Book description
This supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds for Windows Server 2012 R2 configuration, storage, and essential administrative tasks.
Table of contents
- Windows Server® 2012 R2 Inside Out: Configuration, Storage, & Essentials
- Dedication
- Introduction
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1. Introducing Windows Server 2012 R2
- Getting to know Windows Server 2012 R2
- Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2
- Planning for Windows Server 2012 R2
- Thinking about server roles and Active Directory
- Planning for availability, scalability, and manageability
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2. Deploying Windows Server 2012 R2
- Getting a quick start
- Product licensing
- Preparing for a Windows Server 2012 R2 installation
- Installing Windows Server 2012 R2
- Performing additional administration tasks during installations
- Troubleshooting installation
- Postinstallation tasks
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3. Boot configuration
- Boot from hardware and firmware
- Boot environment essentials
- Managing startup and boot configuration
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Managing the boot configuration data store and its entries
- Viewing BCD entries
- Creating and identifying the BCD store
- Importing and exporting the BCD store
- Creating, copying, and deleting BCD entries
- Setting BCD entry values
- Changing Data Execution Prevention and physical address extension options
- Changing the operating system display order
- Changing the default operating system entry
- Changing the default timeout
- Changing the boot sequence temporarily
- 4. Managing Windows Server 2012 R2
- 5. Windows Server 2012 R2 MMC administration
- 6. Configuring roles, role services, and features
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7. Managing and troubleshooting hardware
- Understanding hardware installation changes
- Installing devices
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Working with device drivers
- Device driver essentials
- Understanding and troubleshooting driver signing
- Viewing driver information
- Viewing Advanced, Resources, and other settings
- Installing and updating device drivers
- Restricting device installation by using Group Policy
- Rolling back drivers
- Removing device drivers for removed devices
- Uninstalling, reinstalling, and disabling device drivers
- Managing hardware
- 8. Managing the registry
- 9. Software and User Account Control administration
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10. Performance monitoring and tuning
- Tuning performance, memory usage, and data throughput
- Tracking a system’s general health
- Tracking events and troubleshooting by using Event Viewer
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11. Comprehensive performance analysis and logging
- Establishing performance baselines
- Comprehensive performance monitoring
- Resolving performance bottlenecks
- Performance logging
- 12. Storage management essentials
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13. Configuring disks and storage
- Configuring storage
- Managing MBR disk partitions on basic disks
- Managing GPT disk partitions on basic disks
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Managing volumes on dynamic disks
- Creating a simple or spanned volume
- Configuring RAID 0: Striping
- Recovering a failed simple, spanned, or striped disk
- Moving dynamic disks
- Configuring RAID 1: Disk mirroring
- Mirroring boot and system volumes
- Configuring RAID 5: Disk striping with parity
- Breaking or removing a mirrored set
- Resolving problems with mirrored sets
- Repairing a mirrored system volume
- Resolving problems with RAID-5 sets
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14. TPM and BitLocker Drive Encryption
- Working with trusted platforms
- Managing TPM
- Introducing BitLocker Drive Encryption
- Using hardware encryption, secure boot, and Network Unlock
- Deploying BitLocker Drive Encryption
- Setting up and managing BitLocker Drive Encryption
- 15. File system essentials
- 16. Maintaining and optimizing storage
- 17. Managing storage spaces
- 18. Managing file sharing
- 19. File security, access controls, and auditing
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20. Managing file screening and storage reporting
- Understanding file screening and storage reporting
- Managing file screening and storage reporting
- A. About the author
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Windows Server 2012 R2 Inside Out: Configuration, Storage, & Essentials
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2014
- Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
- ISBN: 9780735682672
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