Book description
Designed to help enterprise administrators develop real-world, job-role-specific skills—this Training Guide focuses on deploying and managing Windows Server 2012. Build hands-on expertise through a series of lessons, exercises, and suggested practices—and help maximize your performance on the job.
This Microsoft Training Guide:
Provides in-depth, hands-on training you take at your own pace
Focuses on job-role-specific expertise for deploying and managing Windows Server 2012
Creates a foundation of skills which, along with on-the-job experience, can be measured by Microsoft Certification exams such as 70-411
Sharpen your skills. Increase your expertise.
Deploy and update Windows Server 2012
Manage account policies and service accounts
Configure name resolution
Administer Active Directory
Manage Group Policy application and infrastructure
Work with Group Policy settings and preferences
Administer network policies
Configure the network to enable remote access
Manage file services
Monitor and audit Windows Server 2012
Table of contents
- Special Upgrade Offer
- Introduction
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1. Deploying and updating Windows Server 2012
- Before you begin
- Lesson 1: Configuring and servicing Windows Server 2012 images
- Lesson 2: Automated deployment of Windows Server 2012 images
- Lesson 3: Servicing and updating deployed servers
- Practice exercises
- Suggested practice exercises
- Answers
- 2. Managing account policies and service accounts
- 3. Configuring name resolution
- 4. Administering Active Directory
- 5. Managing Group Policy application and infrastructure
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6. Group Policy settings and preferences
- Before you begin
- Lesson 1: Folder Redirection, software installation, and scripts
- Lesson 2: Administrative templates
- Lesson 3: Group Policy preferences
- Practice exercises
- Suggested practice exercises
- Answers
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7. Administering network policies
- Before you begin
- Lesson 1: Network Policy Server policies
- Lesson 2: Network Access Protection enforcement methods
- Lesson 3: Network Access Protection infrastructure
- Practice exercises
- Suggested practice exercises
- Answers
- 8. Administering remote access
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9. Managing file services
- Before you begin
- Lesson 1: Configure File Server Resource Manager
- Lesson 2: Configure a Distributed File System
- Lesson 3: Configure file and disk encryption
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Practice exercises
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- EXERCISE 1 Install the File Server Resource Manager role service and create a shared folder
- EXERCISE 2 Configure file quotas
- EXERCISE 3 Configure file screen
- EXERCISE 4 Configure file expiration
- EXERCISE 5 Configure storage reports
- EXERCISE 6 Install DFS
- EXERCISE 7 Create a DFS namespace and add a namespace server
- EXERCISE 8 Configure DFS replication.
- EXERCISE 9 Install Enterprise CA
- EXERCISE 10 Configure certificate templates
- EXERCISE 11 Configure certificate enrollment
- EXERCISE 12 Configure EFS-related Group Policies
- EXERCISE 13 Configure BitLocker-related policies
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- Suggested practice exercises
- Answers
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10. Monitoring and auditing Windows Server 2012
- Before you begin
- Lesson 1: Monitor servers
- Lesson 2: Advanced audit policies
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Practice exercises
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- EXERCISE 1 Configure data collector sets
- EXERCISE 2 Collect data
- EXERCISE 3 Configure alerts
- EXERCISE 4 Prepare computers for event subscriptions
- EXERCISE 5 Configure event subscriptions
- EXERCISE 6 Configure network monitoring
- EXERCISE 7 Using Message Analyzer
- EXERCISE 8 Configure removable device auditing
- EXERCISE 9 Configure logon auditing
- EXERCISE 10 Configure expression-based audit policies
- EXERCISE 11 Configure folder auditing
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- Suggested practice exercises
- Answers
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A. Setup instructions for exercises and labs
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Setup instructions for end-of-chapter labs
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- EXERCISE 1 Prepare a computer to function as a Windows Server 2012 domain controller
- EXERCISE 2 Prepare AD DS
- EXERCISE 3 Prepare a member server and join it to the domain
- EXERCISE 4 Prepare a second member server and join it to the domain
- EXERCISE 5 Prepare a computer running the Server Core installation option and join it to the domain
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Setup instructions for end-of-chapter labs
- B. About the Author
- Index
- About the Author
- Special Upgrade Offer
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Training Guide: Administering Windows Server 2012
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2013
- Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
- ISBN: 9780735674127
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