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Contents at a Glance
1 Implementing and Configuring a Windows Deployment
Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2 Configuring Server Storage and Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
3 Installing and Configuring Terminal Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
4 Configuring and Managing a Terminal Services Infrastructure . . . . . . 179
5 Installing and Configuring Web Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
6 Managing Web Server Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
7 Configuring FTP and SMTP Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
8 Configuring Windows Media Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
9 Configuring Windows SharePoint Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559
Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639

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Table of Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Hardware Requirements (Virtual PC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii

Installing WDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Configuring WDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Capturing Images with WDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Deploying Images with WDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Practice: Configuring Windows Deployment Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Lesson Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Lesson Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Lesson 3: Deploying Virtual Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
What Are Virtual Machines? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Virtual PC 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Hyper-V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Lesson Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Lesson Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Lesson 4: Implementing a Windows Activation Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Product Activation Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Implementing MAK Activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Implementing KMS Activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Activation Infrastructure Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Practice: Activating Windows Server 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Lesson Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Lesson Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Chapter Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Chapter Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Key Terms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Case Scenarios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Case Scenario 1: Deploying Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Case Scenario 2: Creating an Activation Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Suggested Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Deploy Images by Using Windows Deployment Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Lesson 1: Deploying a Terminal Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Understanding Terminal Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
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Enabling Remote Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Installing Terminal Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Staging the Terminal Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Practice: Installing a Terminal Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Lesson Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Lesson Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Lesson 2: Configuring Terminal Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Introducing the Terminal Services Configuration Console. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Configuring Connection (RDP-Tcp) Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Configuring Terminal Services Server Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Configuring Terminal Services Printer Redirection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Practice: Installing and Configuring a License Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Lesson Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Lesson Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Chapter Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Chapter Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Key Terms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Case Scenarios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Case Scenario 1: Choosing a TS Licensing Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Case Scenario 2: Troubleshooting a Terminal Services Installation . . . . . . . . 177
Suggested Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Deploy a Terminal Server Farm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Watch a Webcast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Take a Practice Test. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
4 Configuring and Managing a Terminal Services Infrastructure . . . . . . 179
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Case Scenario 1: Managing TS Sessions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Case Scenario 2: Publishing Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Suggested Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Deploy a Terminal Services Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Watch a Webcast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Perform a Virtual Lab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Take a Practice Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
5 Installing and Configuring Web Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Lesson 1: Installing the Web Server (IIS) Role . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Understanding Web Server Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
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Understanding IIS Components and Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Understanding the Application Server Role . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Understanding IIS 7.0 Role Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Installing the Web Server (IIS) Role . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Using Windows System Resource Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Practice: Installing and Verifying the Web Server (IIS) Role . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Lesson Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Lesson Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Lesson 2: Configuring Internet Information Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Working with IIS Management Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Creating and Configuring Web Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Understanding Web Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Working with Application Pools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Working with Virtual Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Using Command-Line Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Managing Web Server Configuration Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Migrating From IIS 6.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Practice: Configuring and Managing IIS Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Lesson Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
Chapter Review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Chapter Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Case Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Case Scenario 1: Configuring Remote Management for IIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Case Scenario 2: Increasing Web Site Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Suggested Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Implement Web Server Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Take a Practice Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
7 Configuring FTP and SMTP Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
Lesson 1: Configuring FTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Installing the FTP Publishing Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
Configuring FTP Sites by Using IIS 6.0 Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Installing and Managing FTP 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
Managing FTP Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
Managing FTP User Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Configuring FTP Network Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
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Managing FTP Site Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
Using FTP Client Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Practice: Configuring and Testing FTP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
Lesson Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Lesson Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Lesson 2: Configuring SMTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
Installing the SMTP Server Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
Configuring SMTP Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
Monitoring SMTP Virtual Servers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
Using an SMTP Virtual Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Chapter Review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482
Chapter Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482
Case Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Case Scenario 1: Protecting Streaming Media Content. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Case Scenario 2: Improving Windows Media Services Performance
and Scalability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Suggested Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484
Configure Windows Media Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484
Take a Practice Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
9 Configuring Windows SharePoint Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
Lesson 1: Configuring and Managing Windows SharePoint Services. . . . . . . . . . . 488
Understanding Windows SharePoint Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
Understanding WSS Deployment Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
Verifying the WSS Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
Using the SharePoint Central Administration Web Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496
Managing SharePoint Operations Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Understanding Backup and Recovery for WSS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510
Deploying and Configuring SharePoint Sites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
Managing Web Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522
Installing Application Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528
Practice: Configuring and Managing Windows SharePoint Services . . . . . . . 529
Lesson Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532
Lesson Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532
Chapter Review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534
Chapter Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534
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Key Terms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534
Case Scenarios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535

