16. In the “Provide your administrator information (account 1 of 2)” window, type your user name and
password, and then click Next.
Note: The password must contain at least eight characters and consist of upper case letters, lower case
letters, and numbers.
17. In the “Provide your administrator information (account 2 of 2)” window, type your user name and
password, and then click Next.
18. In the “Keep your server up-to-date automatically” window, configure the settings as you need. Your
server restarts several times.
19. When prompted, click Close. The installation is completed.
Installing the Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 operating system
This topic provides instructions on how to install the following operating systems:
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Foundation Edition
To install a Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 operating system, do the following:
1. Insert the operating system installation disc into the optical drive that you have set as the first startup
device. Then, start the server from the optical drive.
2. When the message Press any key to boot from cd or dvd... is displayed, press any key. The message
Windows is loading files... is displayed. If the message Windows Setup [EMS Enabled] is displayed, press
Enter. Wait several minutes for the system to load the files.
3. When the Windows Server 2012 R2 window is displayed, configure the language and other options as
you need, and then click Next.
4. Click Install now.
5. Type your product key and then click Next. The product key information is available on the Microsoft
Certificate of Authenticity label or product packaging.
Note: If you are installing the Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition or Microsoft
Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition operating system, ignore this step.
6. Select the Windows operation system edition that you want to install. Then click Next. The following
steps are based on the scenario that Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard (Server with a GUI) is
selected in this step.
7. Read the license terms and select I accept the license terms. Then click Next.
8. Select the type of installation as you need. The following steps are based on the scenario that Custom:
Install Windows only (Advanced) is selected in this step.
9. In the “Where do you want to install Windows?” window, depending on the SATA configuration on your
server, do one of the following:
• If your SATA configuration is set as RAID (both onboard SATA software RAID and RAID card): do
the following:
a. Connect the USB storage device that contains the driver to your server and click Load Driver.
b. Click Browse to locate the required driver and then click OK.
c. In the “Select the driver to be installed” window, select Hide drivers that are not compatible
with hardware on this computer, select the driver that you want to install, and then click Next to
install the driver.
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