Training Guide · Installing and Configuring Windows Server® 2012 by Tulloch, Mitch -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Training Guide: Installing and Configuring Windows Server® 2012 1. Preparing for Windows Server 2012

Before you begin Lesson 1: Planning for Windows Server 2012

Migration scenarios

Greenfield Forest upgrade Mixed environment Server consolidation Private cloud Public cloud

Migration process

Pilot testing Assessment Server migration Role and feature migration Installing the Migration Tools on the destination server Installing the Migration Tools on the source server

Lesson summary Lesson review

Lesson 2: Assessing the readiness of your environment

Manual assessment

Windows Server 2012 editions System requirements Windows Server Catalog

Using the MAP Toolkit

Preparing to use the toolkit Running the toolkit Sample reports

Other tools and methodologies Lesson summary Lesson review

Practice exercises

Exercise 1: Using the MAP Toolkit Exercise 2: Performing an in-place upgrade

Suggested practice exercises Answers

Lesson 1 Lesson 2

2. Deploying Servers

Before you begin Lesson 1: Installation options

Understanding installation options

Choosing an installation option Minimal server interface

Converting between installation options

Using Windows PowerShell Converting Server Core to Server With A GUI Converting Server Core to Minimal Server Interface Converting Server With A GUI to Server Core Converting Server With A GUI to Minimal Server Interface Converting between installation options in offline VHDs Features on demand

Lesson summary Lesson review

Lesson 2: Preparing the build lab

Understanding image life-cycle management Build vs. production environment Setting up your build lab Understanding the reference-image build process Setting up the technician computer Lesson summary Lesson review

Lesson 3: Building images

Building reference images using MDT 2012 Update 1

Step 1. Installing the ADK Step 2. Installing MDT Step 3. Creating a deployment share Step 4. Importing operating-system source files Step 5. Importing out-of-box drivers Step 6. Importing applications Step 7. Importing packages Step 8. Creating a task sequence Step 9. Automating the deployment process Step 10. Updating the deployment share Step 11. Deploying and capturing the reference image

Testing reference images Lesson summary Lesson review

Lesson 4: Deploying images

Preparing the deployment infrastructure Using the LTI approach Using the ZTI approach Lesson summary Lesson review

Practice exercises

Exercise 1: Converting between installation options Exercise 2: Building a reference image with MDT 2012 Update 1

Suggested practice exercises Answers

Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4

3. Server Remote Management

Before you begin Lesson 1: Server Manager

Navigating Server Manager

Menus Dashboard Local Server All Servers Role-specific pages

Configuring remote management

Configuring remote management on Windows Server 2012 Configuring remote management on Windows Server 2008

Running Server Manager on Windows 8

Benefits and disadvantages of using RSAT for Windows 8 Deploying RSAT for Windows 8

Lesson summary Lesson review

Lesson 2: Server management tasks

Adding servers Creating server groups Restart a server Collecting events

Configuring event collection Configuring alerts for events

Monitoring services

Configuring service alerts

Collecting performance data

Configuring collection of performance data Configuring performance alerts

Viewing status notifications Lesson summary Lesson review

Lesson 3: Installing roles and features

Prerequisites for installing roles and features Installing roles and features using Server Manager Installing roles and features using Windows PowerShell

Retrieving a list of installed roles and features Installing roles and features Installing roles and features on multiple servers Installing roles and features for which the payload has been removed

Removing roles and features Lesson summary Lesson review

Lesson 4: Windows PowerShell automation

Background jobs Scheduled jobs Disconnected sessions Resources for learning Windows PowerShell

Using Windows PowerShell help Updatable help Enhanced online help Recommended books

Lesson summary Lesson review

Practice exercises

Exercise 1: Installing roles and features Exercise 2: Managing alerts with the Dashboard Exercise 3: Scheduling tasks using Windows PowerShell jobs

Suggested practice exercises Answers

Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4

4. Deploying Domain Controllers

Before you begin Lesson 1: Preparing for deploying domain controllers

AD DS deployment scenarios

New forest deployments Best practices for new forest deployments Existing forest deployments

New forest domain controller deployment

First domain controller in a new forest First domain controller in a new domain Additional domain controllers in a domain Read-only domain controllers Virtualized domain controllers

Existing forest domain controller deployment

Installing additional domain controllers Upgrading existing domain controllers

Lesson summary Lesson review

Lesson 2: Deploying domain controllers using Server Manager

Preparing for domain-controller deployment

Preparing for deploying the first domain controller in a new forest Preparing for deploying additional domain controllers in the new forest Preparing for deploying domain controllers in an existing forest

Installing the AD DS role Running the AD DS Configuration Wizard

First domain controller in new forest Additional domain controller in new domain First Windows Server 2012 domain controller in an existing forest Verifying the installation Uninstalling AD DS

Lesson summary Lesson review

Lesson 3: Deploying domain controllers using Windows PowerShell

Preparing for domain-controller deployment

Using Windows PowerShell to deploy domain controllers

Verifying prerequisites First domain controller in new forest Additional domain controller in domain First domain controller in a child or tree domain Read-only domain controllers

