NTC 324 Week 1 Lab Work 1

NTC 324 Week 1 LAB1 INSTALLING SERVERS
THIS LAB CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING EXERCISES AND ACTIVITIES:
Exercise 1.1
Exercise 1.2
Exercise 1.3
Lab Challenge	Performing a Clean Installation
Performing an Upgrade Installation
Installing Windows Server Migration Tools(WSMT)
Accessing a WSMT Distribution Point

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Exercise 1.1	Performing a Clean Installation
Overview
	In this exercise, you install Windows Server 2012 on a new computer with no previouslyinstalled operating system.
Mindset	In many cases, organizations purchase servers without operating systems installed—sometimes called bare metal servers—either because they have an existing license agreement or because they intend to purchase the OS through another channel. In these cases, you perform what is known as a clean operating system installation, which is a procedure that creates a new server with its default operating system settings.
Completion time	10 minutes





Question1	What should you do if the drive on which you want to install Windows Server 2012 already has a partition on it containing an operating system and data you do not need?





Question 2	What should you do if the Where do you want to install Windows? page appears, but it does not list any drives or partitions?





Exercise 1.2	Performing an Upgrade Installation
Overview
	In this exercise, you install Windows Server 2012 on a computer running Windows Server 2008 R2.
Mindset	Assuming that a server meets allthe requirements and has compatible drivers and applications installed, it is possible to perform an in-place upgrade, which retains all the system- software, data, and configuration settings. However, the more complex the server configuration, the more likely it will be for incompatibilities to arise, resulting in an end result that is unstable or otherwise problematic.
Completion time	20 minutes

2.	Using Server Manager, determine which roles are installed on the server and make a note of them in the space on your worksheet.


Question3	Under what conditions would the Upgrade option not be available to you during the Windows Server 2012 installation process.




Question4	The compatibility notes that appear during this exercise are recommendations; they do not prevent you from performing the upgrade. However, in a real-world upgrade situation, this might not be the case. Give an example of a compatibility note that will stop the upgrade process and force you to take action before restarting the installation.





13.	Click Local Server in the left pane, take a screen shot of the Properties window by pressing Alt+Prt Scr, and then paste it into your Lab 1worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.
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14.	Using Server Manager, determine which roles are installed on the server and make a note of them in the space on your worksheet.



Question5	What proof do you have that the procedure just completed has upgraded the operating system on the computer and not just performed a new, clean installation?





Exercise 1.3	Installing Windows Server Migration Tools
Overview
	In this exercise, you install the Windows Server Migration Tools, which enable you to migrate roles from an existing server to a newserver running Windows Server 2012.
Mindset	Compared to an in-place upgrade, a side-to-side migration is a more complex procedure, but usually results in a more stable server configuration. Windows Server 2012 includes tools that facilitate the migration of certain roles, but before you can use them, you must deploy those tools on both the source and the destination server.
Completion time	10 minutes

Question6	Why can you not install the Server Migration Tools to the server running Windows Server 2008 server using the Add Roles and Features Wizard on your server running Windows Server 2012?





17.	Take a screen shot of the Command Prompt window by pressing Alt+Prt Scr and then paste it into your Lab 1worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.

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Lab Challenge	Accessing a WSMT Distribution Point
Overview
	After completing Exercise 1.3, a user on SVR-SO-C, the source server for the migration, can access the installation files for the Windows Server Migration Tools from the distribution point on the destination server, SVR-SO-A.
Mindset	After creating a distribution point for the Windows Server Migration Tools on the server running Windows Server 2012, the source server can access the distribution point over the network, or by copying the files on a portable storage device.

10 minutes

To complete the challenge, you must install the Windows Server Migration Tools on SVR-SO-C by accessing the shared distribution folder on SVR-SO-A and running the Smigdeploy.exe program with no parameters from an Administrative command prompt. Then, take a screen shot of the Command Prompt window by pressing Alt+Prt Scr and then paste it into your Lab 1worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.

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