Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Unleashed

by Miller, Chris; Brown, Todd; Powell, Keith; Daley, Ted

ISBN13: 9780672317392

ISBN10: 0672317397

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Pub. Date: 2000-01-01

Publisher(s): Sams

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Summary

Windows 2000 Server Unleashed is a hardcore reference for the networking professional who needs answers fast. Windows 2000 Server Unleashed shows you how your existing knowledge of Windows NT Server carries over to Windows 2000. Then learn how to better manage your corporate infrastructure, at the same time reducing the enormous expense of maintaining constant service to network users. Topics Include Windows 2000 storage management, Windows 2000 management services, Windows 2000 security services, managing the Active Directory, remote administration tools, interoperability with NetWare and Unix, and managing network security in Windows 2000.

Author Biography

Todd Brown, MCSE, is a senior consultant for Bell Industries. Chris Miller, MCSD, is the database administrator and systems engineer for the Internet services company GeoAccess. He was formerly a network administrator and project leader for a major telecommunications company.

Introduction	p. 1
Overview	p. 3
Windows 2000 Introduction	p. 5
A Network Operating System	p. 6
The Product Family	p. 9
Windows 2000 Operating System Environment	p. 19
Architecture	p. 21
The Subsystem and Kernel Architecture	p. 22
User Mode and Kernel Mode	p. 23
The Hardware Abstraction Layer	p. 24
The Kernel	p. 25
The Windows 2000 Executive	p. 26
Subsystems: A Closer Look	p. 28
The Win32 Subsystem	p. 30
The POSIX Subsystem	p. 32
The OS/2 Subsystem	p. 33
Memory Model and Management	p. 34
Installation Considerations	p. 39
System Requirements	p. 40
Hardware Compatibility List	p. 41
Installation Overview	p. 42
The Installation Process	p. 45
Automated Installation	p. 61
Installing the Recovery Console	p. 62
The BOOT. INI File	p. 65
The Emergency Repair Disk	p. 66
Migration from Preexisting Systems	p. 66
Advanced Hardware Notes	p. 67
Interrupts	p. 67
EIDE Devices	p. 68
Windows Update	p. 68
Busses and Devices	p. 69
Summary	p. 69
File Systems	p. 71
Hardware Considerations	p. 72
Hard Disk Technology	p. 73
Hard Disk Controllers	p. 75
Principles of SCSI	p. 77
Advanced Controller Technology	p. 78
Hard Disk Partitions	p. 81
System Startup	p. 81
Basic Disks	p. 83
Dynamic Disks	p. 84
Basic and Dynamic Disks	p. 84
Using the Disk Management Application	p. 86
Starting Disk Management	p. 87
Disk Properties	p. 87
Volume or Partition Properties	p. 88
Partition and Volume Management	p. 93
Working with Dynamic Disks	p. 96
Setting Up Disk Quotas	p. 96
File System Formats	p. 99
The FAT File System	p. 100
NTFS	p. 101
Working with Formats	p. 109
Recommendations	p. 110
Working with Volumes	p. 111
Working with Simple Volumes	p. 111
Spanned Volumes	p. 112
Mirrored Volumes	p. 112
Striped Volumes	p. 114
RAID-5 Volumes	p. 115
A Few Notes on Windows 2000 Volumes	p. 115
Working with Network Shares	p. 116
Sharing Directories	p. 116
Connecting to Shared Directories	p. 120
DFS: The Distributed File System	p. 121
DFS Concepts	p. 122
Setting Up DFS	p. 122
Using DFS	p. 123
Remote Storage Server	p. 123
Remote Storage Concepts	p. 124
