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Install Windows Server 2016 Step by Step Guide

This document provides a step-by-step guide to installing Windows Server 2016. It outlines preparing the installation media, booting from the media, selecting the operating system version and edition, accepting license terms, performing a custom installation to the selected hard drive, partitioning and formatting the drive, copying installation files, setting the administrator password, and logging in once installation is complete. The conclusion states the server is now ready for initial configuration.

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Install Windows Server 2016 Step by Step Guide

This document provides a step-by-step guide to installing Windows Server 2016. It outlines preparing the installation media, booting from the media, selecting the operating system version and edition, accepting license terms, performing a custom installation to the selected hard drive, partitioning and formatting the drive, copying installation files, setting the administrator password, and logging in once installation is complete. The conclusion states the server is now ready for initial configuration.

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Install Windows Server 2016 Step by Step Guide

Prepare the installation media (DVD, USB flash, etc) and start the installation process. If you
don’t have the Windows Server 2016 installation software, click here and download the software
from Microsoft website.
1. Plug the Windows Server 2016 boot drive (DVD, USB) to the computer and boot your
computer. When the Windows Setup page appears, select your language, time
format and keyboard then click on Next button.

Language, Time, Keyboard


2. Now click on Install now button to start the installation process.
Install now
3. Select the appropriate version of the windows server that meets your organization’s needs then
click Next. Make sure that you’ve chosen an appropriate edition of Windows server.
Select the operating system you want to istall
4. Put a check mark in the box next to the I accept license terms and click on the Next button.
License term is about the way you want to buy license for your server from Microsoft.
I accept the license term
5. Select the Custom: Install Windows only (advanced) option for clean installation. Clean
installation is the term used against upgrade. When you upgrade a Windows server you can have
your settings, apps, etc from previous version of Windows. When you do the clean installation
you can’t have the settings, apps, etc.
Custom installation
6. Select the hard drive that you want to install the windows server on, then click on
the New button to do the partitions.
partition
7. After clicking on the New button, some options appear. Specify the
amount of the drive based on MB and click on the Apply button. A warning
appears which wants you to give the permission to system to create a drive
for system files. Click on ok button, if you want to add more drives do this
process again. When finished hit Next.
Drive size
8. After clicking Next the System starts coping all the files from the external
drive to internal hard drive. It will take a while so be patient. Be aware that
your system will be restarted several times.
Copying files on machine’s hard drive
9. When the system copied all the files and restarted, finalize your task by
entering the required details. Type complex password (composed of
uppercase, lowercase, symbol and numbers) twice in the boxes and click on
the Finish button. User name is Administrator by default.
Enter password
10. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del buttons to jump start the screen to a login page and
inside the box below the administrator user name, enter the password and
press Enter button from the keyboard to sign in the Windows.
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del buttons
11. After you logged in the Windows you see the some thing like the picture
below. Welcome to Windows Server 2016.
Windows Server 2016 Evalution
Conclusion
Finally, we’ve installed the Windows Server 2016 successfully and is ready to
work. When Windows installed you can’t go back and for example change
the edition. If so, do the clean installation again. For any question leave a
comment below. I answer your questions as soon as possible.

Now you need to initially configure Windows Server. Click on the link below
to learn how to do the initial configurations.

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