p Configure Windows Media Services
p Configure Windows SharePoint Services
Find additional content online As new or updated material that complements your book
becomes available, it will be posted on the Microsoft Press Online Windows Server and Client Web
site. Based on the final build of Windows Server 2008, the type of material you might find includes
updates to book content, articles, links to companion content, errata, sample chapters, and
more. This Web site will be available soon at www.microsoft.com/learning/books/online/serverclient
and will be updated periodically.
Hardware Requirements (Virtual PC)
To minimize the time and expense of configuring physical computers for this training kit, it’s
recommended that you use Virtual PC 2007 or later, which you can download for free at http://
www.microsoft.com/downloads. You can use other virtualization software instead, such as Virtual
Server 2005 R2 or Hyper-V, but the practice setup instructions in the book assume that you are
using Virtual PC. If you are not using virtualization software, see the section that follows for
physical hardware requirements.
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If you choose to use virtualization software, you need only one physical computer to perform
the exercises in this book. That physical host computer must meet the following minimum
hardware requirements:
p 1-GHz processor
p 2.0 GB of RAM or more (recommended if you are using Windows Vista or Windows
Server 2008 as the host operating system in a virtual environment)
p 80 GB of available hard disk space
p DVD-ROM drive
p Internet connectivity
Hardware Requirements (Physical)
If you choose to use physical computers instead of virtualization software, use the following
list to meet the minimum hardware requirements of the practice exercises in this book:
p Three personal computers, each with a 1-GHz processor, 512 MB of RAM, network card,
video card, and DVD-ROM drive.

the Microsoft Download Center at />p If you are not using virtualization software, you need software that allows you to handle .iso
and .img files. This software needs to perform either or both of the following functions:
s Burn .iso and .img files to CDs or DVDs. (This solution also requires CD/DVD
recording hardware.)
s Mount .iso and .img files as virtual CD or DVD drives on your computer.
Practice Setup Instructions
You need to prepare three computers for the exercises in this training kit. The following
instructions assume you have installed Virtual PC 2007 or later on a host computer that meets
the minimum hardware requirements specified in the “Hardware Requirements (Virtual PC)”
section of this introduction. If you choose to use other virtualization software or physical
computers in place of Virtual PC, you can use the following instructions to determine the gen-
eral setup requirements of the practice, but you will need to adjust the step-by-step instruc-
tions accordingly.
IMPORTANT Download required software
Before you begin preparing the practice computers, you must have a copy of Windows Server 2008
(either as an .iso file or as a DVD) and the Windows Automated Installation Kit (either as an .img file
or as a DVD).
xx Introduction
The practice setup occurs in four phases. In the first phase, you create the three virtual
machines. Figure 1 shows the virtual hardware configuration of the virtual machines as they
appear after this first phase.
Figure 1-1 Hardware configuration for the three computers in Virtual PC
In the second phase of the practice setup, you configure the software for the Server1 and
Core1 machines. (No software configuration is necessary for Server2 because this computer
must be left clean as a virtual bare-metal machine.)
The third phase of practice setup describes the configuration necessary to provide an Internet
connection for all three computers. By performing these steps, you add a second virtual net-
work adapter to Server1 and configure Network Address Translation (NAT) across its two
adapters, as shown in Figure 2.
Adapter 1 = Local Only

Virtual
Physical
Physical host
computer
Internet
Adapter 2
(Physical adapter)
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p Options: Create a Virtual Machine
p Name and location: Server1
(The default location is used if you specify only a name for this setting.)
p Operating System: Windows Server 2003 (Windows Server 2008 if available)
At the time of this writing, Virtual PC 2007 does not offer the option to specify Windows
Server 2008 as the operating system. When this option does become available, choose
Windows Server 2008.
p RAM: 512 MB
If you choose Windows Server 2003 as the operating system, Virtual PC recommends
256 MB of RAM. In this case, select the option to adjust the recommended RAM and
enter 512 instead.
p Hard disk size: 20,480 MB
Configure the Network Adapter in Virtual PC After you have created a new (empty) vir-
tual machine named Server1 in Virtual PC, use the Virtual PC console to open the settings of
the Server1 machine. Then, configure Adapter 1 to connect to the Local Only network, as
shown in Figure 3. Do not add a second adapter yet.
Figure 1-3 Configuring Adapter 1 for Server1 in Virtual PC
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Create the Core1 Virtual Machine
Use the New Virtual Machine Wizard to create a second virtual machine. Configure all settings
identically to those of the Server1 machine (including the network adapter) except in the fol-
lowing two cases:

the contoso.com domain. Server1 also needs to have the WAIK installed. Perform the follow-
ing steps to meet the configuration requirements for the server.
1. In Virtual PC 2007, start the new Server1 virtual machine. Then, use the CD menu to
attach the Windows Server 2008 DVD or ISO image to the virtual machine, as shown in
Figure 5. (Note that you can use the Capture ISO Image command to capture either an
ISO file or an IMG file.)
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Figure 1-5 Attaching an ISO file to a virtual machine
2. Perform a default installation of Windows Server 2008. Use the following guidelines:
s If desired, choose a language and keyboard corresponding to your region.
s Do not enter a product key at this time.
s Choose Windows Server 2008 Standard (Full Installation) or Windows Server
2008 Enterprise (Full Installation).
s Install Windows in the default location (Disk 0 Unallocated Space).
s Use a strong password of your choice when logging on as Administrator for the
first time.
s After you log on as Administrator, use the Initial Configuration Tasks window to
make the following configuration changes.
3. Configure the Local Area Connection on Server1. You can perform this step by using
either the Initial Configuration Tasks window or a command prompt.
In the Initial Configuration Tasks window, click Configure Networking, open the prop-
erties of the Local Area Connection, and then configure the properties of Internet Proto-
col version 4 (TCP/IPv4) with the following options and values:
s Select Use The Following IP Address
n IP Address: 192.168.10.1
n Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
n Default Gateway: leave blank