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Activity 1-8: Exploring Windows Networking Components
Time Required: 15 minutes
Objective: Explore features of Windows networking components.
Description: You are new to Windows Server 2008 and need to know how to manage the net-
work connections on your server.
1. Log on to your server as Administrator, if necessary.
2. Click Start , Control Panel , and then double-click the Network and Sharing Center applet
(shown previously in Figure 1-4).
3. At the top is a logical representation of the network. If you're connected to the Internet, you
also see an icon representing the Internet. Click the icon labeled with the name of your
computer and “This computer” underneath to open an Explorer window showing your disk
drives. Close this window.
4. Now click the icon representing the network that your computer is part of (yc-cnt.edu in
Figure 1-4) to open an Explorer window listing all the computers found on your network.
Close this window.
5. Next, click the Internet icon, if it's available, to open an Internet Explorer window (or your
default Web browser). Close this window.
6. Next, click the View full map link (usually above the Internet icon). Figure 1-8 shows an
example of this map. By default, you should see Vista and Windows Server 2008 computers
and any connection devices, such as switches and routers. You might see other computers as
well. Close this window.
Figure 1-8
A network map
 
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