SYSTEM and NETWORK ADMINISTRATION LAB

Ex.NO:1 Installation of Windows Server 2003

AIM: To write Installation of Windows 2003 Server.

PROCEDURE:

Installing Windows Server 2008 is pretty straightforward and is very much like installing
Windows Vista, but I thought I’d list the necessary steps here for additional information. For
those of you who have never installed Vista before, the entire installation process is different
than it used to be in previous Microsoft operating systems, and notably much easier to perform.

Using Vista’s installation routine is a major benefit, especially for a server OS. Administrators
can partition the system’s hard drives during setup. More importantly, they can install the
necessary AHCI or RAID storage drivers from a CD/DVD or even a USB thumb drive. Thus,
error-prone floppies can finally be sent to the garbage bin.

Note: Windows Server 2008 can also be installed as a Server Core installation, which is a cut-
down version of Windows without the Windows Explorer GUI. Because you don’t have the
Windows Explorer to provide the GUI interface that you are used to, you configure everything
through the command line interface or remotely using a Microsoft Management Console
(MMC). The Server Core can be used for dedicated machines with basic roles such as Domain
controller/Active Directory Domain Services, DNS Server, DHCP Server, file server, print
server, Windows Media Server, IIS 7 web server and Windows Server Virtualization virtual
server. For Server Core installations please see my “Installing Windows Server 2008 Core”
article.

To use Windows Server 2008 you need to meet the following hardware requirements:

Component Requirement
Processor • Minimum: 1GHz (x86 processor) or 1.4GHz (x64 processor) • Recommended:
2GHz or faster Note: An Intel Itanium 2 processor is required for Windows
Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems
Memory • Minimum: 512MB RAM • Recommended: 2GB RAM or greater • Maximum
(32-bit systems): 4GB (Standard) or 64GB (Enterprise and Datacenter) •
Maximum (64-bit systems): 32GB (Standard) or 2TB (Enterprise, Datacenter and
Itanium-based Systems)
Available Disk • Minimum: 10GB • Recommended: 40GB or greater Note: Computers with
Space more than 16GB of RAM will require more disk space for paging, hibernation,
and dump files
Drive DVD-ROM drive
Display and • Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher-resolution monitor • Keyboard • Microsoft
Peripherals Mouse or compatible pointing device

Upgrade notes:

I will not discuss the upgrade process in this article, but for your general knowledge, the upgrade
paths available for Windows Server 2008 shown in the table below:

If you are currently running: You can upgrade to:

Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition (R2, Full Installation of Windows Server 2008
Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2) Standard Edition

Full Installation of Windows Server 2008

Enterprise Edition
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition Full Installation of Windows Server 2008
(R2, Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2) Enterprise Edition
Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition Full Installation of Windows Server 2008
(R2, Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2) Datacenter Edition

Follow this procedure to install Windows Server 2008:

1. Insert the appropriate Windows Server 2008 installation media into your DVD drive. If you
don’t have an installation DVD for Windows Server 2008, you can download one for free from
Microsoft’s Windows 2008 Server Trial website.

2. Reboot the computer.

3. When prompted for an installation language and other regional options, make your selection
and press Next.

4. Next, press Install Now to begin the installation process.

5. Product activation is now also identical with that found in Windows Vista. Enter your
Product ID in the next window, and if you want to automatically activate Windows the moment
the installation finishes, click Next.

If you do not have the Product ID available right now, you can leave the box empty, and click
Next. You will need to provide the Product ID later, after the server installation is over. Press
No.
6. Because you did not provide the correct ID, the installation process cannot determine what
kind of Windows Server 2008 license you own, and therefore you will be prompted to select
your correct version in the next screen, assuming you are telling the truth and will provide the
correct ID to prove your selection later on.
7. If you did provide the right Product ID, select the Full version of the right Windows version
you’re prompted, and click Next.

8. Read and accept the license terms by clicking to select the checkbox and pressing Next.
9. In the “Which type of installation do you want?” window, click the only available option –
Custom (Advanced).

10. In the “Where do you want to install Windows?”, if you’re installing the server on a
regular IDE hard disk, click to select the first disk, usually Disk 0, and click Next.
If you’re installing on a hard disk that’s connected to a SCSI controller, click Load Driver and
insert the media provided by the controller’s manufacturer.

If you’re installing in a Virtual Machine environment, make sure you read the “Installing the
Virtual SCSI Controller Driver for Virtual Server 2005 on Windows Server 2008”

If you must, you can also click Drive Options and manually create a partition on the destination
hard disk.

11. The installation now begins, and you can go and have lunch. Copying the setup files from the
DVD to the hard drive only takes about one minute. However, extracting and uncompressing the
files takes a good deal longer. After 20 minutes, the operating system is installed. The exact time
it takes to install server core depends upon your hardware specifications. Faster disks will
perform much faster installs… Windows Server 2008 takes up approximately 10 GB of hard
drive space.
The installation process will reboot your computer, so, if in step #10 you inserted a floppy disk
(either real or virtual), make sure you remove it before going to lunch, as you’ll find the server
hanged without the ability to boot (you can bypass this by configuring the server to boot from a
CD/DVD and then from the hard disk in the booting order on the server’s BIOS)

12. Then the server reboots you’ll be prompted with the new Windows Server 2008 type of login
screen. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to log in.
13. Click on Other User.

14. The default Administrator is blank, so just type Administrator and press Enter.
15. You will be prompted to change the user’s password. You have no choice but to press Ok.

