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1. WHAT IS WINDOWS 2000 SERVER 1

1.1 OVERVIEW 1

1.2 PROCESSOR SUPPORT 1

1.3 MEMORY SUPPORT 1

1.4 BENEFITS WHICH WINDOWS 2000 OFFERS 1

1.5 AN OUTLINE OF PROMINENT UTILITIES AND SERVICES OF WINDOWS 2000 SERVER 2

1.5.1 Active Directory 2

1.5.2 Active Directory Service Interfaces 2

1.5.3 Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) 2

1.5.4 Certificate Services 2

1.5.5 Component Services 3

1.5.6 Support for Disk Quotas 3

1.5.7 Dynamic DHCP with DNS and Active Directory 3

1.5.8 Encrypting File System (EFS) 3

1.5.9 Graphical Disk Management 3

1.5.10 Group Policy as Part of Active Directory 4

1.5.11 Indexing Service 4

1.5.12 IntelliMirror 4

1.5.13 Internet Authentication Service (IAS) 4

1.5.14 Internet Connection Sharing 5

1.5.15 Internet Information Services 5.0 5

1.5.16 Support for Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) 5

1.5.17 Kerberos V5 Protocol support 5

1.5.18 Layer 2 Tunnelling Protocol (L2TP) 5

1.5.19 Support for the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), 6

1.5.20 Message Queuing 6

1.5.21 Microsoft Management Console (MMC) 6

1.5.22 Network Address Translation (NAT) 6

1.5.23 Operating System Migration, Support, And Integration 6

1.5.24 Plug and Play 7

1.5.25 Public key infrastructure and smart card infrastructure 7

1.5.26 Windows Quality of Service (QoS), 7

1.5.27 Remote Installation Services 8

1.5.28 Removable Storage and Remote Storage 8

1.5.29 Routing and Remote Access Service 8

1.5.30 Safe Mode Start-up 8

1.5.31 TAPI 3.0 Support 9

1.5.32 Terminal Services 9

1.5.33 Virtual Private Networking 9

1.5.34 Windows Media Services 9

1.5.35 Windows Script Host 10

2. INSTALLING WINDOWS 2000 SERVER 12

2.1 PLANNING PHASE 12

2.1.1 Essential System Requirements 12

2.1.2 Selecting a File System 12

2.1.3 OTHER POINTS TO BE CONSIDERED DURING PLANNING PHASE BEFORE INSTALLATION 13

2.2 A CHECKLIST FOR PERFORMING A NEW INSTALLATION 13

2.3 STARTING INSTALLATION 14

2.3.1 Making Windows 2000 Boot Disks 15

2.3.2 Automated Installations 15

2.3.3 The System Preparation Tool (Sysprep.exe) 16

2.3.4 Remote Installation 16

2.4 HOW TO INSTALL WINDOWS 2000 SERVER 18

2.5 START UP OPTIONS 22

2.6 A CHECKLIST FOR PERFORMING AN UPGRADE 25

2.7 POST INSTALLATION CHECKS 26

2.7.1 Check Event Viewer 26

2.7.2 Set Event Viewer log size and wrap setting 26

2.7.3 Review services in Computer Management 27

2.7.4 Check server optimisation 27

2.7.5 Verify settings such as IP, DNS, WINS and default gateway settings 27

2.7.6 View the fully qualified computer name 27

2.7.7 Set the paging file size and placement 27

2.7.8 Perform backups and other preventative maintenance. 27

3. QUICK CONFIGURATION GUIDE FOR ADMINISTRATORS 29

3.1 CONFIGURING ACTIVE DIRECTORY 29

3.2 CONFIGURING FILE SERVER 30

3.3 CONFIGURING PRINT SERVER 30

3.4 CONFIGURING WEB & MEDIA SERVER 31

3.5 CONFIGURING NETWORKING 32

3.5.1 Configuring DHCP 33

3.5.2 Configuring DNS 33

3.5.3 Configuring Remote Access 34

3.5.4 Configuring Routing 34

3.6 CONFIGURING APPLICATION SERVER 35

3.7 CONFIGURING ADVANCED FEATURES OF WINDOWS 2000 SERVER 35

3.7.1 Configuring Message Queuing 35

3.7.2 Installing and Configuring Support Tools 36

3.7.3 Installing and Configuring Optional Components 36

4. AN INTRODUCTION TO WINDOWS 2000 SERVICES 37

4.1 ACCESSING SERVICES 37

4.2 SERVICE PROPERTIES 38

4.2.1 General Tab 39

4.2.2 Log On Tab 40

4.2.3 Recovery Tab 41

4.2.4 Dependencies Tab 42