Verifying domain-controller deployment Uninstalling AD DS Lesson summary Lesson review

Practice exercises

Exercise 1: Installing a new forest using Server Manager Exercise 2: Remotely adding an additional domain controller using Windows PowerShell

Suggested practice exercises Answers

Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3

5. Active Directory Administration

Before you begin Lesson 1: Administering Active Directory objects using ADAC

Overview of ADAC

User-interface features List view Tree view

Searching Active Directory Common administration tasks

Creating organizational units Creating users Other tasks you can perform using ADAC Tasks you cannot perform using ADAC

Lesson summary Lesson review

Lesson 2: Enabling advanced features using ADAC

Enabling and using the Active Directory Recycle Bin

Understanding the AD Recycle Bin Enabling the AD Recycle Bin Using the AD Recycle Bin

Configuring fine-grained password policies

Understanding fine-grained password policies Best practices for implementing fine-grained password policies Creating fine-grained password policies Viewing the resultant password settings for a user

Lesson summary Lesson review

Lesson 3: Administering Active Directory using Windows PowerShell

Managing user accounts with Windows PowerShell

Example 1: Create a single new user account Example 2: Create a new user account, and specify a password Example 3: Create and enable a new user account Example 4: Bulk-create new user accounts Example 5: Create new user accounts from a template account

Finding Active Directory administration cmdlets Performing an advanced Active Directory administration task Lesson summary Lesson review

Practice exercises

Exercise 1: Creating organizational units using Windows PowerShell Exercise 2: Creating user accounts using Windows PowerShell

Suggested practice exercises Answers

Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3

6. Network Administration

Before you begin Lesson 1: Ensuring DHCP availability

Previous approaches to implementing DHCP availability Understanding DHCP failover

Load-sharing mode Hot-standby mode

Implementing DHCP failover Managing DHCP failover Lesson summary Lesson review

Lesson 2: Implementing DNSSEC

Benefits of DNSSEC DNSSEC in previous Windows Server versions How DNSSEC works Deploying DNSSEC Lesson summary Lesson review

Lesson 3: Managing networking using Windows PowerShell

Identifying networking cmdlets

Using Get-Command Using Show-Command

Examples of network-administration tasks

Display network adapters with 100-Mbps link speed Disable a binding on a network adapter Disable a network adapter Creating a DHCP server scope Creating DNS resource records

Lesson summary Lesson review

Lesson 4: Configuring IPv6/IPv4 interoperability

IPv6 concepts and terminology

IPv6 and the TCP/IP protocol architecture

Default IPv6 functionality

Disabling IPv6

IPv6 addressing IPv6 address representation

IPv6 prefixes IPv6 address types Global unicast addresses Link-local addresses Unique local addresses Special addresses Transition addresses Multicast addresses

IPv6 address assignment

Manual address assignment Stateless address autoconfiguration Stateful address autoconfiguration Configuring a DHCPv6 server

IPv6 transition technologies ISATAP

ISATAP addresses ISATAP components

Lesson summary Lesson review

Practice exercises

Exercise 1: Implementing DHCP failover using Windows PowerShell Exercise 2: Configuring a caching-only DNS server using Windows PowerShell

Suggested practice exercises Answers

Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4

7. Hyper-V Virtualization

Before you begin Lesson 1: Deploying and configuring Hyper-V hosts

Planning Hyper-V deployment

Hardware Editions Networking Storage Management Security Scalability, availability, and mobility Disaster recovery

Installing the Hyper-V role

Using Server Manager Using Windows PowerShell

Configuring Hyper-V hosts

Configuring virtual machine storage Creating virtual switches Other configuration steps

Lesson summary Lesson review

Lesson 2: Deploying and configuring virtual machines

Planning virtual machine deployment

Location of configuration files Startup memory Virtual processors Virtual networking Virtual hard disks Guest operating system deployment Performing snapshots Considerations for importing virtual machines

Creating virtual machines

Using Hyper-V Manager Using Windows PowerShell Importing virtual machines

Configuring virtual machines

Adding virtual disks Adding and configuring virtual network adapters Configuring other hardware settings Configuring virtual machine management

Lesson summary Lesson review

Lesson 3: Managing virtual machines

Optimizing workload consolidation

Configuring Dynamic Memory Configuring host reserved memory

Optimizing network performance

Configuring bandwidth management Other optimizations

Optimizing virtual disks

Using Hyper-V Manager Using Windows PowerShell

Managing snapshots

Using Hyper-V Manager Using Windows PowerShell

Monitoring virtual machines Lesson summary Lesson review

Practice exercises

Exercise 1: Installing and configuring Hyper-V on Server Core Exercise 2: Creating and configuring virtual machines

