There are the usual Windows Event Logs: Application, Security, and System. Windows Server 2008 Event Viewer provides you with Event Logs you can use. This is not your father’s old event viewer with just System, Security and Application nodes. The Server Manager also exposes the new and improved Event Viewer. You no longer need to create your own custom MMCs!
When the Server Roles and Role Services are installed, the MMC consoles for these services are installed in the Server Manager.
In the Server Manager, you can install Server Roles (such as DNS, DHCP, Active Directory) and Role services (such as Terminal Services Gateway and RRAS). This is not like the Server Manager’s you might have used in the past this one actually works and its one that you will use everyday when managing your Windows Server 2008 machines. The Server Manager is a one stop shop for configuring, managing, and monitoring the server. Windows Server 2008 includes an entirely new management interface known as the Server Manager. Server Manager and the Advanced Event Viewer The Windows Advanced Firewall and Policy-based QoS.Secure Sockets Tunneling Protocol (SSTP).Server Manager and the Advanced Event Viewer.
Here is my list of what I think makes Windows Server 2008 great and a worthwhile upgrade from Windows Server 2003: That is fair, but here I am going to talk about the big changes, the changes that will make your life better and hopefully also make your users happier. Other people will look at the changes in Windows Server 2008 and think that I should have mentioned some of the other changes. There are far too many changes for me to cover in a single article, so I have selected those features and capabilities that I think make Windows Server 2008 a worthwhile upgrade. But the question on everyone’s mind is what does Windows Server 2008 provide to make it a worthwhile upgrade? That is the focus in this article. Some are very small, but some are quite significant. Thousands of changes have been made in Windows Server 2008 compared to Windows Server 2003. It has been a long time coming and Microsoft has put a great amount of work into Windows Server 2008 to make it the best Windows ever. Windows Server 2008 went RTM this month and now we all have access to the final bits. It is hard to believe that it has been five years since Windows Server 2003 was released.
It has been a long time since we have seen a new version of Windows Server.