tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33050242498788954192024-03-08T05:23:33.302-08:00Microsoft Windows ServerAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03732698092158397093noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305024249878895419.post-46648044063718502602015-07-13T03:56:00.001-07:002015-07-13T03:56:25.087-07:00Installing Windows Server 2012 Active Directory via Server Manager. Active Directory Concepts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This article serves as an <strong>Active Directory tutorial</strong> covering <strong>installation and setup of a Windows 2012 Domain Controller</strong> using<strong> Windows Server Manager</strong> (GUI).</div>
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Readers interested in performing the installation via <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/microsoft-knowledgebase/windows-2012/1049-windows-2012-active-directory-services-dc-install-powershell.html" target="_blank" title="Windows 2012 Server Active Directory Role & Domain Controller installation via PowerShell">Windows PowerShell</a> can <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/microsoft-knowledgebase/windows-2012/1049-windows-2012-active-directory-services-dc-install-powershell.html" target="_blank" title="Windows 2012 Server Active Directory Role & Domain Controller installation via PowerShell">read this article</a>.</div>
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What is Active Directory?</h4>
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<strong>Active Directory</strong> is a heart of Windows Server operating systems. <strong>Active Directory Domain Services</strong> (<strong>AD DS</strong>)
is a central repository of active directory objects such as user
accounts, computer accounts, groups, group policies and so on.
Similarly, Active Directory authenticates user accounts and computer
accounts when they login into the domain. Computers must be joined to
the domain in order to authenticate Active Directory users.</div>
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<strong>Active Directory</strong> is a
database that is made up of several components which are important for
us to understand before attempting to install and configure<strong> Active Directory Services</strong> on <strong>Windows Server 2012</strong>. These components are:</div>
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<li><strong>Domain Controller (DC)</strong>: - Domain Controllers are servers where the <strong>Active Directory Domain Services</strong> role is installed. The <strong>DC</strong> stores copies of the <strong>Active Directory Database</strong> (NTDS.DIT) and <strong>SYSVOL</strong> (System Volume) folder.</li>
<li><strong>Data Store</strong>: - It is the actual file (NTDS.DIT) that stores the Active Directory information.</li>
<li><strong>Domain</strong>: - <strong>Active Directory Domain</strong> is a group of computers and user accounts that share common administration within a central Active Directory database.</li>
<li><strong>Forest</strong>: - Forest is a collection of Domains that share common Active Directory database. The first <strong>Domain</strong> in a <strong>Forest</strong> is called a <strong>Forest Root Domain</strong>.</li>
<li><strong>Tree</strong>: - A tree is a collection of domain names that share common root domain.</li>
<li><strong>Schema</strong>: - Schema defines the list of attributes and object types that all objects in the Active Directory database can have.</li>
<li><strong>Organizational Units (OUs)</strong>: - OUs are simply
container or folders in the Active Directory that stores other active
directory objects such as user accounts, computer accounts and so on.
OUs are also used to delegate control and apply group policies.</li>
<li><strong>Sites</strong>: - Sites are Active Directory object that
represent physical locations. Sites are configured for proper
replication of Active Directory database between sites.</li>
<li><strong>Partition</strong>: - Active Directory database file is made up of multiple partitions which are also called <strong>naming contexts</strong>. The Active Directory database consists of partitions such as <strong>application</strong>, <strong>schema</strong>, <strong>configuration</strong>, <strong>domain</strong> and <strong>global catalog</strong>.</li>
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Installing Active Directory Domain Controller in Server 2012</h4>
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In Windows Server 2012, the Active
Directory Domain Controller role can be installed using the Server
Manager or alternatively, using Windows PowerShell. The figure below
represents our lab setup which includes a Windows Server 2012 (<strong>FW-DC01</strong>) waiting to have the Active Directory Domain Services server role installed on it:</div>
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<img alt="windows-2012-active-directory-installation-1" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-active-directory-installation-1.png" style="display: block; margin: 7px auto;" title="Windows 2012 R2 Domain Controller - Network Diagram" /></div>
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Notice that there are two Windows 8 clients waiting to join the Active Directory domain once installed.</div>
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A checklist before installing a Domain
Controller in your network is always recommended. The list should
include the following information:</div>
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<li><strong>Server Host Name</strong> – A valid <strong>Hostname</strong> or <strong>Computer Name</strong> must be assigned to domain controller. We've selected <strong>FW-DC01</strong> as a server's host name.</li>
<li><strong>IP Address</strong> – You should configure a static IP
address, which will not be changed later on. In our example, we've used
192.168.1.1/24 which is a <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/networking-topics/protocols/protocols-ip/165-protocols-ip-network-id.html" target="_blank" title="Class C IP Address - Subnetting">Class C IP address</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Domain Name</strong> – Perhaps one of the most important items on our checklist. We've used <strong>firewall.local</strong>
for our setup. While many will want to use an existing public domain,
e.g their company's domain, it is highly recommended this practice is
avoided at all costs as it can create a number of problems with DNS
resolution when internal hosts or servers are trying to resolve hosts
that exist on both private and public name spaces.</li>
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Microsoft doesn't recommend the usage of a <strong>public domain name</strong> in an internal domain controller, which is why we selected <strong>firewall.local</strong> instead of firewall.cx.</div>
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Installing Active Directory Domain Controller using Server Manager</h4>
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Initiating the installation of Active Directory is a simple process; however it does require <strong>Administrator</strong> privileges.<br />Open <strong>Server Manager</strong>, go to <strong>Manage</strong> and select <strong>Add Roles and Features</strong>:</div>
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<img alt="windows-2012-active-directory-installation-2" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-active-directory-installation-2.png" style="border: 1px solid #000000; display: block; margin: 7px auto;" title="Windows 2012 R2 Domain Controller Installation - Server Manager" /></div>
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Figure 2. Add Roles and Features</div>
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Click <strong>Next</strong> on the <strong>Before you begin</strong> page.</div>
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<br />On the next screen, choose <strong>Role-based or feature-based Installation</strong> and click <strong>Next</strong>:</div>
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<img alt="windows-2012-active-directory-installation-3" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-active-directory-installation-3.png" style="display: block; margin: 7px auto;" title="Windows 2012 Active Directory Installation - Role-based or feature-based Installation " /></div>
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Figure 3. Choose Role Based Installation</div>
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Select the destination server by choosing <strong>Select a server from the server pool</strong> option and select the server and click <strong>Next</strong>. In cases like our lab where there is only one server available, it must be selected:</div>
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<img alt="windows-2012-active-directory-installation-4" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-active-directory-installation-4.png" style="display: block; margin: 7px auto;" title="Windows 2012 Active Directory Installation - Select a server from the server pool " /></div>
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Figure 4. Select Destination Server</div>
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In the <strong>Select server roles page</strong>, select the <strong>Active Directory Domain Services</strong> role and click <strong>Next</strong>:</div>
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<img alt="windows-2012-active-directory-installation-5" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-active-directory-installation-5.png" style="display: block; margin: 7px auto;" title="Windows 2012 Active Directory Installation -Select AD DS role" /></div>
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Figure 5. Select AD DS role</div>
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The next page is the <strong>Features </strong>page which we can safely skip by clicking <strong>Next</strong></div>
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<br />The <strong>Active Directory Domain Services</strong> page contains limited information on requirements and best practices for <strong>Active Directory Domain Services</strong>:</div>
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<img alt="windows-2012-active-directory-installation-6" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-active-directory-installation-6.png" style="display: block; margin: 7px auto;" title="Windows 2012 Active Directory Installation -Active Directory Domain Services page" /></div>
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Figure 6. AD DS Page</div>
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Once you've read the information provided, click <strong>Next</strong> to proceed to the final confirmation page.</div>
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On the confirmation page, select <strong>Restart the destination server automatically if required</strong> and click on the <strong>Install</strong> button. By clicking <strong>Install</strong>, you confirm you are ready to begin the <strong>AD DS</strong> role installation:</div>
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<img alt="windows-2012-active-directory-installation-7" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-active-directory-installation-7.png" style="display: block; margin: 7px auto;" title="Windows 2012 Active Directory Installation -Active Directory Confirmation" /></div>
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Figure 7. AD DS Confirmation</div>
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<strong>Note:</strong> You cannot cancel a role installation once it begins</div>
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The <strong>Add Roles and Feature Wizard</strong> will continuously provide updates during the <strong>Active Directory Domain Services</strong> role installation, as shown below:</div>
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<img alt="windows-2012-active-directory-installation-8" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-active-directory-installation-8.png" style="display: block; margin: 7px auto;" title="Windows 2012 Active Directory Installation Progress" /></div>
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Figure 8. Installation Progress</div>
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Once the installation has completed successfully, we should expect to see the <strong>Installation succeeded</strong> message under the installation progress bar:</div>
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<img alt="windows-2012-active-directory-installation-9" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-active-directory-installation-9.png" style="display: block; margin: 7px auto;" title="Windows 2012 Active Directory Installation completed successfully" /></div>
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Figure 9. Successful Installation & Promote Server to DC</div>
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<br />Promoting Server to Domain Controller</h4>
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At this point we can choose to <strong>Promote this server to a domain controller</strong> by clicking on the appropriate link as highlighted above (<span style="color: blue;">Blue arrow</span>).</div>
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After selecting the <strong>Promote this server to a domain controller</strong> option, the <strong>Deployment Configuration</strong> page will appear. Assuming this is the first domain controller in the network, as is in our case, select the <strong>Add a new forest</strong> option to setup a new forest, and then type the fully qualified domain name under <strong>root domain name section</strong>. We've selected to use <strong>firewall.local</strong>:</div>
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<img alt="windows-2012-active-directory-installation-10" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-active-directory-installation-10.png" style="display: block; margin: 7px auto;" title="Windows 2012 Active Directory Installation - Configure Domain Name" /></div>
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Figure 10. Configure Domain Name</div>
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Administrators who already have active directory installed would most likely select the <strong>Add a domain controller to an existing domain</strong> option. Having at least two Domain Controllers is highly advisable for redundancy purposes. When done click the <strong>Next</strong> button.</div>
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Now select <strong>Windows Server 2012 R2</strong> for the <strong>Forest functional level</strong> and <strong>Domain functional level</strong>.
By setting the domain and forest functional levels to the highest value
that your environment can support, you'll be able to use as many Active
Directory Domain Services as possible. If for example you do not plan
to ever add domain controllers running <strong>Windows 2003</strong>, but might add a <strong>Windows 2008 server</strong> as a domain controller, you would select <strong>Windows Server 2008</strong> for the <strong>Domain functional level</strong>. Next, click on the <strong>Domain Name System (DNS) server</strong> option as shown in the below figure:</div>
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<img alt="windows-2012-active-directory-installation-11" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-active-directory-installation-11.png" style="display: block; margin: 7px auto;" title="Windows 2012 Active Directory Installation - DC Capabilities" /></div>
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Figure 11. DC Capabilities</div>
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The DNS Server role can be later on
installed. If for any reason you need to install the DNS Server role
later on, please read our <strong><a href="http://www.firewall.cx/microsoft-knowledgebase/windows-2012/1059-windows-2012-dns-server-installation-configuration.html" target="_blank" title="How to Install and Configure Windows 2012 DNS Server Role">How to Install and Configure Windows 2012 DNS Server Role</a></strong> article.</div>
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Since this is the first domain controller in the forest, <strong>Global Catalog (GC)</strong> will be selected by default. Now set the <strong>Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM)</strong> password. <strong>DSRM</strong> is used to restore active directory in case of failure. Once done, click <strong>Next</strong>.</div>
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The next window is the<strong> DNS Options</strong>
page. Here we might encounter the following error which can be safely
ignored simply because of the absence of a DNS server (which we are
about to install):</div>
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<strong>A delegation for this DNS server cannot be created because the authoritative parent zone cannot be found...</strong></div>
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Ignore the error and click <strong>Next</strong> to continue.</div>
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In the next window, <strong>Additional Options</strong>, leave the default <strong>NetBIOS domain name</strong> and click <strong>Next</strong>.
The Windows AD DS wizard will automatically remove the .local from the
domain name to ensure compatibility with NetBIOS name resolution:</div>
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<img alt="windows-2012-active-directory-installation-12" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-active-directory-installation-12.png" style="display: block; margin: 7px auto;" title="Windows 2012 Active Directory Installation - Additional Options" /></div>
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Figure 12. Additional Options</div>
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The next step involves the <strong>Paths</strong> selection which allows the selection of where to install the <strong>Database</strong>, <strong>Log Files</strong> and <strong>SYSVOL</strong> folders. You can either browse to a different location or leave the default settings (as we did). When complete, click <strong>Next</strong>:</div>
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<img alt="windows-2012-active-directory-installation-13" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-active-directory-installation-13.png" style="display: block; margin: 7px auto;" title="Windows 2012 Active Directory Installation - Paths" /></div>
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Figure 13. Paths</div>
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<strong>Note:</strong> When the installation is complete, the <strong>Database folder</strong> will contain a file named <strong>NTDS.DIT</strong>. This important file is database file of your active directory.</div>
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Finally, the next screen allows us to
perform a quick review of all selected options before initiating the
installation: Once reviewed, click <strong>Next</strong>.</div>
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<img alt="windows-2012-active-directory-installation-14" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-active-directory-installation-14.png" style="display: block; margin: 7px auto;" title="Windows 2012 Active Directory Installation - Review Options" /></div>
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Figure 14. Review Options</div>
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The server will now perform some
prerequisites check. If successful, it will show green check mark on the
top. Some warnings may appear, however if these are non-critical, we
can still proceed with the installation. Click the <strong>Install</strong> button to promote this server to domain controller:</div>
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<img alt="windows-2012-active-directory-installation-15" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-active-directory-installation-15.png" style="display: block; margin: 7px auto;" title="Windows 2012 Active Directory Installation - Prerequisites Check" /></div>
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Figure 15. Prerequisites Check</div>
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The installation begins and the server's installation progress is continuously updated:</div>
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<img alt="windows-2012-active-directory-installation-16" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-active-directory-installation-16.png" style="display: block; margin: 7px auto;" title="Windows 2012 Active Directory Installation - Installation Begins" /></div>
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Figure 16. Installation Begins</div>
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When the installation of Active Directory is complete, the server will restart.</div>
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<br />Assuming we've restarted, we can now open <strong>Active Directory Users and Computers</strong> and begin creating user accounts, computer accounts, apply group policies, and so on.</div>
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<img alt="windows-2012-active-directory-installation-17" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-active-directory-installation-17.png" style="display: block; margin: 7px auto;" title="Windows 2012 Active Directory Installation - Active Directory Users and Computers" /></div>
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Figure 17. Active Directory Users and Computers</div>
As expected, under the <strong>Domain Controllers</strong> section,
we found our single domain controller. If we were to add our new domain
controller to an existing active directory, then we would expect to find
all domain controllers listed here.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03732698092158397093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305024249878895419.post-26008596438990626912015-07-13T03:55:00.001-07:002015-07-13T03:55:25.891-07:00Hyper-V Best Practices - Replica, Cluster, Backup Advice<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<strong>Hyper-V</strong> has proven to
be a very cost effective solution for server consolidation. Evidence of
this is also the fact that companies are beginning to move from VMware
to the Hyper-V virtualization platform. This article will cover the
Windows 2012<strong> Hyper-V best practices</strong>, and aims to help you run your Hyper-V virtualization environment as optimum as possible.
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Keeping your Hyper-V virtualization
infrastructure running as smoothly as possible can be a daunting task,
which is why we recommend engineers follow the best Hyper-V practices.</div>
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Different organizations have different
setups and requirements: some of you might be moving from VMware to
Hyper-V virtualization, while others might be upgrading from an older
Hyper-V virtualization server to a newer one. Each scenario must follow
the baseline or best practices, to be able to run the virtualization
infrastructure successfully – without problems.</div>
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Hyper-V Best Practice List</h4>
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Best practices for Hyper-V vary
considerably depending on whether you're using clustered servers. As a
general rule-of-thumb the best thing you can do is try to configure your
host server and your Virtual Machines in a way that avoids resource
contention to the greatest extent possible.</div>
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Organizations who are considering
migrating their infrastructure to Hyper-V, or are currently running on
the Hyper-V virtualization platform, need to take note of the below
important points that must not be overlooked:</div>
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Processor</h4>
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Minimum: A <strong>1.4 GHz 64-bit processor</strong> with <strong>hardware-assisted virtualization</strong>. This feature is available in processors that include a <strong>virtualization option</strong>—specifically, processors with <strong>Intel Virtualization Technology</strong> (Intel VT) or <strong>AMD Virtualization</strong> (AMD-V) technology.<br /><strong>Hardware-enforced Data Execution Prevention</strong> (DEP) must also be available and enabled. For Intel CPUs, this translates to enabling the <strong>Intel XD</strong> (“execute disable”) bit or while for AMD CPUs, the <strong>AMD NX</strong> (“no execute”) bit.</div>
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Memory</h4>
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Minimum: 512 MB. This is the bare
minimum; however a logical approach would be at least 4 Gigs of RAM per
virtual server. If one physical server is to host 4 Virtual Machines,
then we would recommend at least 16GBs of Physical RAM, if not more.
