90s Server Tech Revisited
The below screen displays all the virtual machines I provisioned AND configured in 1 night. This list includes:
- Windows 2000 Advanced Server Active Directory
- Windows 2000 Advanced Server Exchange
- Windows 2000 Advanced Server File Server
- Windows 2000 Advanced Server IIS ( To be used with the Geocities archive )
- Windows 2000 Advanced Server SQL Server 2000
- Windows 2000 Advanced Server WSUS
- Windows 2000 Professional
- Windows XP Home Edition
- Windows 98
- Windows 3.11
- Linux Web Server (Nginx)
- Linux Dial up Server
The things I accomplished in a single day:
- Got the Active Directory set up and configured. This did include adding all the other servers listed above to the domain
- Got the MS Exchange 5.5 installed and configured. All the hosts now have email
- A simple file server with a small 50gb drive. This was helpful in getting the WSUS configured
- IIS is installed, but not completely configured. I am waiting on the Geocities archive and future posts. I have an Nginx and I am going to write a small Python/Django script that will mimic a hotmail server sign in and sign up. This python script will utilize the active directory and have the same CSS as the 90s version of hotmail.
- I have no reason to have a SQL Server 2000, but itll be there if/when I need it
- WSUS was a lot of work. Itll have another pose
- I had a previous Windows XP VM. I just joined it to the domain
- The Windows 98 is pretty hosed up
- The Windows 3.11 is basic.
- The Linux Web server is an nginx server that will act as a proxy for the Geocities archive and other hosts I scrape from the Internet Archive.
- The Dial up server is another host. This is an Ubuntu server that is connected to a mgetty/USB 56k modem and an Linksys PAP2T. More details to come. However, this does work and provides a dial up connection to the other servers.