Training Guide: Administering Windows Server 2012

Designed to help enterprise administrators develop real-world, job-role-specific skills—this Training Guide focuses on deploying and managing Windows Server 2012. Build hands-on expertise through a series of lessons, exercises, and suggested practices—and help maximize your performance on the job.

This Microsoft Training Guide:

• Provides in-depth, hands-on training you take at your own pace
• Focuses on job-role-specific expertise for deploying and managing Windows Server 2012
• Creates a foundation of skills which, along with on-the-job experience, can be measured by Microsoft Certification exams such as 70-411

Sharpen your skills. Increase your expertise.

• Deploy and update Windows Server 2012
• Manage account policies and service accounts
• Configure name resolution
• Administer Active Directory
• Manage Group Policy application and infrastructure
• Work with Group Policy settings and preferences
• Administer network policies
• Configure the network to enable remote access
• Manage file services
• Monitor and audit Windows Server 2012

These tips from Orin Thomas, author of the “Training Guide: Administering Windows Server 2012” help you improve more quickly.

1. Learn how to do it in PowerShell.

2. Learn how to manage more than one server using a single console.

3. Use the new version of Server Core in production environments where possible.

4. Not only should you perform tasks in the real world, you should also be performing tasks in test labs to practice before you do it in the real world.

5. “Do or do not. There is no try.”

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Deploying and updating Windows Server 2012
Chapter 2. Managing account policies and service accounts
Chapter 3. Configuring name resolution
Chapter 4. Administering Active Directory
Chapter 5. Managing Group Policy application and infrastructure
Chapter 6. Group Policy settings and preferences
Chapter 7. Administering network policies
Chapter 8. Administering remote access
Chapter 9. Managing file services
Chapter 10. Monitoring and auditing Windows Server 2012

Appendix A. Setup instructions for exercises and labs
Appendix B. About the Author