Web interface remote maintenance Win 2003 server

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

Installing Remote Management (HTML) Components

To use the Remote Maintenance feature, Remote Management (HTML) components must be installed. Click the “Start →Set →Control Panel” option, then run “Add or Remove Programs>, in the pop-up window, switch to the "Add/Remove Windows Components" page.

In the "Windows Components Wizard" dialog box, go to "Application Server & Rarr; Internet Information Service (IIS) & Rarr; Web Service" option, select "Remote Management (HTML)" The component (Figure 1), and finally click on the "OK" button to start the installation and configuration of this component.

Tip: After the installation is complete, a new website item called “Administration” will be added under the “Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager” directory.

Log in to the web service management interface

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

Tip: Remote Web Management uses the “https” protocol, which encrypts the data transmitted on the network and can effectively prevent important information from being illegally stolen.

Remote Maintenance of Windows 2003 Servers

Using the remote Web services management interface, you can remotely maintain the system state, network status, users and groups, sites, and web servers of Windows 2003 servers. If the server is up and running, the words "Status: Normal" will be displayed at the top of the main window.

1. Users and Groups

In the <quo;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 go to the “Local User” page on the server (Figure 2), which lists all the user accounts of the Windows 2003 server. You can create a new user by clicking the “New” button on the taskbar. In addition, you can delete existing users, modify attributes, and so on.

Switch to the "local group" tab, the operation of the user group is also simple, it is very convenient to create, modify and delete operations.

2. Server Status Maintenance

Click the “Maintain" link to switch to the Server Status window. Here you can view and modify the server running status (Figure 3).

● Date and time settings

It is possible to adjust the date, time and time zone parameters of the Windows 2003 server.

● Close

This feature provides three operations: restart, shutdown, and scheduled shutdown. Note: Planned shutdown operations must be supported by the Task Scheduler service.

● Log

The log function can accurately understand the running status of the system. You can also clear and download these log files.

● Remote Desktop

For users who are not used to remote maintenance using Web mode, you can use the Remote Desktop function to maintain the system under the graphical user interface.

3. Network Parameter Maintenance

Click the <quo;Network” link to switch to the Network Properties page. Here you can maintain and modify some basic network parameters: server ID, network interface properties, server IP address and port number, administrator account, and so on.

In addition, the use of Web services management functions can also maintain the website, Web server, email server, etc., here is not detailed, as long as you carefully understand, you will feel its powerful features!

Figure 1 Adding Remote Management Components

Figure 2 Managing Users