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The Small Business Server console pages have a fair amount
of graphics to supplement the HTML pages. Although the Small Business Server
4.0 console pages were aesthetically pleasing, the size of the graphics
files ultimately made the console difficult to administer remotely.
Under Small Business Server 4.5, the large image files are
removed form the console and replaced with simpler, smaller image files.
The Small Business Server 4.0 Manage Server console has also been renamed
under Small Business Server 4.5 to the Small Business Server Console.
New Server Console Total Space Indicator
The Small Business Server 4.5 Console also has a new
indicator that displays how much total space is on each drive volume as
well as a graphical representation of how much free disk space is
remaining. This keeps critical information right in front of computer resellers
and small business end user administrators.
You can tell at a glance approximately how much disk space
is remaining on each volume by looking at the newly redesigned Small Business Server
Console home page.
Server Console Services Monitoring
The Small Business Server Console home page also helps you
stay on stop of any critical services that may have stopped. Rather than
having to examine the Event Viewer logs and the Control Panel Services
applet, the Small Business Server Console home page now displays a big red
X and displays the name of any of the key NT Server 4.0 services that are
stopped.
You no longer have to visit the Services applet or runn
"net start" commands just to restart a stopped service. Simply
double-click on the big red X.
Just like the new drive space indicators on the console,
the stalled services indicators also help keep this critical information
front and center. No more digging around in two places just to figure out
that a service is stopped.
The newly redesigned Small Business Server Console home
page makes it easy to identify any critical services that have stopped.
The Small Business Server Console also gives computer resellers
a great opportunity to add value to their Small Business Server 4.5
installations by customizing the server console pages.
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