The Microsoft Windows Server 2003 platforms have a number of optional components you can install or remove to configure your system the way you want it. The availability of some components depends on the version of Windows Server 2003 you have and which release of Windows Server 2003 you have.
To add or remove one of these optional components, open Control Panel, click Add Or Remove Programs, and then click the Add/Remove Windows Components icon on the left side of the window. The various components are grouped by type, with the currently installed components selected.
To remove a component, clear its check box; to add a component, select its check box. After you make your selections, click Next. Click Next again, and your Windows components are updated. You might be prompted to insert your Windows installation CD-ROM. After the update completes, click Finish. Depending on the changes you’re making, you might be prompted to reboot the server, so it’s best to add or remove components when you can afford to have the server offline long enough to reboot.
Within the Accessories And Utilities grouping, there are additional component groups. To see the specifics of any component grouping, highlight the grouping and click Details. If the Details button is unavailable, you are highlighting an individual component and not a group of components.
The Accessibility Wizard allows you to configure your system to make it more accessible to those with special vision, hearing, and mobility needs. Installed with the wizard are additional accessibility tools, including Narrator, Magnifier, and On-Screen Keyboard, as well as the Utility Manager to manage the configuration of these utilities.
Accessories is a grouping of applications and features designed for a single use or purpose. These include the following:
Calculator. Provides a simple, onscreen graphical calculator
Character Map. Displays all the characters in any installed font, and allows you to insert special characters and symbols into your current document
Clipboard Viewer. Enables you to view and save the contents of the clipboard
Desktop Wallpaper. Provides additional background images and pictures for enhancing your Windows desktop
Document Templates. Allows opening of new documents using the right mouse button
Mouse Pointers. Provides additional mouse pointers, including larger pointers and animated pointers
Paint. Provides a basic bitmap painting program
WordPad. Provides a simple word processor that can read Microsoft Word documents and handle ASCII text documents
Communications is a grouping of two simple programs, as described next, that enhance the communications capabilities of your server:
Chat. Installs a useful chat application, but doesn’t create an icon for it on your Start menu. To use Chat, open the Start menu, choose Run, and type Winchat.exe.
HyperTerminal. Uses a modem (or null modem cable) to connect to other computers or online services that still require terminal emulation.
New to Windows Server 2003 R2 are the following three optional Active Directory Services:
Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM). A special version of Active Directory that can be used by applications to store data specific to the application
Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS). Used for providing single sign-on to federated Web services
Identity Management for UNIX. Installs Server for NIS, password synchronization, and administrative components to support Active Directory running as the master NIS server.
Application server installs the necessary components to enable Web applications, including the following ones:
Internet Information Services (IIS). Installs various components, including Web server, NNTP, FTP, SMTP, Internet Printing, and the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)
COM+ access. Allows the server to host COM+ distributed application components
DTC access. Allows DTC applications for network transactions
Messsage Queuing. Installs MSMQ for routing, security, and transactional support of messages
Microsoft Certificate Services includes a certificate authority (CA) server that can issue public-key security certificates. It also includes support for adding Web pages to your Web server that allow you to submit and issue certificates. Refer to Chapter 21, Chapter 22, and Chapter 24 for a detailed discussion of the security and cryptographic capabilities of Windows Server 2003.
DFS installs the DFS Replication Service, DFS management tools, and DFS diagnostic and configuration tools. For more information about DFS, see Chapter 20.
E-mail services installs the POP3 service and POP3 service Web administration tool to provide e-mail retrieval and sending abilities.
This component allows you to send and receive faxes with your Windows server. This component is not available on 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2003.
This component indexes your existing documents to allow for fast, full-text searches across those documents. Chapter 31 includes an in-depth discussion of the Indexing Service.
This component lets you restrict which Internet and intranet Web sites can be accessed by administrators and non-administrators using Internet Explorer. It’s a good idea never to browse the Web from a server, so this component should generally be enabled.
Management And Monitoring Tools is a group of several management and monitoring applications or protocols, as described here:
Connection Manager Administration Kit. Adds the Connection Manager Administration Kit for creating customized remote access connections
Connection Point Services. Adds the Phone Book Service
File Server Management. Adds the File Server Management Console (FSMC), as described in Chapter 20
File Server Resource Management. Adds the ability to manage directory quotas, file screening, and storage reports
Hardware Management. Adds tools for managing hardware
Network Monitor Tools. Allows you to capture and analyze network traffic at the packet level
Print Management Component. Adds the new Printer Management console
Simple Network Management Protocol. Provides SNMP support, allowing monitoring and reporting of the activity of a variety of network devices
Storage Manager for SANs. Adds the new Storage Manager for SANs snap-in
WMI SNMP Provider. Provides access to SNMP information via Windows Management Instrumentation
WMI Windows Installer Provider. Enables client applications to use WMI to get Windows Installer information
This installs version 2.0 of the .NET Framework. Note that the installation of several other optional components will automatically install the .NET Framework.
Networking Services is a group of optional networking components you can add. The components in the Networking Services group include the following:
Domain Name System (DNS). Adds the Microsoft dynamic DNS server
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). Adds a DHCP server to automatically assign IP addresses and configuration information to network client computers
Internet Authentication Service. Adds support for the RADIUS protocol for dial-up and VPN users
Remote Access Quarantine Service. Adds the ability for quarantined remote clients to be removed from the segregated network
RPC over HTTP Proxy. Enables RPC/DCOM over HTTP by way of IIS
Simple TCP/IP Services. Provides support for a variety of minor TCP/IP services, including Echo and Quote of the Day
Windows Internet Name Service (WINS). Adds a WINS server for supporting NetBIOS names in mixed-mode networks
Other Network File and Print Services is a group of five file and print services that provide support for clients on other operating systems. Components include the following:
Common Log File System. A new common logging file system introduced in Server 2003 R2
File Services for Macintosh. Supports Apple Macintosh computers in both storing files and accessing files on Windows Server 2003 machines
Microsoft Services for NFS. Installs Server for NFS, Client for NFS, and the necessary authentication services (See Chapter 27 for more on Services for NFS.)
Print Services for Macintosh. Supports Macintosh computers printing to Windows Server 2003 printers
Print Services for UNIX. Supports UNIX and Linux users printing to Windows Server 2003 printers using line printer remote (LPR)
RIS adds support for remote installation of Windows onto client computers with appropriate remote boot-enabled network cards.
Remote Storage provides services and tools to allow you to store less frequently accessed files and data on tape or magneto-optical disks, freeing up hard disk space.
This component installs the new Security Configuration Wizard introduced in Windows Server 2003 SP1, which is covered in Chapter 22.
New to Windows Server 2003 R2, this component installs a complete UNIX application execution environment. See Chapter 27 for details.
This configures the server to support multiple user sessions, delivering Windows-based applications and the Windows desktop to almost any computing device, including devices that cannot run Windows. See Chapter 30 for more information about Windows Terminal Server.
Terminal Server Licensing provides Terminal Server clients with licenses for accessing Terminal Servers on your network. The Terminal Server license server must run on a domain controller.
Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) is used to store and retrieve information about Web services.
Microsoft Windows products come with a set of certificate authorities (CAs) that Microsoft deems trustworthy. If a certificate originated from an untrusted CA, the user is prompted with the option to establish trust with that CA. Often, users aren’t knowledgeable about the subject matter. Update Root Certificates lessens the burden by updating the system’s lists of trusted CAs by contacting the Windows Update Web site. This option is automatically selected in default installations.
Installs the necessary components to support streaming of digital media across networks using Windows Media Services.