Introducing Windows Server 2008 - MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuration - page 10

7. Click Shared Folders . Next, click the Help toolbar icon (a question mark in a blue box),
which opens a window with details about that snap-in. Do the same with several other tools,
and read the descriptions for those snap-ins.
8. Close all open windows.
Activity 1-4: Creating a Custom MMC
Time Required: 10 minutes
Objective: Create your own custom MMC by selecting snap-ins.
Description: You're a junior administrator for a Windows server, and three of your most common
tasks are monitoring installed devices, managing and monitoring the server's disks, and checking
on scheduled tasks. You have decided that putting tools for these tasks in their own MMC on
your desktop would make you more efficient.
1. Log on to your server as Administrator, if necessary.
2. Click Start , Run . Type mmc in the Open text box, and then click OK .
3. Click File , Add/Remove Snap-in from the MMC menu.
4. In the Available snap-ins list box, click Device Manager (for monitoring installed devices),
and then click the Add button.
5. Note your choices in the next dialog box. You can decide whether to use the selected snap-
in on the local computer or another computer. If you select the Another computer option,
you can manage that computer remotely with your MMC. Leave the Local computer option
selected, and then click Finish .
6. Repeat Steps 4 and 5, substituting the Disk Management and Task Scheduler snap-ins for
Device Manager. (When you add Disk Management, click This computer instead of Local
computer.) Click Finish for each snap-in, and when you're finished adding snap-ins, click OK.
7. To name your MMC, click File , Save As from the menu.
8. In the Save As dialog box, click the Desktop icon, type DevDiskTask for the filename, and
then click Save . You now have a customized MMC on your desktop.
9. Close all open windows.
Disk Management
To manage the disks and volumes on a Windows Server 2008 computer, you mainly use the
Disk Management snap-in. With this tool, you can monitor the status of disks and volumes, ini-
tialize new disks, create and format new volumes, and troubleshoot disk problems. The Disk
Management tool also enables you to configure redundant disk configurations, such as RAID 1
and RAID 5 volumes. This important tool is covered in Chapter 6, but you can get a feel for it
in the following activity.
Activity 1-5: Introducing the Disk Management Snap-in
Time Required: 15 minutes
Objective: Explore the features of the Disk Management snap-in.
Description: You have just arrived at a customer site that's having problems with disk storage on
its Windows Server 2008 system. You don't know the configuration of the installed disks, so you
need to view the disk configuration.
1. Log on to your server as Administrator, if necessary.
2. Open the MMC you created in Activity 1-4, or click Start , point to Administrative Tools ,
and click Computer Management .
3. Click the Disk Management snap-in in the left pane. There are two panes in Disk Management:
The upper pane shows a summary of installed volumes, along with basic information about
each volume. The lower pane shows installed disks and how each disk is being used.