SQL servers and other RAM intensive services would certainly lift the
memory requirements a lot higher. You can never have enough memory.</div>
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Network adapters</h4>
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At least one network adapter is
required, but two or more are always recommended. Hyper-V allows the
creation of three different virtual switches: <strong>Internal Virtual Switches</strong>, <strong>Private Virtual Switches</strong> and <strong>External Virtual Switches</strong>.</div>
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Internal virtual switches are used to
allow the virtual machine to connect with its host machine (the physical
machine that run’s Hyper-V). Private virtual switches are used when we
only want to connect virtual machines, which run on the same host,
between each other. External virtual switches are used to allow the
virtual machine to connect with our LAN network and this is where
physical network adapters come in hand. <br />Host machines with only
one network adapter will be forced to share that network adapter with
all its virtual machines. This is why it’s always best practice to have
at least two network adapters available. </div>
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Additional Considerations</h4>
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The settings for hardware-assisted
virtualization and hardware-enforced DEP are usually available from
within in the system’s BIOS; however, the names of the settings may
differ from the names identified previously.<br />For more information
about whether a specific processor model supports Hyper-V
(virtualization), it is recommended to check at the manufacturer’s
website.</div>
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As noted before, it is important to
remember after modifying the settings for hardware-assisted
virtualization or hardware-enforced DEP, you may need to turn off the
power to the server and then turn it back on to ensure the new CPU
settings are loaded.</div>
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Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit</h4>
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<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7826" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit</a>
(MAP) can be used to study existing infrastructure and determine the
Hyper-V requirement. For organizations who are interested in server
consolidation and virtualization through technologies such as Hyper-V,
MAP helps gather performance metrics and generate server consolidation
recommendations that identify the candidates for server virtualization
and will even suggest how the physical servers might be placed in a
virtualized environment.</div>
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The diagram below shows the MAP phases involved to successfully create the necessary reports:</div>
<img alt="hyper-v-best-practices-1" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/hyper-v-best-practices-1.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP)" /><br />
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Figure 1. MAP Phases</div>
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Below is an overview of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit application:</div>
<img alt="hyper-v-best-practices-2" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/hyper-v-best-practices-2.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) application" /><br />
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Figure 2. MAP Overview</div>
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The following points are the best practices which should be considered before deploying your <strong>Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V infrastructure</strong>:</div>
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HYPER-V HOSTS (Physical Servers)</h4>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">Ensure hosts are up-to-date with recommended Microsoft updates</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Ensure hosts have the latest BIOS
version, as well as other hardware devices (such as Synthetic Fiber
Channel, NIC’s, Raid bios, etc.)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Hosts must be part of a domain before you can create a Hyper-V High-Availability Cluster.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">RDP Printer Mapping should be disabled
on hosts, to remove any chance of a printer driver causing instability
issues on the host machine. To do this, follow the below steps: <strong>Computer
Configuration –> Policies –> Administrative Templates –>
Windows Components –> Remote Desktop Services –> Remote Desktop
Session Host –> Printer Redirection –> Do not allow client printer
redirection –> Set to "Enabled”</strong></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Do not install</strong> any other Roles on a host besides the <strong>Hyper-V</strong> role and the <strong>Remote Desktop Services</strong> roles. Optionally, if the host will become part of a cluster, you can install <strong>Failover Cluster Manager</strong>. In the event the host connects to an iSCSI SAN and/or Fiber Channel, you can also install <strong>Multipath I/O</strong>.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Anti-virus software should exclude Hyper-V specific files using the <a href="http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/2179.hyper-v-anti-virus-exclusions-for-hyper-v-hosts.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hyper-V: Antivirus Exclusions for Hyper-V Hosts article</a> available from Microsoft.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Default path for <strong>Virtual Hard Disks</strong> (VHD/VHDX) should be set to a <strong>non-system drive</strong>, due to this can cause disk latency as well as create the potential for the host running out of disk space.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">If you are using iSCSI: In Windows Firewall with Advanced Security, <strong>enable iSCSI Service</strong> (TCP-In) for <strong>Inbound</strong> and <strong>iSCSI Service</strong> (TCP-Out) for <strong>outbound</strong>
in Firewall settings on each host. This will ensure iSCSI traffic is
allowed to pass from host to the SAN device and back. Not enabling these
rules will prevent iSCSI communication. To set the iSCSI firewall rules
via <strong>netsh</strong>, you can use the following command:</li>
</ul>
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<strong><span style="background-color: #faffe6; color: #51621c; float: none; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">PS C:\Windows\system32></span> Netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group=”iSCSI Service” new enable=yes</strong></div>
<ul class="checkbox">
<li style="text-align: justify;">Periodically run performance counters
against the host, to ensure optimal performance. Recommend using the
Hyper-V performance counter that can be extracted from the (free)
Codeplex PAL application: <a href="http://pal.codeplex.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://pal.codeplex.com/</a></li>
</ul>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
HYPER-V Virtual Machines</h4>
<ul class="checkbox">
<li style="text-align: justify;">Ensure you are running only supported guests in your environment.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Ensure you are using sophisticated backup software such as <a href="http://clixtrac.com/goto/?172170" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Altaro’s Hyper-V Backup</a> which also includes free lifetime backup for a specific amount of VMs</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">If you are converting VMware virtual machines to Hyper-V, consider using <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34591" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MVMC </a>(a free, stand-alone tool offered by Microsoft) or <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">VMM</a>.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Disk2vhd </a>is
a Tool which can be used to convert a Physical Machine to a Hyper-V
Virtual Machine (P2V). The VHD file created can then be imported in to
Hyper-V.</li>
</ul>
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<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
HYPER-V PHYSICAL NICs</h4>
<ul class="checkbox">
<li style="text-align: justify;">Ensure Network Adapters have the latest firmware and drivers, which often address known issues with hardware and performance.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>TCP Chimney Offload</strong> is
not supported with Server 2012 software-based NIC teaming, because TCP
Chimney has the entire networking stack offloaded to the NIC. If however
software-based NIC teaming is not used, you can leave <strong>TCP Chimney Offload</strong> enabled. To disable <strong>TCP Chimney Offload</strong>, from an elevated command-prompt, type the following command:</li>
</ul>
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<strong><span style="background-color: #faffe6; color: #51621c; float: none; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">PS C:\Windows\system32></span> netsh int tcp set global chimney=disabled</strong></div>
<ul class="checkbox">
<li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Jumbo frames</strong> should be turned on and set for <strong>9000</strong> or <strong>9014</strong>
(depending on your hardware) for CSV, iSCSI and Live Migration
networks. To verify Jumbo frames have been successfully configured, run
the following command from all your Hyper-V host(s) to your iSCSI SAN:</li>
</ul>
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<strong><span style="background-color: #faffe6; color: #51621c; float: none; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">PS C:\Windows\system32></span> ping 10.50.2.35 –f –l 8000</strong></div>
<div style="margin-left: 30px; text-align: justify;">
This command will
ping the SAN (e.g. 10.50.2.35) with an 8K packet from the host. If
replies are received, Jumbo frames are properly configured. Note that in
the case a network switch exists between the host and iSCSI SAN, Jumbo
frames must be enabled on that as well.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<img alt="hyper-v-best-practices-3" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/hyper-v-best-practices-3.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Hyper-V Jumbo Frame Support Test" /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Figure 3. Jumbo Frame Ping Test</div>
<ul class="checkbox">
<li style="text-align: justify;">Management NIC should be at the top (1st) in <strong>NIC Binding Order</strong>. To set the NIC binding order: <strong>Control Panel --> Network and Internet --> Network Connections</strong>. Next, select the <strong>advanced menu item</strong>, and select <strong>Advanced Settings</strong>. In the Advanced Settings window, select your <strong>management network</strong> under <strong>Connections</strong> and use the arrows on the right to move it to the top of the list.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">If using NIC teaming inside a guest VM, follow this order: Open the settings of the <strong>Virtual Machine</strong>, Under <strong>Network Adapter</strong>, select <strong>Advanced Features</strong>, in the right pane, under <strong>Network Teaming</strong>, tick the “<strong>Enable this network adapter to be part of a team in the guest operating system</strong>”. Once inside the VM, open <strong>Server Manager</strong>. In the <strong>All Servers</strong> view, <strong>enable NIC Teaming from Server</strong>:</li>
</ul>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<img alt="hyper-v-best-practices-4" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/hyper-v-best-practices-4.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Hyper-V Enable Network Card Teaming" /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Figure 4. Enable NIC Teaming</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
HYPER-V DISKS</h4>
<ul class="checkbox">
<li>
<div>
New disks should use the <strong>VHDX format</strong>. Disks
created in earlier Hyper-V iterations should be converted to VHDX,
unless there is a need to move the VHD back to a 2008 Hyper-V host.</div>
</li>
<li>
<div>
Disk used for CSV must be partitioned with NTFS. You cannot use a
disk for a CSV that is formatted with FAT, FAT32, or Resilient File
System (ReFS).</div>
</li>
<li>
<div>
Disks should be fixed in a production environment, to increase disk
throughput. Differencing and Dynamic disks are not recommended for
production, due to increased disk read/write latency times
(differencing/dynamic disks).</div>
</li>
<li>
<div>
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shared Virtual Hard Disk</span>: <strong>Do not use a shared VHDx</strong> file for the operating system disk. Servers should have a unique VHDx (for the OS) that only they can access. <strong>Shared Virtual Hard Disks</strong> are better used as data disks and for the disk witness.</div>
</li>
<li>
<div>
Use caution when using snapshots. If not properly managed,
snapshots can cause disk space issues, as well as additional physical
I/O overhead.</div>
</li>
<li>
<div>
Page file on Hyper-V Host should manage by the OS and not configured manually.</div>
</li>
<li>
<div>
It is not supported to create a storage pool using Fiber Channel or iSCSI LUNs.</div>
</li>
</ul>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
<br />HYPER-V MEMORY</h4>
<ul class="checkbox">
<li style="text-align: justify;">Use <strong>Dynamic Memory</strong> on all VMs (unless not supported).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Guest OS should be configured with (minimum) recommended memory</li>
</ul>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
<br />HYPER-V CLUSTERS</h4>
<ul class="checkbox">
<li style="text-align: justify;">Set preferred network for CSV
communication, to ensure the correct network is used for this traffic.
The lowest metric in the output generated by the PowerShell command
below, will be used for CSV traffic. First, open a PowerShell
command-prompt (using “Run as administrator”) Secondly, you’ll need to
import the “<strong>FailoverClusters</strong>” module. Type the following at the PowerShell command-prompt:</li>
</ul>
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<span style="background-color: #faffe6; color: #51621c; float: none; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">PS C:\Windows\system32></span> <strong>Import-Module FailoverClusters</strong></div>
<div style="margin-left: 30px; text-align: justify;">
Next, we’ll request a
listing of networks used by the host, as well as the metric assigned.
This can be done by typing the following:</div>
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PS C:\Windows\system32> <strong>Get-ClusterNetwork | ft Name, Metric, AutoMetric, Role</strong></div>
<div style="margin-left: 30px; text-align: justify;">
In order to change which network interface is used for CSV traffic, use the following PowerShell command:</div>
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PS C:\Windows\system32> <strong>(Get-ClusterNetwork "CSV Network").Metric=900</strong></div>
<div style="margin-left: 30px; text-align: justify;">
This will set the network named "<strong>CSV Network</strong>" to <strong>900</strong></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<img alt="hyper-v-best-practices-5" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/hyper-v-best-practices-5.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Hyper-V Get-ClusterNetwork "CSV Network").Metric=900" /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Figure 5. Get Cluster Network</div>
<ul class="checkbox">
<li style="text-align: justify;">Set preferred network for Live
Migration, to ensure the correct network(s) are used for this traffic
following these steps: Open <strong>Failover Cluster Manager</strong>, Expand the <strong>Cluster</strong> , Next, <strong>right-click</strong> on <strong>Networks</strong> and select <strong>Live Migration Settings</strong> , Use the <strong>Up/Down</strong> buttons to list the networks in order from most preferred (at the top) to least preferred (at the bottom) , <strong>Uncheck</strong> any networks you do not want used for Live Migration traffic , Select <strong>Apply</strong> and then press <strong>OK</strong> , Once you have made this change, it will be used for all VMs in the cluster</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">The <strong>Host Shutdown Time</strong> (<strong>ShutdownTimeoutInMinutes</strong>
registry entry) can be increased from the default time. This setting is
usually increased when additional time is needed by VMs in order to
ensure they have had enough time to shut down before the host reboots.</li>
</ul>
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Registry Key: <strong>HKLM\Cluster\ShutdownTimeoutInMinutes </strong></div>
<div style="margin-left: 30px; text-align: justify;">
Enter minutes in <strong>Decimal value</strong>.</div>
<div style="margin-left: 30px; text-align: justify;">
Note: Changing of this registy value requires a server reboot in order to take effect:</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<img alt="hyper-v-best-practices-6" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/hyper-v-best-practices-6.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Hyper-V Host Shutdown Time Registry Tweak" /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Figure 6. Registry Shutdown Option</div>
<ul class="checkbox">
<li style="text-align: justify;">Run the <strong>Cluster Validation</strong> periodically to remediate any issues</li>
</ul>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
<br />HYPER-V REPLICA</h4>
<ul class="checkbox">
<li style="text-align: justify;">Run the <strong>Hyper-V Replica Capacity Planner</strong>.
The Capacity Planner for Hyper-V Replica, allows you to plan your
Hyper-V Replica deployment based on the workload, storage, network and
server characteristics.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Update inbound traffic on the firewall
to allowTCP port 80 and/or port 443 traffic. (In Windows Firewall,
enable “Hyper-V Replica HTTP Listener (TCP-In)” rule on each node of the
cluster. Shell commands to achieve the above are:</li>
</ul>
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PS C:\Windows\system32> <strong>netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="Hyper-V Replica HTTP" new enable=yes</strong><br />PS C:\Windows\system32> <strong>netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="Hyper-V Replica HTTPS" new enable=yes</strong></div>
<ul class="checkbox">
<li style="text-align: justify;">Virtual hard disks with paging files should be excluded from replication, unless the page file is on the OS disk.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Test failovers should be performed
monthly, at a minimum, to verify that failover will succeed and that
virtual machine workloads will operate as expected after failover</li>
</ul>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
<br />HYPER-V CLUSTER-AWARE UPDATING</h4>
<ul class="checkbox">
<li style="text-align: justify;">Place all <strong>Cluster-Aware Updating</strong>
(CAU) Run Profiles on a single File Share accessible to all potential
CAU Update Coordinators. Run Profiles are configuration settings that
can be saved as an XML file called an Updating Run Profile and reused
for later Updating Runs.</li>
</ul>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
<br />HYPER-V SMB 3.0 FILE SHARES</h4>
<ul class="checkbox">
<li style="text-align: justify;">An <strong>Active Directory</strong> infrastructure is required, so you can grant permissions to the computer account of the Hyper-V hosts.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Loopback configurations</strong>
(where the computer that is running Hyper-V is used as the file server
for virtual machine storage) are not supported. Similarly, running the
file share in VM’s that are hosted on computer nodes that will serve
other VM’s is not supported.</li>
</ul>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
<br />HYPER-V INTEGRATION SERVICES</h4>
<ul class="checkbox">
<li>Ensure <strong>Integration Services</strong> (IS) have been installed on all VMs. IC's <strong>significantly improve</strong> interaction between the VM and the physical host.</li>
</ul>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
</h4>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
HYPER-V OFFLOADED DATA TRANSFER (ODX) Usage</h4>
<ul class="checkbox">
<li style="text-align: justify;">If your SAN supports ODX; you should
strongly consider enabling ODX on your Hyper-V hosts, as well as any VMs
that connect directly to SAN storage LUNs.</li>
</ul>
<div style="margin-left: 30px; text-align: justify;">
To enable <strong>ODX</strong>, open PowerShell (using ‘<strong>Run as Administrator</strong>’) and type the following:</div>
<div style="margin-left: 30px;">
<br /><span class="box-download">C:\> Set-ItemProperty hklm:\system\currentcontrolset\control\filesystem -Name "FilterSupportedFeaturesMode" –Value 0</span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 30px; text-align: justify;">
<br />Be sure to run this command on every Hyper-V host that connects to the SAN, as well as any VM that connects directly to the SAN.<br /><br />This concludes our Windows 2012 <strong>Hyper-V Best Practices</strong>
article. We hope you’ve found the information provided useful and that
it helps make your everyday administration a much easier task.</div>
</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03732698092158397093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305024249878895419.post-15763637328607119202015-07-13T03:54:00.001-07:002015-07-13T03:54:18.506-07:00The Importance of a Hyper-V Server Backup Tool - 20 Reasons Why You Should Use One<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Using Hyper-V Server virtualization
technology, you can virtualize your physical environment to reduce the
cost of physical hardware. As part of IT best practices, you implement
monitoring solutions to monitor the Hyper-V Servers and virtual machines
running on them. You also take necessary actions to provide security to
production environment by means of installing antivirus software. Then
it also becomes necessary that you implement a backup mechanism to
restore the business services as quickly as possible using a <strong>Hyper-V Server Backup tool</strong>.
