VNC for simplicity, installation can be one using a batch file in a couple of seconds remotely as well providing you map a drive first, or have admin rights...
 
LogMeIn IT Reach for the proverbial win. I use it on pretty much all of my servers, it supports file transfer and other very handy little things. In fact Microsoft should have an interface in Windows that looks just like the main page of IT Reach, it just tells you absolutely everything you want to know.
And if you do have a few servers, get a Logmein Network Console license - drag & drop the servers onto a central window that shows graphs of cpu/memory usage etc all in realtime :)
Logmein stuff is pretty cheap. I think IT reach is 20 or 30 quid a license. And it really is brilliant - get a 30 day trial.
 
I use a program called Hyena, we bought a 3 user license for our IT dept a few years ago. Very handy little program :)
 
I use my laptop and a combination of the admin tools snap-ins installed from a DC (adminpak.msi), the support tools for whichever OS you use and if necessary and a last resort VNC.
 
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