{"id":26,"date":"2011-11-14T16:49:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T16:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guymerritt.net\/?p=26"},"modified":"2013-09-09T13:56:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T13:56:16","slug":"iis-permissions-general-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Server 2003 – getting started, IIS, permissions, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a jumble, at the moment – just some random observations from a rank beginner…..I’ll clean it up later.<\/p>\n

This presumes you’ve just installed Windows Server 2003 on your computer…<\/p>\n

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  1. Set a static IP manually – if you don’t, when you add the Active Directory role your box will be assigned a static IP on a weird subnet.\n
  2. Go to Server Manager and choose to add a role. By the way, you’ll need the installation CD in your disc drive for things like this…. Anyway, it will ask you if you want to add a “typical” first server role – the Active Directory. Say yes and just follow the prompts.\n
  3. This install will ask you for a domain name and, obviously, you need to pick something which makes sense…..(eg. “smallbusiness.local”, “netkwik.com” – whatever).\n
  4. When you’ve done the above, go to Server Manager and choose to add the Application Server role which, basically, is IIS and some associated things (ASP net, etc.).\n
  5. Now – to prepare for installing Exchange – go to Add\/Remove Programs and go to the Windows Components area. Find Application Server and expand it; go to IIS and expand that; now enable SMTP and NNTP.\n
  6. I tinker a lot and I have been running the IIS default website on port 81. DO NOT put the default website on port 81 while installing Exchange. It may not hurt anything but I think it’s best left on port 8o until Exchange is installed.\n
  7. I would add a user if, for no other reason, to see what optins are available. Users are managed via the Active Directory Users and Groups menu (assuming you’ve installed the Active Directory).\n

    NOTE:<\/strong> Windows servers have requirements for user passwords which are different than Unix (which allows for any password you choose – for example, “pass”). You can’t do that on Windows. A password must contain a combination of upper and lower case characters and – I think – one or more numerals (I’ll check and update this thing). For instance, you need to use something like: headWAY721. Don’t worry, if you enter a password that doesn’t meet the requirements – of course – it will tell you…..\n<\/ol>\n

    Be aware that you have to give the following two users significantly loose permissions in order to install things like Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, etc.:<\/p>\n

    IWAM_user-yourcomputername
    \nIUSR_user-yourcomputername<\/p>\n

    As far as letting people just see these things, after they’re installed, I will need to tinker some more. <\/p>\n

    To start, stop, or restart the entire server, from a command prompt do the following:<\/p>\n

    iisreset \/start
    \niisreset \/stop
    \niisreset \/restart<\/p>\n

    Changing ports – as simple as point and click…<\/span>
    \nOne pretty cool feature of IIS 6 is that you can run the damned thing and have sites on all sorts of ports… For instance – if I left this thing running:<\/p>\n

    http:\/\/www.netkwik.com:81\/<\/a>
    \n    http:\/\/www.netkwik.com:82\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This is a jumble, at the moment – just some random observations from a rank beginner…..I’ll clean it up later. This presumes you’ve just installed Windows Server 2003 on your computer… Set a static IP manually – if you don’t, when you add the Active Directory role your box will be assigned a static IP […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}