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
This article is written to let you know as to why it is important to choose a dedicated <a href="http://www.altaro.com/hyper-v-backup/?LP=Fwcx-20art" target="_blank" title="Hyper-V Backup Tool">Hyper-V Backup tool</a> rather than relying on the existing mechanism as explained in bullet points below.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Users interested can also read our articles on <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/microsoft-knowledgebase/windows-2012/986-windows-virtualization-hyper-v-concepts.html" target="_blank" title="Hyper-V Concepts/VDI">Hyper-V Concepts/VDI</a>, <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/microsoft-knowledgebase/windows-2012/987-windows-2012-hyper-v-installation-configuration.html" target="_blank" title="how to install Hyper-V Server">how to install Hyper-V Server</a> & <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/microsoft-knowledgebase/windows-2012/1036-windows-hyper-v-creating-vm.html" target="_blank" title="creating a Virtual Machine in Hyper-V">creating a Virtual Machine in Hyper-V</a>.</div>
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<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
1. Flexibility</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Third-party backup products are designed
in such a way that the product is easy to use when it comes to backup
or restore a virtual machine running on the Hyper-V Server. For example,
using third-party backup product, you can select a virtual machine to
backup or restore. In case of any disaster with a virtual machine, it
becomes easy for an IT administrator to use the flexible backup
product’s console to restore a virtual machine from backup copies and
restore the business services as quickly as possible.</div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
2. Verification of Restores</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Third-party backup products provide
features to verify restores without impacting the production workload.
IT administrators can use the verification feature to restore the backup
copies to a standalone environment to make sure these backup copies can
be restored successfully in the future, if required.</div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
3. Designed for use with Hyper-V</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
A third-party backup product is designed
to use with a specific technology. For example, SQL Server Backup
products are designed to backup/restore SQL Server database. Similarly,
third-party Hyper-V Backup Products are designed to use specifically
with Hyper-V Servers. Since these dedicated Hyper-V backup products are
integrated with Hyper-V closely, they are more trusted by the IT
organizations.</div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
4. Full Backup Copy of Virtual Machine</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Although, starting with Windows Server
2012, Hyper-V Server offers replication services, sometimes referred as
Hyper-V Replica, which can be used to build a disaster recovery
scenario. The replication takes place every 5 minutes and changed data
are replicated to the Hyper-V Servers located on the disaster recovery
site. At the disaster site, you only have changed copies to restore
virtual machine from a failure. What if you need to restore the full
virtual machine? In that case, you would require the full backup copy of
the virtual machine which is only possible if you are using a dedicated
Hyper-V backup product.</div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
5. Maintaining Different Versions of Backup Copies</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
There are several reasons to maintain
different versions of backup copies. One of the reasons is to revert
back configuration to a point-in-time and another reason is to restore
the business services as quickly as possible from a backup copy of your
choice. A dedicated Hyper-V backup product can maintain several backup
copies of a virtual machine.</div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
6. Agenltess Backups/Restores</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Most of the third-party Hyper-V Backup
products ship without an Agent. An agent is a piece of software which is
installed on a Hyper-V server with communicates with the Backup
software. In case of an agentless backup software, it is easy for
administrators to perform backup/restore operations without worrying
about the agent’s response.</div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
7. Timely backing up virtual machines</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
As part of the standard IT process, many
organizations have a strategy in place in which backups for critical IT
components including virtual machines are scheduled in a timely manner.
These backups ensure that in case of any disaster (including physical),
the service can be restored from a backup copy taken from a dedicated
backup product rather than relying on native methods. The backup copy
not only allows you to restore services but also helps you understand
the impact of restoring a backup copy which is older.</div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
8. Centralized Management</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Backup software ships with a centralized
management tool. The centralized management tool is capable of managing
multiple Hyper-V Servers and checking the backup operations on multiple
Hyper-V servers from a single console.</div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
9. Avoid unnecessary Files Backup</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Since the backup software is designed to
work with a specific technology, it is designed in such a way that it
excludes the files which are not necessary to include in the virtual
machine backup copies. This helps in reducing the backup copy size.</div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
10. Compression</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
A dedicated Hyper-V backup product
offers compressing backup data before it is written to the backup drive.
You can enable/disable compression for all or selected virtual machines
using the third-party backup product’s console.</div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
11. Encryption</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Security is the major concern for IT
organizations nowadays. Third-party Hyper-V Backup products use
encryption technology to encrypt backup copies stored on a backup drive.
These backup copies can only be read by the same Hyper-V backup
product.</div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
12. Backup and Offsite Location</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
As part of the IT processes, every
organization ensures that the backup copies are kept at an off-site
location and these backup copies can be retrieved easily when the
disaster takes place at the production site. Native tools do not support
taking backup to an off-site location. Third-party backup products can
provide off-site backup feature in which backup copiescan be saved to an
off-site location without requiring much network bandwidth.</div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
13. Incremental Backup Copies</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
A dedicated Hyper-V backup product
ensures that only changed contents are backed up rather than taking a
full backup copy every time the backup job runs.</div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
14. More Backup Options</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Third-party backup products provide more
backup options like taking daily backups or monthly backups which can
be scheduled at a pre-defined interval using the centralized management
console.</div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
15. Backup to External Sources</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Third-party Hyper-V backup products
support backing up virtual machines to external sources including USB
external devices, eSata External drives, USB flash drives, Fileserver
network shares, NAS devices, and RDX cartriges.</div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
16. Backup Retention Policies</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Old backup copies can be deleted if they
are not required. You can configure the backup retention policy for
each virtual machine. A dedicated Hyper-V Backup product can take
automatic actions to delete the older backup copies as per the retention
policy you configure.</div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
17. Ability to Restore individual files or folders</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Without using a dedicated Hyper-V backup
product, it would be difficult for IT administrators to restore
individual files/folders from a virtual machine backup copy. Some backup
products provide a feature called “Exchange Level Item Restore” which
can be used to restore selected emails or mailboxes from a backup copy
of a virtual machine.</div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
18. Application Vendor Recommendation for Backup Products</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Many of the application vendors require
that an enterprise backup system is installed in the production
environment to backup data of their applications running in the virtual
machines. Since most of the vendors impose this requirement, or
recommend to back up application data using a dedicated Hyper-V backup
product, native backup tools fail to do so.</div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
19. Error and Reporting</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Error and Reporting are the main
features a third-party backup product provides. It lets you take
necessary actions if a failure takes place with a backup or restore
operation. Using reporting feature of a backup product, you can know how
many virtual machines have been backed up successfully and how many
virtual machines have failed.</div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
20. Support</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
In case if you’re not able to restore
virtual machine from a backup copy or hit with an error during the
restore or backup operation, you can always contact product support to
get you out from this situation. Many third-party backup products
provide 24/7 support for their products.</div>
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<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03732698092158397093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305024249878895419.post-13565050025638163672015-07-13T03:43:00.001-07:002015-07-13T03:43:09.408-07:00How to Install Windows Server 2012 from USB Flash – ISO Image<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Most
would remember the days we had to have a CDROM or DVDROM in order to
proceed with the installation of an operating system. Today, it is very
common installing an operating system direct from an ISO image. When
dealing with virtualized systems, it becomes pretty much a necessity. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">This
article will show how to install Windows Server 2012 (the same process
can be used for almost all other operating systems) from a USB Flash.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The
only prerequisite for this process to work is that you have a USB Flash
big enough to fit the ISO image and the server (or virtualization
platform) supports booting from a USB Flash. If these two requirements
are met, then it’s a pretty straight-forward process.</span></div>
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<h4 style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The Windows 7 USB-DVD Tool</span></h4>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The<a href="http://www.firewall.cx/downloads/administrator-utilities.html" target="_blank"> Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool</a> is a freely distributed application available in our <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/downloads/administrator-utilities.html" target="_blank">Administrator Utilities download section</a>.
The application is required to transfer/copy the ISO Image of the
operating system we want to install, to our USB Flash. The application
is also able to burn the ISO image directly on a DVD – a very hand
feature.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Download a copy, install and run it on the computer where the ISO image is available.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">When the tool runs, browse to the path where the ISO image is located. <span style="color: black;">Once selected, click on <strong>Next</strong></span>:</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: black;"><img alt="Installing Windows 2012 via USB Flash" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-installation-usb-flash-1.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Installing Windows 2012 via USB Flash" /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">At this point, we can choose to copy the image to our USB device (USB Flash) or directly on to a DVD. We select the <strong>USB Device</strong> option:</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: black;"><img alt="windows-2012-installation-usb-flash-2" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-installation-usb-flash-2.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Installing Windows 2012 via USB Flash - Selecting Media Type" /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">In
the next screen, we are required to select the correct USB device. If
there are more than one USB storage devices connected, extra care must
be taken to ensure the correct USB Flash is selected. In case no USB
Flash has been connected, insert it now into your USB port and click on
the <strong>refresh</strong> button for it to appear:</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: black;"><img alt="windows-2012-installation-usb-flash-3" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-installation-usb-flash-3.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Installing Windows 2012 via USB Flash - Insert USB Device" /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">After selecting the appropriate USB device, click on <strong>Begin Copying</strong> to start the transfer of files to the USB Flash:</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: black;"><img alt="windows-2012-installation-usb-flash-4" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-installation-usb-flash-4.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Installing Windows 2012 via USB Flash - Copying Files and creating Bootable USB Device" /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Once the copy process is complete, we are ready to remove our USB Flash and connect it to our server:</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: black;"><img alt="windows-2012-installation-usb-flash-6" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-installation-usb-flash-6.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Installing Windows 2012 via USB Flash - USB Bootable device Ready" /></span></div>
</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03732698092158397093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305024249878895419.post-53615206511868045462015-07-13T03:41:00.003-07:002015-07-13T03:41:53.730-07:00Creating a Virtual Machine in Windows Hyper-V. Configuring Virtual Disk, Virtual Switch, Integration Services and other Components<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<h4 style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
Steps to Create a Virtual Machine in Hyper-V</h4>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
T<span style="color: black;">o begin the creation of our first virtual machine, open the Hyper-V manager in Windows Server 2012. On the <strong>Actions</strong> pane located on the right side of the window, click <strong>New</strong> and select V<strong>irtual Machine:</strong> </span></div>
<img alt="windows-hyper-v-host-1" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-hyper-v-host-1.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Windows Hyper-V Manager" /><br />
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Read the <strong>Before you begin page</strong> which contains imporant information and then click <strong>Next:</strong> </span></div>
<img alt="Windows Hyper-V Creating new VM" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-hyper-v-host-2.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /><br />
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Type
name of the virtual machine and configure the location to store virtual
hard disk of this virtual machine. On server systems with shared
storage devices, the virtual hard disk is best stored on the shared
storage for performance and redundancy reasons, otherwise select a local
hard disk drive. For the purpose of this lab, we will be using the
server’s local <strong>C Drive</strong>:</span></div>
<img alt="Windows Hyper-V Specify VM Name" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-hyper-v-host-3.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /><br />
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Choose the generation of virtual machine and click <strong>Next</strong>. <strong>Generation 2</strong> is new with Server 2012 <strong>R2</strong>. If the guest operating system will be running Windows Server 2012 or 64bit Windows 8, 8.1, select <strong>Generation 2</strong>, otherwise select Generation 1: </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<img alt="Hyper-V Installing VM & Selecting VM Generation" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-hyper-v-host-4.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Next step involves assigning the amount of necessary memory. Under <strong>Assign Memory</strong> configure the memory and click <strong>Next</strong>. For the purpose of this lab, we will give our Windows 8.1 guest operating system 1 GB memory: </span></div>
<img alt="Hyper-V Assigning Memory to VM" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-hyper-v-host-5.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /><br />
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Under <strong>configure networking</strong> tab, leave the default setting and click <strong>Next</strong>. You can create virtual switches later and re-configure the virtual machine settings as required: </span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<img alt="Hyper-V Installing VM - Configuring VM Switch" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-hyper-v-host-6.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Next,
choose to create a virtual hard disk and specify the size. We allocated
a 60 GB disk size for our Windows 8.1 installation. When ready, click <strong>Next</strong>: </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<img alt="Hyper-V Configuring Virtual Hard Disk" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-hyper-v-host-7.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">One
of the great benefits with virtual machines is that we can proceed with
the installation of the new operating system using and ISO image,
rather than a CD/DVD. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Browse to the selected ISO image and click the <strong>Next</strong>
button. The virtual machine will try to boot from the selected ISO disk
when it starts, so it is important to ensure the ISO image is bootable:</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><img alt="Hyper-V Installing VM from ISO Image" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-hyper-v-host-8.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The last step allows us to review the virtual machine’s configuration summary. When ready click the <strong>Finish</strong> button: </span></div>
<span style="color: black;"><img alt="Hyper-V VM Summary Installation" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-hyper-v-host-9.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></span><br />
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;"><br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always;" /> </span></span></div>
<br />
<h4>
Install Windows 8.1 Guest Operating System in Hyper-V Virtual machine</h4>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">With
the configuration of our virtual machine complete, it’s time to power
on our virtual machine and install the operating system. Open <strong>Hyper-V Manager</strong>, and under the Virtual Machines section <strong>double-click</strong> the virtual machine created earlier. Click on the <strong>start</strong> button from the <strong>Action Menu</strong> to power on the virtual machine: </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><img alt="Hyper-V Starting a VM Machine" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-hyper-v-host-10.png" style="border: 1px solid #000000; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">After
the virtual machine completes its startup process, press any key to
boot from the Windows 8.1 disk (ISO media) we configured previously. The
Windows 8 installation screen will appear in a couple of seconds. Click
<strong>Next</strong> followed by the <strong>Install Now</strong> button to begin the installation of Windows operating system on the virtual machine:</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><img alt="Hyper-V Begin Windows 8 VM installation" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-hyper-v-host-11.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></span></div>
<br />
After accepting the <strong>End User License Agreement</strong> (<strong>EULA</strong>)
we can continue our post-installation setup by configuring the hard
disk. Windows will then begin its installation and update the screen as
it progresses. <span style="text-align: justify;">Finally, once the installation is complete, we are presented with the <strong>Personalization screen</strong> and finally, the <strong>Start Screen</strong>:</span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><img alt="Hyper-V VM Windows8 Start Screen" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-hyper-v-host-12.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">After the operating system installation and configuration is complete, it is important to proceed with the installation of <strong>Integration Services</strong>. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<strong><span style="color: black;">Integration Services</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> on Hyper-V is what <strong>VM Tools</strong> is for VMware. <strong>Integration Services</strong>
will help significantly enhance the VM’s guest operating system
performance, allow file copy from the host machine to the guest machine
easily, time synchronization between host and guest machines, improve
management of the VM by replacing the generic operating system drivers
for the mouse, keyboard, video card, network and SCSI controller
components.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Other services offered by <strong>Integration Services</strong> are:</span></div>
<ul class="check-green">
<li><span style="color: black;">Backup (Volume Snapshot)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Virtual Machine Connection Enhancements</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Hyper-V Shutdown Service</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Data Exchange</span></li>
</ul>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">To proceed with the installation of Integration Services, Go to the Virtual Machine’s console, selection <strong>Action</strong>, and click <strong>Insert Integration Services Setup Disk</strong> as shown below:</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><img alt="Hyper-V Host Intergration Services installation" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-hyper-v-host-13.png" style="border: 1px solid #000000; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
In the <strong>Upgrade Hyper-V Integration Services</strong> dialog box, click <strong>OK</strong> and when prompted, click <strong>Yes</strong> to restart the virtual machine. Using the <strong>Hyper-V Manager</strong> console, administrators can keep track of all VM's installed along side with their CPU Usage, Assigned memory and uptime:<br />
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><img alt="Hyper-V Manager - VM Status" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-hyper-v-host-14.png" style="border: 1px solid #000000; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></span></div>
</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03732698092158397093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305024249878895419.post-448444735667262052015-07-13T03:40:00.003-07:002015-07-13T03:40:35.758-07:00How to Install Windows 2012 Hyper-V via Server Manager & Windows PowerShell. Monitoring Hyper-V Virtual Machines<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<h4>
introduction to Microsoft Hyper-V</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Our <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/microsoft-knowledgebase/windows-2012/986-windows-virtualization-hyper-v-concepts.html" target="_blank">previous article</a> covered the <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/microsoft-knowledgebase/windows-2012/986-windows-virtualization-hyper-v-concepts.html" target="_blank">basic concepts of Virtualization and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V</a>. This article takes a closer look at Microsoft’s <strong>Hyper-V Virtualization</strong> platform and continues with the installation of the <strong>Hyper-V</strong> role via the Windows Server Manager interface and Windows PowerShell command prompt.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
Hyper-V is a server role used to create
virtualized environment by deploying different types of virtualization
technologies such as server virtualization, network virtualization and
desktop virtualization. The <strong>Hyper-V</strong> Server role can be installed in <strong>Server 2012 R2 Standard</strong>, <strong>Datacenter </strong>or <strong>Essentials edition</strong>. Hyper-V version 3.0 is the latest version of Hyper V server available in Windows Server 2012 R2 versions. Additional <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/microsoft-knowledgebase/windows-2012.html" target="_blank" title="Windows 2012 Server Technical articles">Windows 2012 Server</a> and <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/microsoft-knowledgebase/windows-2012.html" target="_blank" title="Hyper-V Technical articles">Hyper-V technical articles</a> can be found in our <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/microsoft-knowledgebase/windows-2012.html" target="_blank" title="Windows 2012 Server Technical articles">Windows 2012 Server</a> section.</div>
<div class="box-info">
To learn more about the licensing restrictions on each Windows Server 2012 edition, read our article <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/microsoft-knowledgebase/windows-2012/983-windows-2012-editions-licensing.html">Windows 2012 Server Foundation, Essential, Standard & Datacenter Edition Differences, Licensing & Supported Features. </a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #3366ff;">Hyper-V Hardware Requirements</span></h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The <strong>Hyper-V server role</strong> requires specific system-hardware requirements to be met. The minimum hardware requirements are listed in the table below:</div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: justify;">
<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr style="background-color: #006666;">
<td valign="top" width="165">
<span style="color: white;"><strong>Hardware</strong></span><br />
</td>
<td valign="top" width="521">
<span style="color: white;"><strong>Minimum Requirements</strong></span><br />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="165">
Processor<br />
</td>
<td valign="top" width="521">
<ul>
<li><strong>1.4Ghz 64-bit</strong> with <strong>hardware assisted virtualization</strong>.
