Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Insider Solutions

Chapter 9. Maintenance Practices and Procedures

In this Chapter

• Maintenance is not as Interesting as Implementing New Technology

• What to Do Every Day

• What to Do Every Week

• What to Do Every Month

• Consolidating Servers as a Maintenance Task

• Backup Tips and Tricks

• Making Automated System Recovery Work for You

• Leveraging Scripting for Maintenance Practices

• Why Five-9s Might Be a Bad Idea

• Automating Updates

• BEST PRACTICES

• Keeping Up with Patches

• Schedule the Scandisk

• Profiling Your Backup Network

• Saving Time on Restores

• Make the Checklists Easy to Follow

• What Does Clustering Actually Accomplish?

After the network operating system is installed and users are able to use the network on a daily basis, the job of the network administrator is not over. Although Windows 2003 ...