Microsoft Windows Server 2003

by William R. Stanek, William Stanek

Overview

Portable and precise, this pocket-sized guide delivers immediate answers for the day-to-day administration of Windows Server 2003. Zero in on core support and maintenance tasks using quick-reference tables, instructions, and lists. You’ll get the focused, straightforward information you need to solve problems and get the job done-whether you’re at your desk or in the field!

Get fast facts to:

• Manage and troubleshoot servers and workstations
• Administer Active Directory and manage computers, domain controllers, and organizational units
• Create user accounts and group accounts—and control rights and permissions
• Manage file systems, directories, drives, volume sets, and RAID
• Combat malware and use file screening to block unauthorized content
• Install, configure, and test TCP/IP networking
• Set up and optimize DHCP, WINS, and DNS
• Manage shadow copies, revert volumes, and help improve disk quota management
• Troubleshoot local printers and network print servers
• Monitor network activity and tune network performance

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780735622456
Publisher:	Microsoft Press
Publication date:	03/22/2006
Series:	Administrator's Companion Series
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	594
Product dimensions:	5.58(w) x 8.74(h) x 1.47(d)

About the Author

William R. Stanek is a Microsoft MVP with 20+ years of experience in systems management and advanced programming. He is an award-winning author who’s written more than 100 books, including Windows Server 2012 Pocket Consultant and Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Pocket Consultant.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Overview of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 System Administration

Chapter 2: Managing Servers Running Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Chapter 3: Monitoring Processes, Services, and Events

Chapter 4: Automating Administrative Tasks, Policies, and Procedures

Chapter 5: Working with Support Services and Remote Desktop

Chapter 6: Using Active Directory

Chapter 7: Core Active Directory Administration

Chapter 8: Understanding User and Group Accounts

Chapter 9: Creating User and Group Accounts

Chapter 10: Managing Existing User and Group Accounts

Chapter 11: Managing File Systems and Drives

Chapter 12: Administering Volume Sets and RAID Arrays

Chapter 13: Managing Files and Folders

Chapter 14: Data Sharing, Security, and Auditing

Chapter 15: Data Backup and Recovery

Chapter 16: Managing TCP/IP Networking

Chapter 17: Administering Network Printers and Print Services

Chapter 18: Running DHCP Clients and Servers

Chapter 19: Maintaining WINS

Chapter 20: Optimizing DNS

Appendix : About the Author

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
If you were to distill Windows Server 2003 into 500 pages of specific, trustworthy, fast-access answers for system administrators, you’d wind up with something like Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant.

William Stanek begins with a high-level look at Microsoft’s tools for managing Windows Server 2003 plus detailed coverage of monitoring processes, services, and events and a full chapter on support techniques -- including Remote Desktop. He also presents a solid overview of the many ways in which you can automate Windows Server administration, including group policies, scripting, security templates, and the Scheduled Task Wizard.

Next, he tackles Active Directory administration, focusing on the tasks you’re most likely to be involved with: creating, managing, and resetting accounts; managing organizational units; setting privileges and logon rights; working with groups; managing user profiles; and more.

There’s a full section on administering data: managing hard drives, working with basic and dynamic disks, administering volume sets and RAID arrays, controlling shares and permissions, auditing, quotas, and more. Stanek covers backup/recovery in detail -- for example, showing you how to avoid the pitfalls associated with recovering encrypted data. The book’s final section demystifies networking: not only TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, and WINS but printer troubleshooting, remote access security, and other essential topics.

Unless you're a kangaroo, this book won’t quite fit in your pocket. But it is small enough to take anywhere you’re working. And it’s useful enough that you'll want to. Bill Camarda

Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.

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