Once those options have been decided upon, the installation process kicks off, and after a little bit of time and a few automated restarts of the server, you should find yourself back at a login screen of the same server with the same roles and files present, but now running the Windows Server 2022 operating system. I just finished joining one of those to my new lab network, and I will now attempt an in-place upgrade from Server 2019 to Server 2022. If you have an Azure environment or are thinking about getting started with one, your on-premises WAC can be used to administer both on-premises servers as well as Azure servers. While you could throw the whole WAC system onto a Windows 10 client, let’s take the approach that will be more commonly utilized in the field and install it onto a server in our network. If you have multiple hard drives installed on your server and they have not been tied together in any way yet, then you will have multiple choices here of where to install Windows Server.

Though a disclaimer should come with that one—your security folks may not be happy if you choose to employ the password-storing feature. Install the operating system and make sure device drivers are all squared away and you’re ready for the next step. You might not be able to see the colors in the picture if you are reading a printed copy of this book, but this gives you a very quick view of whether or not the services running on this server are functioning properly.Jordan lives in beautiful West Michigan (USA) and manages a team of IT engineers spread across the country. Once downloaded and extracted, this tool is a standalone executable that can be run on almost any Windows operating system. There are a few simple decisions you need to make during the wizard; the most notable is the screen where you define the port and certificate settings.

Typing Get-WindowsFeature | Where Installed presents us with a list of the currently installed components. exe command, you will see a graphical interface for Sysprep, where you can choose between the available options, as shown in Figure 2. However, because I had not installed the role or configured anything domain-related on it, this server was a perfect candidate for displaying the Sysprep process, and so I used it in our text today.

Then, I will, of course, also use /shutdown because I need this server to be offline immediately following Sysprep so that I can take a copy of the hard drive to be used as my master image.

It is quite common in today’s IT world for new operating system releases to be thoroughly tested by companies before deploying them, both because server hardware resources are so easily available to us through virtualization technologies and because most business systems are now being designed for 100% uptime. I am using the full GUI in a Server 2019 Desktop Experience configuration of Windows, so I will proceed with installing 2022 Desktop Experience.But, essentially, what this screen is doing is asking you where you would like to install this new role or feature. So, anyway, we will not focus on an automated approach to server rollouts, but rather we will do a few minutes of extra work on our very first server, which then results in saving numerous minutes of setup work on every server that we build afterward. There are additional components that it would be good to look for when building a new system, which are required for particular roles and features as well.

Those of us who have worked in Windows Server administration for more than a few years do NOT have this same mindset about server upgrades. I won’t spend a lot of time looking over individual features or capabilities of this tool since it is a client-side tool and not something that is specific to Windows Server 2022. As one of the world's first experts on Microsoft DirectAccess, his authorship journey began with a book on remote access technology and has evolved into numerous writings on more extensive topics such as Windows Server, security, and Group Policy. After completing checkout and payment in the normal way, you will receive your receipt on the screen containing a link to a personalised PDF download file.

Without a doubt, the most common place that roles and features get installed is right inside the graphical wizards available as soon as your operating system has been installed. Also, in the background, the operating system gives itself a new random and unique hostname and SID information so that you can be sure you do not have conflicts on your network with these new servers. If you are running an older client operating system on your computer, this may still be the case for you. It is very likely that the majority of readers have completed this process numerous times already, and if that is the case, feel free to skip ahead a couple of pages.