Designing and Implementing a Server Infrastructure
LAB 1: DESIGNING AN AUTOMATED SERVER INSTALLATION STRATEGY
Total Marks 50 Weighting 10%
The lab environment consists of student workstations connected to a local area network, along with a
server that functions as the domain controller for a domain called VITLAB.local.
Exercise 1.1: Planning and Selecting Images (Data Collection and Tracking Project)
Exercise 1.2: Installing and Configuring Windows Deployment Services (WDS)
SCENARIO
After completing this lab, you will be able to:
- Plan and select images
- Install and configure Windows Deployment Services (WDS)
After completing the lab, fill your student details on the first page of the template word file and upload it
with the answers and screen shots on to Moodle.
Note: You can use this video tutorial to complete this task.
Exercise 1.1: Planning and Selecting Images (Data Collection and Tracking Project)
Total Marks: 30 marks
To accommodate a new line of products, you must deploy 400 new servers in the data center. The servers
will be used to keep track of product settings and will constantly collect and analyze data from the sold
security products. In addition, if sales increase as planned, you will need to deploy a hundred servers each
month over the next year or two.
Of these servers, there are four types:
- File server – Stores documents and logs
- Web server – Allows device and user access over the Internet
- Database server – Allows storage and retrieval of data
- Application server – Includes applications that allow the management of the system and includes
components that process the data.
Answer the following questions:
Question 1: Which type of image—sector-based images or file-based images—should be selected and
why? (5 marks)
Question 2: Which type of image (thick, thin, or hybrid) should be used to deploy the servers and why?
(5 marks)
Question 3: What is the minimum number of images necessary to deploying these servers and why?
(5 marks)
Question 4: Which server deployment strategy should be used to deploy these servers (High Touch with
Retail Media, High Touch with Standard Image, Lite-Touch, High-Volume Deployment, or ZeroTouch, High-
Volume Deployment) and why? (5 marks)
Question 5: Based on your answer to Question 4, which servers are necessary for the deployment and
which software components must be run by those servers? (5 marks)
Question 6: When you deploy the four types of servers, how do you specify which roles, features, files,
and applications are deployed to the deployed server? (5 marks)
Exercise 1.2: Installing and Configuring Windows Deployment Services (WDS)
Total Marks: 20 marks
Install Windows Deployment Services on the Server and deploy windows images (any windows image can
be used) over network. Please remember that the server name must be your student ID. To store your
images and unattended.xml files, create the C:\Software folder on Server. The Windows Server 2012
installation disk can be found in Lab Files folder in either C or E drive.
• When you are installing Windows Deployment Services (WDS) role in Windows Server 2012 R2,
take screenshots of the installation process.
• When the Windows Deployment Services Configuration has been executed, take screen shots of
the Windows Deployment Services Configuration Wizard.
• When the Windows Server 2012 R2 image is added to WDS, take a screenshot of the Install Images
named node (such as ImageGroup1) showing the install images that have been added.
Use the following serial number to activate Windows Server 2012 R2:
D2N9P-3P6X9-2R39C-7RTCD-MDVJX
Note: You can take screenshots by pressing Alt+Prt Scr and then paste it into your Lab 1 answer
sheet by pressing Ctrl+V.