Suggested practice exercises Answers

Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3

8. File Services and Storage

Before you begin Lesson 1: Deploying Storage Spaces

Understanding Storage Spaces

Concepts and terminology Fixed vs. thin provisioning Resiliency

Planning a Storage Spaces deployment

Hardware Performance Resiliency Availability Management Scalability

Implementing Storage Spaces

Using Server Manager Using Windows PowerShell

Lesson summary Lesson review

Lesson 2: Provisioning and managing shared storage

Provisioning shared storage

Creating a storage pool Creating virtual disks Creating volumes

Provisioning SMB shares

Configuration options for SMB shares Types of SMB shares Creating general-purpose SMB shares Creating advanced SMB shares

Managing shared storage

Managing storage pools Managing virtual disks Managing volumes Managing shares

Lesson summary Lesson review

Lesson 3: Configuring iSCSI storage

Understanding iSCSI storage

Benefits and uses Concepts and terminology Management tools Deployment considerations

Configuring iSCSI Target Server

Enabling iSCSI Initiator Installing the iSCSI Target Server role Creating iSCSI virtual disks

Using iSCSI Initiator

Configuring iSCSI Initiator Discovering targets Establishing a connection Creating volumes

Lesson summary Lesson review

Practice exercises

Exercise 1: Provisioning and managing shared storage using Server Manager Exercise 2: Provisioning and managing shared storage using Windows PowerShell

Suggested practice exercises Answers

Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3

9. Print and Document Services

Before you begin Lesson 1: Deploying and managing print servers

Deploying print servers

Installing the Print Server role service Installing other role services Installing the Print And Document Services Tools feature

Managing printers using Print Management

Launching Print Management Managing print servers Managing printer drivers Managing printers Deploying printer connections Migrating print servers

Lesson summary Lesson review

Lesson 2: Managing print servers using Windows PowerShell

Viewing information about printers, printer drivers, and print jobs

Retrieve a list of printers installed on a print server Viewing information about pending print jobs Viewing information about printers Viewing information about printer drivers and ports

Managing printers, printer drivers, and print jobs

Removing a print job Installing a network printer

Lesson summary Lesson review

Practice exercises

Exercise 1: Managing print servers using Print Management Exercise 2: Managing print servers using Windows PowerShell

Suggested practice exercises Answers

Lesson 1 Lesson 2

10. Implementing Group Policy

Before you begin Lesson 1: Planning, implementing, and managing Group Policy

Planning for Group Policy

Understanding policies vs. preferences Group Policy and Active Directory design Configuring a central store Using Starter GPOs Refreshing Group Policy

Configuring security settings

User Rights Assignment Security Options User Account Control Audit Policy Advanced Audit Policy Configuration AppLocker Software Restriction Policies Configuring Windows Firewall with Advanced Security

Managing Group Policy

Viewing infrastructure status Creating GPOs Managing GPO links Configuring security filtering Configuring WMI filtering Backing up and restoring GPOs

Lesson summary Lesson review

Lesson 2: Managing Group Policy using Windows PowerShell

Creating and linking GPOs Remotely refreshing Group Policy Backing up and restoring GPOs Lesson summary Lesson review

Lesson 3: Implementing Group Policy preferences

Understanding preferences

Preference categories Configuring preferences Common options Using environment variables Item-level targeting Configuring a preference item Managing preference items

Windows Settings extensions Control Panel Settings extensions Lesson summary Lesson review

Practice exercises

Exercise 1: Designing and implementing Group Policy Exercise 2: Creating and managing GPOs using Windows PowerShell

Suggested practice exercises Answers

Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3

11. Configuring Windows Firewall and IPsec

Before you begin Lesson 1: Configuring Windows Firewall with Advanced Security

Understanding Windows Firewall with Advanced Security

Windows Filtering Platform Windows service hardening Network location awareness

Managing firewall profiles

Configuring profiles Configuring profile settings Configuring logging Configuring profiles using Windows PowerShell

Configuring firewall rules

Types of firewall rules Rules processing Rule groups Creating firewall rules Creating a program rule Creating a port rule Creating a predefined rule Creating a custom rule Creating firewall rules using Windows PowerShell Creating rules for refreshing Group Policy Viewing and managing rules Configuring rules using Group Policy

Lesson summary Lesson review

Lesson 2: Configuring IPsec

Understanding connection security

Encapsulation IPsec protocols Security associations Key-exchange algorithms Authentication methods Data-integrity algorithms Data-encryption algorithms

Configuring IPsec settings

Customizing IPsec defaults Customizing IPsec tunnel authorizations Configuring IPsec settings using Windows PowerShell

Configuring connection security rules

Types of connection security rules Creating an isolation rule Creating an authentication exemption rule Creating a server-to-server rule Creating a tunnel rule Creating a custom rule Creating connection security rules using Windows PowerShell Configuring authenticated bypass Monitoring IPsec

Lesson summary Lesson review

Practice exercises

Exercise 1: Configuring firewall rules Exercise 2: Implementing IPsec

Suggested practice exercises Answers

Lesson 1 Lesson 2

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