Setting Up Remote Storage	p. 124
Removable Storage Management	p. 124
Summary	p. 126
Networking Brief	p. 127
Microsoft Networking Concepts	p. 128
Workgroups and Domains	p. 128
Active Directory	p. 138
Network Services Setup	p. 140
Networks (Your LAN or WAN) Versus Networks (Segmentation)	p. 140
Switched Segmentation (Collision Domain Segments)	p. 142
Routed Segmentation	p. 144
RRAS	p. 145
Remote Dial-In	p. 145
Multiprotocol Routing	p. 146
Summary	p. 147
Printing	p. 149
Printing Concepts	p. 150
Printers	p. 150
Fonts	p. 152
Print Drivers	p. 152
Communicating with Printers	p. 153
The Life of a Print Job	p. 155
Creating Print Queues	p. 155
Using Print Manager	p. 159
Managing Print Queues	p. 164
The Forms Tab	p. 164
The Ports Tab	p. 165
The Drivers Tab	p. 166
The Advanced Tab	p. 167
Troubleshooting	p. 168
Diagnosing Client-to-Server Printing Communications Problems	p. 168
Diagnosing Print Quality Problems	p. 176
Know Your Printer's Limitations	p. 176
Know Your Printer's Specifications	p. 176
Know Your Driver Versions	p. 177
Matching everything Up	p. 177
Summary	p. 178
The Registry	p. 179
What Is the Registry?	p. 180
The Structure of the Registry	p. 181
The Classes Hive	p. 181
The Users Hive	p. 182
The Local Machine Hive	p. 183
The Current Configuration Hive	p. 185
How the Registry Is Used by Applications	p. 185
Using the Registry Editor	p. 187
When to Use Registry Editing Tools	p. 187
How to Use REGEDIT	p. 188
Finding Registry Changes Using REGEDIT	p. 191
How to Use REGEDT32	p. 191
Using the Last Known Good Configuration	p. 193
Summary	p. 193
TCP/IP Networking	p. 195
TCP/IP Concepts Brief	p. 196
IP Addressing	p. 196
Microsoft TCP/IP	p. 205
Introduction to Microsoft TCP/IP	p. 205
Installing	p. 205
Routing	p. 207
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)	p. 208
Windows Internet Name Service	p. 217
Dynamic Domain Name Server (DDNS)	p. 220
Migrating from WINS to DNS	p. 226
Multiple Address Assignment for One Card	p. 226
IP Security	p. 227
Summary	p. 227
Active Directory and Account Management	p. 229
Directory and Access Concepts Brief	p. 231
Security Concept	p. 232
Kerberos	p. 232
NTLM	p. 237
ACL	p. 239
Active Directory Control	p. 239
Workgroups and Domains	p. 239
Active Directory/Domain Objects	p. 251
Which Comes First: The Users or the Groups?	p. 252
Creating Objects	p. 253
Controlling User Access to Resources	p. 257
File Share Permissions	p. 257
Printer Permissions	p. 260
Summary	p. 261
Active Directory Design	p. 263
Sites and Replication	p. 264
Sites	p. 265
Replication	p. 266
Site Creation	p. 267
Design Standards	p. 269
Political	p. 270
Geographic	p. 271
Mixed Environment	p. 272
Organizational Units	p. 272
Dynamic DNS	p. 273
How Dynamic Update Works	p. 274
Secure Dynamic Update	p. 276
Summary	p. 276
User Account Creation and Management	p. 277
User Accounts	p. 278
Predefined or Built-in Users	p. 278
Naming and Password Conventions	p. 280
User Creation	p. 282
User Environment Needs	p. 287
Hard Drive Space	p. 298
Groups	p. 300
Group Scope	p. 300
Creating a New Group	p. 302
Predefined (Default) Groups	p. 302
Summary	p. 304
Intellimirror and User Control	p. 305
Nuts and Bolts of Intellimirror	p. 306
Control Concepts	p. 307
Profiles	p. 308
Policies: A General Introduction	p. 311
Managing Group Policies	p. 315
Creating and Assigning	p. 315
