Windows 2008 Application Server Proposal
Windows Server 2008 R2, has a good features that allows users to manage it remotely, from a Windows 7 workstation or from another server or using Server Manager.
Windows Server 2008 R2 supports management and effective deployment of high-performance server-based commerce applications. These applications are capable of servicing requests from remote client systems, as well as Web browsers linking from a corporate network or the public Internet and remote work stations may send requests as messages (Daniel Petri, 2009).
Installing Windows Server 2008 by means of Add Roles Wizard facilitates the user to choose the features and roles that are essential to run the user applications. The Add Roles feature automatically installs all the necessary features for a given role service and facilitates the user to set up a workstation as an application server for any organizational applications. The following steps should be followed in the installation of windows 2008 server application.
1. Insert the Windows Server 2008 installation media on your DVD drive and Reboot the machine.
2. Select the installation language and press next.
3. Begin the installation process by pressing Install Now.
4. Enter your Product key in the next window.
5. Accept the license terms and conditions by selecting the checkbox and press next.
6. Select the–Custom (Advanced) type of installation
7. Select the drive where you want your Windows installed.
8. The installation will automatically begin.
9. The server will reboot and you will be prompted with the new login screen. To loggin, Press CTRL+ALT+DEL.
10. Click on Other User. Type the administrator and press ok. Change the user password and press ok.
18. Finally, the desktop will appear and you can begin working.
In configuring Windows Server 2008 R2 system, application performance is correlated to processor setting up storing options that you set for the server. You can configure application performance by following the steps below:
1. In the System Properties dialog box, Go to Advanced tab. Click on Settings in the Performance panel to show the Performance Options dialog box (Thomas, 2008).
2. Click on the advanced tab in the Performance option dialog box.
3. Select the program option in the Processor Scheduling panel, to give the active application the best response time and the greatest share of the resources available.
4. Then click OK.
WDS allows users to add images and installing an OS. It has instructions for more superior tasks like creating custom images, multicast transmissions, and performing unattended installation.
Installation of WDS depends on the server's Operating system. In Windows Server 2008, go to Control Panel, then click on Add/Remove Programs, then go to Windows Components, WDS. On a Windows Server 2008 R2 server, then add it as a role using Server Manager (Deb, 2012).
Basically, WDS feature facilitates users to print from a Terminal printer on a network printer that is configured on the host computer without installing drivers on the Terminal Server. The Easy Print attribute uses the drivers that are installed on the client system which results to more reliable printing experience between remote and local sessions.
Using Cluster reduces complexity by providing the user with an easy interface to use, create and manage their failover cluster. Setup is simple, with less configuration and fewer steps. Moreover, Cluster setup is completely scriptable with the intention that users can automate their deployment (Brien, 2012). Networking and Security in clusters have been enhanced, as it has the way a failover cluster can communicate with storage.
In Windows Server, the Network Load Balancing (NLB) application facilitates the distribution traffic across a number of servers by using a networking protocol called TCP/IP. By joining many computers that are running applications in Windows Server to a single implicit cluster, NLB grants performance and reliability for mission-critical and other web servers. Distributed File System (DFS) provides simplified, highly-available right of entry to files, WAN-friendly replication and load sharing.
It is vital to consider that clustering IIS through clustering the IIS services doesn’t at all times guarantee a high accessibility solution for Web appliance. Despite the fact that the IIS services may be up and running, a particular application could have terminated or it might be throwing HTTP internal server errors. Clustering and monitoring Web applications by using a custom script is the recommended and correct way to achieve a high accessibility IIS cluster through the use of failover clustering
If the organization has the necessary wireless infrastructure or network wiring in place, make the wireless or wired connection between the networking equipment and the server, such as a firewall/router or patch panel. If the organization plans to share peripherals, such as a scanner and printer, from the server, they ought to read the user manuals and find out whether they should connect them at that moment or after they configure the operating system and install the drivers.
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