16. In the password changing dialog box, leave the default password blank (duh, read step
#15…), and enter a new, complex, at-least-7-characters-long new password twice. A password
like “topsecret” is not valid (it’s not complex), but one like “T0pSecreT!” sure is. Make sure you
remember it.

17. Someone thought it would be cool to nag you once more, so now you’ll be prompted to
accept the fact that the password had been changed. Press Ok.
18. Finally, the desktop appears and that’s it, you’re logged on and can begin working. You will
be greeted by an assistant for the initial server configuration, and after performing some initial
configuration tasks, you will be able to start working.
Next, for the initial configuration tasks please follow my other Windows Server 2008 articles
found on the Related Windows Server 2008 Articles section below.

For Official Microsoft information on Windows Server 2008, see the Windows Server 2008
homepage.
EX.NO:2 Installing hardware devices and drivers using device manager
AIM:
To installing Hardware Device and Drivers using Device manager and Driver query.
PROCEDURE:
Device Manager is the central location to view, configure, and manage hardware devices. It is
critical to understand how the Device Manager works before working on hardware devices.
There are multiple ways to open the Device Manager:
1. In the Start menu, right-click Computer | Manage, expand Computer
Management on the console tree, and then select System Tools | Device Manager.
2. Enter the Start menu, right-click Computer Properties, and then click Device
Manager on the left pane.
3. Control Panel | Device Manager
4. Control Panel | Hardware and Sound | Device Manager
To add a new hardware :
Scan for Hardware Changes – This initiates a Windows scan for new hardware devices or
changes.
To change the view select View on the Menu bar.
 Devices by Type – This is the default view, which displays the devices by the type of
hardware; devices are under the name of the device type.
 Devices by Connection – This displays devices by the connection each device is connected
to.
 Resources by Type – This displays the devices by resource type. There are four resource
types: direct memory access (DMA), input/output (IO), interrupt request IRQ, and memory.
 Resources by Connection – This displays the devices by the type of resource it is connected
to. There are four resource types: DMA, IO, IRQ, and memory. This allows for tracing
resources by the connection.
 Show Hidden Devices – This displays devices that have been removed but drivers have not
been uninstalled, as well as non-plug-and- play devices. To view options or actions for each
device, either right-click the device or click on the device, and then click Action on the Menu
bar. The options for each device are as follows
 Update Driver Software – This initiates the Hardware Update wizard.
 Disable – This disables the selected driver.
 Enable – This enables the selected driver.
 Uninstall – This uninstalls the device and respective driver.
 Scan for Hardware Changes – This initiates a Windows scan for new hardware devices or
changes.
 Properties – This initiates the Properties window for the selected device.
Configuring permissions and groups
(Windows Server 2008 domain controller)

If Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is a domain controller, you must complete these tasks to
configure users and groups to access IBM® InfoSphere® Information Server. This configuration
is required only for the engine tier computer and is only applicable to the users of the operating
system where the engine tier components are installed.

Procedure

Because you cannot add the built-in authenticated users group to a group that you create in steps
3 and 2, you might prefer to skip steps 3 and 2 and use the authenticated users group directly.

1. Log in to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 as an administrator.

2. Create a group.
a. Click Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Active Directory and Computers.
b. In the Active Directory and Computers window, click Users in the current domain.
c. In the window that opens, click Action > New Group.
d. In the New Group window, type DataStage as the name for the group.
e. Leave Group scope as Global and Group type as Security.
f. Click OK
3. Configure the server to allow local users and the DataStage group to log in.
a. Click Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Domain Security Policy.
b. In the Domain Security Policy window, expand Local Policies > User Rights Assignment to
display the policies.
c. In the Domain Security window, click the Allow log on Locally policy, and click Actions >
Properties.
d. In the Allow log on Locally Properties window, click Add User or Group.
e. Click Browse.
f. In the Select Users, Computers, or Groups window, click Advanced and then click Find
Now.
g. In the search results, click Authenticated Users and DataStage, and then click OK three
times to return to the Domain Security Policy window.
h. In the Domain Security window, click the Log on as a Batch Job policy, and click Actions >
Properties.
i. In the Log on as a Batch Job window, click Add User or Group.
j. Click Browse.
k. In the Select Users, Computers, or Groups window, click Advanced and then click Find
Now.
l. In the search results, click DataStage and click OK three times to return to the Domain
Security Policy window.
m. Close the Domain Security Policy window.
4. Add users to the group.
 a. In the Users in the current domain window, click the name of the group that you want
to add users to (DataStage), and click OK. Authenticated users are not available.
b. Click Action > Properties.
c. In the Properties window, click the Members tab, and then click Add.
d. In the window that opens, click Advanced, and then click Find Now.
e. Click the names of users that you want to add to the group, and then click OK.
Authenticated users are not available.
f. Click OK two times to save your results and to return to the Active Directory and
Computers window.
g. Close the Active Directory and Computers window.
5. Set permissions for the following folders:

o C:\IBM\InformationServer\Server
o C:\Program Files\MKS Toolkit\fifos
o C:\Windows\%TEMP%
o C:\tmp

Complete the following steps for each of the listed folders.

e. Select the folder and click File > Properties.

f. In the Properties window, click the Security tab, and click Edit.
g. In the Permissions window, click Add.
h. In the Select Users, Computers, or Groups window, click Locations.
i. In the window that opens, click Advanced, and then click Find Now.
j. Click the name of the group that you want to set permissions for (DataStage).
k. Click OK twice.
l. In the Permissions list, select to allow Modify, Read & execute, List folder contents,
Read, and Write Permissions. Click OK.
m. If you receive a message to confirm your changes, confirm by clicking Apply changes to
this folder, subfolders and files.