Chapter 12. Networking with Windows Server 2008

In most organizations, Windows 7 will be a member of a domain, so it is important to know how to properly configure it in a domain environment.

In this chapter we discuss peer-to-peer networks and the advantages and disadvantages of this network model. We will also look at Windows Server 2008 domain-based networks using Active Directory and how to configure Windows 7 to work within the Windows Server 2008 domain environment.

Another technology that we will discuss is Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft's newest version of virtualization. Virtualization, one of the fastest-growing and hottest technologies to hit the market in the past few years, has started to make an impact due to its vast economic ...

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