Creating Integrated Windows 2003 Server with SP2 and R2

Creating Integrated Windows 2003 Server with SP2 and R2

This article explains how to slipstream Windows Server 2003 R2 Components, Service Pack 2 with Windows 2003 Server Operating System CD for easier and faster deployment. 

Prerequists :-

1. Windows Server 2003 OS CD (Disk 1)

2. Windows Server 2003 R2 (Disk 2)

3. Windows Server 2003 Service pack 2 (Download from here(link is external))

4. nLite (Download from here(link is external))

Steps

1. Copy all the content from Win Server 2003 Disk 1 to a folder in your hard drive (e.g. H:\WINSVR2K3)

2. Copy all the content from Disk 2 to a folder inside the root folder of disk 1 (e.g. H:\WINSVR2K3\WIN2K3R2)

3. Install the nLite software if already not installed.

4. Open the nLite program

5. Click Next and select the Operating system source folder folder

6. Then click Next, the preset load screen will appear, if you already compiled using nLite you can load the last settings in this page.

7. Then click Next to select the customization you want to make.

8. Click the select button and point to the Windows server 2003 SP2 exe

9. Then the slipstreaming process will start, wait until it completes. After completion the SP2 will be integrated.

10. Then click next, in this page you can manually include any hotfixes you downloaded, it should not be released before SP2.

11. Then click next and select the utilities you are going to use with the system, it will prevent you remove the feature in the next page.

(For example removing the un-needed language packs will reduce the installation size).

12. Select the unwanted components you want to remove, such as paint program, Media Player etc.,

13. Then click next to configure the unattended installation options

It's the main part of the process to configure for unattended installation, you can specify Product Key, Administrator account password, Windows root folder path, program files path, Auto update configuration etc.,

14. Then configure the runonce tab to run the R2 installaiton process at the first time of logon, you can set it as silent install.

15. Then click next and make any customizations if you want.

16. In the next page you can make some tweaks. 

17. Then click next to start the process of saving the customizations.

18. Then click next, give a label to the CD, click make ISO to create ISO image.

19. In this stage you can include any other folders you want to include in this CD. For example MS Office and other programs you want to integrate in the CD.

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INCREASE DRIVE SIZE IN WINDOWS 2003 SERVER

Partition Hard Disk Drive For Windows Server 2003 By Free Partition Manager

It is well known that when the programs and files get more and more on the computer, the space of some particular partitions will get smaller and smaller, and consequently, the Windows Server 2003 will have some trouble doing its normal operation, such as updates and installations. And for most system administrators, it will be a hard job to improve this situation and manage partitions well.

Process Of Resizing/ Moving Partition By Free Partition Manager Server 2003

Maybe you are an IT professional, maybe not. But it doesn't matter; you still can resize or move partitions in Windows Server 2003 with the help of this freeware. AOMEI Partition Assistant Lite Edition is very easy to operate. What you have to do is launching it, and then following the wizards step by step.

Note: We can Operate this tool ie. Resize/Move Partition without loss our data.

But Database Backup  is must

Download

Source : http://www.disk-partition.com/download-server.html