Windows Server 2008 R2 Secrets -- About the Author -- About the Technical Editor -- Acknowledgments -- Read This First -- Who This Book Is For -- What This Book Covers -- How This Book Is Structured -- What You Need to Use This Book -- Features and Icons Used in This Book -- Part I: Depolyment and Administration Secrets -- Chapter 1: Windows Server 2008 R2 Deployment Secrets -- Choosing an Edition of Windows Server 2008 R2 -- Deciding Between Types of Installation -- Optimizing Your Deployment Image -- Minimizing Deployment Time -- Activating Windows -- Summary -- Chapter 2: The Windows Server 2008 R2 Administrator's Toolkit -- Choosing the Right Remote Administration Tool -- Remote Desktop -- Management Consoles -- Remote Windows PowerShell -- Emergency Management Services (When All Else Fails) -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Server Core Secrets -- Using Server Core Administration Tools -- Performing Server Core Post-Deployment Tasks -- Understanding the Sconfig.cmd -- Administering with Server Core Configurator -- Understanding Server Core Infrastructure Roles -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Active Directory Domains and Forests -- Understanding Forests and Domains -- Setting Domain and Forest Functional Levels -- Selecting the DNS Server -- Defining Active Directory Sites -- Defining FSMO Roles -- Using Read-Only Domain Controllers -- Securing with Global Catalog Servers and Universal Group Membership Caching -- Maintaining the Active Directory Database -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Effectively Managing Group Policy -- Applying Group Policy -- Using Group Policy Management Console -- Using Important Group Policy Features -- Completing Common Group Policy Tasks -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Managing Users and Computers -- Using Organizational Unit Structures -- Managing User Accounts -- Configuring Account Policies -- Managing Groups -- Creating Computer Accounts.

Summary -- Chapter 7: Managing Active Directory Certificate Services -- Understanding Certification Authority Types -- Managing Certification Authorities -- Using Certificate Templates -- Utilizing Certificate Autoenrollment -- Recovering Certificates -- Backing Up Certificate Services -- Revoking Certificates -- Summary -- Part II: Network Infrastructure and Security Secrets -- Chapter 8: Network Addressing -- Understanding IPv4 and DHCP -- Understanding IPv6 -- Transitioning to IPv6 -- Summary -- Understanding Windows Firewall with Advanced Security -- Chapter 9: Securing the Network: Windows Firewall and Network Access Protection -- Understanding Connection Security Rules -- Understanding and Configuring Network Access Protection -- Summary -- Part III: Shared Folder and Data Protection Secrets -- Chapter 10: Secrets behind Shared Folders -- Using the Share and Storage Management Console -- Using File Server Resource Manager -- Working with the Distributed File System -- Utilizing BranchCache -- Working with Offline Files -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Keeping Data Private -- Encrypting File System -- Encrypting with BitLocker -- Using Active Directory Rights Management Services -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Backup and Recovery -- Using and Configuring Windows Server Backup -- Enabling Shadow Copies of Shared Folders -- Performing Recovery -- Using System Center Data Protection Manager -- Summary -- Part IV: Infrastructure Services -- Chapter 13: Internet Information Services -- Managing Sites -- Managing Application Pools -- IIS Users and Delegation -- Managing FTP -- Summary -- Chapter 14: Configuring Hyper-V Virtual Machines -- Configuring Hyper-V -- Understanding Virtual Hard Disks -- Understanding Hyper-V Networks -- Using Virtual Machine Snapshots -- Migrating Virtual Machines -- Summary -- Chapter 15: Patch Management with WSUS.

Defining an Update Process -- Installing and Deploying WSUS -- Deploying Updates -- Understanding WSUS Topologies -- Verifying Update Deployment -- Going Further -- Summary -- Chapter 16: High Availablity -- Understanding Network Load Balancing -- Allocating Storage to iSCSI SAN -- Understanding Failover Clustering -- Summary -- Part V: Remote Access Secrets -- Chapter 17: Presentation and Application Virtualization -- Understanding Remote Desktop Session Host -- Running RemoteApp -- Using Remote Desktop Web Access -- Utilizing Remote Desktop Connection Broker -- Connecting via Remote Desktop Gateway -- Remote Desktop Licensing -- Understanding Remote Desktop Virtualization Host -- Virtualizing Applications with App-V -- Summary -- Chapter 18: Remote Access -- Setting up Remote Desktop Gateway -- Deploying Virtual Private Networks -- Connecting via DirectAccess -- Summary -- Part VI: Maintenance and Monitoring Secrets -- Chapter 19: Getting the Most Out of Event Logs and Auditing -- Auditing Windows Server 2008 R2 -- Filtering and Viewing Event Logs -- Event Log Forwarding -- Creating Event Viewer Tasks -- Going Further with Operations Manager -- Summary -- Monitoring Point-in-Time Performance -- Chapter 20: Performance and Resource Management -- Understanding Data Collector Sets -- Using Windows Server Resource Manager -- Summary -- Index.