Setup Win Server 2008 R2

Preparing Windows Server 2008R2

Firstly Activate Windows

Note: Restart the server as and when prompted or do a restart after completing all steps

• Go to Vm>Removable Devices>CD/DVD>Settings.

• Browse to the Windows Loader.iso (available for download from Google, approx 3.9 mb)

• Double click the setup once it opens up. Click Install and reboot the server on completion.

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Adding a secondary NIC

Note: One NIC for internal network (Private) and one for connecting to the internet (Public)

• Go to VM>Settings.

• Click Add.

• Select Network adapter.

• Use the below configuration.

• Right click the network icon on system tray and click Open Network and Sharing Center

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• Click Change adapter settings.

• Rename the NICs.

• Change it to Private and Public as below.

• Right click Private and go to properties.

Disable Internet Protocol Version 6 (Uncheck it).

Double click Internet Protocol version 4. Select the radio button "Use following IP" and type in 192.168.5.1, press tab, subnet mask comes in automatically. Choose preferred DNS as 192.168.5.1. 

Disable the Public NIC card.

Go to run>regedit.exe. Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\TCPIP6. Right Click>New>DWord 32 bit Value. 

Name it as DisabledComponents. 

Put in the value as FFFFFFFF. 

Got to run>services.msc. Double click "Function Discovery Resource Publication" and choose the startup type as "automatic" and stop start the service if already started. 

Similarly, double click "DNS Client" and choose the startup type as "automatic" and stop start the service if already started. 

Similarly, double click "SSDP Discovery" and choose the startup type as "automatic" and stop start the service if already started. 

Similarly, double click "UPnP Device Host" and choose the startup type as "automatic" and stop start the service if already started. 

Go to network sharing from system tray and choose "Change advanced sharing settings".

Verify if the network sharing is on for all components else manually activate it by selecting the radio button. Click save changes and return back to verify if it has been applied correctly.

Go to run>sysdm.cpl. Change the computer name. 

Change the computer name to SCCMSERVER. 

Go to control panel. Add/remove user accounts. 

Setup a password for administrator account. EG: asd@123.

Go to run>control userpasswords2. Remove any account other than administrator account. 

Configure it as below.