Step 9:
Next, you will see a screen that looks like Figure 1-7. We want to configure the network settings here, so choose the Custom Settings radio button and click "Next."
Step 10:
When you see the screen in Figure 1-8, click on the line for "Internet Protocol(TCP/IP) to highlight it, and click the "Properties" button.
A window like a Figure 1-9 should pop up after you click "Properties." A full treatise of the TCP/IP protocol suite is beyond the scope of this document, but I will hit the highlights here. A basic "IP Address" consists of 4 numbers, each no more than 254, separated by periods. 192.168.1.200 for example. What you really need to know about IP addresses here is this: There are "public" IP addresses and "private" IP addresses. "Public" IP's are used on the Internet, and "private" IP's are used in private networks. It is the job of a firewall to translate your private addresses into public addresses for communication on the Internet. You want to use a "private" IP address range now to avoid headaches later. The private ranges that you should use in your own network are 10.X.X.X, 172.16-31.X.X, and 192.168.X.X (the X's here mean you can use 1-254). In this example, I have used 172.31.0.5 with a mask of 255.255.255.0 and a gateway of 172.31.0.1. Use settings that are specific to your existing network if you already have one. If you have no preexisting network, these settings will be fine. If you have an Internet connection, you can put in the DNS addresses that your Internet Service Provider gave you or put in 127.0.0.1. 127.0.0.1 is a special address that refers to the local computer. So with this setting, the server will ask itself for DNS information. We will be setting up a DNS server on this server for use with Active Directory. Click "Ok" when you are finished putting in the TCP/IP settings. Then click "Next" to continue.
Step 11:
The next screen you should see is shown here in Figure 1-10. You can just leave this at the default workgroup of "Workgroup." After clicking "Next" the installation will continue on its own and reboot. Bringing you to Figure 1-11.
Step 12:
Now you are ready to log in to your server for the first time. The login screen is shown in Figure 1-11 Log in as "Administrator" and use the password you chose in Step 7.
Step 13:
When you log in, you will probably see a window pop up about "Windows Server Post-Setup Security Updates." Don't worry about it right now. We want to update our server, but we need to configure a few more things first. What we need to do now is click on the "Start" menu, then right-click on "My Computer" and choose "Manage" from the context window that comes up. That should bring you to the "Computer Management" window shown in
Expand the "Storage" tree in the left pane of the window, if it isn't expanded already, by clicking the "plus" sign next to it. Click on "Disk Management" marked by the numeral one in Figure 1-12. The right-hand pane should display your disks in the top and the partition information below. Right-click on the unformatted D: drive in the bottom-right pane and choose "Format" as illustrated by the numeral two in Figure 1-12.
A dialog window will pop up to allow you to format the D: drive. Name the Volume something descriptive like Data or whatever you want. Choose "Perform a quick format" and hit OK. Say OK to the warning here about erasing all Data on D:. After formatting, it will say Data (D:), the size of your partition underneath that, and "NTFS Healthy". Now close that management window
Step 14:
Please note: You may skip Step 14 if you were able to create a 15GB C: drive in Step 2. If you have a 6GB C: drive, then continue with Step 14.
Now we need to change the paging file arrangement on the server. The paging file is a file on the disk that acts like extra RAM for the system. When the server runs a program, that program takes up some system RAM for it to use. When that program is not doing anything, the server can "swap" the real RAM the program is using for virtual ram in the page file. This clears up real RAM for other programs that need to run. When a server doesn't have enough RAM, the server will have a problem called "excessive swapping" where the server spends most of its time reading from and writing to the paging file. We want to move the paging file to the D: drive so drive C: isn't so cramped.
Now click on the "Start" menu, then right-click on "My Computer" and choose "Properties." A window will pop up called "System Properties." Click on the "Advanced" tab shown in Figure 1-13.
From the Advanced tab, click on the "Settings" button in the "Performance" box. A new window will appear labeled "Performance Options." From here, click on the "Advanced" tab, and then choose "Change" from the "Virtual Memory" box shown in Figure 1-14.
The next window will be labeled "Virtual Memory." Our goal here is to move the paging file from the C: drive to the D: drive. To do this, we need to click on the C: drive in the upper portion of the window, click the "No paging file" radio button, and click "Set." A warning will likely pop up about not having a paging file. Just click "Ok" on that warning. Now click on D:, choose "Custom Size". Enter in a range for your paging file. The normal guidelines are your memory times 1.5 up to your memory times 3. Now click "Set." Now your paging file resides on the D: drive and you have freed up space on drive C: Your window should look similar to Figure 1-15 except the sizes will probably differ. Now you can click OK to close all 3 windows and reboot the server.
Now you have a stand-alone server ready to be made into a Domain Controller or whatever you want. Part 2 of this series will focus on configuring Active Directory and setting up network services on your newly installed server.
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