I. Getting the Installation
Media
You can download the Trial version and
use it for testing for up to 180 days, and here is the link to download your
trial: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/dn205286.aspx
II. Installing the new Windows
Server 2012 R2
You can download the Trial version and
use it for testing for up to 180 days, and here is the link to download your
trial: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/dn205286.aspx
Step 1: In the following page, for a new installation we
don’t have a lot of options, just hit Install now.
Step 2: Since we are using a MSDN version a product key as
requested, if you are using a trial you can hit next and the key won’t be
required during the installation process.
- Server Standard: NB4WH-BBBYV-3MPPC-9RCMV-46XCB
- Server Datacenter: BH9T4-4N7CW-67J3M-64J36-WW98Y
- Server Standard Core: NB4WH-BBBYV-3MPPC-9RCMV-46XCB
- Server Datacenter Core: BH9T4-4N7CW-67J3M-64J36-WW98Y
Step 3: In the following page we can select which version of
the Operating System and if we are going to use GUI or core installation. Bear
in mind, that we can always go back and forth with the GUI in Windows Server
2012. Let’s install the OS of this Tutorial with the GUI, select it and click
Next.
Step 4: After that we have our traditional license license
page, if you are okay with the terms click on I accept the license terms and
click Next.
Step 5: In the Which type of installation do you want? page.
In this page we can upgrade an existent server to Windows Server 2012 R2 if you
want to, but in our case we want to install a new OS and use some of the
advanced tools, let’s click on Custom: Install Windows only (advanced).
Note: If you are planning to perform an upgrade in-place and
your current OS belongs to the Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 or Windows Server
2012 families you can use the Upgrade option. This following document can help
you out: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn303416.aspx
When possible I would recommend to install a new OS from
scratch and move the roles/data to the new server for the simple reason that
you can do a smooth transition of your information and there is always a
rollback plan available.
Step 6: In the Where do you want to install Windows? page.
Here we can delete existent partitions and a hint here is that we don’t need to
create a partition to install the OS, just select an unallocated space and then
click Next. After that just wait for the installation to complete and the
server will be restarted automatically.
Step 7: Installing Windows, please wait…
Step 8: The next page will be the Settings where we need to
define a password for the administrator account, after defining this one, click
on Finish.
Step 9: That’s all, we have the server ready to be
configured, just hit Ctrl + Alt + Del and we can log on with the user
administrator and the password that we have just defined in the previous step.
Step 10: Since we are using Windows Server 2012 R2, you may
have noticed that we do have the Start “button” and when we right-lick on it we
have the Shut down and sign out options which were missing on Windows Server
2012. We can always run winver to get the version and license of the existent
operating system.
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