Installing Windows Server 2008 - MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuration - page 56

4. In Windows Task Manager, click File , New Task (Run) from the menu.
5. In the Create New Task dialog box, type cmd and click OK . The command prompt window
is restored.
6. Close Windows Task Manager, but leave the command prompt window open for the next
activity.
If you ever close the command prompt window in a Server Core installa-
tion, simply follow these steps to restore it.
Activity 2-9: Setting the Time, Date, and Time Zone
in Server Core
Time Required: 5 minutes
Objective: Perform the postinstallation task of setting the time, date, and time zone in
Server Core.
Description: You have finished the Server Core installation and recall that setting the correct
time, date, and time zone is essential for the server to operate properly.
1. Log on to Server Core as Administrator, if necessary.
2. Open a command prompt window, if necessary, and type control timedate.cpl and press
Enter . This command opens the Date and Time control panel, one of two available in Server
Core. (The other one is Regional and Language Options, which you can access by typing
control intl.cpl and pressing Enter.)
3. Change the date, time, and time zone as needed, and then click OK .
4. Leave the command prompt window open for the next activity.
Any computer that becomes a member of a domain synchronizes its clock
to a domain controller, so setting the time and date is unnecessary in
these circumstances. You must still set the correct time zone, however.
Activity 2-10: Setting a Static IP Address in Server Core
Time Required: 10 minutes
Objective: Set a static IP address in Server Core.
Description: Because you're unfamiliar with Server Core, you want to know how networking is
configured. You find that DHCP is used to assign the IP address by default, and you want to
change this configuration to a static IP address assignment.
This activity and many others in this topic use 192.168.100.xxx/24 for
IP addressing. Please see your instructor for the actual addresses you
should use.
1. Log on to Server Core as Administrator, if necessary.
2. At the command prompt, type ipconfig /all | more and press Enter . Make a note of the
default gateway and preferred DNS server that have been assigned. If necessary, press the
spacebar to see the rest of the output from the ipconfig command.
3. Before you can run commands to set IP address information, you need some information
about your network interfaces. At the command prompt, type netsh interface ipv4 show
interfaces and press Enter . You should get output similar to Figure 2-12.