MCITPWindows Server® 2008 Server Administrator

Study Guide

Darril Gibson

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MCITPWindows Server® 2008 Server Administrator

Study Guide

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MCITPWindows Server® 2008 Server Administrator

Study Guide

Darril Gibson

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To my loving wife of more than 16 years, who continues to provide me love

and encouragement even when I don’t deserve it.

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AcknowledgmentsNo book is written alone. Instead, there is a wealth of people working behind the scenes to help make a book the best possible. I’m grateful for the hard work put in behind the scenes by several people. Stuart Ami, the technical editor; Candace English, the development editor; Eric Charbonneau, the production editor; and Kim Wimpsett, the copy editor, all provided a significant amount of work that helped produce this book. I’m grateful to each of them.

I’m also grateful to my agent, Carole McClendon, for helping open up so many oppor-tunities for me, including this one, and to Jeff Kellum, the acquisitions editor, for having the faith in me to take on this project.

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About the AuthorDarril Gibson has been teaching Microsoft networking concepts since the NT 4.0 days and has been teaching a myriad of other topics since many years before then. He’s been a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) since 1999 and holds many other certifications, includ-ing MCSE (NT 4.0, 2000, 2003), MCDBA (SQL Server 7.0 and 2000), MCTS (Vista, Server 2008 Active Directory, Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure, Server 2008 Net-work Infrastructure and SQL Server 2005), MCITP (Server 2008 Server Administrator, Vista Enterprise Support Technician, SQL Server 2005 Database Administrator and SQL Server 2005 Database Developer), MCAD (.NET), and MCSD (VB 6, .NET).

Darril has developed several video training courses for KeyStone Learning Systems and has written and co-authored several other technical books. He has a passion for teaching and enjoys sharing knowledge in the classroom as much as he does through books.

He currently works full-time on a government contract providing a wide array of tech-nical training to military and government personnel in support of a network operations support center (NOSC). The NOSC supports over 100,000 users and provides a great envi-ronment to see current technologies in action. He moonlights as an adjunct professor at a local college (ECPI College of Technology) teaching system engineer courses.

Darril lives with his wife and two dogs in Virginia Beach, Virginia, but on most weekends they can be found playing on about 24 acres of land in Halifax County. He’s been learning the power of water as he’s tried to create a pond on this land. He’s found that configuring networks is a piece of cake compared to building a good pond, but he hasn’t given up yet.

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Contents at a Glance

Introduction xxi

Assessment Test xxxii

Chapter 1 Introducing Windows Server 2008 1

Chapter 2 Planning Server Deployments 43

Chapter 3 Using Windows Server 2008 Management Tools 95

Chapter 4 Monitoring and Maintaining Network Infrastructure Servers 157

Chapter 5 Monitoring and Maintaining Active Directory 207

Chapter 6 Monitoring and Maintaining Print and File Servers 275

Chapter 7 Planning Terminal Services Servers 333

Chapter 8 Planning Windows Server 2008 Security 369

Chapter 9 Planning Business Continuity and High Availability 413

Appendix About the Companion CD 449

Glossary 453

Index 467

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ContentsIntroduction xxi

Assessment Test xxxii

Chapter 1 Introducing Windows Server 2008 1

Windows Server 2008 Editions 2Key Benefits of Windows Server 2008 5

IIS 7 and the .NET Framework 5Virtualization 6Security 8Interaction with Vista 9

New Features of Windows Server 2008 10Server Manager 10Server Core 12PowerShell 12Windows Deployment Services 13New Functionality in Terminal Services 14Network Access Protection 15Read-Only Domain Controllers 15Improvements in Failover Clustering 16

Installing Windows Server 2008 18Hardware Requirements 18Running Windows Server 2008 on Your System 18Using Virtual PC 2007 19Activating Windows Server 2008 24

Review of Active Directory 25Active Directory Elements 26Promoting a Server to a Domain Controller 29Active Directory Domain Services Tools 33

Summary 34Exam Essentials 35Review Questions 36Answers to Review Questions 40

Chapter 2 Planning Server Deployments 43

Introducing Windows Deployment Services 44The Big Picture of WDS 45WDS Requirements 49WDSUtil 50Installing Windows Deployment Services 52Creating a Standard Server Image 57Configuring Windows Deployment Services 61

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