Remote administration of Win2003 with Web UI

The Web UI is a Web remote Management service that starts with integration from Windows 2000. With this service, network administrators can manage the common services (such as FTP, Web services, etc.) and common functions (such as managing users and groups) on the server through IE browser on the client. Let's take Windows Server 2003 as an example to talk about how to use the service.

installing Web UI Remote Administration

The default installation method for IIS6.0 does not install web remote administration and requires us to install it manually. The installation method is summarized as follows:

Open the Add and Remove Programs dialog box in Control Panel, and then click the Add/Remove Windows Components button on the left side of the dialog box. In the Open Windows Components Wizard dialog box, click Internet Information Services (IIS) → details → Web services → details to open the World Wide Web Services dialog box. Then check the remote management (HTML) option and click on the [OK], next step, Finish button to complete the installation.

To ensure normal usage, we also need to make simple settings for Web remote administration in IIS Manager. Click start → Administrative tools →internet Information Services (IIS) Manager, and in the Open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager, expand the Hostname (local computer) → Web site directory in turn. We can see that this item adds a "administration" option, which is the name of the Web remote administration. Right-click the "Administration" option, execute the "Properties" command, in the Open Administration Properties dialog box, click on the Web Site tab in the "IP address" to the right side of the lower Triangle, point anthology machine IP address. Other options remain in the default settings and click the OK button to make the settings effective. As shown in Figure 1. Finally, close the Organizer window.

log on to Web UI remote Administration

As long as the client is using a system above Windows 9x, we can log on to the Web UI via ie. Type the following address in IE https://192.x.x.x:8098 to login to the Web Remote administration interface, where "8098" is the port number used by the service, as shown in Figure 2.

hands-on Web UI remote management

With Web remote management You can make a lot of settings for the server, and we'll just select the more representative settings briefly as follows:

1. Modify Admin password

After logging on to the Web for remote administration, click "Set Administrator Password" in Figure 2 of the "Welcome" interface. Type the current password and new password in the Open Administrator account interface and click the OK button at the bottom right to make the settings effective.

2. Manage Web server

To modify the site home directory for example, click the Web server option at the top of Figure 2, and then tap the Web Master Settings button. Change the path to the Web site's home directory in the open Web Master settings interface.

3. Manage Users and Groups

We can also manage users and groups on the server through web remote administration. To add a user, click the "User" option at the top of Figure 2, and then tap the Local user button. In the open local user interface on the server, click the New button on the right, as shown in Figure 3. Fill in the user information and password in the Create new user interface and click the OK button to successfully add the user. If you want to remove a user, in the local user interface on the server, check the user you want to delete and click the Delete button on the right. Management of groups is similar to managing user methods.

4. Connect to Remote Desktop

Remote Desktop is a significant improvement in Windows 2003 over Windows 20,001, where we can remotely connect to the server's desktop via the web (which makes sense for Windows 9x, and because Windows XP itself has a connection to remote Desktop Client tools, so this feature does not make sense for Windows XP. Of course, this requires the server to enable the Remote Desktop feature in advance. Click the "Maintenance" option at the top of Figure 2, and then tap the Remote Desktop button. You can log on to the server's desktop by typing your username and password in the Open login window, and if you are a system administrator, you have all the permissions to administer the server. Using Remote Desktop to manage servers is as convenient as operating a local machine.

Remote administration through the Web can also be a lot of management and settings for the server.