Windows Server 2025 — Lesson 1: Windows Server 2025 Deployment and Core Configuration

Learning Objectives

• Review Windows Server 2025 editions, installation options, hardware, licensing, and deployment planning
• Install and configure server identity, roles, features, storage, updates, and remote management
• Use Windows Admin Center, Server Manager, PowerShell, and baseline documentation

Detailed Topics

• Review Windows Server 2025 editions: Review Windows Server 2025 editions, installation options, hardware, licensing, and deployment planning
• Install and configure server identity: Install and configure server identity, roles, features, storage, updates, and remote management
• Use Windows Admin Center: Use Windows Admin Center, Server Manager, PowerShell, and baseline documentation

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, environment, dependencies, roles, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, analysis, code, or administration workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, or test evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with the stated acceptance criteria.

Hands-On Activity

Deploy a Windows Server 2025 instance and create a validated configuration baseline.

• Document assumptions and the planned sequence before making changes.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal and exception behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, and reusable operational or development notes.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, permissions, data, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, support ownership, and user or business impact.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected configuration, design, query, code, or process is documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Windows Server 2025 Deployment and Core Configuration in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.