System admin in IT operation is in charge on managing the local area network in the company.

Some of the tasks that system admin responsible are:

- Installing and configuring system hardware and software such as"Servers"

-managing multi-users computing environment, like LAN

-managing users account and privileges of each unit and each user as individuals.

-upgrading the softwares.

-Data backup and recovery tasks.

The new thing that we learnt is how to install windows server 2008 and we have been assigned to install win server 2008.

 Hardware requirements for installing win server 2008 as minimum we needs:

2GHZ processor

2GB RAM

60GB hard disk

Steps of installation windows server 2008 as follow:

1-insert the CD of windows server 2008

2-reboot the pc

3- Wait until the screen comes up asking to select the installation language, select English then press next

4-press install now

5- Inter the product key

6-after inserting the product key the installation process will determine what kind of windows server you own, otherwise if u didn’t insert the product key, the installation process will ask you which windows server you want to download.

7-choice full version

8- Accept the license terms

9-Select the first disk to install the windows.

10- wait until the installation process reboot the computer

11- CTRL+ALT+DEL to log in

12- Select other user to log in, type administrator then enter

13- You will be asked to change your password

14- Type any hard password and make sure you will not forget it then, press ok.

15- The initial server configuration will come up, such as data and time, configure network, update the server, customize the server...etc so after initial some of that configuration tasks, windows server starts working