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Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2012 has four editions: Foundation, Essentials, Standard, and Datacenter. The installation requires a minimum of 1.4GHz CPU, 2GB RAM, and 160GB hard disk. The tutorial outlines the steps to install Windows Server 2012 which includes downloading the ISO, selecting installation options, setting passwords, and completing the installation process. It then discusses adding server roles and features in Windows Server 2012 including PowerShell and the IIS web server role.

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Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2012 has four editions: Foundation, Essentials, Standard, and Datacenter. The installation requires a minimum of 1.4GHz CPU, 2GB RAM, and 160GB hard disk. The tutorial outlines the steps to install Windows Server 2012 which includes downloading the ISO, selecting installation options, setting passwords, and completing the installation process. It then discusses adding server roles and features in Windows Server 2012 including PowerShell and the IIS web server role.

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Windows Server 2012

Tutorials
Introduction
 Officially it was released on August 1, 2012 and
is just a commercial version as of now.
 Windows Server 2012 has four editions:
› Foundation
› Essentials
› Standard
› Datacenter.
Each one of them has their own limitations except the
Datacenter version, which is also the most expensive
one.
Windows Server 2012 – Installation: System
Requirements

 CPU socket minimum 1.4 GHz (64-bit processor)


or faster for single core and Microsoft recommends
is 3.1 GHz (64-bit processor) or faster multi-core.
 RAM memory minimum is 2GB, but Microsoft
recommends 8GB.
 160 GB hard disk with a 60 GB system partition
space in your hard disk.
Installation
 Step 1 − We can download the evaluation ISO of Windows
Server 2012 R2 from the following link − https://
www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-
2012-r2
 Step 2 – Browse the location of ISO file to load it.
Installation
 Step 3 − After the files are loaded, you will see the screen of language
settings of installation, keyboard, time and currency format. Generally, all
the default ones are also good enough to start with. Click Next
 Step 5 − Click “Install now”
Installation
 Step 5 − Once you have clicked on Install Now, the setup will start and it
will load all the files.
 Step 6 − Wait until the files are loaded and then you will see the following
screen. Let’s select Windows Server 2012 DataCenter Evaluation (Server
with GUI) and click Next
Installation
 Step 7 − Click “I accept the license terms” and then click on
the Next button as shown in the following screenshot
Installation
 Step 8 − The following screen will appear. In “Driver Options” you can
create a new partition, delete or format the Hard disk. After you have done
this process then you can select the partition where the Windows server 2012
R2 will be installed in our case we have one partition. Once all this is done,
then click on Next
Installation
 Step 10 − Let’s wait until this process finishes
during this time and then the server will reboot
Installation
 Step 10 − Once the reboot is done the following screen will
appear. Set the password for the server and then click on
“Finish”
Installation
 Step 11 − It will take some minutes until the
setup finishes completely
Installation
 Step 13 − Once all this is done, you have completed the installation process and the
following screen will appear.

Congratulations!!!
Windows Server 2012 - Server Roles

 Roles and Features are the tools that you need to install or activate in order to complete your
IT Administration duties, without their installation you cannot do anything.
Server Roles
 Step 1 − Click with the mouse on Server Manager which is
found in the task bar
 Step 2 − After opening the “Server Manager”, click on the
second option “Add roles and features”
Server Roles
 Step 3 − The following screen will appear, then
you can Click on the Next button
Server Roles
 Step 4 − Select the Role-based or feature-based installation and then click
on the Next button
Server Roles
 Option 1 − Select a server from the server pool. This option is – if you
want to install the services in the physical server like being done in the
following screenshot
Server Roles
 Option 2 − Select a virtual Hard disk if you want to install the services in
a virtual disk that can be somewhere in the network storage. Take a look
at the following screenshot for better understanding
Server Roles
 Step 5 − The last step will be to check the service that you want to install,
but in the upcoming chapters we will continue this setup for each and
every important services
Windows Server 2012 - PowerShell

 Windows PowerShell is a command-line shell and scripting language


designed especially for system administration.
 Windows PowerShell helps IT professionals to control and automate the
administration of the Windows operating system and applications that run
on Windows Server environment.
 It’s analogue in Linux is called as Bash Scripting
 Windows PowerShell commands, called cmdlets, let you manage the
computers from the command line.
 In addition, Windows PowerShell has a rich expression parser and a fully
developed scripting language. So in simple words you can complete all
the tasks that you do with GUI and much more
 PowerShell Icon can be found in the task bar and in the start menu. Just
by clicking on the icon, it will open
• To open it, just click on the icon
  Following screen will open and it means that PowerShell is ready for you to
work on.

 Type command $PSVersionTable


PowerShell ISE

 The Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting


Environment (ISE) is a host application for
Windows PowerShell. In Windows PowerShell
ISE, you can run commands and write, test, and
debug scripts in a single Windows-based graphic
user interface with multiline editing, tab
completion, syntax coloring, selective execution,
context-sensitive help
 To open it you just go to Start – Search and then
Type – PowerShell and click on Power Shell ISE.
PowerShell ISE
 The following table will be open 
PowerShell ISE
 It has three sections, which include –
› PowerShell Console with number
› Scripting File number 2 and the third is
› Command Module where you can find the module
PowerShell ISE

 1: Get-Help
› The first PowerShell cmdlet every administrator
should learn is Get-Help. You can use this command to
get help with any other command. For example, if you
want to know how the Get-Process command works,
you can type:
 Get-Help -Name Get-Process
 Get-Process
 Stop-Process
 Stop-Process -Name notepad
 Stop-Process -ID 2668
Windows Server 2012 - IIS Overview

  IIS or Internet Information Services role is one


of the most important services in Windows Server
2012
 It helps us to publish web application or webpages
 A web server is a process for hosting web
applications.
 Web server allows an application to process
messages that arrive through specific TCP ports (by
default). For example, the default port for HTTP
traffic is 80, and the one for HTTPS is 443
Components in IIS

 IIS contains several components that perform


important functions for the application and Web
server roles in Windows Server
 Each component has responsibilities, such as
listening for requests made to the server, managing
processes, and reading configuration files.
 Components include protocol listeners, such as
HTTP.sys, and services, such as World Wide Web
Publishing Service (WWW service) and Windows
Process Activation Service (WAS)
Installation - IIS
 Step 1 − To Install IIS role, go to “Server
Manager” → then Manage → and then to Add
Roles and Features
Installation - IIS
 Step 2 − Click on Next in the window which
pops up
Installation - IIS
 Step 3 − Select the Role-based or feature-based
installation option and then click on Next
Installation - IIS
 Step 4 − I will install a Local IIS role as it will
Select a server from the server pool → then click
on Next
Installation - IIS
 Step 5 − From the Roles lists, check the “Web
server” (IIS) Server role → Next.
Installation- IIS
 Step 6 − Click Next.
 Step 7 − Click Next.
Installation - IIS
 Step 8 − You can choose all the default setting or
customize them according to you needs
Installation - IIS
 Step 9 − Click Install.
Installation - IIS
 Step 10 − Wait until the Installation Wizard
finishes. Once it is done click Close.
Installation- IIS
 Step 11 − Check if your IIS is installed correctly. This can be done by
opening your internet explorer and then typing http://localhost and you
should be able to see the following screenshot

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