Activating Your Server
If you??™re setting up a server that will be running Windows Server 2008 for more than
14 days, you will want to activate your server or it will no longer function once the
trial period has elapsed. No graphical method can be used to activate your server in
Windows Server 2008; instead, you will have to rely on the nifty Windows Software
License Management Tool, otherwise known as slmgr.vbs, that sits in the %WINDIR%\
system32 directory. To activate your server, simply run this command:
Slmgr.vbs -ato
It can??™t get any easier than that. In fact, the slmgr.vbs script is so powerful you can
actually use it to initiate the activation of a new Windows Server 2008 installation remotely
from an existing Windows Server 2008 server. Let??™s say, for example, that you
wanted to activate a new Windows Server 2008 installation called Utopia that had a local
Netsh Up Close and Personal
Netsh is the ultimate command-line shell for managing all aspects of the network
components of Windows Server 2008. This command was available in previous
Windows versions but is now an even more critical tool for Windows Server 2008.
It can be used to query and manage everything from a network interface, Windows
Firewall, and DHCP Server parameters including defining scopes and exclusions,
to defining routing and remote access policies. The ability to do all these things
from the command line makes this tool highly useful for Windows administrators
when they want to script various network service-related tasks.
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