Installing windows server

Please refer to the Microsoft license conditions of your license to determine if it is eligble for use on a cloud server. The installation must be done manually. For this, the CD/DVD images can be used.

All Vps hosts use UTC as the system time, which is why Windows often has a problem with the system time within the vServers.

To fix this problem permanently, it is necessary to create an entry in the Windows registry, which tells Windows that the hardware clock (RTC - emulated by the host system) is not the local time zone, but UTC.

The following command must be entered in the command prompt (cmd.exe):

It is then necessary to restart Windows.

After the restart the following command can be used to check if the setting was successfully applied:

By default, Windows uses temporary addresses for IPv6 connections.

This can prevent you that you can use your /64 network. To be able to use the IPv6 network, you should disable the use of temporary addresses by default.

Run the following commands in a powershell with administration rights:

Run the following commands in a cmd.exe with administration rights:

To install Windows, it is necessary that the VirtIO drivers are installed. The driver can, for example, be mounted and installed via an ISO image (virtio-win-latest[…].iso).

The folders of the necessary drivers are named as follows:

- Balloon

- NetKVM

- vioscsi

Each of them will usually have a folder with the architecture (amd64). This must be selected to install the drivers.

To get to the selection of the available CD/DVD images, you must select your server in the control panel and go to the "ISO" tab. You must then select the ISO and mount it with a click on „MOUNT“

Now you can start your server and perform the installation normally up to the point where the installation asks for the installation type. Please select the custom installation and continue with the installation. If you get a blue screen, please switch your server off and on with the power button.

Now proceed up to the point where the installation searches for the drive. At this point, you have to switch the image to the latest available VirtIO driver CD and mount it to your server.

Subsequently, the below mentioned drivers need to be installed.

Each of the folders will usually have a subfolder with the architecture (amd64). This must be selected to install the drivers.

After installing the driver you need to switch back to the previously used Windows Image.

Now, you have to delete and format the drives. Finally, you can resume the installation as normal.

If your server cannot reach the internet and you have an issue with your ethernet driver you might need to do the following:

Mount the VirtIO iso again if you already unmounted it.

Go to Device Manager and choose the Ethernet Adapter (it may vary)
option. It will have an exclamation mark (!) on it. Right click on it and click on ‘Update driver’ Option -> now choose to install from computer and click browse and go to mounted image -> NetKVM -> 2k16 and choose amd folder (again take care of windows version)."

You need to manually configure your ethernet adapter to have a working internet connection.

Please use the below information:

your ip is in the range : 185.198.234.0/24

network mask: 255.255.255.0

gateway: 185.198.234.1

your ip is in the range: 45.135.180.0/24

network mask: 255.255.255.0

gateway: 45.135.180.1

your ip is in the range: 86.107.168.0/24

network mask: 255.255.255.0

gateway: 174.142.205.11

your ip is in the range: 89.35.131.0/24

network mask: 255.255.255.0

gateway: 89.35.131.1

your ip is in the range: 86.107.101.0/24

network mask: 255.255.255.0

gateway: 86.107.101.1

your ip is in the range: 2.57.241.0/24

network mask: 255.255.255.0

gateway: 2.57.241.1

your ip is not in any of these ranges:

network mask: 255.255.255.0

gateway: 172.31.1.1

After driver update go to Server manager -> Local Server and change two options : 

1. Turn off ‘IE Enhanced Security configuration’ for both Administrator and Users.

2. Enable ‘Remote Desktop’ option (Uncheck ‘Allow Connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication (recommended)’ option.) and click apply -> OK.

Now you can connect to your server with RDP.