Book description
Portable and precise, this pocket-sized guide delivers ready answers for administering configuration and core functionality in Windows Server 2012 R2.
Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Windows Server 2012 R2 administration
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2. Deploying Windows Server 2012 R2
- Server roles, role services, and features for Windows Server 2012 R2
- Full-server, minimal-interface, and Server Core installations
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Installing Windows Server 2012 R2
- Performing a clean installation
- Performing an upgrade installation
- Performing additional administration tasks during installation
- Changing the installation type
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3. Managing Windows servers
- Managing roles, role services, and features
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Managing system properties
- Configuring server name and domain membership
- Configuring driver installation options
- Configuring memory and performance options
- 4. Monitoring services, processes, and events
- 5. Optimizing system performance
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6. Automating administrative tasks, policies, and procedures
- Understanding group policies
- Navigating Group Policy changes
- Managing local group policies
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Managing site, domain, and organizational unit policies
- Understanding domain and default policies
- Using the Group Policy Management Console
- Getting to know the policy editor
- Using administrative templates to set policies
- Creating and linking GPOs
- Creating and using starter GPOs
- Delegating privileges for Group Policy management
- Blocking, overriding, and disabling policies
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Maintaining and troubleshooting Group Policy
- Refreshing Group Policy
- Configuring the refresh interval
- Modeling Group Policy for planning purposes
- Copying, pasting, and importing policy objects
- Backing up and restoring policy objects
- Determining current Group Policy settings and refresh status
- Disabling an unused part of Group Policy
- Changing policy processing preferences
- Configuring slow-link detection
- Removing links and deleting GPOs
- Troubleshooting Group Policy
- Fixing default Group Policy objects
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7. Using Active Directory
- Introducing Active Directory
- Working with domain structures
- Working with Active Directory domains
- Understanding the directory structure
- Using the Active Directory Recycle Bin
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8. Core Active Directory administration
- Tools for managing Active Directory
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Managing computer accounts
- Creating computer accounts on a workstation or server
- Creating computer accounts in Active Directory Administrative Center
- Creating computer accounts in Active Directory Users And Computers
- Viewing and editing computer account properties
- Deleting, disabling, and enabling computer accounts
- Resetting locked computer accounts
- Moving computer accounts
- Managing computers
- Joining a computer to a domain or workgroup
- Using offline domain join
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Managing domain controllers, roles, and catalogs
- Installing and demoting domain controllers
- Viewing and transferring domainwide roles
- Viewing and transferring the domain naming master role
- Viewing and transferring schema master roles
- Transferring roles by using the command line
- Seizing roles by using the command line
- Configuring global catalogs
- Configuring universal group membership caching
- Managing organizational units
- Managing sites
- Maintaining Active Directory
- Troubleshooting Active Directory
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9. Creating user and group accounts
- Windows Server security model
- Differences between user and group accounts
- Default user accounts and groups
- Account capabilities
- Using default group accounts
- User account setup and organization
- Configuring account policies
- Configuring user rights policies
- Adding a user account
- Adding a group account
- Handling global group membership
- Implementing managed accounts
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10. Managing existing user and group accounts
- Managing user contact information
- Configuring the user’s environment settings
- Setting account options and restrictions
- Managing user profiles
- Updating user and group accounts
- Managing multiple user accounts
- Troubleshooting logon problems
- Viewing and setting Active Directory permissions
- A. About the author
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Windows Server 2012 R2 Pocket Consultant: Essentials & Configuration
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2014
- Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
- ISBN: 9780735682573
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