4.3 A LIST OF COMMON SERVICES IN WINDOWS 2000 42

4.4 CONFIGURING SERVICES 44

4.5 STARTING AND STOPPING SERVICES 45

5. SHARING & PUBLISHING RESOURCES 47

5.1 SHARING RESOURCES 47

5.2 PUBLISHING RESOURCES 48

6. WINDOWS 2000 PRINTING 49

6.1 NEW FEATURES OF PRINTING IN WINDOWS 2000 49

6.1.1 Printing setup 49

6.1.2 Printing Administration 50

6.1.3 Internet Printing 50

6.1.4 Directory Services 50

6.1.5 Standard Port Monitor 50

6.1.6 Print Queue Monitoring 51

6.1.7 User Settings 51

6.1.8 Printing from an Application 51

6.2 INSTALLING PRINTERS 52

6.3 CONFIGURING YOUR PRINTERS WITH PRINTER PROPERTIES 58

6.3.1 General Properties 58

6.3.2 Sharing Properties 59

6.3.3 Ports Properties 60

6.3.4 Advanced Properties 61

6.3.5 Security Properties 62

6.3.6 Device Settings 63

6.4 DOCUMENT PROPERTIES 64

6.4.1 General Document Properties 65

6.4.2 Layout Document Properties 66

6.4.3 Paper/Quality Document Properties 66

7. DISK QUOTAS 69

7.1 DETERMINING THE STATUS OF DISK QUOTAS 70

7.2 ENFORCING DISK QUOTA LIMITS 70

8. DISK DEFRAGMENTER 76

8.1 FRAGMENTED FILES 76

8.2 DRAWBACK OF FRAGMENTATION 76

8.3 ROLE OF DISK DEFRAGMENTER 76

8.4 COLOUR CODE IN DISK DEFRAGMENTER PROGRAM 77

9. NTFS PERMISSIONS, FILE & FOLDER ATTRIBUTES 83

9.1 OVERVIEW 83

9.1.1 A comparison and statistics on NTFS, FAT, and FAT32 83

9.2 ADVANTAGES OF NTFS 84

9.3 NTFS FILE PERMISSSIONS 85

9.4 NTFS FOLDER PERMISSSIONS 85

9.5 COPY AND MOVE CONSIDERATIONS FOR NTFS FILE AND FOLDERS 86

9.6 ENCRYPTING FILE SYSTEM (EFS) 88

9.6.1 Encrypting files 89

9.6.2 Using CIPHER Utility 89

9.6.3 The syntax of the cipher command 90

9.7 DECRYPTING A FOLDER OR FILE 94

10. USER MANAGEMENT 97

10.1 OVERVIEW 97

10.2 ACTIVE DIRECTORY USER ACCOUNT OPTIONS 97

10.3 USER RIGHTS 99

10.3.1 Privileges 100

10.3.2 Logon Rights 101

10.4 CREATING A NEW USER 102

10.5 GROUPS 107

10.5.1 Converting Between Security And Distribution Groups 108

10.5.2 Built-in Groups 108

10.6 PREDEFINED GROUPS 109

10.6.1 Group Scope 110

10.6.2 Changing Group Scope 110

10.7 DOMAIN MODES 111

10.7.1 Mixed mode 111

10.7.2 Native Mode 111

10.8 HOW TO CREATE A GROUP 111

11. SCHEDULING TASKS 113

11.1 SCHEDULED TASKS 113

11.2 HOW TO SCHEDULE A TASK 114

12. CONNECTIVITY 119

12.1 DIAL UP CONNECTION 119

12.2 CONNECTING VIA A DIRECT CABLE 120

12.3 CONNECTING TO A VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK (VPN) 121

13. WINDOWS 2000 TERMINAL SERVICES 123

13.1 OVERVIEW 123

13.2 CLIENT SETUP FOR TERMINAL SERVER 125

13.2.1 Terminal Services Administrative Tools 130

13.2.2 Terminal Server Administration 130

13.2.3 Terminal Services Configuration 130

14. USING SECONDARY LOGON 139

14.1 OVERVIEW 139

14.2 ACTIVATING THE SECONDARY LOGON FEATURE 139

14.3 USING SECONDARY LOGON WITH A NORMAL USER ACCOUNT 140

14.4 RUNNING SECONDARY LOGON USING OTHER SECURITY CONTEXTS 143

14.4.1 Troubleshooting Secondary Logon 144

15. ADMINISTRATION WITH MICROSOFT MANAGEMENT CONSOLE (MMC) 147

15.1 GROUP POLICY AND MMC 147

15.2 HOW TO START MMC 148

15.3 SETTING GROUP POLICY IN MMC 148

16. WINDOWS 2000 SPECIAL ACCESSORIES 151

16.1 MAGNIFIER 151

16.1.1 Starting Magnifier 151

16.2 NARRATOR 152

16.2.1 Starting Narrator 152

16.2.2 Configuring Narrrator 153

16.3 ON-SCREEN KEYBOARD 153

16.3.1 Starting On-Screen Keyboard 154

16.3.2 Modes of On-Screen Keyboard 154

16.3.3 Features of On-Screen Keyboard 155

16.3.4 On-Screen Keyboard Limitation 155

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