Available in processors that include a virtualization
option—specifically, Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) or AMD
Virtualization (AMD-V)</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Hardware-enforced Data Execution Prevention</strong> (<strong>DEP</strong>)
must be available and enabled. Specifically, you must enable the Intel
XD bit (execute disable bit) or AMD NX bit (no execute bit).</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="165">
Memory<br />
</td>
<td valign="top" width="521">
512 MB<br />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="165">
Network Adapter<br />
</td>
<td valign="top" width="521">
At least one Gigabit Ethernet adapter<br />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="165">
Disk Space<br />
</td>
<td valign="top" width="521">
32 GB<br />
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Keep in mind that the above table
specifies the minimum requirements. If you wanted to install Hyper-V in a
production environment along with a number of virtual machines, you
will definitely need more than 512MB memory and 32GB disk space.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #3366ff;">Installing The Hyper-V Server Role in Server 2012 Using Server Manager</span></h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
In Windows Server 2012, you can install Hyper-V server role by using the<strong> Server Manager</strong> (GUI) or windows <strong>PowerShell</strong>. In both cases, the installation requires the user to be an <strong>Administrator</strong> or member of <strong>Administrators</strong> or <strong>Hyper-V</strong> administrators group.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
At first, open <strong>Server Manager</strong>. Click <strong>Manage</strong> and select the <strong>Add Roles and Features</strong> option:</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<img alt="windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-1" height="227" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-1.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Windows 2012 Hyper-V Installation & Configuration - Server Manager" width="351" /><em>Add Role and Features</em></div>
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Click <strong>Next</strong> on the <strong>Before you begin</strong> page.</div>
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Choose <strong>Role-based or feature-based Installation</strong> option and click <strong>Next</strong> button:</div>
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<img alt="windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-2" height="453" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-2.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Windows 2012 Hyper-V Installation & Configuration - Add Roles and Features Wizard" width="650" /></div>
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<em> Choose Role-based or feature-based Installation</em></div>
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In the next window, click on <strong>Select a server from the server pool</strong> option and select the server where you would like to install the <strong>Hyper-V server role</strong>. Click on <strong>Next</strong> after selecting the server:</div>
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<img alt="windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-3" height="456" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-3.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Windows 2012 Hyper-V Installation & Configuration - Selecting Destination Server to install Hyper-V" width="650" /></div>
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<em> Select the Destination Server to Install Hyper-V</em></div>
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The next screen lists the available roles for installation, check <strong>Hyper-V</strong> and click <strong>Next</strong>:</div>
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<img alt="windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-4" height="457" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-4.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Windows 2012 Hyper-V Installation & Configuration - Selecting Hyper-V Role" width="650" /></div>
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<em>Selecting the Hyper-V Role for Installation</em></div>
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Read the Hyper-V role information and click the <strong>Next</strong> button:</div>
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<img alt="windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-5" height="457" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-5.png" title="Windows 2012 Hyper-V Installation & Configuration" width="650" /></div>
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<em> Hyper -V Installation</em></div>
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The next step involves the creation of <strong>Virtual Switches</strong>. Choose your server’s physical network adapters that will take part in the virtualization:</div>
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<img alt="windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-6" height="461" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-6.png" title="Windows 2012 Hyper-V Installation & Configuration - Creating Virtual Switches" width="650" /></div>
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<em>Creating Your Virtual Switches</em></div>
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The selected physical network adapters
(in case you have more than one available) will be used and shared by
virtual machines to communicate with the physical network. After
selecting the appropriate network adaptors, click <strong>Next</strong> to proceed to the <strong>Migration screen</strong>.</div>
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Under <strong>Migration</strong>, leave the default settings as is and click <strong>Next</strong>:</div>
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<img alt="windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-7" height="461" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-7.png" title="Windows 2012 Hyper-V Installation & Configuration - Live Migration" width="650" /></div>
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<em>Leave Default Migration Settings</em></div>
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These settings can also be modified later on. <strong>Live Migration</strong> is similar to <strong>VMware’s vMotion</strong>, allowing the real-time migration of virtual machines to another physical host (server).</div>
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Under <strong>Default Stores</strong>,
you can configure the location of hard disk files and configuration
files of all virtual machines. This is a location where all the virtual
machine data will reside. You can also configure a SMB shared folder
(Windows network folder), local drive or even a shared storage device.</div>
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We will leave the settings to their default location and click the <strong>Next</strong> button.</div>
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<img alt="windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-8" height="461" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-8.png" title="Windows 2012 Hyper-V Installation & Configuration - Selecting Storage Store" width="650" /></div>
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<em>Selecting a Location to Store the Virtual Machines</em></div>
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The final screen allows us to review our configuration and proceed with the installation by clicking on the <strong>Install</strong> button:</div>
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<img alt="windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-9" height="461" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-9.png" title="Windows 2012 Hyper-V Installation Confirmation" width="650" /></div>
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<em>Hyper-V Installation Confirmation</em></div>
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Windows will now immediately begin the installation of the <strong>Hyper-V role </strong>and continuously update the installation window as shown below.</div>
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<img alt="windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-10" height="457" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-10.png" title="Windows 2012 Hyper-V Installation Progress" width="650" /></div>
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<em>Hyper-V Installation Progress</em></div>
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Once the installation of <strong>Hyper-V</strong> is complete, the Windows server will restart.</div>
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<span style="color: #3366ff;">Installing Hyper-V role using Windows PowerShell</span></h4>
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The second way to install the <strong>Hyper-V</strong> role is via Windows <strong>PowerShell</strong>. Surprisingly enough, the installation is initiated with a single command.</div>
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Type the following <strong>cmdlet</strong> in <strong>PowerShell</strong> to install the <strong>Hyper-V</strong> server role your Windows Server 2012:</div>
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C:\Users\Administrator> <strong>Install-WindowsFeature –Name Hyper-V –IncludeManagementTools –Restart</strong></div>
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<em><img alt="windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-11-large" height="106" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-11-large.png" title="Windows 2012 Hyper-V Installation via PowerShell" width="705" /> </em></div>
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<em>Hyper-V Installation with PowerShell<strong> </strong></em></div>
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To install <strong>Hyper-V</strong> server role on remote computer, include the <strong>-ComputerName</strong> switch. In our example, the remote computer was named <strong>Voyager</strong>:</div>
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C:\Users\Administrator> <strong>Install-WindowsFeature –Name Hyper-V –ComputerName Voyager –IncludeManagementTools –Restart</strong></div>
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Once the installation is complete, the server will restart. Once the server has booted, you can open <strong>Hyper-V Server Manager</strong> and begin creating the virtual machines:</div>
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<em><img alt="windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-12" height="371" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-12.png" title="Windows 2012 Hyper-V Manager" width="650" /></em></div>
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<em>Hyper-V Manager</em></div>
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<h4>
Monitoring of Hyper-V Virtual Machines</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
When working in a virtualization
environment, it is extremely important to keep an eye on virtualization
service and ensure everything is running smoothly.</div>
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Thankfully, Microsoft provides an easy way to monitor Hyper-V elements and take action before things get to a critical stage.</div>
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The <strong>Hyper-V Manager</strong>
console allows you to monitor processor, memory, networking, storage and
overall health of the Hyper-V server and its virtual machines, while
other Hyper-V monitoring metrics are accessible through <strong>Task Manager</strong>, <strong>Resource Monitor</strong>, <strong>Performance Monitor</strong> and <strong>Event Viewer</strong> to monitor different parameters of Hyper-V server.</div>
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The screenshot below shows the <strong>Hyper-V Manager</strong> with one virtual machine installed. At a first glance, we can view the <strong>VM’s state</strong>, <strong>CPU Usage</strong>, <strong>Assigned Memory</strong> and <strong>Uptime</strong>:</div>
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<em><img alt="windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-13-large" height="220" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-13-large.png" title="Windows 2012 Hyper-V - Viewing Virtual Machine Status" width="767" /></em></div>
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<em>View Virtual Machine Status</em></div>
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Under Window’s <strong>Event Viewer</strong> we’ll find a number of advanced logs that provide a deeper view of the various <strong>Hyper-V</strong> components, as shown below:</div>
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<a class="jcepopup" href="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-14-large.png" title="Windows 2012 Hyper-V Installation & Configuration - Hyper-V Events"><img alt="windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-14" height="377" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-14.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Windows 2012 Hyper-V Events" width="650" /></a></div>
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<em>Hyper-V Events (click to enlarge)</em></div>
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Addition information on <strong>Hyper-V</strong> can be obtained through the usage of Window’s <strong>Performance Monitor</strong>, which provides a number of <strong>Hyper-V</strong> useful counters as shown below:</div>
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<img alt="windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-15" height="377" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-hyper-v-install-config-15.png" title="Windows 2012 Hyper-V Performance Monitor" width="650" /></div>
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<em>Hyper-V Performance Monitor</em></div>
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Most experienced virtualization
administrators will agree that managing and monitoring a virtualization
environment can be a full-time job. It is very important to ensure your
virtualization strategy is well planned and VMs are hosted on servers
with plenty of resources such as Physical CPUs, RAM and Disk storage
space, to ensure they are not starved of these resources during periods
of high-utilization.</div>
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<h4>
<span style="color: #99cc00;"><span style="color: blue;">Introduction to Virtualization</span></span></h4>
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Virtualization is an abstraction layer
that creates separate distinct virtual environments allowing the
operation of different operating systems, desktops and applications
under the same or combined pool of resources. In the past couple of
years, virtualization has gained an incredible rate of adoption as
companies consolidate their existing server and network infrastructure,
in hope to create a more efficient infrastructure that can keep up with
their growing needs while at the same time keep the running and
administration costs as low as possible. </div>
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Our readers can visit our dedicated <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/microsoft-knowledgebase/windows-2012.html" target="_blank" title="Windows Server 2012 Server section">Windows Server 2012 Server section</a> to read more on <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/microsoft-knowledgebase/windows-2012.html" target="_blank" title="Windows Hyper-V virtualization">Windows Hyper-V Virtualization</a> and <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/microsoft-knowledgebase/windows-2012.html" target="_blank" title="Windows Server 2012 Server section">Windows Server 2012</a> technical articles.</div>
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When we hear the word ‘<strong>Virtualization’</strong>, most think about ‘server virtualization’ – which of course is the most widely applied scenario, however today the term <strong>virtualization</strong> also applies to a number of concepts including:</div>
<ul class="checkbox">
<li><strong>Server virtualization</strong>: - <strong>Server virtualization</strong> allows multiple operating systems to be installed on top of single physical server.</li>
<li><strong>Desktop virtualization</strong>: - <strong>Desktop virtualization</strong>
allows deployment of multiple instances of virtual desktops to users
through the LAN network or Internet. Users can access virtual desktops
by using thin clients, laptops, or tablets.</li>
<li><strong>Network virtualization</strong>: - <strong>Network virtualization</strong> also known as <strong>Software Defined Networking</strong> (<strong>SDN</strong>) is a software version of network technologies like switches, routers, and firewalls. The <strong>SDN</strong> makes intelligent decisions while the physical networking device forwards traffic.</li>
<li><strong>Application virtualization</strong>: - <strong>Application virtualization</strong> allows an application to be streamed to many desktop users. Hosted <strong>application virtualization</strong>
allows the users to access applications from their local computers that
are physically running on a server somewhere else on the network.</li>
</ul>
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This article will be focusing on the <strong>Server virtualization platform</strong>,
which is currently the most active segment of the virtualization
industry. As noted previously, with server virtualization a physical
machine is divided into many virtual servers – each virtual server
having its own operating system. The core element of server
virtualization is the <strong>Hypervisor </strong>– a thin layer of
software that sits between the hardware layer and the multiple operating
systems (virtual servers) that run on the physical machine.</div>
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The <strong>Hypervisor </strong>provides
the virtual CPUs, memory and other components and intercepts virtual
servers requests to the hardware. Currently, there are two types of
Hypervisors:</div>
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<strong>Type 1 Hypervisor</strong> –
This is the type of hypervisor used for bare-metal servers. These
