Windows Server 2003 { First Steps and Administration}

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1 Windows Server 2003 { } Benedikt Riedel MCSE + Messaging Benedikt.riedel@siemens.com

2 The Default Windows 2003 Server Desktop

3 To generate the default Desktop icons right click the empty desktop press properties go to the Desktop tab select Customize Desktop and tick the boxes under General as per this picture

4 Right click the new My Computer icon and select Properties

5 Check the OS version, service pack level and physical equipment e.g. CPU and Memory to ensure the system requirements are met

6 Change to the Remote tab and tick the Allow users to connect remotely to this computer check box. This will enable remote desktop

7 Select the Advanced tab and press Settings in the Performance section

8 Select the Data Execution Prevention and enable the top setting Turn on DEP for essential Windows

9 In the Advanced tab ensure background services and system cache is selected and press Change in the virtual memory section

10 Select Custom size and enter twice the amount of your physical memory. Select a partition with enough empty space for the Paging File and press SET

11 After pressing OK select the Error Reporting button and tick Disable error reporting and tick the notify me box

12 Open the Web browser, press Tools and Windows Update. Follow the website to install every! available windows update by pressing the Customer button. DO NOT LEAVE A SERVER UNPATCHED

13 Ensure all available High Priority and Software Updates are selected before you press Install Updates

14 Wait until the update is complete and reboot the server

15 Now remove some unnecessary pieces of software on the server. Press Start Control Panel Add or Remove Programs

16 Remove every box except Microsoft.NET Framework and the General top box. Press Next and Finish to complete the removal

17 Download and install the programs written below. It is BGInfo for some additional desktop info, TCP View a port analyzer, WinRAR a compression tool that supports.zip and.rar and a text editior Notepad &big_mirror=

18 Save them on the Desktop to have them for maybe future use or different servers

19 Setup Bginfo with the settings you require. Below an example configuration

20 To view and or disable programs that start on system start or as services press Start Run fill in msconfig and hit OK

21 In the services tab check the Hide All Microsoft Services box to have a nice overview and disable the services you do not require on startup

22 On the Start-up tab you find all programs starting as soon a user logins into the machine. E.g. Administrator

23 To monitor the system performance press Start Run enter perfmon and hit OK

24 For the HDD performance Add the Counters for the Phyiscal Disk and just enable Average Disk Read Queue Length and Current Disk Queue Length. Monitor the performance if the values are continuously above 80% you have an issue with the HDD speed and should consider changing same

25 To monitor the Network performance select the Network Interface object and the Sent and Received Bytes information for all / a single adapter

26 To monitor the default operating system events open the event viewer with pressing Start Run enter eventvwr and press OK

27 The event log is split in four options. The most import one for the servers operation are Application and System. Just ensure you don t see too many red messages

28 To test the remote access setup earlier press Start Run and enter mstsc and hit OK

29 As computer select your localhost ( ) and hit Connect

30 If you see the login prompt everything is OK

31 Some useful DOS commands: systeminfo find System Up Time will output the time the operating system is running

32 Ipconfig /all outputs every detail about the network adapters e.g. IP, Subnet Mask, Gateway, DNS, DHCP Server and MAC Address

33 Ipconfig /release will release the dynamically assigned IP address (Do not perform this while logged on remotely)

34 Ipconfig /renew will request new IP configuration from a DHCP server

35 Ipconfig /registerdns will register the PC with a DNS server that you can reach the machine using its hostname instead IP

36 Ipconfig /flushdns will empty the local DNS cache of the server

37 Ping <destination> will perform a ICMP network test to see if a destination device can be reached

38 Nslookup <DNS Name> will test the DNS settings and show you the DNS server answering your question and the IP address of the destination

39 Tracert <IP/Hostname> will display the route to a destination and show every router in between interesting for troubleshooting

40 Tasklist displays every process running on the server and taskkill /pid <number> will shut the process in question down

41 Whoami displays the current logged on user and hostname the machines hostname

42 The taskmanager is the graphical answer to tasklist and has some additional features to open press Start Run enter taskmgr and hit OK

43 The Users tab shows the currently logged on users to the machine. By right clicking you can interact with the other users. The ID 0 is the console shell (directly on the server) and can be used remotely as well using the command mstsc /console (mstsc <= 6) or mstsc /admin (mstsc >= 6.5)

44 The performance tab shows the current CPU load and memory usage as well as the Page file consumption