This document provides information about installing the Windows Server® 2008 operating system. It also provides information that you can use to troubleshoot problems that may occur during the installation.

Setup works in several stages. You will be prompted for some basic information, then Setup will copy files and restart the computer. Setup concludes by presenting a menu for Initial Configuration Tasks, which you can use to adjust the server configuration for your specific needs.

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Since its inception, the Windows Server 2003 SP1 firewall has been a basic, inbound-only, host based, stateful firewall. With Windows Server 2008, the built-in firewall has been dramatically improved. Let’s find out how the new advanced firewall can help you and how to configure it using the MMC snap-in.
Why should you use the Windows host-based […]

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What is Windows Server 2008 Network Policy Server?
NPS is not just a replacement for IAS, it does what IAS did and much more. While many of us may be just looking to do the same thing that IAS did in Windows 2003, when you install NPS, you will find that you have opened up […]

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New in Windows Server 2008 is the concept of Roles. Examples of Roles for your server are:

DNS
DHCP
Web Server (IIS)
Sharepoint Server
Windows Active Directory (AD) Server

While it is easy to add these roles in the Windows Server 2008 GUI (see Figure 1, below), what if you had to or wanted to add & remove roles at the […]

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There are things we do every day while administering our Windows network but if we were asked to do them from the command line, unlike most Linux admins, most of us Windows admins would struggle. Windows has always been weak when it comes to command line tools. In my opinion, that has changed with the […]

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