hypervisors run directly on the physical server’s hardware and the
operating systems run on top of it. Examples of <strong>Type-1 Hypervisors</strong> are Microsoft’s Hyper-V, VMware ESX, Citrix XenServer.</div>
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<strong>Type 2 Hypervisor</strong> – This is the type of hypervisor that runs on top of existing operating systems. Examples of <strong>Type-2 Hypervisors</strong> are VMware Workstation, SWSoft’s Parallels Desktop and others.</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Microsoft Server Virtualization – Hyper-V Basics</span></h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Microsoft introduced its server virtualization platform <strong>Hyper-V</strong> with the release of Windows Server 2008. <strong>Hyper-V</strong> is a server role that can be installed from Server Manager or PowerShell in Windows Server 2012.</div>
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With the release of <strong>Windows Server 2012</strong> and <strong>Windows Server 2012 R2</strong>,
Microsoft has made lot of improvements in their Hyper-V virtualization
platform. Features like live migration, dynamic memory, network
virtualization, remoteFX, Hyper-V Replica, etc. have been added to new <strong>Hyper-V 3.0</strong> in Server 2012.</div>
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Hyper-V is a <strong>type 1 hypervisor</strong>
that operates right above the hardware layer. The Windows Server 2012
operating system remains above the hypervisor layer, despite the fact
the Hyper-V role is installed from within the Windows Server operating
system. The physical server where Hypervisor or Hyper-V server role is
installed is called the <strong>host machine</strong> or <strong>virtualization server</strong>. Similarly, the virtual machines installed on Hyper-V are called <strong>guest machines</strong>.</div>
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<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;">Understanding Traditional vs Modern Server Deployment Models</span></h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Let’s take a look at the traditional way
of server configuration. The figure below shows the typical traditional
server deployment scenario where one server per application model is
applied. In this deployment model, each application has its own
dedicated physical server.</div>
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<strong><img alt="windows-hyper-v-concepts-vdi-1" height="323" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-hyper-v-concepts-vdi-1.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Windows 2012 Hyper-V Concepts - Traditional Server Deployment" width="633" /></strong><em>Traditional Server Deployment</em></div>
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This traditional model of server
deployment has many disadvantages such as increased setup costs,
management & backup overhead, increased physical space and power
requirements, plus many more. Resource utilization of this type of
server consolidation is usually below 10%. Practically, this means that
we have 5 underutilized servers.</div>
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<strong>Virtualization </strong>comes to dramatically change the above scenario.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Using Microsoft’s <strong>Windows Server 2012</strong> along with the <strong>Hyper-V role</strong>
installed, our traditional server deployment model is transformed into a
single physical server with a generous amount of resources (CPU,
Memory, Storage space, etc) ready to undertake the load of all virtual
servers.</div>
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The figure below shows how the traditional model of server deployment is now virtualized with Microsoft’s Hyper-V server:</div>
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<strong><strong><img alt="windows-hyper-v-concepts-vdi-2" height="238" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-hyper-v-concepts-vdi-2.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Windows 2012 Hyper-V Concepts - Hyper-V Server Consolidation" width="623" /></strong></strong><em>Hyper-V Server Consolidation</em></div>
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As shown in the figure above, all the
five servers are now virtualized into single physical server. It is
important to note that even though these virtual machines run on top of
the same hardware platform, each virtual server is completely isolated
from other virtual machines.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
There are many benefits of this type of
virtualized server consolidation. A few important benefits are reduced
management overhead, faster server deployment, efficient resource
utilization, reduced power consumption and so on.</div>
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<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;">Network Virtualization with Hyper-V</span></h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
With the power of network virtualization
you can create multi-tenant environment and assign virtual machines or
group of virtual machines to different organizations or different
departments. In a traditional network, you would simply create different
VLANs on physical switches to isolate them from the rest of the
network(s). Likewise, in <strong>Hyper-V</strong>, you can also create VLANs and virtual switches to isolate them from the network in the same way.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Readers can also refer to our <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/networking-topics/vlan-networks.html" target="_blank">VLAN section</a> that analyses the concept of <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/networking-topics/vlan-networks.html" target="_blank">VLANs and their characteristics</a>.</div>
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For example, you can configure a group
of virtual machines on the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet and other group of
virtual machines on 192.168.2.0/24 subnet.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><img alt="windows-hyper-v-concepts-vdi-3" height="502" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-hyper-v-concepts-vdi-3.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Windows 2012 Hyper-V Concepts - Hyper-V Networking & LAG/EtherChannel Trunk Links" width="388" /></strong><em>Hyper-V Networking</em></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Each virtual machine can have more than
one virtual network adapter assigned to it. Like regular physical
network adapters, the virtual network adapters can be configured with IP
addresses, MAC addresses, NIC teaming and so on. These virtual network
adapters are connected to a <strong>virtual switch</strong>. A <strong>Virtual switch </strong>is
a software version of physical switch that is capable of forwarding
traffic, VLAN traffic, and so on. The virtual switch is created from
within the <strong>Hyper-V</strong> <strong>Manager </strong>and is then
connected to one or more available physical network adapters of the
host machine. The physical network adapters on the host machine are then
connected to physical switch on the network.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
As shown in figure 1.3, three VLANs are
created under same virtual switch. The host is then connected to the
physical switch by usually combining the multiple physical network cards
into one also called <strong>LAG </strong>(Link Aggregation Group) or <strong>EtherChannel </strong>(Cisco’s implementation of LAG) interface. <strong>LAG </strong>or <strong>EtherChannel </strong>combines
the speed of both physical network adapters. If for example we have
two 1Gbps physical network cards, with the use of LAG or EtherChannel,
these are combine into a single <strong>2Gbps</strong> network card.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Microsoft’s <strong>Hyper-V</strong> supports the creation of three different types of virtual switches:</div>
<ol style="text-align: justify;">
<li><strong>Internal</strong>: - The <strong>internal virtual</strong> <strong>switch</strong>
can communicate only between virtual machines. A common example is a
cluster based system where virtual servers connect with each other
through a dedicated network connection. Internal virtual switches do not
connect to the physical network infrastructure (e.g switches).</li>
<li><strong>External</strong>: - The <strong>external virtual switch</strong>
can communicate directly with the physical network infrastructure. The
virtual switch is used to for the seamless communication between the
virtual machines and the physical network.</li>
<li><strong>Private</strong>: - The <strong>private virtual switch</strong> can communicate between virtual machines and the physical host only (physical hardware server).</li>
</ol>
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<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;">Virtual Deployment Infrastructure (VDI) Deployment with Hyper-V</span></h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>VDI</strong> is a new way of delivering desktops to end users. In <strong>VDI</strong>,
virtual desktops are hosted centrally as virtual machines and are
provided or streamed to users via the network or Internet using <strong>Remote Desktop Protocol</strong> (<strong>RDP</strong>)
service. These virtual desktops can be used or accessed by users with
different types of devices like, PCs, laptops, tablets, smart phones,
thin clients, and so on. <strong>VDI</strong> have created a new hype of <strong>Bring Your Own Device</strong> (<strong>BYOD</strong>) concept. With <strong>BYOD</strong>
policy implemented in the organization, users can bring their own
devices like laptops, tablets, etc. and the company delivers the
required virtual desktop via the network infrastructure.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>VDI</strong> is an upcoming trend that offers many advantages such as:</div>
<ul class="check">
<li>Central management and control</li>
<li>Low cost since there is no need of desktop PCs. Alternate devices such as thin clients usually preferred</li>
<li>Low power consumption. Tablets, thin clients, laptops require low power compared to traditional desktop or tower PCs</li>
<li>Faster desktop deployments</li>
<li>More efficient backup</li>
</ul>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>VDI</strong> is fully supported and can be implemented in Windows Server 2012 by installing <strong>Remote Desktop Services</strong>
server role and configuring the virtualization host. You can create
virtual machines running Windows XP/7/8 and easily assign the virtual
machines to users.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
We’ve covered a few of the important virtualization features deployable with <strong>Windows Server 2012</strong> and <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/microsoft-knowledgebase/windows-2012/987-windows-2012-hyper-v-installation-configuration.html" target="_blank" title="Hyper-V Installation"><strong>Hyper-V</strong></a>, that allow organizations to consolidate their server, network and desktop infrastructure, into a more efficient model. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03732698092158397093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305024249878895419.post-79682287460069681092015-07-13T03:39:00.000-07:002015-07-13T03:39:01.462-07:00New Features in Windows Server 2012 - Why Upgrade to Windows 2012<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<h4>
Server 2012 New Features</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
There is no doubt that<strong> Cloud Computing</strong>
is hot topic these days. Innovations in cloud computing models have
made every industry and company IT departments to re-think their
traditional model of computing. Realizing the benefits and challenges of
cloud computing, Microsoft have jumped into the game of Cloud computing
by releasing a cloud optimized server operating system called Windows
Server 2012.</div>
Windows Server 2012 has dozens of new features and services that makes it cloud ready. Windows Server 2012 <strong>R2</strong> is the latest version of server operating system from Microsoft and successor of Server 2012. For more <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/microsoft-knowledgebase/windows-2012.html" target="_blank" title=" Windows 2012 Server Technical Articles">technical articles on Windows 2012 Server</a> and <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/microsoft-knowledgebase/windows-2012.html" target="_blank" title=" Windows 2012 Server Technical Articles">Hyper-V Virtualization</a>, visit our<a href="http://www.firewall.cx/microsoft-knowledgebase/windows-2012.html" target="_blank" title=" Windows 2012 Server Technical Articles"> Windows 2012 Server</a> section.<br /><br />Lets take a look at some of the new features <strong>Windows Server 2012</strong> now supports:<br />
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<h4>
Windows Server Manager</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>Server Manager</strong> is one
of the major changes of Windows Server 2012. With a new ‘look and feel’
of the Server Manager user interface, administrators now have the option
to group multiple servers on their network and manage them centrally – a
useful feature that will save valuable time. With this grouping
feature, monitoring events, services, installed roles, performance, on
multiple servers from a single window is easy, fast and requires very
little effort.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-features-1-large.png"><img alt="windows-2012-features-1" height="327" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-features-1.jpg" title="Windows Server 2012 - Server Manager Dashboard" width="650" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Figure 1. Windows Server 2012 - Server Manager Dashboard (click to enlarge)</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Similar to the Server Manager of
previous version of windows servers, it can be used to install in
Windows Server 2012 to install server roles and features.<strong><br /></strong></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h4>
Windows PowerShell 3.0</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
PowerShell 3.0 is another important
improvement in Windows Server 2012. PowerShell is a command line and
scripting tool designed to stretch greater control of window servers.
The graphical user interface (GUI) of Windows Server 2012 is built on
top of PowerShell 3.0. When you click buttons in GUI interface,
PowerShell cmdlets & scripts are actually running in the background
‘translating’ mouse button commands to executable commands and scripts. <br /><br />PowerShell
scripts allow more tasks to be executed faster and within a short
period of time, since the absence of the GUI interface means less
crashes and problems.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<img alt="windows-2012-features-2" height="261" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-features-2.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Windows Server 2012 - PowerShell command prompt" width="468" />Figure 2. Windows Server 2012 PowerShell</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Hundreds of PowerShell cmdlets have been
added to Windows Server 2012 and we expect a lot more to be added in
the near future, expanding their functionality and providing a new
faster and more stable way to administer a Windows Server 2012. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h4>
Hyper-V 3.0</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Similar to VMware’s ESXi hypervisor, <strong>Hyper-V</strong>
is Microsoft’s offering of a virtualization platform. This important
feature allows to run many instances of virtual machines on single
physical Windows Server 2012. Hyper-V features such as live migration,
dynamic memory, network virtualization, remoteFX, Hyper-V Replica, etc.
have made the Hyper-V platform more competitive against other
alternatives. <br /><br />The screenshot below shows the <strong>Hyper-V Manager console</strong>:</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a class="jcepopup" href="http://www.firewall.cx/component/jce/?view=popup&tmpl=component" title="Windows Server 2012 - Hyper-V Manager"><img alt="windows-2012-features-3" height="370" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-features-3.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Windows Server 2012 - Hyper-V Manager" width="650" /></a>Figure 3. Windows Server 2012 - Hyper-V Manager (click to enlarge)</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
When combined with <strong>Microsoft’s System Center</strong>, Windows Hyper-V becomes much more powerful and a very competitive solution that can even support private or public clouds.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h4>
Hyper-V Replica</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V roles introduces a new capability – <strong>Hyper-V Replica</strong> - a feature many administrators will welcome.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
This new feature allows the asynchronous
replication of selected VMs to a backup replica server. On the local
LAN, it means you get a full backup copy of your VMs to another hardware
server, while on a WAN scale this can also be extended to backup VMs to
a designated replicate site across a WAN infrastructure. Common
examples of WAN backup replication are disaster recovery sites. The
replication cycle has a minimum setting of 15 minute gaps between every
replication. This means the backup VM will be 15 minutes behind its
source - the primary VM. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
When installed, <strong>Hyper-V Replica</strong>
creates a snapshot of whole server, which usually requires a lot of
time depending on the amount of data, and from there on, only changes
are replicated. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h4>
Server Message Block (SMB) 3.0</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>SMB </strong>is a file sharing protocol used in windows servers. In Windows Server 2012, <strong>SMB </strong>is
now up to version 3.0 with new interesting features such as support for
deduplication, hot pluggable interfaces, multichannel, encryption,
Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) for shared files, and many more.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
In addition, Hyper-V’s Virtual Hard Disk
(VHD) files and virtual machines can also be hosted on shared folders.
