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Launching a Windows Server Instance

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A .pem Key pair named WebServerKey.

I checked “Allow HTTPS traffic from the internet” and “Allow HTTP traffic from the internet”
because i want to use same Server as a WebServer for my HTML website.

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Click on Launch Instance.

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Our Windows Server is launched and is running.

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When you click on Security, we observed port 443 (hhtps), 80 (http) and 3389 (rdp) are opened. We
can RDP into the Server and also deploy website.

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Creating Multiple Users to RDP into the Server using different password I will generate for them

Steps:

1) RDP into the Server:

ec2-184-72-122-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com

Administrator

Click on Get password to generate your password using the key pair (WebServerKey) created
earlier.

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Upload “WebSerKey.pem” file created.

Click on Decrypt Password.

Password has been created: 20IIC0wwKpZci7G.u@Km%z?P8V)9ED0y

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2) Search for Remote Desktop Connection on your PC to RDP into the Instance (WebServer in
my case).

Click Connect.

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We have successfully RDP into the Instance.

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Creating Multiple Users to access the Instance using different passwords generated for them.

1) Search for Computer Management.

Expand Local Users and Groups and Click on Users.

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Right click on User and click on New User to create new user.

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Username: Iliya
Password: AbcdeF123//

Creating Second User.

Username: Nendir
Password: ABCDEF123//

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Observe Users has been created.

To change their permissions to Admin privileges, follow the below steps.

- Right click on the user, click on Properties and select “Member Of”.

Click on Add and Click on Advance.

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Click “Find Now” and Select Administrators

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User Iliya has now belong to Administrators group.

Follow the same steps to add Nendir user to Administrators group as well.

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User Nendir has been added to Administrators group as well.

Next, we need to Install Remote Desktop Service on the Server.

Follow the below steps.

Click on Add roles and features.

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Click Next

Click Next

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Click Next

Check Remote Desktop Service and click next.

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Click Next.

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Click Next.

Check Remote Desktop License and Remote Desktop Session Host.

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Click Next.

Click Install.

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We need to restart the Server for the changes to take effect.

Server Restarting….

Server has been restarted.

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Next, we need to activate the Remote Desktop Licensing Manager.

Launch Server Manager.

Click on Roles and Right click on Remote Desktop Service.

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Click on Remote Desktop Licensing Manager.

Right Click on the name to activate it.

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Click on “Activate Server”.

Click Next.

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Click Next.

Fill the details and click Next.

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You may chose to leave them blank and click Next.

Click Next.

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Click Next.

Click Next.

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You can click on Next and when you are ask to enter the activation key, you can click on
Cancel, it has been activated already.

NOTE: You can even RDP into the Instance without Installing and Activating the Remote Desktop Service.

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Next, To RDP into the instance using the new Users created (Iliya and Nendir).

Sign out Administrator user to logon with Iliya.

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Iliya has logon Successfully.

Lets retry with User Nendir.

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User Nendir has logon Successfully.

Deploying Website on the Server

- Launch Server manager

- Click on Add Roles and features.

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Click Next.

Click Next

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Click Next.

Check Web Server (IIS).

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Click Add Features

Click Next

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Click Next

Click Next

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Click Next.

Click Install.

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Deploying the website.

At this point, C:\inetpub\wwwroot has been created on the Server, you can visit the ip address on
your browser to see the default html page.

Let us delete the default web content in “C:\inetpub\wwwroot” to move our website content there.

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