tailieunhanh - The Best Damn Windows Server 2003 Book Period- P6

The Best Damn Windows Server 2003 Book Period- P6:The latest incarnation of Microsoft’s server product,Windows Server 2003, brings many new features and improvements that make the network administrator’s job chapter will briefly summarize what’s new in 2003 and introduce you to the four members of the Windows Server 2003 family: the Web Edition, the Standard Edition, the Enterprise Edition, and the Datacenter Edition. | 16 Chapter 1 Overview of Windows Server 2003 Installation and Upgrade Issues Unless your company is buying its first Windows server you are going to have to decide between upgrading and performing a clean install. Each method has advantages and disadvantages Upgrading preserves many of your existing settings such as users and groups permissions and rights and applications. Performing a clean installation can improve the performance of your hard drive as it will be reformatted during installation. This also gives you a chance to change the partition and volume sizes used on your drives. Clean installs ensure that you don t carry over any existing problems that you might have with your current OS. Some administrators the authors of this book included prefer clean installs because they have seen many problems related to OS upgrades in the past. There is something comforting about starting from scratch. Common Installation Issues The biggest problems with installing a new OS are hardware and software incompatibilities. It is important to adhere to the recommended hardware specifications for Windows Server a minimum you need the following hardware configuration 133 MHz processor 128MB of RAM GB hard drive Remember that these are the bare minimums on which Windows Server 2003 will run. Obviously on such old hardware performance will suffer. Microsoft recommends at least a 550 MHz processor and 256MB of more RAM the better. You should always verify hardware compatibility before you start your installation. There is a system compatibility check you can run from the Windows Server 2003 CD that will check out your hardware for you automatically via the System Compatibility wizard. Even if all of your hardware is supported you should always update your machine s BIOS to the most recent version. Common Upgrade Issues As stated earlier you should always verify hardware compatibility and BIOS should always back up your existing system before you