Mastering Windows Server 2022: Comprehensive administration of your Windows Server environment, 4th Edition

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audit: This restarts the machine into a special audit mode, where you have the option of adding additional drivers into Windows before the final image gets taken. It all began many years ago when sharing resources became necessary. As time went by and demand increased, the development and advancement of computer network technologies also occurred. Therefore, the need to connect and interconnect computers within computer networks and among more geographic locations created a demand for well-defined terms and concepts to describe computer networks. Because of that, concepts such as computer network types, computer network topologies, computer network architectures, and computer network components were born. As such, a computer network represented one of humanity’s most significant inventions in communication. That said, simply think about the internet, and you will immediately understand how great of a benefit a computer network is to society. More computers were connected to computer networks, and geographical distances were diminished in communication. Therefore, it created a need for well-defined terms and concepts to describe computer networking. Because of that, different types of computer networks, network topologies, architectures, and components have emerged. Essentially, the server is a computer, so everything that applies to the form factor of the laptop also applies to the form factor of the server. So, the question that arises is, what is a form factor? A form factor is a hardware design that defines and describes an electronic device’s size, shape, and technical specifications. So, in terms of size, shape, and tech specs, today’s servers are presented in the following three form factors:

Although clients and servers are the most critical components of a computer network, they take a different naming approach in computer network terminology. So, let’s see how that fits into this structure . Hosts and nodesThe roles for AD DS, DNS, and DHCP are now successfully installed, but there is some additional configuration that is now required for those roles to do their work. For example, to finish turning my server into a domain controller, I need to run through a promotion process to define my domain or to specify an existing domain that I want to join. There are also some loose ends that I need to tie up before putting DHCP into action: WAC even has support for third-party vendors creating extensions for the WAC interface, so this tool is going to continue growing. If you have followed along with the test lab configuration in the book so far, you will recognize the words “Windows Admin Center” from a pop-up window that displays itself every time that Server Manager is opened. Microsoft wants administrators to know about WAC so badly that they are reminding you that you should start using it every time you log into a Server 2022 box, as shown in Figure 2.27: If you peruse your Start menu, you will now find Server Manager, just like on a server, along with a folder full of Windows Administrative tools! This makes sense, except that if you don’t realize the name discrepancy, it can take you a few minutes to figure out why you cannot find what you just installed. Chapter 2, Installing and Managing Windows Server 2022, dives right into the very first thing we will have to do when working with Server 2022: install it! While this seems like a simple task, there are a number of versioning and licensing variables that need to be understood before you proceed with your own installation. From there, we will start to expand upon Microsoft’s centralized management mentality, exploring how we can now manage and interact with our servers without ever having to log into them.

This is possible by installing a toolset from Microsoft called the Remote Server Administration Tools ( RSAT). I have a regular Windows 10 client computer online and running in our network, also domain-joined. I am now going to add an optional feature to this Windows 10 computer to give it the RSAT toolset. The computer network architecture is a design that enables computers to communicate based on the request and response paradigm. [True | False]New servers created from a sysprepped image file always receive a new hostname when they boot. This often confuses admins who might have named their master server something such as MASTER. After booting your new servers, you can expect to see randomized names on your new servers, and you will have to rename them according to their new duties in life. Chapter 3, Active Directory, leads us into the most core and essential role that exists in a Windows Server environment. AD is the central repository for many different types of data inside most corporate infrastructures, and without understanding the tools that exist to interface with this directory you will not be able to do much work with those fancy new servers. RAM represents the server’s working memory used by Windows Server 2022 and the server’s applications. Therefore, the more RAM there is on the server, the more multitasking can be performed, which can be interpreted as more applications running simultaneously. You can learn more about RAM in the Memory section of Chapter 10, Tuning and Maintaining Windows S erver 2022. Without a doubt, the most common place that roles and features get installed is right inside the graphical wizards available as soon as your operating system has been installed. By default, a tool called Server Manager launches automatically every time you log in to Windows Server 2022. We will take a closer look at Server Manager itself later in this chapter, but for our purposes here, we will simply use it as a launching platform to get to our wizard, which will guide us through the installation of our first role on this new server we are putting together.