Chapter 3. Installing and Upgrading Windows Server 2008

This book looks at the features and usage of a Windows Server 2008 environment. However, before you can enjoy Windows Server 2008, you need to install it.

Chapter 16, "Deploying Windows," discusses deploying operating systems (OSs), which also applies to installing Windows Server 2008; therefore, network-based installation is not covered in this chapter. This chapter focuses on the local installation of the OS and the initial configuration of a new installation, which applies to both a local and network-based installation. With a network-based installation, you commonly automate a majority of the initial configuration via an unattended answer file. This chapter shows how to achieve that ...

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