Installing the WSUS on Server 2008

Hi,
today I prepared my virtual server for installating WSUS. How I have installed and configured it, you can read at this link:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd939817%28WS.10%29.aspx

I had only one problem during the installation. You have to configure the SQL Server 2008 for remote access if you want to use an SQL Server as Database instead of the internal. In SQL Server 2005 there was an surface are configuration but in the newer version, you have to enable the protocols in the SQL Server Configuration Manager:

After enabling the procotols, you have to restart the SQL Server Service for taking effect.

If you have done this, the WSUS Installation Guide can access the database and can do all the required things.

The next step would be the configuration of the group policy to set the new update source for the clients you want to update through the wsus (this will be a topic from another blog entry).

That's it

If you have any questions - feel free to ask

Have a nice day

Prepare your machine template for VMWare

It doesn't make sense if you have a lot of machines, based on the same operating system, and you have to set up this manually. So usually you should use templates of virtual machines.

Before you can use a virtual machine template (in my case the server 2008) you have to prepare this  for use.
After installing a OS on a machine, there will be created a unique number, it's called SID (Security Identifier).
If you want to clone this machine, including the OS, you have to change this SID, the machine name, maybe the productcode and so on.

The advantage of the Windows Server 2008, there is a internal tool which can do all this things.
You can find this tool in following directory:
C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep

On this screenshot you can see my settings. After the system was shut down you can copy the virtual machine.
After booting this machine, there will start a small installation of windows, which will prepare the system for use.

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Install DNS and Active Directory services

Before I will install all the other member server I have to set up a DNS Server with Active Directory.
New in Windows Server 2008 is the role based management.
After installing the "naked" server, you have to add roles to the server, e. g. DNS or Active Directory in our case.

This you can do at Start --> All Programs --> Administrative Tools --> Server Manager

On the left side you have to click on "Roles" --> "Add Role" and choose Active Directory.

After adding the roles, you have to run dcpromo.exe

After the reboot the server is configured and you can start to add other servers or clients to the domain and beginning to create group policies etc.

Installing the MS Server 2008 functioning as a server template

Hi,

on the weekend I had time to install the first machine for my test environment.

First of all I installed a Microsoft Server 2008 R2 machine. This will be a template for my other servers, because they will base on this operating system too.

So let's start and have a look at the screenshots which I have taken through the installation:

During the installation you can choose which version of the server system you would like to install. In my case, the standard version is enough, so I choosed this one. The first step after I have installed the server, I initiated a windows update getting all the new hotfixes etc. That's all what you have to do for installing a Microsoft Server 2008 operating system. Regards