Windows Server 2008 Bible.
Title:
Windows Server 2008 Bible.
Author:
Shapiro, Jeffrey R.
ISBN:
9780470399699
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1100 pages)
Series:
Bible ; v.457
Bible
Contents:
Windows Server 2008 Bible -- About the Author -- Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Contents at a Glance -- Contents -- Introduction -- Who Should Read This Book -- How This Book Is Organized -- Part I: Windows Server 2008, Core, Configuration, Networking, and Communication Services -- Chapter 1: Installing Windows Server 2008 -- It's All About the Core -- Installation and Configuration Strategy -- Overview of Hardware -- Installing Windows Server 2008 -- Roles, Features, and Applications -- Windows Server 2008 as a Communications Server and Microsoft Exchange -- System Monitoring UsingWindows Management Instrumentation -- Windows Server 2008 for Database Services with SQL Server -- Windows Server 2008 for IIS and ASP.NET -- Windows Server 2008 for Application Services -- Windows Server 2008 for Resolutions Services -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Configuring Windows Server 2008 -- Using the Microsoft Management Console -- Windows Firewall Changes for MMC Tools -- Getting to Know the MMC Tools -- Using the Security Configuration Wizard -- Working with Data Sources (ODBC) -- Understanding Control Panel Applets -- Windows PowerShell -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Networking Windows Server 2008 -- TCP/IP on Windows Server 2008 -- TCP/IP Basics (IPv4) -- Setting Up TCP/IP -- Understanding and Using IPv6 -- Troubleshooting TCP/IP -- SNMP -- Windows Firewall Configuration and Management -- Summary -- Chapter 4: DHCP -- Overview of DHCP -- The Windows Server DHCP Service -- Installing and Configuring the DHCP Server -- Defining and Implementing User and Vendor Classes -- Creating and Using Superscopes -- Creating Multicast Scopes -- Configuring Global DHCP Server Properties -- Managing the DHCP Database -- Configuring Windows DHCP Clients -- Network Access Protection -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Windows Name Services -- Overview of the Domain Name Service.
Microsoft Domain Name Services -- Managing DNS Server Options and Behavior -- Configuring Subdomains and Delegation -- DNS and Active Directory -- Dynamic DNS -- Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) -- How WINS Works -- WINS Forever -- WINS Installation and Configuration -- Configuring Windows Clients for DNS and WINS -- Using Hosts and LMHOSTS Files for Name Resolution -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Routing and Remote Access -- Windows Server 2008 RAS and Telephony Services -- RAS Connection Types and Protocols -- Enabling and Configuring RRAS -- IP Routing -- Configuring Services and Ports -- Configuring RAS for Inbound Connections -- Configuring a VPN Server -- Using Multilink and BAP -- Policy Server -- Using RADIUS -- Configuring Outgoing Dial-Up Networking Connections -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Backup and Restore -- Why Back Up Data? -- What to Back Up -- Understanding Backup -- Removable Storage and Media Pools -- Establishing Quality of Support Baselines for Data Backup/Restore -- Establishing Quality of Capture -- Backup Procedure -- Performing a Backup -- Rotation Schemes -- Restoring Data -- Tape Location -- Backup Bandwidth -- Working with Shadow Copies -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Disaster Recovery -- Disaster Recovery Planning -- Identifying Resources -- Developing Response Plans -- Testing Response Plans -- Mock Disaster Programs -- Identifying the Weak Links -- Recovery from Backup -- Mirrored Services, Data, and Hardware -- Recovery of Key Services -- Crash Analysis -- Summary -- Chapter 9: The Registry -- The Purpose of the Registry -- The Registry Structure -- The Registry Editor -- Securing the Registry -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Auditing Windows Server 2008 -- Auditing Overview -- Configuring Auditing -- Examining the Audit Reports -- Strategies for Auditing -- Summary -- Chapter 11: .NET Framework Services.
Introduction to the .NET Framework -- Understanding the .NET Initiative -- Summary -- Part II: File, Print, and Storage Services -- Chapter 12: Print Services -- Print Services -- Understanding Windows Server Printer Services -- Print Services Strategy -- Installing and Setting Up Printers -- Publishing Printers -- Printer Administration -- Troubleshooting -- Auditing Printer Usage and Management -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Storage Management -- Overview of Storage -- Storage Management -- Disk Management -- Partition Styles -- Removable Storage -- Remote Storage and HSM -- The Disk Management Snap-in -- Basic Storage -- Dynamic Volumes and Fault Tolerance -- Hardware RAID -- Dynamic Storage Management -- Managing Storage with Disk Quotas -- Troubleshooting -- Storage Explorer -- Summary -- Chapter 14: Windows Server 2008 File Systems -- An Overview of Disk Structure -- FAT16 and FAT32 -- NTFS -- Choosing a File System -- Optimizing Storage Capacity -- Managing the Distributed File System -- Working with Mounted Volumes -- Services for Network File System -- Summary -- Chapter 15: Sharing and Securing Files and Folders -- Sharing and Securing Your Data -- Ownership -- Configuring the File Server Role -- Publishing Shares in Active Directory -- Creating a Share -- Share Attributes -- Administrative Shares -- Commonsense Strategies for Sharing Folders -- Offline Access (Caching) -- Securing Files and Folders by Using Permissions -- Permission Types -- Permissions Attributes -- Inheritance -- Taking Ownership -- Copying and Moving -- Strategies for Managing Permissions -- Securing Files by Using the Encrypting File System -- Summary -- Part III: Security and Active Directory -- Chapter 16: Windows Server 2008 Security -- An Overview of Windows Server 2008 Security -- Rising to the Security Challenge -- Security Enhancements in Server Roles.