This allows the effective usage of shared folders, ensuring you make the
most out of all available resources.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h4>
Dynamic Access Control (DAC)</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>DAC </strong>is a central management system used to manage security permissions of files and folders. In a nutshell, <strong>DAC </strong>is new and flexible way of setting up permission on files and folders. With <strong>DAC</strong>,
an administrator can now classify the data according to user claims,
device claims and resource properties. Once data is classified, you can
setup the permissions to control user access to the classified data.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h4>
Storage Space</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>Storage Space</strong> is also
another new feature of Windows Server 2012. This new feature pools
different physical disks together and divides them into different
spaces. These spaces are then used like regular disks. In the storage
pool control panel (shown below), you can add any type or size of
physical disks (e.g SSD, SCSI, SATA etc). You can also configure
mirroring, raid redundancy and more.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Likewise, you can add storage at any
time and the new space will be automatically available for use in
storage space. Provisioning is also supported in<strong> Storage Space</strong>,
allowing you to specify whether the new space be thin provisioned or
thick. With thin provisioning, disk space is incremented automatically
on a “as needed” basis, eliminating the need of occupying unnecessary
disk space. </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<img alt="windows-2012-features-4-large" height="414" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-features-4-large.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Windows Server 2012 - Storage Space/Pools" width="725" /> Figure 4. Windows Server 2012 - Storage Space</div>
Following are pointers on the main features provided by <strong>Storage Space</strong>:<br />
<ul class="checkbox">
<li>
<div>
Obtain and easily manage reliable and scalable storage with reduced cost</div>
</li>
<li>
<div>
Aggregate individual drives into storage pools that are managed as a single entity</div>
</li>
<li>
<div>
Utilize simple inexpensive storage with or without external storage</div>
</li>
<li>
<div>
Provision storage as needed from pools of storage you’ve created</div>
</li>
<li>
<div>
Grow storage pools on demand</div>
</li>
<li>
<div>
Use PowerShell to manage Storage Spaces for Windows 8 clients or Windows Server 2012</div>
</li>
<li>
<div>
Delegate administration by specific pool</div>
</li>
<li>
<div>
Use diverse types of storage in the same pool: SATA, SAS, USB, SCSI</div>
</li>
<li>
<div>
Use existing tools for backup/restore as well as VSS for snapshots</div>
</li>
<li>
<div>
Designate specific drives as hot spares</div>
</li>
<li>
<div>
Automatic repair for pools containing hot spares with sufficient storage capacity to cover what was lost</div>
</li>
<li>
<div>
Management can be local, remote, through MMC, or PowerShell</div>
</li>
</ul>
<br />
<h4>
DirectAccess</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>DirectAccess </strong>is
Microsoft’s answer to VPN connectivity, allowing remote clients to
access your network under an encrypted connection. Thanks to its easy
installation and improved friendly interface, administrators are able to
quickly setup and manage VPN services on their Windows Server 2012
system. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>DirectAccess </strong>supports
SSL (WebVPN) and IPSec protocols for VPN connections. A very interesting
feature is the ‘Permanent VPN’ which allows mobile users to establish
their VPN initially and then place it ‘on hold’ when their internet
connectivity is lost. The VPN session will then automatically resume
once the user has Internet access again. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
This time-saving feature ensures VPN
users experience a seamlessly VPN connection to the office without the
frustration of login in every time Internet connectivity is lost, while
also allowing the automation of other tasks in the background (e.g
Remote backup of files).</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h4>
Data Deduplication</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>Data Deduplication</strong> is a
specialized data compression technique for eliminating duplicate copies
of repeating data. In the deduplication process, unique chunks of
data, or byte patterns, are identified and stored during a process of
analysis. As the analysis continues, other chunks are compared to the
stored copy and whenever a match occurs, the redundant chunk is replaced
with a small reference that points to the stored chunk. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
We should note that <strong>Data Deduplication</strong> is not only a Windows 2012 Server feature, but a technology supported by many vendors such as EMC, NetApp, Symantec and others.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h4>
Window-less Interface: CLI Only-Mode</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Microsoft now supports Windows Server
2012 without a graphical user interface (GUI). This means you can
install and configure a Windows Server 2012 with GUI and after finishing
the setup, remove the GUI completely! You also have the option to
install the Windows Server 2012 with GUI or without GUI.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Running your server without a GUI interface will help save valuable resources and also increase the system’s stability. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h4>
IP Address Management (IPAM)</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>IPAM </strong>is a central IP address management tool of your entire network. <strong>IPAM </strong>can work with DNS and DHCP to better allocate, discover, issue, lease and renew IP addresses. <strong>IPAM </strong>gives a central view of where IP addresses are being used within your network.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h4>
Resilient File System (ReFS)</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>ReFS</strong> is Microsoft’s latest file system capable of replacing the well-known NTFS file system. The main advantage of <strong>ReFS </strong>is automatic error correction (verify and auto-corect process) regardless of the underlying hardware. <strong>ReFS </strong>uses checksum to detect and correct errors. The <strong>ReFS </strong>file
system has the ability to support a maximum file size of 16 Exabytes
(16.7 Million TBytes!) and a maximum volume size of 1 Yottabyte (1.1
Trilion TBytes)</div>
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<h4>
Article Summary</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Undoubtedly Windows Server 2012 is
packed with new features and additions, designed to help organizations
take advantages of cost optimizing features like Hyper V, Storage
Spaces, PowerShell 3.0, Data Deduplication, SMB 3.0, new Server Manager
and others. Microsoft has also simplified the licensing schemes and
introduced four editions of Server 2012. These are <strong>Foundation</strong>, <strong>Essentials</strong>, Standard and <strong>Datacenter edition</strong>. Follow <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/microsoft-knowledgebase/windows-2012/983-windows-2012-editions-licensing.html" target="_blank" title="Windows 2012 Server editions and licensing requirements">this link</a> to read our article covering <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/microsoft-knowledgebase/windows-2012/983-windows-2012-editions-licensing.html" target="_blank" title="Windows 2012 Server editions and licensing requirements">Windows 2012 Server editions and licensing requirements</a>.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03732698092158397093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305024249878895419.post-60369542474468628262015-07-13T03:37:00.001-07:002015-07-13T03:37:58.958-07:00Windows 2012 Server Foundation, Essential, Standard & Datacenter Edition Differences, Licensing & Supported Features. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
Windows Server 2012 Editions</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<img alt="windows-2012" height="83" src="http://www.firewall.cx/images/stories/windows-2012-editions-licensing-1.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 7px;" title="Windows 2012 Server Logo" width="267" />On the 1<sup>st</sup> of August, 2012 Microsoft released Windows Server 2012– the sixth release of the Windows Server product family. On May 21<sup>st</sup> 2013, Windows Server 2012 <strong>R2</strong>
was introduced and is now the latest version of Windows Server in the
market. Microsoft has released four different editions of Windows
Server 2012 varying in cost, licensing and features. These four editions
of <strong>Windows Server 2012 R2</strong> are: Windows 2012 <strong>Foundation</strong> edition, Windows 2012 <strong>Essentials</strong> edition, Windows 2012 <strong>Standard</strong> edition and Windows 2012 <strong>Datacenter</strong> edition.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Let’s take a closer look at each Windows Server 2012 edition and what they have to offer.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Users can also download the free <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/downloads/windows-server-datasheets-a-useful-resources.html" target="_blank"><strong>Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing Datasheet</strong></a> in our <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/downloads/windows-server-datasheets-a-useful-resources.html" target="_blank">Windows Server Datasheets & Useful Resources </a>download
section, which provides a detailed overview of the Licensing for
Windows Server 2012 and contains extremly useful information on the
various Windows Server 2012 edition, examples on how to calculate your
licensing needs, Virtualization instances supported by every edition,
server roles, common questions & answers, plus much more.</div>
<div class="box-download" style="text-align: justify;">
More technical articles covering <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/microsoft-knowledgebase/windows-2012.html" target="_blank" title="Windows 2012 Server Technical articles">Windows 2012 Server</a> and <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/microsoft-knowledgebase/windows-2012.html" target="_blank" title="Hyper-V Virtualization Technical articles">Hyper-V Virtualization</a> are available in our <a href="http://www.firewall.cx/microsoft-knowledgebase/windows-2012.html" target="_blank" title="Windows 2012 Server Technical articles">Windows 2012 Server</a> section.</div>
<h4>
Windows Server 2012 Foundation edition</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
This edition of Windows Server 2012 is targeted towards small businesses of up to 15 users. The <strong>Windows</strong> <strong>Server 2012 R2</strong> <strong>Foundation</strong> <strong>edition</strong> comes pre-installed on hardware server with single physical processor and up to 32GB of DRAM memory. <strong>Foundation edition</strong>
can be implemented in environments where features such as file sharing,
printer sharing, security and remote access are required. Advanced
server features such as Hyper V, RODC (Read Only Domain Controller),
data deduplication, dynamic memory, IPAM (IP Address Management), server
core, certificate service role, hot add memory, windows update services
and failover clustering are not available in the <strong>Foundation edition</strong>.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h4>
Windows Server 2012 Essentials edition</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The <strong>Windows</strong> <strong>Server 2012 R2</strong> <strong>Essentials edition</strong> is the next step up, also geared towards small businesses of up to 25 users. <strong>Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials edition</strong>
is available in retail stores around the world making it easy for
businesses to install the new operating system without necessarily
purchasing new hardware. Similar to the <strong>Foundation edition</strong>, the <strong>Essentials edition</strong>
does not support many advanced server features, however it does provide
support of features like Hyper V, dynamic memory and hot add/remove
RAM.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials edition</strong>
can run a single instance of virtual machine on Hyper V, a feature that
was not available in Windows Server 2012 Essentials (non-R2) edition.
This single virtual machine instance can be <strong>Windows Server 2012 R2 Essential edition</strong>
only, seriously limiting the virtualization options but allowing
companies to begin exploring the benefits of the virtualization
platform.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h4>
Windows Server 2012 Standard edition</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The <strong>Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard edition</strong>
of windows server is used for medium to large businesses that require
additional features not present in the Foundation & Essential
edition. The <strong>Standard edition</strong> is able to support an unlimited amount of users, as long as the required user licenses have been purchased.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Advanced features such as certificate
services role, Hyper V, RODC (Read Only Domain Controller), IPAM (IP
Address Management), Data deduplication, server core, failover
clustering and more, are available to <strong>Windows Server 2012 Standard edition</strong>. We should note that the Standard edition supports up to 2 Virtual Machines.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h4>
Windows Server 2012 Datacenter edition</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The <strong>Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter edition</strong> is the flagship product created to meet the needs of medium to large enterprises. The major difference between the <strong>Standard</strong> and <strong>Datacenter edition</strong> is that the <strong>Datacenter edition</strong>
allows the creation of unlimited Virtual Machines and is therefore
suitable for environments with extensive use of virtualization
technology.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Before purchasing the Windows Server
2012 operating system, it is very important to understand the difference
between various editions, the table below shows the difference between
the four editions of Windows Server 2012:</div>
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<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="height: 561px; width: 672px;">
<tbody>
<tr style="background-color: #6699ff;">
<td style="text-align: center;" valign="top" width="127">
<span style="color: black;"><strong> Editions</strong></span><br />
</td>
<td valign="top" width="108">
<div align="center">
<span style="color: black;"><strong>Foundation</strong></span></div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="141">
<div align="center">
<span style="color: black;"><strong>Essentials</strong></span></div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="173">
<div align="center">
<span style="color: black;"><strong>Standard</strong></span></div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="169">
<div align="center">
<span style="color: black;"><strong>Datacenter</strong></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color: whitesmoke;">
<span style="color: black;"><strong>Distribution</strong></span><br />
</td>
<td valign="top" width="108">
<div align="center">
OEM Only</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="141">
<div align="center">
Retail, volume licensing, OEM</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="173">
<div align="center">
Retail, volume licensing, OEM</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="169">
<div align="center">
Volume licensing and OEM</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color: whitesmoke;">
<span style="color: black;"><strong>Licensing Model</strong></span><br />
</td>
<td valign="top" width="108">
<div align="center">
Per Server</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="141">
<div align="center">
Per Server</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="173">
<div align="center">
Per CPU pair + CAL/DAL</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="169">
<div align="center">
Per CPU pair + CAL/DAL</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color: whitesmoke;">
<span style="color: black;"><strong>Processor Chip Limit</strong></span><br />
</td>
<td valign="top" width="108">
<div align="center">
1</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="141">
<div align="center">
2</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="173">
<div align="center">
64</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="169">
<div align="center">
64</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color: whitesmoke;">
<span style="color: black;"><strong>Memory Limit</strong></span><br />
</td>
<td valign="top" width="108">
<div align="center">
32GB</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="141">
<div align="center">
64GB</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="173">
<div align="center">
4TB</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="169">
<div align="center">
4TB</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color: whitesmoke;">
<span style="color: black;"><strong>User Limit</strong></span><br />
</td>
<td style="width: 108px;" valign="top">
<div align="center">
15</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="141">
<div align="center">
25</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="173">
<div align="center">
Unlimited</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="169">
<div align="center">
Unlimited</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color: whitesmoke;">
<span style="color: black;"><strong>File Services limits</strong></span><br />
</td>
<td valign="top" width="108">
<div align="center">
1 standalone DFS root</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="141">
<div align="center">
1 standalone DFS root</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="173">
<div align="center">
Unlimited</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="169">
<div align="center">
Unlimited</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color: whitesmoke;">
<span style="color: black;"><strong>Network Policy & Access Services limits</strong></span><br />
</td>
<td valign="top" width="108">
<div align="center">
50 RRAS connections and 10 IAS connections</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="141">
<div align="center">
250 RRAS connections, 50 IAS connections, and 2 IAS Server Groups</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="173">
<div align="center">
Unlimited</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="169">
<div align="center">
Unlimited</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color: whitesmoke;">
<span style="color: black;"><strong>Remote Desktop Services limits</strong></span><br />
</td>
<td valign="top" width="108">
<div align="center">
50 Remote Desktop Services connections</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="141">
<div align="center">
Gateway only</div>
</td>
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<div align="center">
Unlimited</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="169">
<div align="center">
Unlimited</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color: whitesmoke;">
<span style="color: black;"><strong>Virtualization rights</strong></span><br />
</td>
<td style="background-color: silver; width: 108px;" valign="top">
<div align="center">
n/a</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="141">
<div align="center">
Either in 1 VM or 1 physical server, but not both at once</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="173">
<div align="center">
2 VMs</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="169">
<div align="center">
Unlimited</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color: whitesmoke;">
<span style="color: black;"><strong>DHCP, DNS, Fax server, Printing, IIS Services</strong></span><br />
</td>
<td valign="top" width="108">
<div align="center">
Yes</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="141">
<div align="center">
Yes</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="173">
<div align="center">
Yes</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="169">
<div align="center">
Yes</div>
</td>
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<tr>
<td style="background-color: whitesmoke;">
<span style="color: black;"><strong>Windows Server Update Services</strong></span><br />
</td>
<td style="background-color: silver; width: 108px;" valign="top">
<div align="center">
No</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="141">
<div align="center">
Yes</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="173">
<div align="center">
Yes</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="169">
<div align="center">
Yes</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color: whitesmoke;">
<span style="color: black;"><strong>Active Directory Services</strong></span><br />
</td>
<td valign="top" width="108">
<div align="center">
Yes, Must be root of forest and domain</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="141">
<div align="center">
Yes, Must be root of forest and domain</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="173">
<div align="center">
Yes</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="169">
<div align="center">
Yes</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color: whitesmoke;">
<span style="color: black;"><strong>Active Directory Certificate Services</strong></span><br />
</td>
<td valign="top" width="108">
<div align="center">
Certificate Authorities only</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="141">
<div align="center">
Certificate Authorities only</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="173">
<div align="center">
Yes</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="169">
<div align="center">
Yes</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color: whitesmoke;">
<span style="color: black;"><strong>Windows Powershell</strong></span><br />
</td>
<td valign="top" width="108">
<div align="center">
Yes</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="141">
<div align="center">
Yes</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="173">
<div align="center">
Yes</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="169">
<div align="center">
Yes</div>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color: whitesmoke;">
<span style="color: black;"><strong>Server Core mode</strong></span><br />
</td>
<td style="background-color: silver;">
<div align="center">
No</div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: silver;">
<div align="center">
No</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="173">
<div align="center">
Yes</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="169">
<div align="center">
Yes</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color: whitesmoke;">
<span style="color: black;"><strong>Hyper-V</strong></span><br />
</td>
<td style="background-color: silver;">
<div align="center">
No</div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: silver;">
<div align="center">
No</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="173">
<div align="center">
Yes</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="169">
<div align="center">
Yes</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h4>
Windows Server 2012 Licensing - Understanding Client Access License (CAL) and Device Access License (DAL) Licensing models</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The <strong>standard</strong> and <strong>datacenter</strong>
editions of Server 2012 support Client Access License (CAL) or Device
Access License (DAL) licensing model. A CAL license is assigned to a
user whereas a DAL license is assigned to device (computer). For
example, a CAL assigned to a user, allows only that user to access the
server via any device. Likewise, if a DAL is assigned to particular
device, then any authenticated user using that device is allowed to
access the server.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
We can use a simple example to help
highlight the practical differences between CAL and DAL licensing models
and understand the most cost-effective approach:</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Assume an environment with Windows
Server 2012 R2 standard edition and a total of 50 users and 25 devices
(workstations). In this case, we can purchase either 50 CAL licenses to
cover the 50 users we have or alternatively 25 DAL licenses to cover the
total amount of workstations that need to access the server. In this
scenario, purchasing DALs is a more cost effective solution. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
If however we had 10 users with a total
of 20 devices , e.g 2 devices per user (workstation & laptop), then
it more be more cost effective to purchase 10 CAL licenses.</div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h4>
Windows Server 2012 Foundation Edition Licensing Model</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>Windows Server 2012 Foundation </strong>is
available to OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) only and therefore
can only be purchased at the time of purchasing a n new hardware
server. Windows 2012 Foundation edition supports up to 15 users. CALs or
DALs <strong>are not</strong> required for the <strong>Foundation edition</strong> servers. In addition, <strong>Foundation edition</strong>
owners cannot upgrade to other editions. The maximum number of SMB
(Server Message Block or file sharing) connections to the server is 30.
