Microsoft Windows Server 2008: A Beginner s Guide in Software

Create ANSI/AIM Code 39 in Software Microsoft Windows Server 2008: A Beginner s Guide

If the server that you are setting up is the first server in a network and you don t want to manually assign IP addresses to all the computers in the network, you need to set up the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) to automatically assign and manage IP addresses for all the other computers on the network See 6 on how to do this

indows Deployment Services (WDS) is used to install Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, as well as Office 2007, on clients from a server running WDS This allows you to set up a server to install these products on clients This is a substantial improvement over having to spend time in front of each computer on which the products are being installed Several requirements must be met to run WDS: You must have Administrator privileges The server must meet the minimum requirements for running Windows Server 2008, either Standard or Enterprise Edition, as described in 2 The server must have a separate New Technology File System (NTFS) drive or partition (volume) with at least 10GB free (recommended) where WDS can be installed The WDS volume cannot be the boot volume and cannot have any of the system files stored on it (normally kept in the \Windows\System32\ folder) Either the WDS server or other servers on the network must have Domain Name Service (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), and Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) running The Windows files and applications programs that you want to install on the client computer must be on the WDS server The client that will be installed by WDS must meet the minimum requirements for the operating system (OS) and applications being installed The client must have an NTFS-formatted volume on which WDS will install the OS and other desired software This drive cannot use the Encrypted File System (EFS) or the Distributed File System (DFS), and all previous information on the drive will be lost (you can only do a clean install with WDS) The client computer s networking facility (network interface card [NIC] or onboard networking) must support the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) protocol to allow it to be booted over the network Each client computer will need to have a license for each installation of a particular OS image This can be an individual license or one install on a volume license

NOTE If you are not comfortable with the concepts and operation of DNS, DHCP, and AD, it is recommended that you read Part III of this book on networking (s 5, 6, and 7) first and then return to this chapter

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WDS is installed with the Server Manager: 1 On the server that you want to contain WDS, click Start | Server Manager In the Server Manager, click Roles in the left column and click Add Roles on the right 2 Click Next to display the list of roles, as shown in Figure 4-1 Click Windows Deployment Services, click Next, and read the introduction and notes 3 Click Next You are asked if you want to install a Transport Server by itself, which is a subset of the full WDS, or the combination of a Transport Server and a Deployment Server, which provides the full functionality of WDS The Transport Server alone is used only in a limited situation where you want to transmit information to a number of servers This chapter will discuss the full WDS 4 Leave the default in which both the Transport Server and the Deployment Server are selected, click Next, and click Install 5 When you are told the installation is complete, click Close, and then close the Server Manager