Crystal Panek - Windows Server Administration Fundamentals

Crystal Panek

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This book is dedicated to my loving husband, William Panek, and to my two wonderful daughters, Alexandria and Paige. Thank you all for your love and support. I love you all more than anything!

I would like to thank my husband and best friend, Will, because without him I would not be where I am todaythank you! I would also like to express my love to my two daughters, Alexandria and Paige, who have always shown nothing but love and support. Thank you all!

I would like to thank everyone on the Sybex team, especially my associate acquisitions editor, Devon Lewis, who helped make this the best book possible. I would like to thank Christine O'Connor, who was the production editor, and Kim Wimpsett for being the proofreader.

Finally, I also want to thank everyone behind the scenes who helped make this book possible. Thank you all for your hard work and dedication.

Crystal Panek holds the following certifications: MCP, MCP+I, MCSA, MCSA+ Security and Messaging, MCSE-NT (3.51 & 4.0), MCSE 2000, 2003, 2012/2012 R2, 2016, MCSE+Security and Messaging, MCDBA, MCTS, MCITP.

For many years she trained as a contract instructor teaching at such places as MicroC, Stellacon Corporation, and the University of New Hampshire. She then became the vice president for a large IT training company, and for 15 years she developed training materials and courseware to help thousands of students get through their certification exams. She currently works on a contract basis creating courseware for several large IT training facilities.

She currently resides in New Hampshire with her husband and two daughters. In her spare time, she likes to camp, hike, shoot trap and skeet, golf, bowl, and snowmobile.

: Server Overview This chapter covers understanding server installation options, choosing the correct operating system version options, Server core vs. Desktop Experience, Nano Server installation, interactive installs, automated install using WDS, VHD/VHDX installation source, how to perform unattended installs, perform upgrades, clean installs, and migrations. This chapter also covers identifying application servers, mail servers, database servers, collaboration servers, monitoring servers, and threat management. You will learn to understand server virtualization, virtual memory, virtual networks, VHD and VHDX formats. This chapter delves into identifying major hardware components, memory, disk, processor, network, 32-bit and 64-bit architecture, removable drives, graphic cards, cooling, power usage, and ports. This chapter will also teach you how to work with updates, software, driver, operating systems, applications, Windows Update, and using Windows Server Update Service (WSUS).

: Managing Windows Server 2016 This chapter covers understanding device drivers, installing, removing, disabling, update/upgrade, rollback, troubleshooting, Plug & Play, IRQ, interrupts, driver signing, and managing devices through Group Policy. This chapter will also teach you how to understand services. It also covers 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, and dependencies. This chapter will also delve into understanding remote access. Also covered are remote assistance, remote administration tools, Remote Desktop Services, multipoint services, licensing, RD Gateway, VPN, application virtualization, and multiple ports.

: Managing Storage This chapter covers identifying storage technologies and their typical usage scenarios, the advantages and disadvantages of different storage topologies, local storage, network storage, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI hardware. This chapter also introduces using RAID redundancy, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10 and combinations, hardware and software RAID. This chapter will also discuss understanding disk types, such as 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, and distributed file systems.