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Installing from disk or image

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Installing from disk or image

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- [Instructor] In this video, we'll be going through the actual installation of a Windows 2016 server. If you have just finished watching video one in this chapter, then you'll have part of this planning worksheet already filled out, but before we start the installation, we need to fill in three more columns. First, we need to decide whether we're installing a fresh copy of server 2016, or if we're upgrading from an existing server. It is preferred to do a fresh installation, but there are some times in a production environment that a server is already running with everything configured, and you can't take it down. If you must choose to upgrade, make sure that the previous server is completely backed up, in case something doesn't go as planned, and you need to punt the install to another day. Upgrade is rarely your best option. Since our installation will be a new file server, we are going to choose not to upgrade. Next, we need to decide whether or not we want a desktop experience…

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