Basic Windows 2000/Windows 2000 Server Installation and Configuration

This Post steps you through the installation process of your windows 2000 family server or windows and it should be important for new users that how we can make a server 2000 and how we can make all of these roles and managing of their roles so let’s to implements the server 2000 family server or windows!!!!

Launching Windows 2000 Server
To launch Windows 2000 Server, power up the system with the Microsoft Windows
2000 Server CD in your primary CD-ROM drive. Be sure that your system’s Setup
specifies the primary boot process, starting with CD-ROM. Then follow these steps:


Step 1. In the Welcome to Setup screen, you are given three options:
■■ Press Enter to set up Windows 2000.
■■ Press R to repair a Windows 2000 installation.
■■ Press F3 to quit Setup without installing Windows 2000.
In this case, press Enter to continue with the installation process.


Step 2. License Agreement. View the entire Windows 2000 Licensing Agreement
by pressing Page Down. At the end of the agreement, press F8 to accept its terms and continue.

Step 3. Location Selection and Drive Format. Select an installation location for
Windows. In this step, you may create/delete active hard drive partitions; after
which, select the partition to which you want to install the operating system,
and press Enter. By pressing Enter, you may now choose to format the partition
by using the File Allocation Table (FAT) system or the NT File System (NTFS). In
this case, select NTFS.


Step 4. Setup will copy the installation files to the selected partition. When
Setup is finished, press Enter to restart the system and continue with the
installation.

Step 5. Windows 2000 Setup Wizard. Windows 2000 Server Setup wizard will
complete the installation process. Press Next to acknowledge. The wizard will
detect and install devices on the system.

Step 6. Regional Settings. You can customize Windows 2000 Server for different
regions and settings. For local settings, click Customize and set the current local,
time, date, and currency. Click OK to accept the changes. For keyboard settings,
click Customize and select your keyboard properties. Click OK to accept the settings.
Click Next when you are ready to continue with the installation.


Step 7. Personalizing Windows 2000. Type your full name and the name of your
company or organization; then click Next.

Step 8. Licensing Mode. Based on Microsoft’s definitions as they are extracted
here, choose either the per-seat or the per-server licensing type; then click Next.


PER-SEAT LICENSING A per-seat license associates a Client Access License with
a specific computer or “seat.” Client computers are allowed access to any Windows NT
Server or Windows NT Server, Enterprise Edition on the network, as long as each
client machine is licensed with the appropriate Client Access License. The per-seat
mode is most economical in distributed computing environments where multiple
servers within an organization provide services to clients, such as a company that uses
Windows NT Server for file and print services.

PER-SERVER LICENSING A per-server license associates a Client Access License
with a particular server. This alternative allows concurrent-use licensing: If customers
decide to use the server in per-server mode, they must have at least as many Client
Access Licenses dedicated to that server to accommodate the maximum number of
clients that will connect to that server at any one point in time. The server assigns
Client Access Licenses temporarily to client computers; there is no permanent Client
Access License association with a specific client machine. If a network environment has
multiple servers, then each server in per-server mode must have at least as many Client
Access Licenses dedicated to it as the maximum number of clients that will connect to
it at any one point in time. Under this option, the customer designates the number of
client access licenses that apply to the server during setup. The per-server mode is most
economical in single-server, occasional-use, or specialty-use server solutions (with
multiple concurrent connections). Some examples include Remote Access Service solutions,
CD-ROM servers, or the initial server of a planned larger deployment.

Step 9. Server Name and Password. Enter a name for the computer and the
administrator password (up to 14 characters); then click Next.


Step 10. Windows 2000 Components. To add or remove a component, click the
checkbox. Ashaded box means that only part of the component will be installed.
To see what’s included in a component, click Details. You may elect to install services
such as DNS from the Components window; however, for our purposes
here we’ll accept the default settings for accessories, utilities, and services
(including Internet International Server [IIS]) and then click Next to continue.

Step 11. Date and Time. Verify the correct date, time, and time zone; click Next
to confirm and accept.

Step 12. Networking Settings. The setup wizard will install the networking
components. Choose whether to use typical (auto install of common services) or
custom settings (manually configure networking components). For now, select
Typical settings and click Next.

Step 13. Workgroup or Computer Domain. Select to make this computer a
member of a domain or workgroup. Click Next to continue.

Step 14. Installing Components and Completing Setup. The setup wizard will
install your component selections (this may take several minutes) and will also
perform final tasks, such as registering components, saving settings, and
removing temporary files.

Step 15. Click Finish to complete the setup wizard. Remove the CD-ROM; then
restart the computer.

Step 16. Logging in. After you restart the system, you’ll have to log in with the
administrative password configured during the setup process. For security, the
password will display as asterisks as you type it in.

So now we can log in to Windows server 2000 and ready to create some effective which had not done earlier and here installation of windows server 2000 is complete so on next post we will talk about the managing and administration of the server 2000 and making domain included with Active directory!!!!

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