Installing A Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Operating System - Lenovo ThinkServer TS150 Operating System Installation Manual

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 you need. Your
server will restart several times.
19. When the "Your server is now ready to be used" prompted, click Close. The installation is completed.

Installing a 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 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, and start the server from the optical drive.
2. When the message Press any key to boot from cd is displayed, press any key. If the message Windows
Setup [EMS Enabled] is displayed, press Enter. The message Loading files... will be displayed. 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 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 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 OB SATA RAID and ADD on RAID): 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.
• If your SATA configuration is set as AHCI: go to step 10.
10. In the "Where do you want to install Windows?" window, click New.
11. Type the amount of space (in MB), and then click Apply. The Windows Setup window is displayed.
12. Click OK.
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