Understanding Encryption Basics -- Getting to Know Cryptography -- Understanding Kerberos -- Getting to Know IPSec -- SSL/TLS -- Understanding Active Directory Certificate Services -- Support for Legacy NTLM -- Smart Cards -- Domains -- Logon and Authentication -- Trusts -- Access Control -- Auditing -- Security Planning -- Firewalls -- Active Directory Security Policy -- Secure Sockets -- Firewalls, Proxies, and Bastions -- Introduction to the Public Key Infrastructure -- Setting up and Configuring Active Directory Certificate Services -- Understanding Active Directory Certificate Services -- Setting Up and Configuring a Certificate Authority -- Deploying a PKI -- Summary -- Chapter 17: Windows 2008 and Active Directory -- The Omniscient Active Directory -- The Elements of Active Directory -- Inside Active Directory -- Bridging the Divide: Legacy Windows and Windows Server 2008 -- Summary -- Chapter 18: Planning for Active Directory -- Active Directory Overview -- Basic Design Principles -- Active Directory Structure -- Planning for the Active Directory Enterprise -- Administration Planning -- Migration Planning -- Deploying the Plan -- Summary -- Chapter 19: Organizing a Logical Domain Structure -- Keepers of the New Order -- Active Directory Infrastructure Planning -- Planning for the Logical Domain Structure -- Logical Domain Structure: The Blueprint -- Partitioning the Domain -- Summary -- Chapter 20: Active Directory Physical Architecture -- Past, Present, and Future -- Forests and Trusts -- Domain Controllers and Global Catalogs -- Sites -- Active Directory Replication -- Directory Synchronization -- Active Directory Site Design and Configuration -- A Site Architecture -- Time -- Summary -- Chapter 21: Active Directory Installation and Deployment -- Getting Ready to Deploy -- Millennium City Active Directory Deployment Plan.
Executive Summary -- Installing and Testing the Active Directory Domain Controllers -- Implementation -- Summary -- Chapter 22: Active Directory Management -- Installing New Directory Services into an Existing Infrastructure -- Replication Management -- Installing New Domain Controllers -- Installing New Catalog Servers -- Protecting Active Directory from Corruption -- Moving Active Directory -- Integrating Active Directory with Other Services -- Logon without the Global Catalog -- Active Directory and DNS -- Active Directory Administration Architecture -- Summary -- Part IV: Change Control and Workplace Management -- Chapter 23: Managing Users and Groups -- The Windows Server 2008 Account: A User's Resource -- User Accounts in Action -- Computer Accounts -- Group Accounts -- The Zen of Managing Users and Groups -- User and Group Management Strategies -- Summary -- Chapter 24: Change Control, Group Policy, and Workspace Management -- What Is Change Control? -- Understanding Change Management -- Taking Control -- Understanding Group Policy -- How Group Policy Works -- Putting Group Policy to Work -- Group Policy and Change Management: Putting It All Together -- Getting Started -- Change Control Management for Group Policy -- Architecting Group Policy -- Summary -- Chapter 25: Service Level -- Understanding Service Level -- Service Level Management -- SLM and Windows Server 2008 -- Windows Server 2008 System Monitoring Architecture -- Task Manager -- Reliability and Performance Console -- Getting to Know Your Servers -- Performance Monitoring Overhead -- Service Level with Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager -- Summary -- Index.
Abstract:
This version of the Server Bible will be the largest yet, catering to what is certainly the most advanced operating system introduced by Microsoft. The book will cater to the needs of the server administration community and will be designed to be a critical reference. The book will extensively cover the most notable new feature of Windows Server known as the "Server Core." Server Core is a significantly scaled-back installation where no graphical shell (explorer.exe) is installed, and all configuration and maintenance is done entirely through the command-line windows, or by connecting to the machine remotely using Microsoft Management Console. Server Core will also not include the .NET Framework, Internet Explorer or many other features not related to core server features. A Server Core machine can be configured for four basic roles: Domain controller, DNS Server, DHCP Server, and file server. Chapters on setup and installation will also cover the new componentized operating system Image-based setup and deployment tools, using WIM. In addition to the already extensive Active Directory support this book will now fully cover the "Read-Only Domain Controller" operation mode in Active Directory, intended for use in branch office scenarios where a domain controller may reside in a low physical security environment, was introduced in Windows Server 2003 R2 and will be extended in the 2008 version. Chapters covering policy-based networking, branch management and enhanced end user collaboration will be extended. Windows Server 2008 will also ship Internet Information Services 7 and the current chapters on IIS will thus be extended. Coverage of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 will also be introduced into this part of the book. We will also include coverage of the improved hot patching technology, which is a feature that allows non-kernel patches to occur
without the need for a reboot. A significantly upgraded Terminal Services component, supporting RDP 6.0. will be covered in the chapter on terminal services. The most notable improvement is the ability to share a single application over a Remote Desktop connection, instead of the entire desktop. This will be added to an already extended chapter on this remote access technology. In addition to these new features the book will also carry over existing features brought over from (SP1/R2) of Server 2003. These include covering of new security features of the operating system, Group Policy management, change control and service level, and administration practices.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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