1. INTRODUCTION TO SERVERS & INSTALLATION OF WINDOWS SERVER 2008 R2 Network Administration and Maintenance

2. INTRODUCTION TO SERVERS PART 1

3. WHAT IS A SERVER?  It is a computer on a network that provides services to other computers on a network.

4. EXAMPLE OF OS SERVERS  Mac OS X Server  Windows Small Business Server 2008  Linux  FreeBSD  Solaris

5. server vs SERVER

6. SERVER OPERATING SYSTEM  More robust, secure, stable rather than desktop operating system  Deal with more clients  Expensive

7. SERVER HARDWARE  server – doesn’t need any specialized hardware  SERVER – they do make special hardware  Server processor (Zeon)  Redundant power supply  RAID (Redundant array of Independent Disk)  ECCRAM (Error-correcting code memory)

8. SERVER FUNCTION Windows Server Ubuntu server Windows XP

9. SERVER TYPES Authentication Server  Security  Send your credentials  logging-in to a network server (access)

10. SERVER TYPES Print Server  Share local printer to a network

11. SERVER TYPES File Server  Computer that has shared folder and files that people on the network that can access

12. SERVER TYPES Web Server  Presented by a website 2 TYPES OF WEB SERVER Apache – open source and can be installed on any flat form IIS – can be installed on windows flat form only

13. SERVER TYPES FTP (file transfer protocol) Server  Allows to transfer files in one place to another (back and fort)

14. SERVER TYPES Email Server  Routes email for a company of organization  Microsoft exchange server

15. SERVER TYPES Database Server  Store data and allow outside application to put data in or out  Reside in a server EXAMPLE OF DATABASE SERVER Mysql (open source) Microsoft sql (run only in windows) Oracle (horribly expensive)

16. SERVER TYPES Remote Access Server (VPN – Virtual Private Network)  Allows you to connect to the server and get access to another network by the use of internet

17. WINDOWS SERVER 2008  Longhorn  sometimes abbreviated as "Win2K8" or "W2K8“  one of Microsoft Windows' server line of operating systems. Released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, and officially released on February 27, 2008  it is the successor to Windows Server 2003, released nearly five years earlier. A second release, named Windows Server 2008 R2, was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009.

18. INSTALLATION OF WINDOWS SERVER 2008 R2 PART 2