Proactive Directory Performance Management

Windows Server includes several tools that help identify potential issues with system resources. When systems are not configured properly and are not assigned appropriate resources such as CPU, RAM, or disk space, systems monitoring will help you identify where bottlenecks occur. Use the buttons below to navigate through the lesson When you identify these bottlenecks,…

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Protecting DCs as Virtual Machines

When a server is created as a VM instead of being installed on a physical computer, it becomes nothing more than a set of files on a disk because the disk drives for the computer are hosted in virtual hard drives. DCs running both AD DS and DNS are ideal candidates for virtualization on either…

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Proactive Directory Maintenance and Data Store Protection

AD DS is a distributed database that contains information about the users, the computers, the servers, the services, and more that run in your network, hence its categorization as a network operating system (NOS) as well as a lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) directory service. Because of this, administration activities can be shared amongst several…

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Recovering Data

In Windows Explorer right click the file or folder to be restored, and select Restore previous versions. Use the buttons below to navigate through the lesson Select the Version to be restored and click Restore. Click Restore. The previous version will then be restored Recovering Files or Volumes Select Windows Server Backup. Select Action. Then…

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Windows Server Backup

Windows Server Backup copies an entire disk volume to a .vhd file on a second local disk. After performing a backup, you can restore individual files or an entire volume. If Windows cannot start for example, if the system volume has failed, you can start the computer from the Windows installation media, restore the system…

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