Policy Modification	p. 319
Group Policy Administrators	p. 319
Windows Installer	p. 320
WinInstaller	p. 321
Delivery of the Package	p. 324
Remote Installation Services	p. 325
Summary	p. 327
Network Services	p. 329
Network Browsing	p. 331
Understanding Network Browsing Concepts	p. 332
Browser Server Roles	p. 334
Browser Election Criteria	p. 336
Election Process	p. 337
Browsing Operations	p. 340
Browser Announcements	p. 342
Master Browser	p. 343
Browse List	p. 344
Multiple Domain and WAN Considerations	p. 344
Browsing Failures	p. 349
Configuring a Windows 2000 Server to Never Be a Browser	p. 350
Active Directory-Based Browsing Considerations	p. 352
Summary	p. 354
Remote Access (RAS)	p. 355
Understanding the RRAS Service	p. 356
Protocol Support	p. 357
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)	p. 357
AppleTalk	p. 358
NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS Compatible Transport	p. 358
NetBIOS Extended User Interface (NetBEUI)	p. 359
Remote Access Security	p. 359
Installing the RRAS Tools	p. 361
Remote Access Server Configurations	p. 362
Advanced Remote Access Server Configurations	p. 369
Routing Configurations	p. 389
Protocol Support	p. 399
Modem Considerations	p. 400
WAN Support	p. 400
Authentication	p. 401
Troubleshooting RAS	p. 402
Summary	p. 403
Multiprotocol Environments	p. 405
Supported Protocols in Windows 2000	p. 406
Installing New Protocol	p. 406
Load Them All!	p. 408
Connection Style	p. 409
TCP/IP	p. 409
IPX/SPX	p. 411
AppleTalk	p. 414
NetBEUI	p. 416
Routing and Remote Access Services	p. 417
PPP	p. 418
RIP	p. 418
Troubleshooting	p. 419
Summary	p. 420
Client Workstation Considerations	p. 421
Client Services Brief	p. 422
Specific Client Operating System Considerations	p. 429
Novell NetWare Clients	p. 430
DOS, OS/2, Windows 3.x and Windows for Workgroups	p. 436
Macintosh	p. 440
UNIX Connectivity	p. 444
Summary	p. 447
Connectivity	p. 449
NetWare Connectivity	p. 451
Conceptual Differences	p. 452
Security	p. 452
Active Directory Versus NetWare Directory Services	p. 453
File Shares	p. 455
Printing	p. 456
Connectivity to NetWare	p. 457
Gateway Service for NetWare	p. 458
File and Print Services for NetWare	p. 463
Directory Service Migration Tool	p. 463
NDS for NT (by Novell)	p. 469
Summary	p. 470
UNIX Host to Windows 2000 Server Connectivity	p. 471
Conceptual Differences Between Windows 2000 Server and UNIX-Style Operating Systems	p. 472
User Accounts	p. 472
Security	p. 473
Directory Services	p. 474
Different Flavors of UNIX	p. 475
Simple TCP/IP Tools	p. 476
Telnet	p. 477
FTP	p. 479
The Lesser-Known Utilities	p. 482
Application Connectivity	p. 484
XWindows and Windows 2000	p. 484
Connecting to NFS	p. 485
About Samba	p. 486
Printing in a UNIX World	p. 487
The Future: Microsoft and UNIX	p. 488
Summary	p. 488
SNA Connectivity with BackOffice	p. 489
Host Computing Brief	p. 490
SNA Server Concepts	p. 491
Manageable Secure Connectivity	p. 493
Routing and Distributing Connections	p. 493
SNA Connectivity Options	p. 495
LU Configuration	p. 496
Summary	p. 497
Internet Applications, Communications, and Tools	p. 499
Internet Information Server (IIS)	p. 501
Internet Information Server Concepts	p. 502
Before You Begin with IIS	p. 503
System Requirements	p. 503
Internet Connectivity	p. 505
Installing IIS	p. 507
