Manage Server 2008 R2 from Windows Server 2012 Server Manager
Manage Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 from Windows Server 2012 Server Manager By KeithMayer 2 Oct 2012 12:10 PM Server Manager in Windows Server 2012 has been redesigned as a new cool multi-server management console, making it as easy to manage multiple servers remotely as you can from a local server's console - whether those servers are physical, virtual or hosted in the cloud! Not familiar with the new Server Manager yet? Check out this post over at My Thoughts On IT, the blog of my fellow IT Evangelist Brian Lewis and an all-around great guy! :-) Well, it seems it's a little known fact that Server Manager in Windows Server 2012 can manage not only Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V Server 2012 servers, but also servers running Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 as well! However, it's a bit of a trick to get it all working ... If you don't follow these steps on these older servers, you'll likely end up with the following status message in