But it works nonetheless and is a quick, easy, and free way to prep your bootable USB sticks for fresh operating system installations. This process would soon start to get tedious, and it would seem like you were wasting a lot of time having to do the exact same thing over and over again.

Gain access to our AI Assistant (beta) for an exclusive selection of 500 books, available during your subscription period. Whatever changes or customizations you put into place, it’s not a bad idea to run a full slew of tests against the first new server that you build from this master image, just to make sure all of your changes made it through the Sysprep process. This book is primarily focused on Windows Server 2022 LTSC version, but follow along as the authors discuss the latest news for SAC server releases as this impacts Containers, Nano Server, and general OS release cadence.We are first asked if we want to continue with a role-based or feature-based installation, which is exactly what we have been talking about doing.

If you are running an older client operating system on your computer, this may still be the case for you.If I simply input my domain credentials here, I am now presented with the WAC interface, as shown in Figure 2. For example, to finish turning my server into a domain controller, I need to run through a promotion process to define my domain or to specify an existing domain that I want to join. This book is primarily focused on Windows Server 2022 LTSC version, but follow along as we discuss the latest news for SAC server releases as this impacts Containers, Nano Server, and general OS release cadence. You could also start or stop services that you may or may not want running on each of your servers and change settings in the registry if that is part of your normal server prep or hardening process. Then, quite a number of years ago, this became cumbersome and technology advanced to the point where we had the Remote Desktop Protocol ( RDP) available to us.

Another feature on this page, which I haven’t seen many people utilize, is the ability to specify that you want to install a role or feature onto a virtual hard disk. At the moment, I am working on building out a new test lab full of Windows Server 2022 boxes, and I am still in need of a Domain Controller ( DC) to manage Active Directory in my environment.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. Interestingly, the Server 2022 installer will not even work unless your Virtual Machine (VM) server has at least 800 MB of RAM, so you’ll need to start there.

Rattling off facts about new features and efficiency is fine and dandy but ultimately worthless if you aren’t able to make it work in real life. 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. Since this is a test lab and I want as many options as possible, I am simply going to check the box next to every item that begins with RSAT:, as you can see in Figure 2. In it we have tried to balance the need for the ebook to be usable for you the reader with our needs to protect the rights of us as Publishers and of our authors.Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work like that, and I almost never see server administrators willing to take risks in doing an in-place upgrade to an existing production server. I don’t have any clusters in my test lab, not yet anyway, so I am going to add connections to the standard servers that I have been running in the environment.