Windows 2003 server management guide

Upgrade Windows Server Securing privileged access. Failover Clustering What's new in Failover Clustering. Create a failover cluster. Cluster-Aware Updating overview. Management Use Windows Admin Center to manage your environment. System Insights overview. Performance tuning guidelines for Windows Server Networking What's new in networking.

Software-defined Networking SDN overview. Network controller. Remote Remote Desktop Services overview. Remote Desktop clients. If security is area of your interest you will find some useful information as we move on. You learn about how to protect your computer system against internal abuses and external intrusion. With a few demonstrations the authors showing the seriousness of the security policy and its template snap-ins. Beside this, a number of possible problem areas are included user account security, file system lockdown, RAS security, etc.

Chapter thirteen brings two sections. The first one covers networking basics, from network architecture, IP addressing, IP routing through the client configuration. Again, theoretical and practical information is provided. If you are familiar with these services and technologies, this chapter will be a good quick reference; otherwise it is a good start of getting some knowledge about networking.

The popularity of Virtual Private Networks is growing rapidly. More and more organizations use this method for secure communication with remote offices. The authors teach you some basics strategies for authenticating users and computers when establishing VPNs.

Two examples of VPN configurations are shown step by step with graphical figures. Another technology presented here is IPSec. What follows is more useful material that covers risk management, the backup and restoration process and disaster recovery. While reading the fourteenth chapter you will pass through some disk related topics: disk management and management tools, storage types, disk fragmentation, disk quotas, disk volume management, and storage libraries.

Backup and restore part of this chapter covers some policies and methods with some practical examples. In the world of thin client technologies, Microsoft has his solution — terminal services. In Windows Server , terminal services present a new mechanism for granting users remote access to a computer.

The following chapter starts with the process of installing terminal services, than configuring them. As terminal services offer a number of system administrative tools, some of those tools are explored as well.

This is an interesting part for an administrator who does remote management of any server in the network. Windows Server comes with the version 6 of Internet Information Services and the good news is related to stricter security features.

How to do? This full-scale partition software allows you to resize partition , move partition, allocate free space from one partition to another. It can compensate for the vital defect of Disk Management in Windows Server You can see its interface is very simple and clear.

When you try it, you can realize it is very humanize. Why we say Disk Management of Windows Server is out of date? AOMEI Partition Assistant Server Edition - Disk Management alternative This full-scale partition software allows you to resize partition , move partition, allocate free space from one partition to another.