Appendix B

Optional Components

The Microsoft Windows 2000 Server platforms have a number of optional components that you can install or remove to configure your system the way you want it. Some of these components are available only as part of Windows 2000 Advanced Server and are so indicated.

Adding and Removing Windows Components

To add or remove one of these optional components, click the Add/Remove Windows Components button on the left side of the Add/Remove Programs Control Panel dialog box. The various components are grouped by type, with the currently installed components checked.

To remove a component, clear its check box; to add a component, select its check box. After you've made your selections, click Next. If you've selected Terminal Services, you'll be prompted for the mode to use: remote administration mode or application server mode. For more on what these modes mean, see Chapter 26. Click Next again, and your Windows components are updated. You might be prompted to insert your Windows 2000 CD-ROM. Once the update completes, click Finish. In some cases, you might be prompted to reboot the server, depending on the changes you're making, so it's best to add or remove components when you can afford to have the server offline for long enough to reboot.

Accessories and Utilities

Within the Accessories and Utilities grouping, there are additional component groups. To see the specifics of any component grouping, select the grouping and click Details. If the Details button is unavailable, that means you are selecting an individual component and not a group of components.

Accessibility Wizard

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

Accessories is a grouping of applications and features each designed for a single use or purpose. These include the following:

Calculator A simple on-screen 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 your right mouse button
Mouse Pointers Provides additional mouse pointers, including larger pointers and animated pointers
Object Packager Allows documents to include embedded or linked objects from another source
Paint A basic bitmap painting program
WordPad A simple word processor that can read Microsoft Word documents and handle ASCII text documents

Communications

Communications is a grouping of three simple programs that enhance the Windows 2000 communications abilities. The three programs are as follows:

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.
Phone Dialer Allows you to dial a phone through your attached modem.

Games

Games is a grouping of four games that are normally installed in Windows 2000 Professional but are optional in Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server. The four games are as follows:

FreeCell A difficult solitaire card game
Minesweeper The familiar strategy game
Pinball A 3-D computer version of an arcade pinball machine
Solitaire The classic card game

Multimedia

Multimedia is a collection of utilities and sounds to take advantage of your server's multimedia capabilities. The group includes these features:

CD Player Plays music CDs in your computer's CD-ROM drive
Media Player Plays a variety of audio and video formats
Sample Sounds Provides a collection of sound clips
Sound Recorder Records sounds using your sound card
Utopia Sound Scheme Provides a collection of sounds that can be attached to various actions on your computer
Volume Control Lets you adjust the output volume from your sound card

Certificate Services

Microsoft Certificate Services includes a certification authority 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.

Cluster Service (Advanced Server Only)

The Windows 2000 Cluster service allows multiple servers to act together to provide highly available and scalable applications. See Chapter 16 for more on clusters.

Indexing Service

The Windows 2000 Indexing Service speeds up full-text searching of files. See Chapter 27 for more on the Indexing Service.

Internet Information Services

Internet Information Services (IIS) includes several components you can add to any Windows 2000 server:

Common Files Required IIS program files used by many of the components
Documentation Documentation for the various IIS components, including samples
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Server Support for uploading and downloading files using the FTP protocol
FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions Support for additional functionality when running Microsoft FrontPage 2000-created Web pages
Internet Information Services Snap-In MMC snap-in for managing IIS and its services
Internet Services Manager (HTML) HTML-based management interface for IIS services
NNTP Service Support for running a News server
SMTP Service Support for forwarding and receiving Internet Mail using SMTP
Visual InterDev RAD Remote Deployment Support Allows you to remotely deploy applications on your Web server
World Wide Web Server The IIS Web server

Management and Monitoring Tools

Management and Monitoring Tools is a group of three management and monitoring applications or protocols, including the following:

Connection Manager Components Adds the Phone Book Services and the Connection Manager Administration Kit
Network Monitor Tools Allows you to capture and analyze network traffic at the packet level
Simple Network Management Protocol Provides SNMP support, allowing monitoring and reporting of the activity of a variety of network devices

Message Queuing Services

Install the Microsoft Message Queuing service to improve network communications from supported applications. See Chapter 27 for more on Message Queuing.

Networking Services

Networking services is a group of optional networking components that you can add. The components in the Networking services group include the following:

COM Internet Services Proxy Provides support for DCOM objects to use HTTP and IIS
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
QoS Admission Control Service Provides support for specifying network connection quality by individual subnets
Simple TCP/IP Services Provides support for a variety of minor TCP/IP services including Echo and Quote of the Day
Site Server ILS Services Updates directory information by scanning TCP/IP stacks
Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) Adds a WINS server for supporting NetBIOS names in mixed-mode networks

Other Network File and Print Services

This is a group of three file and print services that provide support for clients on other operating systems, as follows:

File Services for Macintosh Support for Macintosh computers to both store files and access files on Windows 2000 servers
Print Services for Macintosh Supports Macintosh computers printing to Windows 2000 printers
Print Services for UNIX Supports UNIX and Linux users printing to Windows 2000 printers using line printer remote (LPR)

Remote Installation Services

Remote Installation Services adds support for remote installation of Windows 2000 Professional onto client computers with appropriate remote boot-enabled network cards.

Remote Storage

Remote Storage provides services and tools to allow you to store less frequently accessed files and data on tape, freeing up hard disk space.

Script Debugger

Script Debugger enables you to more easily debug Web pages, Active Server Pages, and other script files.

Terminal Services

You can use Windows 2000 Terminal Services to switch between remote management mode and application server mode. See Chapter 26 for more on Windows 2000 Terminal Services. Terminal Services also installs the necessary files to create Terminal Services Client setup disks.

Terminal Services Licensing

Terminal Services Licensing provides client access licenses on the network. The Terminal Services license server must run on a domain controller.

Windows Media Services

Windows Media Services provides support for using Windows 2000 Server as a streaming media server. Media Services includes both the actual media server and the administrator program used to manage the service.

Appendix B - Optional Components