Similarly, maximum number of RRAS (Routing and Remote Access Service)
and RDS (Remote Desktop Service) connections is 50.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h4>
Windows Server 2012 Essentials Edition Licensing Model</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The <strong>Essential edition</strong>
of server 2012 is available to OEMs (with the purchase of new hardware)
and also at retail stores. The user limit of this server edition is <strong>25</strong> and device limit is <strong>50</strong>. This means that a maximum of <strong>25 users</strong> amongst <strong>50 computers</strong> can access the Windows Server 2012 Essentials edition. For example, you have <strong>20 users</strong> rotating randomly amongst <strong>25 computers</strong>
accessing the Server 2012 Essentials edition, without any problem. CALs
or DALs are not required for Windows Server 2012 Essentials edition
because no more than 25 users can access the server.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
A common question at this point is what if the organization expands and increases its users and computers?</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
In these cases Microsoft provides an upgrade path allowing organizations to upgrade to the <strong>Windows Server 2012 Standard</strong> or <strong>Datacenter edition</strong>
license and perform an in-place license transition. Once the transition
is complete, the user limitation, and other features are unlocked
without requiring migration or reinstallation of the server.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Companies upgrading to a higher edition
of Windows 2012 Server should keep in mind that it will be necessary to
purchase the required amount of CALs or DALs according to their users or
devices.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Administrators will be happy to know that it is also possible to downgrade <strong>the Standard edition of Server 2012</strong> to the <strong>Essentials edition</strong>. For example, it is possible to run <strong>Essential edition of Server 2012</strong>
as virtual machine utilizing one of two available virtual instances in
Standard edition as shown in the figure below. This eliminates the needs
to purchase <strong>Essential edition of Server 2012</strong>.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
With the release of <strong>Windows</strong> <strong>Server 2012 Essentials R2</strong>, Microsoft has updated its licensing model. Unlike <strong>Windows Server 2012 Essentials</strong> (<strong>non-R2</strong>), you can now run a single instance of a virtual machine.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The Hyper-V role and Hyper-V Manager console are now included with <strong>Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials</strong>. The server licensing rights have been expanded, allowing you to install an instance of <strong>Essentials</strong>
on your physical server to run the Hyper-V role (with none of the other
roles and features of the Essentials Experience installed), and a
second instance of <strong>Essentials</strong> as a virtual machine (VM) on that same server with all the Essentials Experience roles and features.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #3366ff;">Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition and Datacenter Edition Licensing Model</span></h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The license of Standard and Datacenter
edition is based on sockets (CPUs) and CAL or DAL. Definition of a
socket is a CPU or physical processor. Logical cores are not counted as
sockets. A single license of <strong>Standard</strong> and <strong>Datacenter edition</strong>
covers up to two physical processors per physical server. CAL or DAL
licenses are then required so that clients/devices can access the
Windows server. <strong>Standard edition</strong> allows up to <strong>2 virtual instances</strong> while the <strong>Datacenter edition</strong> allows unlimited number of virtual instances.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
For example, a Windows 2012 Server R2
Standard edition installed on a physical server with one socket (CPU)
can support up to two instances of virtual machines. These virtual
machines can be <strong>Server 2012 R2 Standard</strong> or <strong>Essentials</strong> edition. Similarly, if you install a <strong>Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter edition</strong>, then you can install an unlimited number of virtual machines.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Let’s look at some examples on deploying <strong>Standard</strong> and <strong>Datacenter edition</strong> servers and calculating the licenses required:</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>Scenario 1</strong>: Install Server 2012 Standard/Datacenter Edition on a server box with four physical processors and 80 users.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
In this scenario, we will be required to purchase <strong>two</strong>
Standard/Datacenter Edition licenses because a single license covers up
to two physical processors, plus 80 CAL licenses so our users can
access the server resources.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>Scenario 2</strong>: Install
Server 2012 Standard Edition on a physical server with 1 physical
processor, running 8 instances of virtual machines. A total of 50 users
will be accessing the server.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Here, four <strong>Server 2012 Standard edition</strong> licenses are required and 50 CALs or DALs. Remember that a single <strong>Standard edition</strong> license covers up to <strong>two physical processors</strong> and up to <strong>two instances of virtual machines</strong>. Since the requirement is to run <strong>8 instances</strong> of virtual machines, we need four <strong>Standard edition</strong> licenses.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
If we decided to use the <strong>Datacenter edition</strong> in this scenario, a single license with 50 CAL would be enough to cover our needs, because the <strong>Datacenter edition</strong> license supports an unlimited number of virtual instances and up to <strong>two physical processors</strong>.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h4>
Conclusion</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>Microsoft’s Windows Server 2012</strong>
is an attractive server-based product designed to meet the demands of
small to large enterprises and has a very flexible licensing model. It
is very important to fully understand the licensing options and
supported features on each of the 4 available editions, before
proceeding with your purchase – a tactic that will help ensure costs are
kept well within the allocated budget while the company’s needs are
fully met.</div>
</div>
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<br />
When you try and run DCPromo from the explorer shell on Windows Server 2012,
you will receive the following message “The Active Directory Domain Services
Installation Wizard is relocated in Server Manager. For more information, see <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=220921" target="_blank" title="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=220921">http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=220921</a>.”<br />
<a href="https://blog.thesysadmins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Dudewheresmydcpromo.png"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><img alt="Dudewheresmydcpromo" border="0" height="183" src="file:///C:\Users\VIKRAM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.png" width="493" /></span></span></a><br />
No DCPromo, what now?! DCPromo is deprecated in Windows Server 2012, so
adding an additional Domain Controller is slightly different than in earlier
versions. The new process is still straight forward, and the wizard will even
extend the schema (to version 56) for you- meaning it’s a one-stop process.
Adding a Windows Server 2012 Domain Controller requires a Windows Server 2003
forest functional level or higher on your existing forest.<br />
<strong>Promoting a Server 2012 to a Domain Controller</strong><br />
1. Open Server Manager, select Local Server on the left hand side then
choose Manager -> Add roles and Features.<br />
<a href="https://blog.thesysadmins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Server2012-DC1.png"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><img alt="Server2012-DC1" border="0" height="235" src="file:///C:\Users\VIKRAM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.png" width="777" /></span></span></a><br />
2. Next.<br />
<a href="https://blog.thesysadmins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Server2012-DC2.png"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><img alt="Server2012-DC2" border="0" height="562" src="file:///C:\Users\VIKRAM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image003.png" width="796" /></span></span></a><br />
3. Next.<br />
<a href="https://blog.thesysadmins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Server2012-DC3.png"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><img alt="Server2012-DC3" border="0" height="561" src="file:///C:\Users\VIKRAM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image004.png" width="798" /></span></span></a><br />
4. Select the server you wish to promote.<br />
<a href="https://blog.thesysadmins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Server2012-DC4.png"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><img alt="Server2012-DC4" border="0" height="562" src="file:///C:\Users\VIKRAM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image005.png" width="798" /></span></span></a><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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5. Tick Active Directory Domain Services.<br />
<a href="https://blog.thesysadmins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Server2012-DC5.png"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><img alt="Server2012-DC5" border="0" height="564" src="file:///C:\Users\VIKRAM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image006.png" width="798" /></span></span></a><br />
6. Click Add Features.<br />
<a href="https://blog.thesysadmins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Server2012-DC6.png"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><img alt="Server2012-DC6" border="0" height="446" src="file:///C:\Users\VIKRAM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image007.png" width="427" /></span></span></a><br />
7. Next.<br />
<a href="https://blog.thesysadmins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Server2012-DC7.png"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><img alt="Server2012-DC7" border="0" height="559" src="file:///C:\Users\VIKRAM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image008.png" width="795" /></span></span></a><br />
8. Next.<br />
<a href="https://blog.thesysadmins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Server2012-DC8.png"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><img alt="Server2012-DC8" border="0" height="563" src="file:///C:\Users\VIKRAM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image009.png" width="795" /></span></span></a><br />
9. Install.<br />
<a href="https://blog.thesysadmins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Server2012-DC9.png"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><img alt="Server2012-DC9" border="0" height="563" src="file:///C:\Users\VIKRAM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image010.png" width="796" /></span></span></a><br />
10. In Progress.<br />
<a href="https://blog.thesysadmins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Server2012-DC10.png"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><img alt="Server2012-DC10" border="0" height="562" src="file:///C:\Users\VIKRAM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image011.png" width="797" /></span></span></a><br />
11. Close.<br />
<a href="https://blog.thesysadmins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Server2012-DC11.png"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><img alt="Server2012-DC11" border="0" height="564" src="file:///C:\Users\VIKRAM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image012.png" width="794" /></span></span></a><br />
12. You’ll now notice you have a notification, prompting you to promote this
server to a domain controller.<br />
<a href="https://blog.thesysadmins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Server2012-DC12.png"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><img alt="Server2012-DC12" border="0" height="477" src="file:///C:\Users\VIKRAM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image013.png" width="774" /></span></span></a><br />
13. We are adding a domain controller to an existing domain, specify the
domain and domain administrator credentials.<br />
<a href="https://blog.thesysadmins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Server2012-DC13.png"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><img alt="Server2012-DC13" border="0" height="562" src="file:///C:\Users\VIKRAM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image014.png" width="771" /></span></span></a><br />
14. It will make the additional DC a DNS and GC by default, we do not want
to make this a Read Only Domain Controller. You have the option to add the DC
to a particular Site. Enter your DSRM password (as usual, keep this safe!).<br />
<a href="https://blog.thesysadmins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Server2012-DC14.png"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><img alt="Server2012-DC14" border="0" height="567" src="file:///C:\Users\VIKRAM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image015.png" width="771" /></span></span></a><br />
15. You can typically ignore the warning about DNS delegation, a more
detailed explanation can be found here: <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754463%28WS.10%29.aspx" target="_blank" title="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754463(WS.10).aspx">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754463(WS.10).aspx</a><br />
<a href="https://blog.thesysadmins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Server2012-DC15.png"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><img alt="Server2012-DC15" border="0" height="564" src="file:///C:\Users\VIKRAM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image016.png" width="771" /></span></span></a><br />
16. You can install from Media, which is useful if you are promoting a DC in
a branch office with a poor connection- it will significantly reduce the
initial Active Directory replication. You can specify a particular DC for the
initial replication.<br />
<a href="https://blog.thesysadmins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Server2012-DC16.png"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><img alt="Server2012-DC16" border="0" height="565" src="file:///C:\Users\VIKRAM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image017.png" width="772" /></span></span></a><br />
17. Default locations.<br />
<a href="https://blog.thesysadmins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Server2012-DC17.png"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><img alt="Server2012-DC17" border="0" height="563" src="file:///C:\Users\VIKRAM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image018.png" width="770" /></span></span></a><br />
18. This screen tells us it will prepare the Forest, Schema and domain for
us (Server 2012 uses Schema Version 56).<br />
<a href="https://blog.thesysadmins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Server2012-DC18.png"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><img alt="Server2012-DC18" border="0" height="565" src="file:///C:\Users\VIKRAM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image019.png" width="770" /></span></span></a><br />
19. Review screen and option to view the Powershell script.<br />
<a href="https://blog.thesysadmins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Server2012-DC19.png"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><img alt="Server2012-DC19" border="0" height="564" src="file:///C:\Users\VIKRAM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image020.png" width="772" /></span></span></a><br />
20. Click Install.<br />
<a href="https://blog.thesysadmins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Server2012-DC20.png"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><img alt="Server2012-DC20" border="0" height="563" src="file:///C:\Users\VIKRAM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image021.png" width="772" /></span></span></a><br />
21. The install will tick over and when it has finished the server will be
restarted.<br />
<a href="https://blog.thesysadmins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Server2012-DC21.png"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><img alt="Server2012-DC21" border="0" height="563" src="file:///C:\Users\VIKRAM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image022.png" width="771" /></span></span></a><br />
<a href="https://blog.thesysadmins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Server2012-DC22.png"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><img alt="Server2012-DC22" border="0" height="127" src="file:///C:\Users\VIKRAM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image023.png" width="700" /></span></span></a><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03732698092158397093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305024249878895419.post-12207049969796169892015-07-07T06:08:00.000-07:002015-07-07T06:08:07.785-07:00Creating fine grained password policies through GUI Windows server 2012 “Server 8 beta”<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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account lockout policies to different sets of users in a domain</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.0pt; margin-bottom: 10.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">One of the nice features introduced in Windows Server 2010 “Server
8 beta” AD DS is the ability to configure fine grained password policies
through GUI. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.0pt; margin-bottom: 10.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">In this post we will walk through the configuration steps to
create and assign different password policies to different user groups within
the same Active Directory Domain, table below gives an example of different
password policy requirements:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themetint: 153; mso-border-left-alt: outset windowtext .75pt; mso-border-right-alt: outset windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themetint: 153; mso-padding-alt: 0in 2.85pt 0in 2.85pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<td style="background: #DEEAF6; border-bottom: solid #9CC2E5 2.25pt; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: solid #9CC2E5 2.25pt; mso-background-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themetint: 153; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themetint: 153; padding: 0in 2.85pt 0in 2.85pt; width: 105.0pt;" valign="top" width="140">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #4f81bd; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Group Name/Setting </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<td style="background: #DEEAF6; border-bottom: solid #9CC2E5 2.25pt; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: solid #9CC2E5 2.25pt; mso-background-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themetint: 153; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themetint: 153; padding: 0in 2.85pt 0in 2.85pt; width: 113.25pt;" valign="top" width="151">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #4f81bd; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Group1</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<td style="background: #DEEAF6; border-bottom: solid #9CC2E5 2.25pt; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: solid #9CC2E5 2.25pt; mso-background-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themetint: 153; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themetint: 153; padding: 0in 2.85pt 0in 2.85pt; width: 114.0pt;" valign="top" width="152">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #4f81bd; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Group2</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<td style="background: #DEEAF6; border-bottom: solid #9CC2E5 2.25pt; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: solid #9CC2E5 2.25pt; mso-background-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themetint: 153; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themetint: 153; padding: 0in 2.85pt 0in 2.85pt; width: 105.0pt;" valign="top" width="140">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #4f81bd; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Group3</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;">
<td style="border-bottom: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themetint: 153; mso-border-top-alt: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themetint: 153; padding: 0in 2.85pt 0in 2.85pt; width: 105.0pt;" valign="top" width="140">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #404040; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Black"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Policy Name</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themetint: 153; mso-border-top-alt: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themetint: 153; padding: 0in 2.85pt 0in 2.85pt; width: 113.25pt;" valign="top" width="151">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Black"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Poli-Group1</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themetint: 153; mso-border-top-alt: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themetint: 153; padding: 0in 2.85pt 0in 2.85pt; width: 114.0pt;" valign="top" width="152">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Black"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Poli-Group2</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themetint: 153; mso-border-top-alt: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themetint: 153; padding: 0in 2.85pt 0in 2.85pt; width: 105.0pt;" valign="top" width="140">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Black"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Poli-Group3</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;">
<td style="background: #DEEAF6; border-bottom: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; border: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themetint: 153; mso-border-top-alt: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themetint: 153; padding: 0in 2.85pt 0in 2.85pt; width: 105.0pt;" valign="top" width="140">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #404040; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Minimum password length</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: #DEEAF6; border-bottom: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; border: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themetint: 153; mso-border-top-alt: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themetint: 153; padding: 0in 2.85pt 0in 2.85pt; width: 113.25pt;" valign="top" width="151">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">2</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: #DEEAF6; border-bottom: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; border: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themetint: 153; mso-border-top-alt: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themetint: 153; padding: 0in 2.85pt 0in 2.85pt; width: 114.0pt;" valign="top" width="152">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">6</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: #DEEAF6; border-bottom: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; border: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themetint: 153; mso-border-top-alt: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themetint: 153; padding: 0in 2.85pt 0in 2.85pt; width: 105.0pt;" valign="top" width="140">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">19</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;">
