INSTALLING WINDOWS SERVER 2008 (chp1)

 

1. Insert a bootable Windows Server 2008 media and power on the physical or virtual server.
2. Configure your language, time and currency format, and keyboard or input method.
3. Click NEXT >>>>> INSTALL NOW.
4. Enter the product key as required in the next screen.
5. Choose whether you want to install a “FULL INSTALL” version or a “SERVER CORE” version. (We will do the core version for our practice.)
6. Accept the license agreement.
7. Choose between “UPGRADE” and “CLEAN INSTALL”. Choose “CUSTOM”.
8. Select appropriate drive partition on which you want to install windows.
9. Installation process will begin.
10. Reboot >>>>> create a password for security reason.

Configure basic network settings:

1. Initial Configuration Tasks screen will appear after first boot.
2. Click “Configure Networking” >>>>> Right-click Local Area Connection >>>>> Properties
3. Select “Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
4. Select “Use the following IP address” so you can enter the static IP address for it.
5. To add a preferred and alternate DNS server from the command line, click “Start” button, then click “All Programs” >>>>> Accessories >>>>> Command Prompt
6. Type: “netsh interface ipv4 add dnsserver “Local Area Connection” <DNS server IP address>.address>.address>. Repeat this command, inserting the IP address of your alternate DNS server the second time around.
7. Exit Command Prompt
8. The next step is to set up your firewall. See steps to setting up firewall.

Network Discovery >>>>> finds and accesses other computers and shared resources on the network. However, if you allow network discovery in a public network, then you will allow total strangers to see and access any file shares on your system.

Network location >>>>> work or public network. The Network and Sharing Center allows you to set the network location, and the windows Firewall screen has a link to access the Network Center.

The Exception tab in the Firewall Setting window will give you the option to open a port, or allow access to a program. Opening a port is dangerous because it leaves it open all the time. It is better to allow a program because the port only opens when the program is running.

You can use Server Manager console to install one or more Server Roles, which defines the particular duty that a server might perform on a 2008 network. System files associated to a particular role will not be installed on a server until the role is installed, so that the software is not left dormant on the server unused and be a target of viruses.

17 Server Roles of Windows Server 2008:

• Active Directory Certificate Services
• Active Directory Domain Services
• Active Directory Federation Services
• Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
• Active Directory Rights Management Services
• Application Server
• DHCP Server
• DNS Server
• Fax Server
• File Server
• Network Policy and Access Services
• Print Services
• Terminal Services
• UDDI Services
• Web Server (IIS)
• Windows Deployment Services
• Windows SharePoint Services

Adding a Server Role:

1. Start >>>> Server Manager
2. Select Role (left side)
3. Select Add role (right side)
4. Select the role you want. In this case, select DNS Server role.
5. Click INSTALL to confirm installation selection.
6. When the installation is complete, close the screen to return to the Server Manager console window.
7. The DNS Server Role should now appear in the list of your Roles Summary section.

Features >>>>> Remote Server Administration Tools, Windows Server Backup, WINS Server, and Wireless Networking. They may or may not be advantageous to your network/company.

Once you have installed win server 2008, you can add and remove physical hard disks and logical partitions to increase or modify the available storage on your server.

Hard Disks >>>>> Win Server 2008 supports Basic Disks and Dynamic Disks.

Basic disks >>>> uses partition tables that will recognize and support older operating systems. All disk drives in win server 2008 begin as basic until they are converted to dynamic.

Dynamic disks >>>>> have more advanced configuration features. Once a disk is converted to dynamic, the disk can only be accessed by OS that support dynamic disks (win2000, winXP Pro, Vista Bus/Enter/Ultim, win2000 server, win server 2003, and win server 2008).

Dynamic disks important terms:

• Volume >>>> Can be simple, spanned, mirrored, striped, or RAID-5
• Simple volume >>>>> free space contained on a single physical disk.
• Spanned volume >>>>> free space from multiple physical disks.
• Striped volume >>>>> similar to spanned volume, except that it uses RAID0 striping to interleave the data across the many disks; thus improving the read performance of the volume.
• Mirrored volume >>>>> consist of 2 disks; data of one disk is copied to the 2^nd one.
• RAID-5 volume >>>>> Interleave across three or more disks in the same way as striped volume, but with parity. If one disk fails, then the data contained on the failed disk can be rebuilt using the parity information stored in the rest of the volume. RAID-5 must have a minimum of 3 disks.

Partition >>>> When you create a partition, you can use a letter to represent it, or mount it to a folder.

Before you can manage a disk drive in windows server 2008 you have to initialize it. You can initialize it to use either MBR (Master Boot Record) or GPT (GUID Partition Table).

MBR – partition recognized by down-level OS.

GPT – partition for disks larger than 2TB, or disks used in Itanium computers.

How to configure storage in Windows Server 2008:

1. Start >>>>> Service Manager >>>>> Storage (left side) >>>>> Disk Management
2. If the new disks are offline, then right-click and choose “online”. The disk status when change to Not Initialized.
3. Right-click on the newly added disk and choose “Convert to dynamic disk”. Do the same to the additional disks.
   1. You can create new partition in Disk Management, right-click on the unallocated space and choose “New Simple Volume”.
   2. Enter volume size (ex. 50 MB)
   3. Assign drive letter
   4. Format partition and format this drive using NTFS file system
   5. Finish
4. Start >>>>> type “cmd” in the Run line
5. Type “diskpart create volume raid size=50 disk=1,2,3”
6. Type “exit” to close command prompt when done.
7. Confirm that the newly configured RAID partition is displayed in the Disk Management console.

 

 

 

 

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