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What Are the Best Practices to Set up Windows Server 2012 after Installation? Part 01

This Tutorial addresses:
  • Windows Server
  • Computers
  • Servers
If you have installed Windows Server 2012 on a computer, it is quite obvious that you want to establish a client/server network architecture in your organization. Since the entire establishment process of the client/server architecture requires a lot of planning, it is important that you set up the installed Windows Server 2012 accordingly before you proceed any further to check the pre-requisites and install the required server roles on the network operating system.

In this first part of the best practice series (Part 01), you will consider a few points that are important for initial server setup. You are suggested to take note of the points and consider them at high priority as the entire efficiency and performance of your network would depend on how perfectly you have configured the Windows Server 2012 initially.

The second part of this series (Part 02) will explain you how you can actually make the things happen, i.e. step-by-step process as how you can initially prepare your Windows Server 2012 after it has been installed on a computer.

A few points that you must consider while setting up the Windows Server 2012 after it has been successfully installed on a computer include:

  1. You must rename the hostname of the Windows Server 2012, and make sure that the name is self-explanatory that clearly describes the role of the server.(For example, DC-01)

  2. Make sure that the time zone of the server is correct, and if it is not, set the time zone as per your region.

  3. Since the Windows Server 2012 would most likely be used to play a role of an important server in the network, you must assign a static IP address to it. In case you plan to have a DHCP server in the network, make sure that you exclude this IP address in the DHCP address pool in order to avoid any IP address conflicts.

  4. As a best practice, you might also want to enable the Remote Desktop on the Windows Server 2012 so that it can be managed from the remote computers, instead of making you to log on to the server locally every time you want to make some configurations.

  5. You might also want to enable the automatic updates for the server in order to allow the Windows Server 2012 to receive the most recent updates that have been released by the Microsoft.

  • After considering the above points, you can move on to the second and final part of this tutorial series to start configuring the Windows Server 2012 according to the best practices.
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