1. 2.1 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices Identifying Pre-installation Tasks Minimum hardware requirements  Pentium 133 MHz or faster processor  VGA monitor  128 MB RAM for five or fewer clients and 256 MB for larger networks  1.5 GB hard disk space is required for setup; 2.5 GB hard disk space is recommended  High-density, 3.5-inch floppy disk drive  A 12X CD-ROM drive when installing from CD  A network interface card (NIC) if network connectivity is required  Mouse and keyboard (Skill 1)

2. 2.2 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices Other pre-installation tasks  Make sure that the hardware components of the system are listed on Microsoft’s Windows Server Catalog  Determine whether it is a new installation or an upgrade of an existing version  Examine hard disk partitions (Microsoft recommends a partition of at least 2 GB)  Determine the file system format for the partition (FAT, FAT32, or NTFS)  Determine whether the computer on which Windows Server 2003 is to be installed will be joining a workgroup or domain  Decide which Windows Server 2003 optional components to install Identifying Pre-installation Tasks (2) (Skill 1)

3. 2.3 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices Other pre-installation tasks  Uncompress any compressed volumes on the computer before upgrading to Windows Server 2003  You can only upgrade to Windows Server 2003 if the drive was compressed with NTFS compression  Disable disk mirroring  Disable any anti-virus software installed on the computer  Check for software compatibility using the Microsoft Application Compatibility Analyzer tool  Disconnect UPS devices from the computer on which Windows Server 2003 is to be installed Identifying Pre-installation Tasks (3) (Skill 1)

4. 2.4 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices Identifying Pre-installation Tasks (4) Licensing modes for Windows Server 2003  Per Server licensing mode  Provides a specific number of Client Access Licenses (CALs) per server  Suitable for small companies  Need enough CALs to over all simultaneous users  Per Device or Per User licensing mode  Provides a separate CAL for each named user or specified device  Ideal for large networks (Skill 1)

5. 2.5 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices Identifying the Different Phases of the Windows Server 2003 Installation Process  Pre-copy phase  Text mode phase  GUI mode phase  Gathering Information About Your Computer stage  Installing Windows Server 2003 Networking Components stage  Completing Setup stage (Skill 2)

6. 2.6 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices Installing Windows Server 2003 Using the Installation CD-ROM Attended installation  Requires user interaction  The most common method for an attended installation is using the installation CD-ROM  Full installations are performed on computers that either have no current operating system or that have an operating system that you are going to overwrite (Skill 3)

7. 2.7 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices (Skill 3) Figure 2-6 Welcome to Setup

8. 2.8 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices (Skill 3) Figure 2-7 Windows Licensing Agreement

9. 2.9 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices (Skill 3) Figure 2-8 List of existing partitions and unpartitioned space

10. 2.10 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices (Skill 3) Figure 2-9 Windows Server 2003 Setup

11. 2.11 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices (Skill 3) Figure 2-10 Licensing Modes

12. 2.12 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices (Skill 3) Figure 2-11 Passwords message box

13. 2.13 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices (Skill 3) Figure 2-12 Welcome to Windows Microsoft Windows Server 2003

14. 2.14 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices (Skill 3) Figure 2-13 Activating the Server License

15. 2.15 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices (Skill 5) Figure 2-16 The License Agreement screen

16. 2.16 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices Troubleshooting Failed Installations (2) (Skill 6) Common STOP errors  STOP Message IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL  STOP Message KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED  STOP Message FAT_FILE_SYSTEM or NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM  STOP Message UNKNOWN_HARD_ERROR  STOP Message DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE  STOP Message INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

17. 2.17 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices (Skill 6) Figure 2-18 Problems that cause failed installations

18. 2.18 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices Figure 2-19 Booting with Last Known Good Configuration (Skill 6)

19. 2.19 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices Working with the Device Manager (2) Device Manager View menu  Provides a graphical list of all installed hardware devices  Available views  Devices by type  Devices by connection  Resources by type  Resources by connection  Show Hidden Devices (Skill 8)

20. 2.20 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices  Plug and Play  Automatically configures resources a device needs using system resources that are not currently in use  If a device is not PnP-compatible, you may need to manually configure resource settings on the devices themselves  Resources commonly used by hardware  I/O address  DMA (Direct Memory Access) channel  Interrupt Request (IRQ)  Memory addresses (Skill 8) Working with the Device Manager (3)

21. 2.21 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices (Skill 8) Figure 2-28 Devices by type view

22. 2.22 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices (Skill 8) Figure 2-29 Resources by type view

23. 2.23 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices (Skill 8) Figure 2-30 The Resources tab If the Use automatic settings check box is grayed out, you cannot modify the resources used by the device; if you can clear it, click the Change Setting button to modify a resource setting

24. 2.24 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices Configuring Driver Signing Options  Windows Server 2003 uses driver signing options to ensure the use of high quality drivers for any hardware device  Microsoft uses digital signatures for device drivers to identify drivers that are compatible with Microsoft Windows Server 2003  A driver’s digital signature indicates that the driver was tested with Windows for compatibility and has not been altered since testing (Skill 9)

25. 2.25 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices (Skill 9) Configuring Driver Signing Options (2) Levels of driver signing security  Ignore setting  Allows any driver to be installed  The driver does not need to have a digital signature  Warn setting  Default setting  Notifies the user if a driver that is being installed does not have a Microsoft digital signature  Block setting  Prevents the installation of unsigned drivers  The installation program will not install any device driver that does not have a digital signature

26. 2.26 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices (Skill 9) Figure 2-35 Opening the System Properties dialog box

27. 2.27 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices (Skill 9) Figure 2-36 The Hardware tab in the System Properties dialog box Click to initiate the Add Hardware Wizard Click to open the Driver Signing Options dialog box

28. 2.28 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices (Skill 9) Figure 2-37 The Driver Signing Options dialog box Select to set the selected driver signing option as the default option for all of the users that log on to the system

29. 2.29 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices Working with Hardware Profiles and Event Logs Hardware profiles  Describe the selection of a specific configuration of hardware devices (such as network cards, printers, etc.) at the time the operating system is initialized  Are most commonly used in situations where one hardware profile is used at one location and another at an alternate location  Profile 1 (Current)  A default hardware profile created when you install Windows Server 2003  Every device that is installed during the initial installation will be included in Profile 1 (Skill 10)

30. 2.30 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices Figure 2-38 The Hardware Profiles dialog box (Skill 10)

31. 2.31 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices Figure 2-39 Entering a new profile name (Skill 10)

32. 2.32 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices Figure 2-41 Disabling a device for a hardware profile (Skill 10)

33. 2.33 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices Figure 2-42 A disabled device in Device Manager Disabled devices display with a red x (Skill 10)

34. 2.34 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices Figure 2-43 Event logs on a member server The System log records events such as the failure of a service or device driver to start at boot time (Skill 10)

35. 2.35 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 2: Installing Windows Server 2003 and Server Hardware Devices Figure 2-44 Event logs on a domain controller/DNS server The Directory Service log records events logged by Active Directory (Skill 10)