Creating and Administering Organizational Units

To create a new OU, the Active Directory Users and Computers console is used. Click on Start. Select Administrative Tools. …and finally, Active Directory Users and Computers. Use the buttons below to navigate through the lesson Here the es-net.co.uk domain is displayed. To view the contents of the domain expand es-net.co.uk.  A domain has containers…

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Installing Active Directory 2003

Any machine running Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition or Datacenter Edition can host an Active Directory Database. A server hosting Active Directory is known as a Domain Controller. Use the buttons below to navigate through the lesson Active Directory can be installed in a number of ways, these are highlighted below. The Manage…

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Configuring Dfs Fault Tolerance in Windows Server

Although the Dfs Root is fault-tolerant, if any links inside the Dfs go down then they will be lost until the server is recovered. To create a fault-tolerant Dfs link, right-click on the Dfs root. Use the buttons below to navigate through the lesson Select New Link. Type a Link name and the location of…

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Dfs Replication in Windows Server

Using Domain-Based Dfs, the Dfs root structure can be stored on more than one server. The Dfs root folder will still be accessible if one of the servers goes down. The location of the Dfs root server is published in Active Directory and can be found easily by using its DNS name. Use the buttons…

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Dfs Links in Windows Server

Once the Dfs Root has been setup, links can be created to the various folders. Once created, all folders will appear to be located on one server. Use the buttons below to navigate through the lesson To add a new Dfs link, right-click on the Dfs Root. Select New Link. Specify the name for the…

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Configuring A Dfs Root in Windows Server

To create a Dfs Root, an existing share can be used or a new one can be created. To use the Es-Net share as a Dfs root, click on Start. Use the buttons below to navigate through the lesson Select Administrative Tools. Select Distributed File System. This is the Dfs management console. To create a…

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Introduction to Dfs

In most of today’s large networks there are many shared resources such as files and folders. The task of locating files and folders can be daunting especially on a large network with many different file servers. Use the buttons below to navigate through the lesson For example, if there was more than one file server…

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IPSec Policies Windows 2003

IPSec Security Policies are rules and filters that provide a specified level of security. You can create your own policies, but Windows provides three built-in ones: Client (Respond Only). The client will use IPSec if requested but won’t initiate an IPSec session. In other words it will only use IPSec when asked to by the…

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Installing and Configuring SUS Clients

If you are using Windows 2000 SP2 or Windows XP without SP1 then you will need to download the Automatic Updates Clients from Microsoft’s Website. Use the buttons below to navigate through the lesson SUS is configured using group policy. You can either configure a local computer using your local policy or more conveniently using…

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Installing and Configuring an SUS Server

Currently Microsoft does not distribute SUS with Windows Server 2003. A copy of SUS can be obtained from Microsoft’s Website. Use the buttons below to navigate through the lesson Run the installer to launch the SUS Setup Wizard. Click on Next to continue. Click I accept the terms in the License Agreement and click Next.…

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