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Installing Windows Server 2012

Installing Windows Server 2012

I think it's a great thing to talk a little bit about install, and this is actually a really, really short topic. Not short in height jokes, because I get that enough, but short in terms of, there's not much to installing windows server 2012 anymore. There's a few important things that you want to remember about installing the product itself, but for the most part, setup is not that exciting anymore. Setup is not that important or interesting anymore. It's after you've got windows server 2012 on systems that things become important. So I'll cover the real basic stuff. What you need as far as hardware on the system in order to make this work, what choices you have as far as getting the operating system on a system, and then, what choices you have to make when the setup is actually running, and you'll see that there is an alarmingly small amount of choices you have to make during setup as compared to after setup. So, first of all, you want to know what kind of hardware you have to have…

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