Administering and Configuring IIS	p. 511
Common IIS Controls	p. 511
Administering the FTP Site	p. 534
Advanced Web Site Administration	p. 535
Administering the Gopher Site	p. 538
Administering the Telnet Service	p. 539
Advanced Security Concepts	p. 539
Summary	p. 547
Other Internet Services for Windows 2000	p. 549
Access Security and Speed with Proxy Server	p. 550
Acquisition and Caching	p. 550
Access Control	p. 551
Network Security: Firewall	p. 553
Logging of Traffic	p. 554
Exchange Email Server	p. 556
Robust General Email	p. 556
Public Folders	p. 557
Directory Structure	p. 559
Internet Access and Reception	p. 559
FrontPage	p. 564
Creating Web Sites, Not Just Web Pages	p. 565
Server Extensions	p. 567
Summary	p. 567
Virtual Private Networks	p. 569
Making the Internet Your Own WAN	p. 570
What Is a Virtual Private Network?	p. 571
Security and Encryption	p. 572
Tunnel Servers	p. 573
VPN Tunnel Servers and Firewalls	p. 574
Filtering Traffic with a Tunnel Server	p. 575
Microsoft Windows 2000 VPN	p. 576
IPSec	p. 577
Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol	p. 577
Synchronous and Asynchronous Keys	p. 578
L2TP and IPSec	p. 579
Setting Up a Basic VPN in Windows 2000	p. 579
Setting Up a Tunnel Server VPN with Windows 2000	p. 582
RRAS Enhancements	p. 585
Summary	p. 586
Server Administration	p. 587
Server Management	p. 589
Microsoft Management Console (MMC)	p. 590
Server Management Utilities	p. 593
Event Viewer	p. 594
System Information	p. 599
Device Manager	p. 600
SNMP	p. 603
Summary	p. 604
Optimizing Performance and Tuning	p. 605
Windows 2000 Support Tools	p. 606
Automatic Optimization	p. 611
Avoiding Fragmentation	p. 611
Multiprocessing	p. 615
Prioritizing Processes and Threads	p. 616
Caching Disk Requests	p. 629
Stripe Sets and Virtual Memory Pagefiles	p. 630
Striped Volumes	p. 630
Optimizing Virtual Memory Pages	p. 636
Performance-Monitoring Utility	p. 641
Objects and Object Counters	p. 644
Creating a Chart	p. 649
Interpreting Charts	p. 652
Reports and Logs	p. 655
Summary	p. 667
Server Backup Utilities	p. 669
Windows 2000 Backup Utility	p. 670
Windows 2000 Server Backup Operator Permissions	p. 672
Backing Up Windows 2000	p. 673
Attended Operations	p. 690
Unattended Operations	p. 691
Command-Line Backup	p. 693
Restoring a Backup	p. 694
Authoritative Restore	p. 701
Restoring Encrypted Files	p. 702
Supported Backup Drive Devices	p. 703
Recovery Console	p. 703
Emergency Repair Disk	p. 704
Third-Party Backup Tools	p. 705
Summary	p. 705
Recovering from a Disaster	p. 707
Have a Plan, Work the Plan	p. 708
Documentation and Events	p. 709
Disaster Staff	p. 710
Physical Considerations	p. 710
Data Recovery	p. 712
Backup Operations	p. 712
Time-tested Backup Plans	p. 715
Hardware Fail-Over Options	p. 718
Hardware-Controlled RAID	p. 719
Clustered Servers	p. 719
Disaster-Recovery Planning Software and Sites	p. 722
Binomial's Phoenix 3.0	p. 722
CDI Vaults Company	p. 723
Business Protections Services' Business Protector for Windows	p. 723
Summary	p. 724
Appendixes	p. 725
Troubleshooting/Error List	p. 727
Service Packs	p. 728
STOP Errors	p. 728
Steps for Kernel Mode STOP Screens	p. 728
STOP Error Solutions	p. 731
Summary	p. 739
IP Address Decimal to Binary Table	p. 741
Subnet Mask Answer Sheet	p. 750
Index	p. 755
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