Web interface Remote Maintenance Windows2003 server

Microsoft's network operating system, Windows Server 2003 (Windows 2003), adds a number of valuable features, such as remote maintenance of web interfaces. With this feature, network administrators can remotely maintain the entire Windows 2003 system through a Web browser. Let's experience the convenience of Remote maintenance web interface.

Installing Remote Administration (HTML) components

To use the remote maintenance feature, you must install the Remote administration (HTML) component. Click the "start → settings → control Panel" option, then run "Add or Remove Programs" and switch to the "Add/Remove Windows Components" page in the pop-up window.

In the Windows Components Wizard dialog box, go to the application Server →internet Information Services (IIS) → World Wide Web service option, select the remote Management (HTML) component (Figure 1), and then click the "OK" button to begin the installation configuration for this component.

Tip: After Setup completes, a Web site project named "Administration" is added to the Web site Directory of Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.

Log on to the Web service Management interface

On the remote client, run the Internet Explorer browser and enter "https://61.190.141.241.26:8098" in the Address bar, where "61.190.141.241" is the IP address of the Windows 2003 server, "8098" is the port number used for remote maintenance. Then eject the Login dialog box, enter the administrator username and password, click "OK" button, login to the Web service management interface.

Tip: Remote Web Management uses the "https" protocol, which encrypts the data transmitted in the network, and can effectively prevent the user's important information from being illegally stolen.

Remote maintenance of Windows 2003 servers

The Remote Web Service management interface enables remote maintenance of the system State, network state, users and groups, sites, and Web servers for Windows 2003 servers. If the server is running correctly, the words "status: Normal" are displayed at the top of the main window.

1. Users and Groups

In the Service Management Main window, click the "User" link to switch to the User Management window. Local Users and groups can be maintained here.

Click the local user option to enter the Local Users on Server page (Figure 2), which lists all the user accounts for the Windows 2003 server. Click the "New" button on the taskbar to create a new user. In addition, you can delete, modify, and so on users that already exist.

Switch to the "Local Group" tab, the user group is also the same simple operation, can be very convenient for new, modify and delete operations.

2. Server State Maintenance

Click on the "Maintenance" link to switch to the Server Status window. Here you can view and modify the server running state (Figure 3).

Date and Time settings

Ability to adjust date, time, and time zone parameters for Windows 2003 servers.

Close

This feature provides a reboot, shutdown, and scheduled shutdown of three operations. Note: The scheduled shutdown operation must be supported by the Task Scheduler service.

Log

Through the log function can accurately understand the operation of the system. These log files can also be purged and downloaded.

Remote Desktop

For users who are not accustomed to using the web for remote maintenance, you can use the Remote Desktop feature to maintain the system under the graphical user interface.

3. Network parameter Maintenance

Click on the "Network" link to switch to the Network Properties page. Some basic network parameters can be maintained and modified here: such as server identity, network interface properties, server IP address and port number, administrator account, etc.

In addition, the use of Web services management functions can also be Web sites, Web servers, e-mail servers and other maintenance, here is not introduced in detail, as long as we carefully experience, will feel its powerful function!

Figure 1 Adding a remote management component

Figure 2 Managing Users