Step-By-Step Screencast of Installing Windows Server 2012 R2

Download the Source ISO, here I used MSDN download “Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64) – DVD (English) ” and respective Product keys to move on with the installation.

Installing Windows Server 2012 R2

Boot the system with the Windows Server 2012 R2 bootable disk. If you are running your system in virtual environments have the downloaded ISO attached as the CD disk.

  1. Choose the Language, Time & Currency and Keyboard layout and then Click Next image
  2. Click  “Install Now”   button             image
  3. Key-in your “Product key to activate Windows” either purchased or eval, without the product key installation doesn’t move any further & you’re blocked, so you should having you’re product key ready by this wizard.image
  4. Choose the Operating System install either Server Core or Server with GUI, by default installer will install “Server Core Installation”. Select “Server with GUI” if you prefer to install complete Windows Server bitsimage
  5. Read through and accept the License terms by checking “I accept the license terms”image
  6. Choose the type of installation either Upgrade or Custom. “Upgrade: Install Windows and keep files, settings, and applications” or “Custom: Install Windows only (advanced)”image
  7. Choose the disks you’d like to have your Windows installed on, in my case, I have only one disk so nothing else to choose, “Drive 0 Unallocated Space”image
  8. You can choose the partition and disk formats ahead by using the options.  You’ll notice that windows creates additional partitions for system files which will be hiddenimage imageimage
  9. Then click Next for Windows installation to start off.image
  10. Upon successful install system Restarts, at this point you can remove the Windows installer disk from the CD drive.
  11. Then you’ll be prompted to set a password for the Administrator account and then sign in to the systemimage image
  12. Upon first time successful login , you’ll be prompted to let your system be accessible on the network. Click Yesimage
  13. Finally, you’ll landing in the “Server Manager” from where you can take control of your system and move on.image
  14. By default, Windows assigns a random Computer name which you may want to have renamed appropriatelyimage
  15. Then have the Remote Desktop Connection enabled for you logon on the server remotely via “Remote Desktop Connection” or mstsc application which can be done from the system properties as shown below.   image
  16. If you are installing your system in virtual environments like XenServer in my case, you’ll need to install the respective hypervisor tools, in my case I am installing XenServer Toolsimage image image
  17. Restart the system to complete the   installation  .image
  18. Upon logon, you’ll see the successful install message.image

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