| You have seen the roles that a Windows Server 2003 server can support on a network. Although these roles can be configured manually using checklists either generated by your company or downloaded from Microsoft, the Configure Your Server Wizard offers a guided approach to ensure that you don't leave out any important steps. In this exercise you're going to use the wizard to configure your server for the File Server role, probably the most common role you will encounter in the real world. To perform this exercise, you use the test server that you built earlier in this chapter. Exercises 1.1. Preparing a Windows Server 2003 server to be a file server The Configure Your Server Wizard guides you in configuring your Windows Server 2003 server for a specific role. Estimated Time: 20 minutes. 1. | Start the Wizard by clicking Start, All Programs, Administrative Tools, Configure Your Server Wizard.
| 2. | On the Welcome to the Configure Your Server Wizard screen, click Next.
| 3. | On the next screen, review the preliminary steps, then click Next.
| 4. | On the Server Role screen shown in Figure 1.13, highlight the entry for File Server, and then click Next.
Figure 1.13. Select the File Server role. Only one role can be selected at a time, but you can run the wizard multiple times. 
| 5. | On the File Server Disk Quotas screen, click Next.
| 6. | On the File Server Indexing Service screen, select the option to turn the Indexing service on. Click Next.
| 7. | On the Summary screen, review your selections. If they are correct, click Next. If not, click the Back button to change them.
| 8. | This starts the Share a Folder Wizard. Click Next.
| | | 9. | On the Folder Path screen, enter C:\Test. Click Next. You will be prompted to create the folder if it doesn't already exist. Click Yes.
| 10. | On the Name, Description and Settings screen, accept the defaults as shown in Figure 1.14, and then click Next.
Figure 1.14. If the share name isn't descriptive, type in a description so that end users can identify the share. 
| 11. | On the Permissions screen, as shown in Figure 1.15, select the second option: Administrators Have Full Access; Others Have Read-only Access. Click Finish.
Figure 1.15. The Permissions screen configures the access that users have to the share over the network. 
| | | 12. | As shown in Figure 1.16, the wizard should indicate that the sharing was successful. If not, review the messages and repair the problem. Click the Close button to end the wizard.
Figure 1.16. If the share process wasn't successful, follow the instructions to fix it. You also have the option to run it again to share more folders. 
| 13. | This returns you to the Configure Your Server Wizard. Click Finish.
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Exam Questions | 1. | Joe wants to create a password for his newly installed Windows Server 2003 server. His server is a member of a workgroup, not a domain. Which of the following passwords would meet the complexity requirements? (Choose all that apply.) 
| A. | password |
| B. | P@ssw0rd |
| C. | Joe |
| D. | blank password |
| E. | All of the above |
| F. | None of the above |
| | 2. | Joe wants to create a password for his newly installed Windows Server 2003 server. His server was installed as a domain controller for his test domain. Which of the following passwords would meet the complexity requirements? (Choose all that apply.)
| A. | password |
| B. | P@ssw0rd |
| C. | Joe |
| D. | A blank password |
| E. | All of the above |
| F. | None of the above |
| | | | 3. | Jack wants to use an old server that he has lying around as a Windows Server 2003 file server. What steps should he take to make sure that the server is compatible with Windows Server 2003? (Choose all that apply.)
| A. | Check the hardware requirements |
| B. | Check the hardware compatibility list |
| C. | Upgrade his BIOS to the latest level |
| D. | All of the above |
| E. | None of the above |
| | 4. | Frank needs to replace a couple of his older domain controllers with new ones running Windows Server 2003. He is buying them directly from a vendor with the operating system preinstalled, but he needs to specify which version of Windows Server 2003 that he wants. Which of the following versions of Windows Server 2003 would be most suitable for a single-CPU server with 512MB of RAM? (Choose the best answer.)
| A. | Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition |
| B. | Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition |
| C. | Windows Server 2003 Web Edition |
| D. | All of the above |
| E. | None of the above |
| | 5. | Gary has received a request from his boss to put together a hardware specification to support a mission-critical web application. This application is somewhat finicky, so the server must be rebooted frequently, and updates to the software must be performed frequently. However, it is required to be available 24/7. What edition and feature of Windows Server 2003 would provide Gary with the best cost-effective solution to support this application?
| A. | Windows Server 2003 Web Edition with clustering |
| B. | Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition with clustering |
| C. | Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition with clustering |
| D. | Windows Server 2003 Web Edition with load balancing |
| E. | None of the above |
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Answers to Exam Questions | 1. | E. When a Windows Server 2003 server is not part of a domain, password complexity is not enabled, so any password is allowed, even a blank one. See "Logging on to Windows Server 2003." | | 2. | B. The only valid answer is B. When a Windows Server 2003 server is installed as a domain controller, the password complexity rules are enabled by default. For a password to be acceptable, it must not contain all or part of the username, which makes C wrong. In addition, it must be six characters or greater, which invalidates both C and D. It also must contain characters from three of the following four groups: capital letters, lower case letters, numbers, or special characters. This makes B the only logical choice. See "Logging on to Windows Server 2003." | | 3. | A and B. First, Jack needs to make sure that his hardware meets the minimum specifications for RAM, CPU speed, and disk space. Then he needs to check the Hardware Compatibility List to make sure that his hardware is supported on Windows Server 2003. See "Hardware Requirements" and "Hardware Compatibility." | | 4. | B. The Enterprise Edition of Windows Server 2003 is meant for a multiple-CPU, fault-tolerant environment, and would be wasted on a single CPU server with a modest amount of memory. The web edition of Windows Server 2003 cannot be used as a domain controller. See "The Windows Server 2003 Family." | | 5. | D. A and C are incorrect because neither of those two versions support clustering. In addition, it wasn't specified that the application was cluster-aware, so that eliminates B, and clusters are also usually expensive. Because it's required to host a web application, the most cost-effective way to support it is using a load-balanced configuration of Windows Server 2003 Web Edition servers. In this configuration, one or more servers can be taken offline for repairs or software maintenance while the other servers are still processing connections. See "The Windows Server 2003 Family." |
Suggested Readings and Resources 1. Boswell, William. Inside Windows Server 2003. New Riders, 2003. ISBN 0735711585. 2. Matthews, Marty. Windows Server 2003: A Beginners Guide. McGraw-Hill, 2003. ISBN 0072193093. 3. Minasi, Mark, et al. Mark Minasi's Windows XP and Server 2003 Resource Kit. Sybex, 2003. ISBN 0782140807. 4. Minasi, Mark, et al. Mastering Windows Server 2003. Sybex, 2003. ISBN 0782141307. 5. Shapiro, Jeffrey, et al. Windows Server 2003 Bible. John Wiley & Sons, 2003. ISBN 0764549375. 6. Windows Server 2003 Deployment Guide. http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/Library/c283b699-6124-4c3a-87ef-865443d7ea4b1033.mspx?mfr=true Microsoft Corporation. 7. Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit. Microsoft Press, 2005. ISBN 0735614717. |
