Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment
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In Birmingham and London
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3 Days
This three-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills that are needed to effectively maintain server resources, monitor server performance, and safeguard data on a computer running one of the operating systems in the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family.
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Lessons
- Introduction to Administering a Server
- Configuring Remote Desktop to Administer a Server
- Managing Remote Desktop Connections
- Enabling Remote Desktop
- Creating a Shared Folder on a Remote Computer
- Connecting to a Remote Console Session
- Creating runas Shortcuts to Administration Tools
- After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Explain the tasks, tools, and rights that are required to administer a server
- Configure Remote Desktop for Administration and client preferences
- Manage remote desktop connections
Lessons
- Introduction to Monitoring Server Performance
- Performing Real-Time and Logged Monitoring
- Configuring and Managing Counter Logs
- Configuring Alerts
- Selecting the Appropriate Monitoring Technique
- Establish a performance baseline
- Perform real-time and logged monitoring
- Configure and manage counter logs
- Configure alerts
Lessons
- Multimedia: The Primary Server Subsystems
- Monitoring Server Memory
- Monitoring Processor Usage
- Monitoring Disks
- Monitoring Network Usage
- Monitoring Best Practices
- Create and Configure Alerts
- Configure the Messaging Service
- Finding a HighCPUUsage Process
- Finding a High Memory Usage Process
- Explain how the four primary server subsystems affect server performance
- Monitor server memory
- Monitor processor usage
- Monitor disks
- Monitor network usage
- Use best practices for monitoring server performance
Lessons
- Configuring Device Driver Signing Options
- Using Device Driver Rollback
- After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Configure device driver signing
- Restore the previous version of a device driver
Lessons
- Preparing Disks
- Managing Disk Properties
- Managing Mounted Drives
- Converting Disks
- Creating Volumes
- Creating Fault-Tolerant Volumes
- Importing a Foreign Disk
- Recovering from a Failed Mirrored Drive
- Initialize and partition a disk
- View and update disk properties
- Manage mounted drives
- Convert a disk from basic to dynamic and from dynamic to basic
- Create volumes on a disk
- Create fault-tolerant volumes
- Import disks
Lessons
- Managing File Compression
- Configuring File Encryption
- ConfiguringEFSRecovery Agents
- Implementing Disk Quotas
- Troubleshooting Disk-Quota Entries
- Recovering an Encrypted File
- ManageNTFSfile compression
- Configure file encryption
- Configure anEFSrecovery agent
- Implement disk quotas
Lessons
- Preparing for Disaster Recovery
- Backing Up Data
- Scheduling Backup Jobs
- Restoring Data
- Configuring Shadow Copies
- Recovering from Server Failure
- Backing Up the System State Data
- Recovering from a Corrupt Registry by Using Last Known Good Configuration
- Recovering from a Corrupt Registry by Restoring System State Data
- Prepare for disaster recovery
- Back up data
- Schedule backup jobs
- Restore data
- Configure a shadow copy
- Recover from server failure
Lessons
- Introduction to Windows Server Update Services
- Installing and Configuring Windows Server Update Services
- Managing Windows Server Update Services
- Create a Test Computer Group
- View the Status of Updates and Computers
- Back upWSUS
- Describe MicrosoftWSUS
- Install and configure servers to useWSUS
- ManageWSUS
Lessons
- Introduction to Securing Servers
- Implementing Core Server Security
- Hardening Servers
- Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
- Using the Security Configuration Wizard
- Configuring a Group Policy Object for Member Servers
- Scanning a Range of Computers by UsingMBSA
- Describe how servers are secured
- Explain core server security
- Harden servers in various roles
- Use Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment