Book description
This practical guide has exactly what you need to work with Windows Server 2008. Inside, you'll find step-by-step procedures for using all of the major components, along with discussions on complex concepts such as Active Directory replication, DFS namespaces and replication, network access protection, the Server Core edition, Windows PowerShell, server clustering, and more. All of this with a more compact presentation and a tighter focus on tasks than you'll find in bulkier references.
Windows Server 2008: The Definitive Guide takes a refreshing approach. You won't find the history of Windows NT, or discussions on the way things used to work. Instead, you get only the information you need to use this server. If you're a beginning or intermediate system administrator, you learn how the system works, and how to administer machines running it. The expert administrators among you discover new concepts and components outside of your realm of expertise.
Simply put, this is the most thorough reference available for Windows Server 2008, with complete guides to:
- Installing the server in a variety of different environments
- File services and the Windows permission structure
- How the domain name system (DNS) works
- Active Directory, including its logical and physical structure, hierarchical components, scalability, and replication
- Group Policy's structure and operation
- Managing security policy with predefined templates and customized policy plans
- Architectural improvements, new features, and daily administration of IIS 7
- Terminal Services from both the administrator's user's point of view
- Networking architecture including DNS, DHCP, VPN, RADIUS server, IAS, and IPSec
- Windows clustering services --- applications, grouping machines, capacity and network planning, user account management
- Windows PowerShell scripting and command-line technology
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Table of contents
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Windows Server 2008: The Definitive Guide
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- Preface
- 1. Introducing Windows Server 2008
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2. Installation and Deployment
- Installing Windows Server 2008
- Initial Configuration Tasks
- Deployment
- The Last Word
- 3. File Services
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4. Domain Name System
- Nuts and Bolts
- Zones Versus Domains
- Resource Records
- Using Primary and Secondary Nameservers
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Building a Nameserver
- Enabling Incremental Transfers
- Creating a Forward Lookup Zone
- Entering A Records into a Zone
- Controlling Round-Robin Balancing
- Entering and Editing SOA Records
- Creating and Editing NS Records
- Creating and Editing CNAME Records
- Creating and Editing MX Records
- Generating a Reverse Lookup Zone
- Creating and Editing PTR Records
- Configuring a Secondary Nameserver
- Upgrading a Secondary Nameserver to Primary
- Manually Editing Zone Files
- Controlling the Zone Transfer Process
- Subdomains and Delegation
- Dynamic DNS
- Active Directory-Integrated Zones
- Forwarding
- The Split DNS Architecture
- Backup and Recovery
- Command-Line Utilities
- The Last Word
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5. Active Directory
- Active Directory Domain Services Objects and Concepts
- Building an AD DS Structure
- Understanding Operations Master Roles
- Understanding Directory Replication
- Active Directory Troubleshooting and Maintenance
- The Last Word
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6. Group Policy and IntelliMirror
- An Introduction to Group Policy
- Group Policy Implementation
- Local Group Policy
- Domain Group Policy
- Deployment Considerations
- Troubleshooting Group Policy
- Other Group Policy Management Tools
- Command-Line Utilities
- The Last Word
- 7. Windows Security and Patch Management
- 8. Internet Information Services 7
- 9. Windows Server 2008 Server Core
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10. Terminal Services
- The Remote Desktop Protocol
- Adding the Terminal Server Role
- Enabling Remote Desktop
- On the User's Side
- Terminal Services Administration
- Terminal Services RemoteApp
- Terminal Services Web Access
- Terminal Services Gateway
- Command-Line Utilities
- The Last Word
- 11. DHCP and Network Access Protection
- 12. An Introduction to Clustering Technologies
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13. PowerShell
- Why PowerShell?
- Installing PowerShell
- PowerShell and Security
- Starting Up PowerShell
- Cmdlets: The Heart of PowerShell
- Getting Help with PowerShell
- Using Data Stores and PowerShell Providers
- The Pipeline
- Formatting Basics
- Variables
- Writing Scripts
- Objects: .NET, WMI, and COM
- Advanced PowerShell
- Learning More About PowerShell
- The Last Word
- 14. Hyper-V
- About the Author
- Colophon
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Product information
- Title: Windows Server 2008: The Definitive Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2008
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596551377
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