Installing Windows Server 2012 (step by step)

Windows Server 2012 R2 Hardware Requirements

Windows Server 2012 R2 requires a 64-bit processor; Microsoft has discontinued 32-bit software with this release of Windows Server.

Windows Server 2012 R2 Hardware Requirements

Component	Minimum Requirement	Microsoft Recommended
Processor	1.4 GHz	2 GHz or faster
Memory	512 MB RAM	2 GB RAM or greater
Available Disk Space	32 GB	40 GB or greater
Optical Drive	DVD-ROM drive	DVD-ROM drive
Display	Super VGA (800x600) monitor	XGA (1024x768) monitor

1- Insert the Windows Server 2012 DVD, and Re-boot the system, once you re-boot then you will  get the following message press Enter to boot from the setup

2- Wait for a while till the setup loads all necessary files (Depending on your machine, it will take some few minutes)

 3- Once the setup files are loaded, the setup will start with the following screen. You can change these to meet your needs (the default values should be fine for)

 4- Once you click Next, you can start the installation, click “Install now” 

5- You will see the following screen, wait until it finishes loading

6- In the following setup screen, you will see four options. Select Windows Server 2012 Datacentres Evaluation (Server With GUI).

7- After you click Next from previous screen, Read the License terms, tick the “I accept the license terms” and click Next

8- Now It will ask you for the drive (or partition) you want to install Windows on. 

9- Now once we picked our partition, clicking on next from previous screen will start the setup

10- Once the setup is done, it will restart and start your Windows Server 2012 for the first time. It will ask you then to set up a password for the Administrator user.

11- The setup will finalise your settings, might take a couple of minutes.

12- Once the setup is done, you can log in for the first time to your Windows Server, as the screen says, press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to log in, and use the password you set in the setup process

13 – Once you Log in, Windows Server 2012 then you will see the Server Manager.

now Windows server 2012 Installed with Datacenter