Book description
Portable and precise, this pocket-sized guide delivers ready answers for administering storage, security, and networking features in Windows Server 2012 R2. Zero in on core tasks through quick-reference tables, instructions, and lists. You'll get the focused information you need to save time and get the job done - whether at your desk or in the field.
Coverage includes:
- Managing file systems and drives
- Configuring storage
- Data sharing
- Managing TCP/IP networking
- Running DHCP clients and servers
- Optimizing DNS
- Administering network printers and print services
- Security, compliance, and auditing
- Backup and recovery
Publisher resources
Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Managing file systems and drives
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2. Configuring storage
- Using volumes and volume sets
- Improving performance and fault tolerance with RAID
- Implementing RAID on Windows Server 2012 R2
- Managing RAID and recovering from failures
- Standards-based storage management
- Managing existing partitions and drives
- 3. Data sharing and redundancy
- 4. Data security and auditing
- 5. Enhancing computer security
- 6. Managing users and computers with Group Policy
- 7. Managing TCP/IP networking
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8. Running DHCP clients and servers
- Understanding DHCP
- Installing a DHCP server
- Configuring DHCP servers
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Managing DHCP scopes
- Creating and managing superscopes
- Creating and managing scopes
- Creating and managing failover scopes
- Managing the address pool, leases, and reservations
- Backing up and restoring the DHCP database
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9. Optimizing DNS
- Understanding DNS
- Configuring name resolution on DNS clients
- Installing DNS servers
- Managing DNS servers
- Managing DNS records
- Updating zone properties and the SOA record
- Managing DNS server configuration and security
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10. Administering network printers and print services
- Managing the Print and Document Services role
- Getting started with Print Management
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Installing printers
- Using the autoinstall feature of Print Management
- Installing and configuring physically attached print devices
- Installing network-attached print devices
- Connecting to printers created on the network
- Deploying printer connections
- Configuring point and print restrictions
- Moving printers to a new print server
- Monitoring printers and printer queues automatically
- Solving spooling problems
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Configuring printer properties
- Adding comments and location information
- Listing printers in Active Directory
- Managing printer drivers
- Setting a separator page and changing print device mode
- Changing the printer port
- Scheduling and prioritizing print jobs
- Starting and stopping printer sharing
- Setting printer access permissions
- Auditing print jobs
- Setting document defaults
- Configuring print server properties
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Managing print jobs on local and remote printers
- Viewing printer queues and print jobs
- Pausing the printer and resuming printing
- Emptying the print queue
- Pausing, resuming, and restarting individual document printing
- Removing a document and canceling a print job
- Checking the properties of documents in the printer
- Setting the priority of individual documents
- Scheduling the printing of individual documents
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11. Data backup and recovery
- Creating a backup and recovery plan
- Backing up your data: the essentials
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Performing server backups
- Configuring scheduled backups
- Modifying or stopping scheduled backups
- Creating and scheduling backups with Wbadmin
- Running manual backups
- Recovering your server from hardware or startup failure
- Recovering from a failed start
- Starting a server in safe mode
- Backing up and restoring the system state
- Restoring Active Directory
- Restoring the operating system and the full system
- Restoring applications, nonsystem volumes, and files and folders
- Managing encryption recovery policy
- Backing up and restoring encrypted data and certificates
- A. About the author
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Windows Server 2012 R2 Pocket Consultant: Storage, Security, & Networking
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2014
- Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
- ISBN: 9780735682597
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