Introducing Windows Server® 2008

Chapter 4. Managing Windows Server 2008

In this chapter:
Performing Initial Configuration Tasks
Using Server Manager
Other Management Tools
Conclusion
Additional Resources

I was kidding, of course, when I said we should bring back the mainframe. After all, remember how much fun it was managing those machines? Sitting at a green screen all day long, dropping armfuls of punch cards into the hopper...what fun! At least running an IBM System/360 could be more fun than operating a PDP-11. When I was a university student years ago (decades actually), I worked one summer for the physics department, where there was a PDP-11 in the sub-sub-basement where the Cyclotron was located. I remember sitting there alone one night around 3 a.m. while an experiment ...