Installing A Windows 2012 Server

The goal of this lab was to familiarize myself with the RLES vCloud Director, the vApps, and building virtual machines using RLES. I learned how to work with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 to build and customize servers built to meet the needs of my virtual environment. I also experimented with configuring pfSense to be my gateway between the virtual network and RITs RLES infrastructure. There was also the introduction of setting up both a wiki and a monitoring solution, which I chose to use MediaWiki and Nagios Monitoring Solution for my services.

1. You have just installed a network adapter and have booted up the system, installing the

1. Name at least five applications and tools pre-loaded on the TargetWindows01 server desktop, and identify whether that application starts as a service on the system or must be run manually.

1. Name at least five applications and tools pre-loaded on the TargetWindows01 server desktop, and identify

For many years Microsoft have worked on making the server environment as efficient and reliable as possible, and have improved previous versions of their server Operating System to provide us with the most current support for our ever-evolving business environment. A great example, the release of Windows Server 2008, it was developed to “provide key functionality to support any size business and IT challenge”. One of the most fascinating managemet tool within Windows server 2008 is the server manager interface that allow administrators to Install, configure, and migrate new server roles from the server manager interface.

DHCP is one of the most commonly implemented network protocols in the world which is used to assign IP addresses to the clients automatically. DHCP reduces work of network Administrator from going to each and every workstation in the network to assign IP address. In addition, DHCP reduces IP addresses conflict issue. DHCP protocol uses 4 different packets that are exchanged between client and server to assign an IP address automatically. In order to examine DHCP packets, Wireshark will be used.

* How will applications be deployed? If using Group Policy, what are the details on how Group Policy will be used to deploy the software? Which software applications will likely be needed?

Fault tolerance for the DHCP server will be provided by the High Availability Failover Cluster configuration. This will ensure that the DHCP server for the site is always available to assign and renew IP addresses to the client machines. Creating a split-scope on secondary virtual DHCP

In order to fulfill and meet WAI’s requirement and need for the next three years, I will recommend and provide a great tool, which comes and works well with the Windows Server 2012 and that is Hyper-V. It is one of the few tools with the features and services that meet this proposal’s requirements. In order to meet WAI’s requirement, Hyper-V needs to be deployed on all the servers in its entire network. For host processors and memory to work properly, Hyper-V will deliver World Advertising, Inc. with prolonged support. Furthermore, Hyper-V will allow WAI to operate its new servers and continues on benefiting of new hardware equipment and technology for its current and future virtualization. For reliability and security, I am planning on installing Server Core on all the servers in the network. Throughout the entire proposal and plan, there will be a total of ten servers installed in the WAI’s internal network. Moreover, to manage its entire network infrastructure (ground) work, I will mount and install Windows Server 2012 because it will permit WAI to accomplish and manage its entire Windows network infrastructure as a single server in its Boston location and four other servers

Step 2: Click the “add” or "+" button on the network configuration screen, which would look like this.

My staff will implement 10 servers. We will combine the Accounts and Sales department roles will be combined. Because there is no difference between a standard and datacenter server technical capabilities, I will use Datacenter because of the virtualization rights doesn’t have a quota on VM’s used. Server Core will be put to effect in GAI’s network infrastructure to administer a low maintenance environment that will guard GAI’s network from attacks and a reduction of disks space usage. There will be four ++servers located at the Houston, TX location and one server will be at the Richmond, VA location. Each server and operating system will be arranged using Windows Deployment Services. Windows Deployment Services allow the deportation of images for GAI’s infrastructure. Multicasting will be used to send images and data. This will permit driver packages to be joined to the servers.

LSDG, the new research and development group, need to upgrade their current client operating system desktops and laptops. They currently have 280 desktops and laptops that are running Windows 7 and 220 desktops and laptops that are running Windows XP. LSDG need a system that will run a Linux operating system and that will access and share resources with the Linx, LLC’s Microsoft Active Directory domain. The domain consists of several Windows Servers 2012 R2 servers that run various services as DNS, DHCP, web services, Microsoft Active Directory, printing and file sharing.

After two labs focusing purely on the Linux side of systems administration and network services, this third lab puts Windows into the spotlight and how it deals with configuring services as compared to the previous RHEL-based configurations. Many of the same tasks which were completed using a RHEL 7 virtual machine in lab 2, such as setting up DHCP and DNS, are repeated in this lab on a Windows 2012 Datacenter virtual machine. This is done not only to show the differences in service administration, but also to indirectly teach students the steps as well as precautions that need to be taken when integrating in different enterprise server operating system families which very well could be running the same network services, such as in the case of this lab. Instead of merely just installing the same services and letting the clients make decisions on what data to receive from who, this lab also presents the challenge of making these two very different operating systems work together when the time comes to configure the DNS server on the Windows VM. A major point I took away from this is that while the Microsoft and ISC implementation of a DNS server can be seen as widely different, the integration of the two is very smooth and easy due to both of them still following the base rules of the DNS protocol as well as framework found in the numerous RFC’s which describe it. Active Directory, which is also installed on the server, was review at this point from multiple different

During installation you will need to specify your E-mail address and also agree to the terms of service. Once everything goes fine, you should see the following message:[/shell]

This paper is compare and contrast the versions of Windows server 2008 and 2012. We will explore and deliver the similarities and differences within each OS and define the benefits of each based on the following operations.