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Deploying server 2008 and Windows 7 using Windows Deployment Services.

Windows Server 2008 comes equipped with a service to automate the installation of Operating systems using a DHCP PXE boot.
The example will Use server2008 as the Windows Deployment Server.
The Serverwill have a DHCP server installed and a DHCP scope of

10.10.10.1 - 20.

The IP address of the WDS is

10.10.10.100

The server is part of the domain failover.lab

Configure your DHCP server with a scope of your choice.
Install Windows Deployment Services Role.

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Tags: router, interface, switch, cisco, vlan, wan

Installing a Server 2008 Failover cluster for exchange 2007 SP1 mailbox server.

Installing a clustered exchange environment requires that you have identical machines that share a common resource called a quorum.
Resources are shared on a disk attached to both nodes so if one node is taken offline for maintenance or fails node2 will take over control of the quorum and the resources until node1 has recovered.
The shared resources are usually iSCSI disks.

The systems will be called:

Node1
Node2

The domain for the environment is:

bitmindframes.local

The address space is:

192.168.1.0/24

Shared disks are:

Z:
X:

The systems will both need to do steps to prepare for the basic clustering of the servers and the installation of exchange.

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Tags: 802.1q, cisco, interface, ip, study, router