Server Fundamental

Window Server Editions:

Data center
Standard
Essentials
Foundation

Edition              Physical Installs    Virtual installs                          CPU      Max CPU's
Data Center       1                              Unlimited                                    2          64
Standard            1                                2                                                2            2
Essentials          1 Physical or virtual  1 Physical or virtual                  2            2
 Foundation       1                                0                                                 1            1

Server OS  in main two type :
1) Server OS : window 2008/2012/2016
2) Client OS: window 7,window 8,window 10
When you create a discover image and save it to media(a CD,DVD.USB flash )
Window Deployment Services(WDS): Windows Deployment services is a server role that gives administrators the ability to deploy windows operating systems remotely . WDS can be used for network-based installations do not have to directly install each operating system (OS) if an administrator is thinking of using WDS Microsoft recommends having a good understanding of common networking components and deployment technologies, including active Directory Domain services DNS and DHCP Microsoft also recommends that it may be helpful for administrators to have a good understanding of the pre-boot Execution Execution  Environment.

Server side Requirement:
1.windows server OS, 2012 R2.
2. DHCP
AD integrated:
1.ADDS.
2. DNS
3.DHCP
Client side Requirement:
• PXP Boot support.
• Enable NIC Boot From BIOS.
Add a Boot Image
• A boot image is a window pre installation Environment(WinPE)
• The most current will always be best
• Window 7 SP1 Boot.wim can deploy
Vista SP1-window 7 window7 SP1
Window server 2003 R2,2008 and 2008 R2
Use an older WinPE will Produce Undesired Results.

From The Client.
-sometimes called a Pre Execution Boot Process
-OR
-PXE Boot
WDS Discover Image:
When you create a discover image and save it to media(a CD,DVD,USB flash drive or other type of media) you can then boot a computer to the media when you boot a computer into the discover image it locates a windows Deployment Services server, and  the server deploys the install image to the computer.
Steps:
1.create WinPE Compatible with 64 bit architecture.
2. copy Discover Image in WinPE Tree Structure.
3.create ISO of Image.
4.create Bootable USB.
Command :
CopyPE Amd64 D:\winPE
Copy discover.wim to WinPE Folder.
Copy/y D:\WinPE\discover.wim D:\WinPE\media\Sources\boot.wim
Open PE Tools:
Oscdimg-n-bd:\WinPE\fwfiles\etfsboot.com d:\WinPE\media d:\WinPE\discover.iso
“Deploy Vhd/Vhdx install Images”
Supported install Images:
1. .Wim
2. .vhd
3. .vhdx
• Create a Separate Image group.(.wim and .vhd cannot be in same group)
• Add vhd image:
• Unattended file can be downloaded from Microsoft Technet.
“WDS Capture Image”
SysPrep
“System Preparation tool prepares the machine for hardware independence and cleanup”.
The capturing process of a windows images is performed by using a tool provided y Microsoft ”sysprep”.
Sysprep is the component Microsoft provides in order to IT teams be able to scale OS implementations.
With sysprep we are able to “generalize” an OS by  removing some particular characteristics in windows and transforming this new “generalized” image in a prepared OS ready for a massive deployment. If the image is not generalized , we will not be able to capture it using the image we’ve selected earlier.
• Computer Name/Hostname
• Owner and Company name.
• SID(Security ID)
• TCP/IP Settings.
• Regional and Keyboard Settings.
• Specific hardware drives.


Window Server Editions:

Data center
Standard
Essentials
Foundation

Edition              Physical Installs    Virtual installs                          CPU      Max CPU's
Data Center       1                              Unlimited                                    2          64
Standard            1                                2                                                2            2
Essentials          1 Physical or virtual  1 Physical or virtual                  2            2
 Foundation       1                                0                                                 1            1

Workgroup Environment :

Workgroup is  Microsoft’s term for peer to peer local area network computers running  Microsoft operating systems in the same workgroup may share files, printers or internet connection workgroup contrasts with a domain in which computers rely on centralized authentication.

Domain controller:

A domain controller (DC) is a server that responds to security authentication requests within a  windows server domain. It is a server on a Microsoft windows or windows NT network that is responsible for allowing host access to window domain resources.

Active Directory (AD):

·         Active Directory is a database.(user name,Password,group)

·         Active Directory is a domain Controller

·         AD STRUCTURE :

1.User

2. Computer

3. OUs

4. Group

5.sites

·         DC(Domain Controllers) is Logical,Access,Secure.

§  Domain installation in ask the FQDN (fully Qualified domain name)name.FQDN consists of two parts: the hostname and the domain name.

Tree Domain:

                A Domain Tree is made up of several domains that share a common schema and configuration , forming a contiguous namespace. Domains in a tree are also linked together by trust relationships . Active Directory is a set of one or more trees. Trees can be viewed two ways .One views is the trust relationships between domains. The other views is the namespace of the domain tree.

·         These parents –child domain relationships form a domain tree.

·         Domains in a tree are joined by transitive trusts.

·         A tree is a contiguous name space.

Forest domain:

  A tree is a collection of one or more domain and domain tree in a contiguous namespace, and is linked in a transitive trust hierarchy . at the top of the structure is the forest. A forest is a collection of trees that share a common global catalog, directory  schema , logical structure, and directory configuration.

·         Domains Trees can be joined at the root to form a domain Forest

·         The root domains are joined via a transitive trust.

·         Every domain in a forest implicitly trusts every other.

Notes: first  domain is a forest ,Root , Tree , FRD(forest root Domain) , TRD(Tree Root Domain).

Active Directory (AD): is a directory service that Microsoft developed for the windows domains networks it is included  in most windows server operating  systems as a set of processes and services. Initially active Directory was only in charge of centralized domain management.

A server running Active Directory Domain services(AD DS) is called a domain controller. It authenticates and authorizes all users and computers in a windows domain type network – assigning and  enforcing security policies for all computers and installing or updating software. For example when a user logs into a computer that is part of a windows domains , active directory checks the submitted  password and determines whether the user is a system administrator a normal user. It allows management and right management and storage of information, provides authentications and authorization mechanisms , and establishes a framework to deploy other related services. Certificate services, Active Directory federation services, Lightweight directory services and right management services.

Active Directory users lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) version 2 and 3 Microsoft’s version of Kerberos, and DNS.