Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Windows Server 2003 install sucessful

This is my 2nd Windows Server 2003 install and I was sucessful this time around.
I installed the Network Operating System on a 1 GHZ system that has a Celeron chip and 256 mb of ram. The system has four USB ports, one integrated NIC, one pci NIC ,integrated sound, DVD player, cd rom and two hard disks. One hard disk, the primary hd is a 30gb drive with one partition formatted FAT32 and the second drive is a 40 gb hard disk with two partitions. One partition where Windows 2003 server is located is on a 21 gb partition. I have one partion which is 19 gb in size and is not formatted currently.
Not only is the server up and running on a seperate Domain on our LAN but I am able to log on to that domain from one of my laptops. I was not able to do that before which really bummed me out. Well, you know what they say, try, try and try again. If you do not suceed just keep on a trying.
Now I am able to go through each chapter of my FIRST core four MCSE/MCSA exam book 70-290 and do the practice labs like I am supposed to. Cool stuff if you ask me. Theory is good and we all need to understand theory but we also need to understand how to apply the theory in practical application. I like this feature of this self paced training kit in that it gives you plenty of opportunity to TRY IT OUT by doing the task first hand.