
Windows Server 2016 Administration Fundamentals
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Credits
- Foreword
- About the Author
- About the Reviewer
- Customer Feedback
- www.PacktPub.com
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introducing Windows Server
- Computer network overview
- Understanding hosts and nodes
- Understanding clients and servers
- Understanding network architectures
- Understanding IP addressing and subnetting
- Windows Server overview
- Understanding Network Operating Systems (NOS)
- Understanding server hardware and software (5.1)
- Understanding Windows Server
- Introducing Windows Server 2016
- Windows Server 2016 editions (1.3.1)
- Minimum and recommended system requirements
- Downloading Windows Server 2016
- References from Windows IT Pro Center
- Summary
- Questions
- Chapter 2: Installing Windows Server
- Understanding server installation (1)
- Understanding partition schemes (1.3.2)
- Understanding boot options
- Advanced startup options (1.3.3)
- Desktop Experience versus Server Core versus Nano Server installation options (1.3.4)
- Understanding server installation options (1.3)
- Performing a clean installation (1.3.5)
- Performing installation over a network using WDS (1.3.7)
- Performing an unattended installation (1.3.6)
- Upgrade and migration overview (1.3.8)
- Performing an upgrade (1.3.8.1)
- Performing a migration (1.3.8.2)
- References from Windows IT Pro Center
- Summary
- Questions
- Chapter 3: Post-Installation Tasks in Windows Server
- Understanding devices and device drivers (1.1)
- Computer devices and device drivers
- Working with devices and device drivers
- Accessing devices and Device Manager
- Adding devices and installing device drivers (1.1.1)
- Updating device drivers (1.1.4)
- Removing devices and uninstalling device drivers (1.1.2)
- Managing devices and disabling device drivers (1.1.3)
- Rolling back device drivers (1.1.5)
- Troubleshooting a device driver (1.1.6)
- Explaining PnP, IRQ, DMA, and driver signing
- Plug and Play (1.1.7)
- Interrupt Request (IRQ) and Direct Memory Access (DMA) (1.1.8)
- Driver signing (1.1.9)
- Understanding the registry and services (1.2)
- Windows Registry
- Windows services (1.2.1)
- Services startup types (1.2.3)
- Working with the registry and services (1.2.2)
- Accessing and managing Windows Registry keys and values
- Modifying a registry value
- Renaming a registry value
- Deleting a registry value
- Accessing and managing Windows services
- Service recovery options (1.2.4)
- Service delayed startup (1.2.5)
- Run As settings for a service (1.2.6)
- Starting the service (1.2.7)
- Stopping the service (1.2.7)
- Restarting the service (1.2.7)
- Explaining registry entries, service accounts, and dependencies (1.2.8)
- Adding a new registry key
- Adding service accounts
- Adding a service dependency
- Windows Server initial configuration
- Performing a server's initial configuration
- Desktop Experience
- Changing the server name
- Joining the domain
- Enabling Remote Desktop
- Setting up the IP address
- Checking for updates
- Turning off IE enhanced security
- Changing the time zone
- Activating Windows Server 2016
- Server Core
- Changing the server name
- Joining the domain
- Enabling Remote Desktop
- Setting up the IP address
- Checking for updates
- Changing the time zone
- Activating Windows Server 2016
- References from Windows IT Pro Center
- Summary
- Questions
- Chapter 4: Directory Services in Windows Server
- Understanding the Active Directory infrastructure (3.3)
- Adding the Active Directory Domain Services role
- Domain controller (3.3.1)
- Domain
- Tree
- Forest (3.3.2)
- Child domain (3.3.5)
- Operations master roles (3.3.3)
- Domain versus workgroup (3.3.4)
- Trust relationship (3.3.6)
- Functional level (3.3.7)
- Namespace (3.3.8)
- Site (3.3.9)
- Replication (3.3.10)
- Schema
- Understanding Domain Name System (DNS)
- Adding the DNS role
- Understanding hosts and lmhosts files
- Understanding hostname
- Understanding DNS Zones
- Understanding WINS
- Understanding Universal Naming Convention (UNC)
- Understanding organizational units (OUs) and containers (3.2)
- Purpose of OUs (3.2.1)
- Default containers (3.2.4)
- Default hidden and visible containers
- Uses for different container objects (3.2.2)
- Delegating control to an OU (3.2.3)
- Understanding accounts and groups (3.1)
- Domain accounts (3.1.1)
- Local accounts (3.1.2)
- User profiles (3.1.3)
- Computer accounts
- Group types (3.1.4)
- Default groups
- Group scopes (3.1.5)
- Group nesting (3.1.6)
- Understanding AGDLP and AGUDLP
- References from Windows IT Pro Center
- Summary
- Questions
- Chapter 5: Adding Roles to Windows Server
- Understanding server roles and features (2)
- Identifying application servers (2.1)
- Mail servers (2.1.1)
- Database servers (2.1.2)
- Collaboration servers (2.1.3)
- Monitoring servers (2.1.4)
- Threat management (2.1.5)
- Understanding web services (2.2)
- What is IIS? (2.2.1)
- What is the WWW? (2.2.2)
- What is FTP? (2.2.3)
- Separate worker processes (2.2.4)
- Adding components (2.2.5)
- Sites (2.2.6)
- Ports (2.2.7)
- Secure Sockets Layer (2.2.8)
- Certificates (2.2.9)
- Understanding Remote Access (2.3)
- Remote Assistance (2.3.1)
- Remote Server Administration Tools (2.3.2)
- Remote Desktop Services (2.3.3)
- Licensing (2.3.4)
- Remote Desktop Gateway (2.3.5)
- Virtual Private Network (2.3.6)
- Application virtualization (2.3.7)
- Multiple ports (2.3.8)
- Understanding file and print services (2.4)
- The File Services role
- The Print and Document Services role
- Local printers (2.4.1)
- Network printers (2.4.2)
- Printer pooling (2.4.3)
- Web printing (2.4.4)
- Web management (2.4.5)
- Driver deployment (2.4.6)
- User rights, NTFS permissions, and share permissions (2.4.7)
- Auditing file servers (2.4.8)
- References from Windows IT Pro Center
- Summary
- Questions
- Chapter 6: Group Policy in Windows Server
- Understanding Group Policy (GP) (3.4)
- Group Policy processing (3.4.1)
- Group Policy Management Console (3.4.2)
- From the Start menu
- From the Run dialog box
- From Server Manager
- Computer policies (3.4.3)
- User policies (3.4.4)
- Local policies (3.4.5)
- References from Windows IT Pro Center
- Summary
- Questions
- Chapter 7: Virtualization with Windows Server
- Understanding server virtualization (2.5)
- Virtualization modes (2.5.1)
- Hyper-V architecture
- Hyper-V installation requirements
- Hyper-V Manager
- Configuring Hyper-V settings
- Creating and configuring virtual hard disks (VHDs) (2.5.2)
- Managing virtual memory (2.5.3)
- Setting up virtual networks (2.5.4)
- Checkpoints (2.5.5)
- Physical to virtual (P2V) conversions (2.5.6)
- Virtual to physical conversions (2.5.7)
- Configuring virtual machine settings
- Managing virtual machines
- References from Windows IT Pro Center
- Summary
- Questions
- Chapter 8: Storing Data in Windows Server
- Understanding storage technologies (4)
- Identifying storage technologies (4.1)
- Advantages and Disadvantages of different storage types (4.1.1)
- ATA, PATA, SATA, and SCSI interfaces (4.1.2)
- PCI and PCI Express (PCIe)
- Direct-attached storage
- Network attached storage (4.1.3)
- Storage area networks (4.1.4)
- Block-level storage versus file-level storage
- Adapter and controller types
- Serial bus technologies (4.1.7)
- Storage protocols (4.1.5)
- File sharing protocols (4.1.6)
- FC, HBA, and FC switches (4.1.9)
- iSCSI hardware (4.1.8)
- Storage Spaces Direct
- Data deduplication
- Storage tiering
- Managing storage with Server Manager and Windows PowerShell
- Understanding RAID (4.2)
- Types of RAID (4.2.1)
- Hardware versus software RAID (4.2.2)
- Software-defined storage
- Redundancy using S2D
- High availability
- Understanding disk types (4.3)
- Hard disk drive
- Solid-state drive
- Optical disks (4.3.7)
- Basic disk (4.3.1)
- Dynamic disk (4.3.2)
- Mount points (4.3.3)
- Filesystems (4.3.4)
- Mounting a virtual hard disk (VHD) (4.3.5)
- Distributed File System (4.3.6)
- References from Windows IT Pro Center
- Summary
- Questions
- Chapter 9: Tuning and Maintaining Windows Server
- Identifying major server hardware components (5.1)
- Processor (5.1.1)
- Memory (5.1.2)
- Disk (5.1.3)
- Network interfaces (5.1.4)
- 32-bit and 64-bit architecture (5.1.5)
- Removable drives (5.1.6)
- Graphic cards (5.1.7)
- Cooling (5.1.8)
- Power usage (5.1.9)
- Ports (5.1.10)
- Understanding performance monitoring (5.2)
- Performance monitoring methodology (5.2.1)
- Performance monitoring procedures (5.2.2)
- Server baseline (5.2.3)
- Performance Monitor (5.2.4)
- Resource Monitor (5.2.5)
- Task Manager (5.2.6)
- Performance counters (5.2.7)
- Understanding logs and alerts (5.3)
- Purpose of performance logs and alerts (5.3.1)
- The Performance logs and alerts service
- The Performance Monitor Logs folder
- Performance data logs
- Performance counter alerts
- References from Windows IT Pro Center
- Summary
- Questions
- Chapter 10: Updating and Troubleshooting Windows Server
- Identifying steps in the startup process (6.1)
- The Basic Input/Output System (6.1.1)
- Boot sector (6.1.2)
- Boot loader (6.1.3)
- Master Boot Record (MBR) (6.1.4)
- Boot menu (6.1.5)
- Boot Configuration Data (6.1.6)
- Power-On Self-Test (6.1.7)
- Safe Mode (6.1.8)
- Understanding business continuity (6.2)
- Backup and restore (6.2.1)
- Disaster Recovery Planning (6.2.2)
- Clustering (6.2.3)
- Active Directory restore (6.2.4)
- Folder redirection (6.2.5)
- Data Redundancy (6.2.6)
- Uninterruptible power supply (6.2.7)
- Understanding updates (6.3)
- Software (6.3.1)
- Drivers (6.3.2)
- Operating systems (6.3.3)
- Applications (6.3.4)
- Windows Update (6.3.5)
- Windows Server Update Services (6.3.6)
- Understanding the troubleshooting methodology (6.4)
- The troubleshooting process (6.4.1)
- Troubleshooting procedures (6.4.2)
- Best practices (6.4.3)
- Systematic versus specific approach (6.4.4)
- Event Viewer (6.4.5)
- Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) (6.4.6)
- Central logging (6.4.7)
- Event filtering (6.4.8)
- Default logs (6.4.9)
- References from Windows IT Pro Center
- Summary
- Questions
- Appendix A: Studying and Passing the MTA 98-365 Exam
- Objective 1-Understanding Server installation (10 - 15%)
- Objective 1.1 - Understanding device drivers
- Objective 1.2 - Understanding services
- Objective 1.3 - Understanding server installation options
- Objective 2-Understanding server roles (25 - 30%)
- Objective 2.1 - Identifying application servers
- Objective 2.2 - Understanding web services
- Objective 2.3 - Understanding Remote Access
- Objective 2.4 - Understanding file and print services
- Objective 2.5 - Understanding server virtualization
- Objective 3-Understanding Active Directory (20 - 25%)
- Objective 3.1 - Understanding accounts and groups
- Objective 3.2 - Understanding organizational units (OUs) and containers
- Objective 3.3 - Understanding the Active Directory infrastructure
- Objective 3.4 - Understanding Group Policy (GP)
- Objective 4-Understanding storage (10 - 15%)
- Objective 4.1 - Identifying storage technologies
- Objective 4.2 - Understanding RAID
- Objective 4.3 - Understanding disk types
- Objective 5-Understanding server performance management (10 - 15%)
- Objective 5.1 - Identifying major server hardware components
- Objective 5.2 - Understanding performance monitoring
- Objective 5.3 - Understanding logs and alerts
- Objective 6-Understanding server maintenance (15 - 20%)
- Objective 6.1 - Identifying steps in the startup process
- Objective 6.2 - Understanding business continuity
- Objective 6.3 - Understanding updates
- Objective 6.4 - Understanding troubleshooting methodology
- References for MTA 98-365 exam
- Appendix B: Examples of GPOs for Sys Admins
- GPOs of interest to Sys Admins
- Renaming the administrator account
- Disabling the Guest Account
- LAN Manager authentication level
- Do not store LAN Manager hash value on next password change
- Minimum password length
- Maximum password age
- Blocking Microsoft accounts
- Disabling anonymous SID
- Disabling Everyone permissions to apply to anonymous users
- Machine account threshold
- Prohibiting access to Control Panel and PC Settings
- Preventing access to the Command Prompt
- Preventing access to Registry editing tools
- Preventing adding features to Windows 10
- Denying access to all removable media drives
- Turning off Windows Installer
- Preventing the usage of OneDrive for file storage
- Removing access to use all Windows Update features
- Turning off Windows Defender
- Preventing installation of devices not described by other policy settings
- Appendix C: Keyboard Shortcuts in Windows Server
- Windows key combinations in Windows Server 2016
- Answers to Chapter Questions
- Chapter 1 - Answers
- Chapter 2-Answers
- Chapter 3-Answers
- Chapter 4-Answers
- Chapter 5-Answers
- Chapter 6-Answers
- Chapter 7-Answers
- Chapter 8 - Answers
- Chapter 9 - Answers
- Chapter 10 - Answers
- Index
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