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Adding Additional IP Addresses in Windows 2008

Start -> Control Panel

Click on Network and Sharing Center.

On the left side under ‘Tasks‘, click ‘Manage Network Connections‘.

Right click on ‘Local Area Connection‘ and click ‘Status‘. From there, click on ‘Details‘.

You will be presented with a whole list of information. Note down the ‘IPv4 Subnet Mask‘, ‘IPv4 Default Gateway‘, and the two ‘IPv4 DNS Servers‘. Afterwards, simply clock Close.

Right click on ‘Local Area Connection‘ again and click ‘Properties‘. Highlight ‘Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)‘ and click on Properties.

Choose ‘Use the following IP address‘ and fill in the fields with the information provided previously when you clicked Details. This will be the settings for your first IP address.

To specify the additional IP addresses, click on Advanced. Click ‘Add‘ under ‘IP addresses‘ to add more IP addresses.

The ‘IP address‘ should be the IP address. The ‘Subnet mask‘ should be same as the one for the first IP address.

From there, click Add, OK, OK (and so on) to save and apply these settings.

Installing IIS 7 on Windows 2008

To begin the installation of IIS 7, go to Start -> Server Manager. Scroll down to Rolls Summary, and click Add Roles.

You will be presented with the Add Roles Wizard. This wizard will guide you through the installation of IIS 7.

When on the Server Roles page, you will be able to select which roles you wish to install. In our situation, we want to install Web Server (IIS).

In order to setup the IIS web server, you will have to install a few additional features as well. You just have to click Add Required Features to install those as well.

After choosing to install IIS, you will be presented with an introduction to the web server, which will tell you a bit about the server itself. You don’t have to read it, but you may find the information helpful to know.

After reading the IIS introduction, you will have an opportunity to custom your IIS install. You can include services such as ASP.NET, ASP, CGI, SSI, among many others.

Before the actual IIS installation takes place, you will be presented with a summary of what will be installed. After reviewing the information, click Install to finally install the server.

The server installation process can take a while. The speed really depends on the server you are installing it on. It isn’t a bad time to take a coffee break or something of that sort.

After the installation has completed, you will be presented with the Installation Results page. Hopefully it tells you everything has been installed successfully.

After starting the IIS server, you will be able to test it on http://localhost/!

Windows 2008 Configure Remote Desktop

I’ve administrated Linux VPS for over two years, but hasn’t used a Windows VPS until earlier this week. Upon ordering one, I was able to access it via VNC, which was unbelievably slow. Because of that, I decided to look into Window’s Remote Desktop Protocol, which has proven to be faster than VNC.

Enabling the Remote Desktop feature in Windows 2008 is quite simple. To begin with, go to Start -> Administrative Tools -> Server Manager.

Near the right of the screen under Server Summary and Computer Information, you will see a link called ‘Configure Remote Desktop‘.

You will have the ability to choose between disabling RDP, allowing connections from any version of RDP, or those running ‘Network Level Authentication’.

Click OK to save the settings, and Remote Desktop should be enabled at that point. Using your favorite RDP client, you will be able to remotely connect to the server.