<td style="border-bottom: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themetint: 153; mso-border-top-alt: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themetint: 153; padding: 0in 2.85pt 0in 2.85pt; width: 105.0pt;" valign="top" width="140">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #404040; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Black"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Minimum password age</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themetint: 153; mso-border-top-alt: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themetint: 153; padding: 0in 2.85pt 0in 2.85pt; width: 113.25pt;" valign="top" width="151">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Black"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">1</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themetint: 153; mso-border-top-alt: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themetint: 153; padding: 0in 2.85pt 0in 2.85pt; width: 114.0pt;" valign="top" width="152">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Black"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">2</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themetint: 153; mso-border-top-alt: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themetint: 153; padding: 0in 2.85pt 0in 2.85pt; width: 105.0pt;" valign="top" width="140">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Black"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">14</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td style="background: #DEEAF6; border-bottom: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; border: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themetint: 153; mso-border-top-alt: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themetint: 153; padding: 0in 2.85pt 0in 2.85pt; width: 105.0pt;" valign="top" width="140">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #404040; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Enforce password history</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<td style="background: #DEEAF6; border-bottom: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; border: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themetint: 153; mso-border-top-alt: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themetint: 153; padding: 0in 2.85pt 0in 2.85pt; width: 113.25pt;" valign="top" width="151">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">24</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<td style="background: #DEEAF6; border-bottom: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; border: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themetint: 153; mso-border-top-alt: solid #9CC2E5 1.0pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themetint: 153; padding: 0in 2.85pt 0in 2.85pt; width: 114.0pt;" valign="top" width="152">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">15</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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Policy</b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03732698092158397093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305024249878895419.post-45227320294647493362013-05-04T06:51:00.004-07:002013-05-04T06:52:03.741-07:00Windows Server 2012 Top 10 FeaturesWith
Windows Server 2012, Microsoft delivers a server platform built on our
experience of building and operating many of the world's largest
cloud-based services and datacenter. Whether you are setting-up a single
server for your small business or architecting a major new datacenter
environment, Windows Server 2012 will help you cloud-optimize your IT so
you can fully meet your organization's unique needs<br />
<br />
Discover Windows Server 2012<br />
· Beyond Virtualization <br />
Offers
a dynamic, multitenant infrastructure to help you scale and secure
workloads and build a private cloud. Windows Server 2012 can help you
provide: <br />
<b>Complete Virtualization Platform</b> <br />
<b>Improved Scalability and Performance</b> <br />
<b>Connecting to Cloud Services </b><br />
· The Power of Many Servers, the Simplicity of One <br />
Delivers a highly available and easy to manage cloud-optimized platform.Windows Server 2012 can help you provide: <br />
<b>Flexible Storage <br />Continuous Availability <br />Management Efficiency </b><br />
· Every App, Any Cloud <br />
Offers
a cloud-optimized server platform that gives you the flexibility to
build and deploy applications and websites on-premises, in the cloud, or
across both.Windows Server 2012 can help you deliver: <br />
<b>Flexibility to Build On-Premises and in the Cloud <br />A Scalable and Elastic Infrastructure <br />An Open Web and App Development Environment</b><br />
· Modern Workstyle, Enabled <br />
Provides
users with flexible access to data and applications while simplifying
management and maintaining security, control, and compliance.Windows
Server 2012 can help you offer: <br />
<b>Access to Applications and Data from Virtually Anywhere, Any Device</b> <br />
<b>A Full Windows Experience Anywhere <br />Enhanced Data Security and Compliance </b><br />
In short Windows Server 2012 is great! Here are the top 10 reasons why.<br />
<b>10. IIS 8</b><br />
IIS
8 brings Internet Information Services up to feature parity with the
rest of the world, and surpasses it in places. IIS 8 sports script
precompilation, granular process throttling, SNI support and centralised
certificate management<br />
<b>9. PowerShell</b><br />
PowerShell
3.0 is an evolution rather than a revolution. The 2012 line of products
marks a revolution in Microsoft's approach to server management.<br />
Every
element of the operating system and virtually every other companion
server, such as SQL, Exchange or Lync, are completely manageable through
PowerShell. This is so ingrained that the GUIs are just buttons that
call PowerShell scripts underneath.<br />
<b>8. DirectAccess</b><br />
DirectAccess
was a neat idea but it was poorly implemented in previous versions of
Windows. Server 2012 makes it easier to use, with SSL as the default
configuration and IPSec as an option. The rigid dependence on IPv6 has
also been removed.<br />
DirectAccess has evolved into a reasonable, reliable and easy-to-use replacement for virtual private networks.<br />
<b>7. Cluster Shared Volumes</b><br />
With
Server 2012 Cluster Shared Volumes are officially supported for use
beyond hosting virtual hard disks for Hyper-V. You may now roll your own
highly available multi-node replicated storage cluster and do so with a
proper fistful of best-practice documentation.<br />
<b>6. Deduplication</b><br />
For
years now, storage demand has been growing faster than hard drive
density. Meeting our voracious appetite for data storage has meant more
and more spindles, and more controllers, chassis, power supplies,
electricity and cooling to keep those spindles spinning.<br />
Deduplication
has moved from nice to have to absolute must in recent years and
Microsoft has taken notice. Server 2012 supports deduplication on NTFS
volumes – though tragically it does not work with CSV – and deeply
integrates it with BranchCache to save on WAN bandwidth.<br />
<b>5. Hyper-V 3.0</b><br />
Server
2012 sees Hyper-V catch up with VMware's mainstream. Microsoft's
Hyper-V Server – a free Windows Core version of Hyper-V – is feature
complete. If you have a yen to dive into PowerShell then you can run a
complete 64-node, 8,000 virtual machine Hyper-V cluster without paying
Microsoft a dime.Microsoft is betting you will spend the money on System
Center 2012 and it is probably right. System Center 2012 is amazing,
even more so with the newly launched Service Pack 1.<br />
<b>4. Hyper-V Replica</b><br />
Hyper-V
Replica is a storage technology designed to continuously replicate your
virtual machines across to a backup cluster. It ensures that snapshots
no more than 15 minutes old of your critical virtual machines are
available over any network link, including the internet.<br />
It
replicates the initial snapshot in full – after that it sends only
change blocks – and it fully supports versioning of your virtual
machines.<br />
<b>3. iSCSI</b><br />
With Windows Storage Server
2008, Microsoft first made an iSCSI target available. It eventually
became an optional download from Microsoft's website for Server 2008 R2
and is now finally integrated into Server 2012 as a core component.<br />
<b>2. NFS 4.1</b><br />
Microsoft's
NFS 4.1 server is good code. Designed from the ground up it is is fast,
stable and reliable. It makes a great storage system for heterogenous
environments and a wonderful network storage point for VMware servers.<br />
<b>1. SMB 3.0</b><br />
SMB
3.0 is the crown jewel of Server 2012. It supports multiple
simultaneous network interfaces – including the ability to hot-plug new
interfaces on the fly to increase bandwidth for large or complex
transfers – and supports MPIO, thin provisioning of volumes and
deduplication (assuming the underlying storage is NTFS).<br />
SMB 3.0
also supports SMB Direct and remote direct memory access, the ability
for appropriately kitted systems to move SMB data directly from one
system's memory to the other, bypassing the SMB stack. This has enabled
Microsoft to hit 16GBps transfer rates for SMB 3.0, a weighty gauntlet
for any potential challenger to raise.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03732698092158397093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305024249878895419.post-5617859313849598612013-05-04T06:50:00.001-07:002013-05-04T06:50:08.047-07:00Restore previous versions of your files easily in Windows 8<div class="full-post">Setting Up File History Using A Shared Folder<div class="post-content user-defined-markup"> The first thing we have to do if we want to use File History with a network share is to actually create the folder and share it, so head on over to your home server (or any always on PC) and create a new folder named File History.<br />
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Right-click on the folder and select Share with, then click on the Specific people option.<br />
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Type everyone and hit the add button.<br />
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Finally change the permissions so that every one has Read/Write permissions.<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-01-35-09-metablogapi/2110.clip_5F00_image008_5F00_5B1273B0.png"><img alt="clip_image008" border="0" height="302" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-01-35-09-metablogapi/5241.clip_5F00_image008_5F00_thumb_5F00_314EF8BD.png" style="display: inline;" title="clip_image008" width="504" /></a><br />
Now switch back to your Windows 8 machine and launch explorer, then open the classic Control Panel.<br />
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Make sure your network location is selected and click the OK button.<br />
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Now you can Turn on File History.<br />
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When you click on the “turn on” button a message will pop up asking you if you wish to recommend the location that you used for File History to other users in your HomeGroup as a place to save their File History. If you have a HomeGroup and want to have a central location where all users in the HomeGroup can store their File History you will probably want to say yes, otherwise it’s OK to choose no. File History will now be set up and working.<br />
<h4>Restoring A Deleted File Or Folder</h4>In this example I have 1 file in the Documents Library called “My Plans To Take Over The World”, and I am going to accidently delete the document and restore it using File History.<br />
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I’ve now deleted the file permanently by doing a Shift-Delete as I don’t think I will be taking over the world anymore. I have also created two new files called “New File 1” and “New File 2”, making the library look like this:<br />
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A few days later, my partner in crime phones me and tells me that he is free this week, and it looks like a good week to conquer the world. The problem is that I deleted my plan. Luckily I had set up File History a while back and can recover the document, we need to recover the Document without effecting “New File 1” or “New File 2”. To do that we to that we select the File History button on the ribbon.<br />
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This will launch the File History browser, and give you all the different versions of the Documents Library.<br />
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If I scroll back to Version 3 of 4 using the arrow that’s pointing back (left), you will see that my document called “My Plans To Take Over The World” is there.<br />
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I can now select my file and click on the Blue Orb to restore the document. File History will launch the folder that you are busy working with and show you that the file is now there.<br />
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the next screen this D: is actually your original C: Windows Partition
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R2, you cannot view hidden System Reserved partition. But in this case
the C: is assigned to that System Reserved partition & subsequent
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Close</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> the <b><i>CMD</i></b> & Click on <b><i>Refresh</i></b> to see a new 50 GB drive with unallocated space. <span style="font-size: 11pt;">Click on the <b><i>Unallocated Space</i></b> (Drive 1 in this e.g.) and click </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Next</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Please wait <b>Windows Setup</b>
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depending upon system performance) – You can grab a tea/coffee meanwhile
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Please wait while Windows is </span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">getting devices ready…It will take few minutes…</span></b></div>
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<br clear="ALL" style="mso-ignore: vglayout;" /><span style="font-size: 11pt;">After a restart. You will see a DUAL Boot option. Choose <b>Windows Server 2012</b>& Press </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ENTER</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">On the Settings page, please enter an <b><i>Administrator</i></b> account password and click </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Finish</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">This completes your Windows Server 2012 Datacenter installation using VHD Boot.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03732698092158397093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305024249878895419.post-77374880952702044082013-05-04T06:36:00.002-07:002013-05-04T06:36:28.266-07:00How to Reset Lost Domain Admin Password in Windows Server 2012<h1>
Reset Lost Domain Admin Password in Windows Server 2012</h1>
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In my previous post I’ve shown you <a href="http://www.top-password.com/blog/how-to-install-active-directory-in-windows-server-2012/" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">how to install Active Directory in Windows Server 2012</a>.
During the procedure of promoting your server to a domain controller,
you’ll be prompted to set a strong password for the administrator
account in case the password is blank. What to do if you forgot the
domain administrator password after installation?<br />
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As system/network administrator, you are usually confronted with the
problem of forgetting domain admin password. Even if you don’t have to
reset a password now, you should get acquainted with this issue. In this
tutorial we’ll show you the easiest way to reset a lost domain
administrator password in Windows Server 2012.<br />
<strong>How to Reset Lost Domain Admin Password in Windows Server 2012?</strong><br />
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<li>Download and install <a href="http://www.top-password.com/password-recovery-bundle.html" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Password Recovery Bundle</a> on another computer that you can log in.</li>
<li>Prepare a blank CD and insert it into the computer.</li>
<li>Launch Password Recovery Bundle and click on <strong>Windows Password</strong> button, it will display the ISO burning dialog.<br />
<img alt="" height="304" src="http://www.top-password.com/images/password-reset-disk.png" title="create a live CD" width="450" /></li>
<li>Choose the CD you’ve plugged in and then click on <strong>Start Burn</strong> button to create a Live CD.</li>
<li>After you have the Live CD, put it into the CD drive of your locked server PC whose password you want to reset.</li>
<li>Turn on the server and have it boot from the Live CD. You may need to go into BIOS and set CD/DVD as the first boot device.</li>
<li>After booting from the Live CD, it will load the Windows PE operating system inside the Live CD and start the <a href="http://www.top-password.com/reset-windows-password.html">Reset Windows Password</a> program.<br />
<img alt="" height="400" src="http://www.top-password.com/images/windows_ad_pwd.png" title="recover active directory password" width="450" /></li>
<li>Choose the Active Directory NTDS.dit database, it will display a list of domain user accounts inside the NTDS.dit database.</li>
<li>Choose the administrator account from the list, then click on <strong>Reset Password</strong> button, the program will replace the forgotten/unknown administrator password with the new password: Password123.</li>
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Reject the Live CD and restart the server. You can then log in to the
domain administrator account with the new password. It’s so easy to
reset a lost domain admin password in Windows Server 2012!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03732698092158397093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305024249878895419.post-12059453189675394412013-05-04T06:35:00.001-07:002013-05-04T06:35:14.611-07:00How to Recover Windows Server 2012 Administrator Password<strong>How to Recover Windows Server 2012 Administrator Password?</strong><br />
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<li>Download the zip archive of <a href="http://www.top-password.com/reset-windows-password.html">Reset Windows Password</a> utility. Unzip it and burn the ISO image to a blank CD or USB stick.</li>
<li>Insert the CD or USB stick into your locked computer and let your computer boot from it.</li>
<li>After a while the bootdisk will launch the <a href="http://www.top-password.com/reset-windows-password.html">Reset Windows Password</a> utility, which shows all Windows user accounts available for your Windows installation. By default the <strong>Reset Local Admin/User Password</strong> option
will be selected, the program will display a list of Windows local user
accounts. If you want to reset domain administrator password, please
choose the <strong>Reset Active Directory Password</strong> option.</li>
<li>Choose the administrator account whose password you forgot, then click <strong>Reset Password</strong> button.
The program will quickly reset the unknown/forgotten password as well
as unlock the user account if it is disabled or locked out.</li>
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Now you’ve reset the forgotten Windows Server 2012 administrator
password. You can then successfully login and regain full control over
your server. With this password reset CD/USB, you’ll never be bothered
by a forgotten Windows Server 2012 password!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03732698092158397093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305024249878895419.post-5252530198427496452013-05-04T06:29:00.001-07:002013-05-04T06:29:16.536-07:00How to Install Active Directory in Windows Server 2012<h1>
How to Install Active Directory in Windows Server 2012</h1>
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Similar to previous versions of Windows Server, there are two steps
to install Active Directory: First you need to add the Active Directory
Domain Services Role to your computer, then run the dcpromo commmand to
promote your server to a domain controller. However, in Windows Server
2012, the dcpromo command has been deprecated.<br />
So what replaces dcpromo in Windows Server 2012? There are now two
ways to promote your server to a DC: One, through PowerShell and other
is Server Manager. Here we will show you how to install Active Directory
through Server Manager.<br />
This tutorial can be divided into 2 steps. Before installing Active
Directory, please assign a static IP address to your server and set a
strong password for the built-in administrator account.<br />
<strong>Part 1: Install Active Directory Domain Services</strong><br />
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<li>Open Server Manager, then click on <strong>Add Roles and Features</strong> link.<br />
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<li>Click Next on the <strong>Before you begin</strong> window.</li>
<li>Select <strong>Role-based or feature-based installation</strong> and then click Next.</li>
<li>Click <strong>Select a server from the server pool</strong>, click the name of the server to install Active Directory Domain Services to, and then click Next.</li>
<li>Click <strong>Active Directory Domain Services</strong>. When the <strong>Add Roles and Features Wizard</strong> dialog box opens, select <strong>Add Features</strong>, then Next.</li>
<li>On the <strong>Active Directory Domain Services</strong> page, review the information and then click Next.</li>
<li>On the <strong>Confirm installation selections</strong> page, click Install.</li>
<li>After the installation has completed, the server will restart.</li>
</ol>
<strong>Part 2: Promote the Server to a Domain Controller</strong><br />
Once above step is completed and all required features have been
installed, now is the time to promote the server to a Domain Controller
by following the below steps.<br />
<ol>
<li>Back in Server Manager, you will notice that <strong>AD DS </strong>has
been added to the left navigation tree. Click on it and then click on
More on the right navigation pane where it states that Configuration is
required for Active Directory Domain Services.<br />
<img alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-1515" height="398" src="http://www.top-password.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/server-manager.png" title="server-manager" width="642" /></li>
<li>You will now be presented with the <strong>All Servers Task Details</strong> window, in which you will click on <strong>Promote this server to a domain controller </strong>under Action.<br />
<img alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-1516" height="342" src="http://www.top-password.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/promote.png" title="promote" width="565" /></li>
<li>The Deployment Configuration screen appears and we will select <strong>Add a new forest</strong> as this is the first domain controller. Enter your Root domain name and then click Next.<br />
<img alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-1517" height="475" src="http://www.top-password.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/deployment.png" title="deployment" width="648" /></li>
<li>On the <strong>Domain Controller Options </strong>page select your
Forest and Domain functional levels, for this demo will leave the
defaults of Windows Server 2012 for both, Enter a desired DSRM Password,
click Next.<br />
<img alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-1518" height="478" src="http://www.top-password.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/type-dsrm-password.png" title="type-dsrm-password" width="642" /></li>
<li>On the <strong>DNS Options</strong> page, click Next.</li>
<li>The NetBIOS domain name will then be inputted automatically. In the
event of a conflict, it will suggest an alternative by appending the
original name with a 0. Click Next.<br />
<img alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-1519" height="474" src="http://www.top-password.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/netbios-name.png" title="netbios-name" width="644" /></li>
<li>On the <strong>Paths </strong>page verify the desired locations of the Database, Log files and SYSVOL folders, change the locations is required, click Next.<br />
<img alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-1520" height="474" src="http://www.top-password.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/database-path.png" title="database-path" width="644" /></li>
<li>On the <strong>Review Options</strong> page, click Next.</li>
<li>The wizard will perform a Prerequisite check before the installation
can continue. After the check is completed successfully click Install.<br />
<img alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-1521" height="474" src="http://www.top-password.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/check.png" title="check" width="644" /></li>
<li>The server will restart once the configuration has completed, the
server is now a domain controller for the newly formed domain. Upon
restart, you should be able to login using your domain administrator
account.</li>
</ol>
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