Sebastopol : : O'Reilly Media, , 2009.

1 online resource (494 p.)

Description based upon print version of record.. - Table of Contents; Preface; Audience; Organization and Structure; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; We'd Like to Hear from You; Safari® Books Online; Acknowledgments; Introducing Windows Server 2008; The Biggest Changes; Server Core; IIS Improvements; Networking Improvements; TCP/IP Stack Enhancements; Changes to Terminal Services; Active Directory: Read-Only Domain Controllers; Security Improvements; Operating System File Protection; BitLocker; Device Installation Control; Windows Firewall with Advanced Security; Network Access Protection; Manageability Improvements. - Configuring and Performing Unattended Installations with ScriptsThe Last Word; File Services; File and Print Server Features; Setting Up File Sharing Services; Creating a Share Manually; Default Shares; Publishing Shares to Active Directory; NTFS File and Folder Permissions; Standard and Special Permissions; Setting Permissions; Inheritance and Ownership; Determining Effective Permissions; Access-Based Enumeration; Auditing; The File Server Resource Manager; Configuring the FSRM; Configuring Quotas with the FSRM; Screening for File Types; Defining a file group; Creating a file screen. - Creating an exception to a screenGenerating Storage Reports; Disk-Based Quotas; Setting Default Disk Quotas; Configuring Individual Quota Entries; Using Offline Files and Folders; Enabling Offline Files; Points to Remember; Using Previous Versions; Enabling Previous Versions; Altering the Previous Versions Schedule; The Distributed File System; Creating a namespace; Adding and managing folders and folder targets in a namespace; Creating a replication group for a folder; Command-Line Utilities; Using Shares; FSUTIL; Managing Offline Folders; VSSADMIN; The Last Word; Domain Name System. - Creating and Editing CNAME Records. - Nuts and BoltsZones Versus Domains; Zone Files; Forward and Reverse Lookup Zones; Resource Records; Host (A) Records; Canonical Name (CNAME) Records; Mail Exchanger (MX) Records; Nameserver (NS) Records; Start of Authority (SOA) Records; Pointer (PTR) Records; Service (SRV) Records; Using Primary and Secondary Nameservers; Full and Incremental Zone Transfers; Building a Nameserver; Enabling Incremental Transfers; Creating a Forward Lookup Zone; Entering A Records into a Zone; Controlling Round-Robin Balancing; Entering and Editing SOA Records; Creating and Editing NS Records. - Server ManagerWindows Deployment Services; Performance and Reliability Upgrades; Windows Server 2008 Editions; Hardware Requirements; The Last Word; Installation and Deployment; Installing Windows Server 2008; Initial Configuration Tasks; Understanding Product Activation; Deployment; Windows Imaging Format; Windows PE; Windows Deployment Services; Installing and Configuring Windows Deployment Services; The Boot Menu; Creating and Modifying Images; Creating and modifying boot images; Creating install images; Sysprep: the system preparation tool. - This practical guide has exactly what you need to work with Windows Server 2008. Inside, you'll find step-by-step procedures for using all of the major components, along with discussions on complex concepts such as Active Directory replication, DFS namespaces and replication, network access protection, the Server Core edition, Windows PowerShell, server clustering, and more. All of this with a more compact presentation and a tighter focus on tasks than you'll find in bulkier references. Windows Server 2008: The Definitive Guide takes a refreshing approach. You won't f

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