2.1 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

2.3 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

2.4 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

2.5 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

2.6 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

2.7 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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

2.8 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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

2.9 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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

2.10 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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

2.11 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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

2.12 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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

2.13 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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

2.14 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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

2.15 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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

2.16 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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

2.17 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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

2.18 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

2.19 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

2.20 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

2.21 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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

2.22 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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

2.23 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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

2.24 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

2.25 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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

2.26 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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

2.27 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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

2.28 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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

2.29 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

2.30 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

2.31 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

2.32 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

2.33 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

2.34 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

2.35 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)