Administration of Related Server Technologies

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In addition to performing administrative tasks in the Windows EBS Administration Console, you can perform administrative tasks directly in the related server technologies that are included with Windows EBS. The Administration Console provides contextual links to switch directly to management consoles on the servers for Windows EBS or to perform more specialized or advanced tasks.

This topic includes the following sections:

  • Related server technologies in Windows Essential Business Server
  • Administrative tasks that use Remote Desktop Connection or RemoteApp

The following table lists the related server technologies that are included in Windows EBS and the location of additional information.

Product Purpose Additional Information

Windows Server 2008 Standard
  • Basic server functions
  • File and print
  • Active Directory® Domain Services
  • User and group management
  • Group Policy administration
  • Windows Server 2008 Help: On the Start menu, click Help and Support.
  • Windows Server 2008 TechCenter: See the Microsoft Web site (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=104666).

System Center Essentials
  • System health monitoring
  • Software updates
  • Software deployment
  • Diagnostics
  • System Center Essentials Help: On the Management Server, in the System Center Essentials console, press F1.
  • System Center Essentials TechCenter: See the Microsoft Web site (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=103722).

Exchange Server
  • E-mail
  • Anti-spam
  • Exchange Server 2007 Help: On the Messaging Server, in the Exchange Server Management Console, press F1.
  • Exchange Server Technical Library: See the Microsoft Web site (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=103723).

Forefront TMG
  • Network firewall
  • Policy rules for accessing the Internet
  • Web site and server publishing rules
  • Forefront TMG Help: On the Security Server, in the Forefront TMG console, press F1,
  • Forefront TMG Technical Library: See the Microsoft Web site (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=108893).

Microsoft® Forefront™ Security for Exchange Server
  • Anti-malware (malicious software)
  • Forefront Security for Exchange Server Help: On the Messaging Server, in the Forefront Security for Exchange Server, press F1.
  • Forefront Security for Exchange Server TechCenter: See the Microsoft Web site (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=84261).

Microsoft SQL Server® 2008

(Windows EBS Premium Edition only)

  • End-to-end data management and analysis solution.
  • SQL Server 2008 Books Online: See the Microsoft Web site (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=114206).
  • SQL Server 2008 TechCenter: See the Microsoft Web site (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=108895).

Administrative tasks that use Remote Desktop Connection or RemoteApp

The Windows EBS Administrative Console is configured to use Remote Desktop Connection and Terminal Services RemoteApp™ to start tasks on the Security Server and the Messaging Server.

  • Remote Desktop Connection is the client application for Terminal Services that is included with Windows Server 2008. To help you monitor the services and technologies that are installed on the Security Server and Messaging Server, the Administration Console provides tasks to start Remote Desktop Connection sessions to those servers. When you start a Remote Desktop Connection session, you must type appropriate credentials to log on to the computer.

    Note

    Depending on your administrative needs, you can configure the Remote Desktop Connection client on the Management Server to save the credentials you use to connect to a particular computer or to require you to enter credentials each time you start a session. For more information, see Remote Desktop Connection Help: In Windows Server 2008, click Start, and then click Help and Support.

  • Terminal Services RemoteApp is a technology in Windows Server 2008 that makes remotely accessed applications appear as they do if they are running on the user's local computer. The Windows EBS Administration Console provides tasks that use RemoteApp to start administrative consoles or wizards on the Security Server and Messaging Server (such as the Forefront TMG console and the Exchange Server Management Console). These RemoteApp sessions start like applications on the local computer, and they automatically use the same administrative credentials that you use to run the Windows EBS Administration Console on the Management Server.