{"id":1953,"date":"2016-11-03T19:42:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T19:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2016-11-03T19:43:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T19:43:58","slug":"how-to-add-multiple-servers-in-windows-server-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=1953","title":{"rendered":"How to Add Multiple Servers in Windows Server 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

While managing your server and configuring it, you can add multiple servers to Server Manager in Windows server2008, 2012 or 2016. When added you can receive online or offline status and create group based on their functions, location or any other organizational paradigm. Therefore, you can configure them fully from Server Manager like: adding roles and features to them\u00a0or do other configurations. No matter whether you\u2019re using Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016, this is the first step to \u00a0In this article, we will discuss on add multiple servers to server manager in windows server and create groups on their functions. So let\u2019s get started.<\/p>\n

Add Multiple Servers to Server Manager<\/h2>\n

1.<\/strong> Open Server Manager<\/strong>, click on Manage<\/strong> then click Add Servers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Server
Server Manager<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

2.<\/strong> When the Add Servers page opened, now choose one of the following methods to add servers.
\n\u25a0 Active Directory:<\/strong> Enables you to search for computers running specific operating
\nsystems in specific locations in an Active Directory Domain Services domain.
\n\u25a0 DNS:<\/strong> Enables you to search for servers in your currently configured Domain Name
\nSystem (DNS) server.
\n\u25a0 Import:<\/strong> Enables you to supply a text file containing the names of the servers you
\nwant to add.<\/p>\n

To add servers by active directory just click on Find Now<\/strong> and the computers will be found.<\/p>\n

\"Add
Add Servers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When the servers found, just select the server you want to add and click on right arrow button to add them to the list and click Ok<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Now click on All Servers<\/strong> and you will see the servers you\u2019ve added like the shot.<\/p>\n

\"All
All Servers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ok, now here you can manage servers or do any other configurations.<\/p>\n

Create Server Group\u00a0to Manage Servers<\/h2>\n

Once you\u2019ve added servers to your server, exactly you need to configure or work with them so to avoid long scrolling list of servers you can create server group based on their functions, location or any other organization paradigm.
\n1.<\/strong> Open Server Manager<\/strong>, click on Manage<\/strong> and select Create Server Group<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Server
Server Manager<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

2.<\/strong> Now select the servers you want to be in group, if you couldn\u2019t find the server by server pool, select another method to find the servers) and click on right arrow key to add them to the list and click Ok<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Create
Create Server Group<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After you click ok<\/strong>, the group will be created and shown in the left navigation pane like the shot below.<\/p>\n

\"Add
Server Group Created<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, the servers have been successfully added with created group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While managing your server and configuring it, you can add multiple servers to Server Manager in Windows server2008, 2012 or 2016. When added you can receive online or offline status and create group based on their functions, location or any other organizational paradigm. Therefore, you can configure them fully from Server Manager like: adding roles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-server-2016-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1955,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/1955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}