My dad bought a new server a while back, IBM xSeries 360 with an intel Xeon processor, then he bought WIndows 2003 for Server and while reading the system requirements we came across Console Redierction

 

 

 

I went through most search engines etc etc and couldn't figure out what is was...though one site said it was only on Dell servers

 

I need to know what it is, and what it does, and wether that one site was wrong or not

 

 

 

please post if you know, thanks

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/7ea7180d-6ea3-48dc-8b64-8b53884b11d01033.mspx?mfr=true

 

 

 

Looks like it's just a second way to remotely manage the server when a network connection isn't available and there's no local keyboard/mouse/screen plugged into it. The page above also says it isn't enabled by default, so hardware that doesn't support it shouldn't be a problem.

I think you're looking for the series of Console utilities related for the console redirection if you want to clarify the previous poster's EMS.

 

 

 

The link is here:

 

 

 

http://windows.ittoolbox.com/pub/MS081403.pdf

thx guys, should've thought of looking at microsoft.com when its a windows requirement :wall: