
Windows Server Administration Fundamentals
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Understanding server installation
- Understand device drivers
- Installation, removal, disabling, update/upgrade, rollback, troubleshooting, Plug & Play, IRQ, interrupts, driver signing, managing through Group Policy
- Understand services
- Which statuses a service can be in, startup types, recovery options, delayed startup, Run As settings for a service, stopping or pausing a service, service accounts, dependencies
- Understand server installation options
- Choose the correct operating system version options; Server core vs. Desktop Experience, Nano Server installation, interactive installs; automated install using WDS; VHD/VHDX installation source, perform unattended installs; perform upgrades, clean installs, and migrations
Preparation resources
- Installing devices and their drivers
- Server Core installation option getting started guide
- Installing Windows Server 2008 R2
Understanding server roles
- Identify application servers
- Mail servers, database servers, collaboration servers, monitoring servers, threat management
- Understand Web services
- IIS, WWW, and FTP, installing from Server Manager, separate worker processes, adding components, sites, ports, SSL, certificates
- Understand remote access
- Remote assistance, remote administration tools, Remote Desktop Services, multipoint services, licensing, RD Gateway, VPN, application virtualization, multiple ports
- Understand the file and print services
- Local printers, network printers, printer pools, web printing, web management, driver deployment, file, folder, and share permissions vs. rights, auditing, print job management
- Understand server virtualization
- Virtual memory, virtual networks, snapshots and saved states, physical to virtual conversions, virtual to physical conversions, VHD and VHDX formats, nested virtualization
Preparation resources
- Changes in functionality from Windows Server 2003 with SP1 to Windows Server 2008
- What’s new in routing and remote access in Windows Server 2008
Understanding Active Directory
- Understand accounts and groups
- Domain accounts, local accounts, user profiles, computer accounts, group types, default groups, group scopes, group nesting, understand AGDLP and AGUDLP processes to help implement nesting
- Understand organizational units and containers
- Purpose of OUs, purpose of containers, delegation, default containers, uses for different container objects, default hidden and visible containers
- Understand Active Directory infrastructure
- Domain controllers. forests, child domains, operation master roles, domain vs. workgroup, trust relationships, functional levels, deprecated functional levels, namespace, sites, replication, schema, Passport
- Understand group policy
- Group policy processing, Group Policy Management Console, computer policies, user policies, local policies
Preparation resources
- Active Directory Services
- Designing OU structures that work
Understanding storage
- Identify storage technologies and their typical usage scenarios
- Advantages and disadvantages of different storage topologies, local storage, network storage, Fibre Channel, iSCSI hardware
- Understand RAID redundancy
- RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10 and combinations, hardware and software RAID
- Understand disk types
- Solid State Drive (SSD) and Hard Disk Drive (HDD) types and comparisons, ATA basic disk, dynamic disk, mount points, file systems, mounting a virtual hard disk, distributed file systems
Preparation resources
- Planning for disks and storage
- Windows Server 2008—file and storage solutions
- Overview of disk management
Understanding server performance management
- Identify major server hardware components
- Memory, disk, processor, network, 32-bit and 64-bit architecture, removable drives, graphic cards, cooling, power usage, ports
- Understand performance monitoring
- Methodology, procedures, effect of network, CPU, memory and disk, creating a baseline, Performance Monitor, Resource Monitor, Task Manager, performance counters, Data Collector Sets
- Understand logs and alerts, Event Viewer
- Purpose of performance logs and alerts
Preparation resources
- Performance monitoring getting started guide
- Computer hardware and Windows Server 2008
Understanding server maintenance
- Identify steps in the startup process
- BIOS, UEFI, TPM, bootsector, bootloader, MBR, boot.ini, POST, Safe Mode
- Understand business continuity
- Backup and restore, disaster recovery planning, clustering, AD restore, folder redirection, data redundancy, uniterruptible power supply (UPS)
- Understand updates
- Software, driver, operating systems, applications, Windows Update, Windows Server Update Service (WSUS)
- Understand troubleshooting methodology
- Processes, procedures, best practices; systematic vs. specific approach, Performance Monitor, Event Viewer, Resource Monitor, Information Technology Infrastructure Library, central logging, event filtering, default logs