What is Windows Server? A Windows Server is a type of computer operating system that is designed to manage and provide services to other computers on a network.
Windows Servers helps Organizations Share files and resources, Host website and applications, Manage user account and security, also to store and manage data.
Windows Server is like a super powerful computer that helps big organizations and companies store and manage their important files, websites, and applications. It's like a librarian for computers, keeping everything organized and running smoothly, so people can access what they need quickly and securely. In this article, we'll explore what Windows Server is, how it works, and how it can be created even if you are a beginner.
Now, join me to learn how to create a Windows Server.
1.Open your Microsoft Azure Portal and type Virtual Machine to the search bar and select "Virtual Machines"
2.Click the +create button and select Virtual Machine
3.On the Basics tab, click on the dropdown sign to select a Resource group if you had created one before but if you have not created a Resource group before, click create new to create one.
4.Give your virtual machine a name, click on the dropdown icon and select and select Region . For availability options, click the dropdown sign to select one, but we are going to select "No infrastructure redundancy required" because we are using a Microsoft Azure free trial account. for the Security type we will pick standard and for the Image, select Windows Servers 2025 or Windows 2022 depending on your choice. NOTE: It is the image that differentiate a Windows 10/11 from a Windows Server.
5.For the availability zone, you can pick more than one, the VM will be replicated across multiple zones.
6.click the dropdown to select a suitable size for your VM
7.Under Administrator account, give your VM a name, password and confirm the password.
- For inbound port rule, chose HTTP.
9.Now come to monitoring, under monitoring, if you don't want Microsoft to be aware of your activities on your VM, you are going to disable diagnostic.
10.The next thing to do now is to go to tags Tags helps you identify a Virtual Machine that is owned by a department.
11.Now, lets go to Review + create
12.Your screen will show validation passed and the subscription credit that apply.
13.Now click create
- Click Go to resource
15.Wow! you just created a Windows Server. This is what your Windows Server looks like.
16.Go to the public IP address and increase the timeout, this will not make your Machine to suddenly disconnect while working
17.By default, it 4 so increase it to 30. click on the line and drag it to 30, do not forget to save
18.Go to the overview of the Virtual Machine and click the name of your Virtual Machine
19.Click connect
20.Click download RDP file. Click the download icon at the top right corner of your screen, two boxes will be displayed, click on the first one from the right hand side.
21.Click connect and click OK
22.Your Machine has started connecting
23.Enter your password and click OK
24.You are now in your Windows Server Virtual Machine
25.Now, we are going to install IIS(Web Server) on it. Come down to the search bar of your Windows Server and type Powershell then right click on Windows Powershell.
26.After right clicking on Windows Powershell, select Run as administrator and put this command on it _install-WindowsFeature-name web-server-includeManagementTools
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27.Your screen will show start installation and latter shows success after it has finally installed.
28.It is important we verify we actually installed the IIS(Web Server). To verify it, go to the Virtual Machine and copy the IP Address, place it in a browser and click Enter
Fantastic!, you have created a Windows Server, you have installed IIS (Web sever) on it and you have just verified if the IIS (Web server) was actually installed.
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See you in my next article.
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