This chapter reviews the installation of Windows 2000 Server. It discusses a number of hardware configurations and setup options, and reviews potential obstacles. | Installing Windows 2000 Server This chapter reviews the installation of Windows 2000 Server. It discusses a number of hardware configurations and setup options and reviews potential obstacles. Installation and Configuration Strategy If you have read Chapter 4 and have done your homework you will now be ready to begin installing Windows 2000 in your lab. You may be tempted or you may have an urgent need to go directly to a working or production system in a production environment. Perhaps your DHCP server died or a new DNS server is needed urgently and so on. Resist or stick with what you know. If you have an NT network and need to raise a new service to fill an urgent need stick with Windows NT. On the other hand if you are a seasoned administrator and you know what you re doing you will probably have items like a hardware checklist remote or unattended installation hot standby and so on well taken care of. So only go directly to a production system if you know what you are doing and the production system is part of a conversion and rollout project. For the most part you should always raise servers in a lab. Then you should burn them in run them continually for about a week hit them with work for at least another week. After that and if all test items check off then ship or go live. But no two environments are the same. Let s look at the various installation and configuration situations and then go from there. In This Chapter Hardware Checklist Role Server Configuration Installing from Boot Disks Installing from the Command Line Installing over the Network The Boot File 138 Part II Planning Installation and Configuration Note A lot of people ask how you burn in a server that is standing idle and has no users connected to it. One simple way is to set up NTBackup to run continually. Running backup is great physical therapy for a server. It works the hard disks memory system buses access control permissions and the NTFS remote and removable storage functions and more.
