Windows server 2012 - installing active directory domain server

The document discusses upgrading hardware and software for improved performance, security, productivity and reduced costs. It provides examples of upgrading RAM, hard drives, processors and BIOS for various desktop PCs, all-in-ones, and a server at Smith's firm. It also discusses upgrading operating systems, databases, antivirus software, office software, and other programs through updates and paid upgrades. The goals are to keep systems running optimally with new technologies and address compatibility issues with newer hardware.

This document provides an overview of Windows 2003 Active Directory. It discusses what Active Directory is, how to build and use its features, the objects it contains, and how to audit Active Directory. It also describes Active Directory's hierarchical structure of domains, trees, forests and trust relationships. The document outlines how to install Active Directory and use tools like DCPROMO. It explains how Active Directory integrates with DNS and is based on directory protocols like LDAP.

Windows Server 2016 can be installed in several ways depending on the intended use and hardware. It is available in multiple editions with different licensing options. Planning involves determining hardware requirements, choosing an edition, and deciding between a desktop, server core, or nano server installation type. Key steps involve installing Windows Server 2016, configuring roles and features, and managing the installation remotely via PowerShell or other methods.

A quick assortment of useful Group Policy concepts starting with a quick review of what Group Policies are, how they work, what they can do (in general). Sections on the following concepts are included: * Software Restriction Policies * Group Policy Preferences * Loopback Preferences * Backing up your GPO's with PowerShell I only had about 45 minutes to go through this, so the topics are glanced over, but it gives the viewer a decent idea of the various aspects of Group Policy.

User objects can represent employees, customers, or students. Groups are collections of users that permissions or rights can be applied to collectively rather than individually. There are two types of user accounts: local accounts stored on individual computers and domain accounts stored centrally in Active Directory. Domain accounts are replicated across domain controllers for shared management.

Overview of the Domain Name System (DNS). In the early days of the Internet, hosts had a fixed IP address. Reaching a host required to know its numeric IP address. With the growing number of hosts this scheme became quickly awkward and difficult to use. DNS was introduced to give hosts human readable names that would be translated into a numeric IP addresses on the fly when a requesting host tried to reach another host. To facilitate a distributed administration of the domain names, a hierarchic scheme was introduced where responsibility to manage domain names is delegated to organizations which can further delegate management of sub-domains. Due to its importance in the operation of the Internet, domain name servers are usually operated redundantly. The databases of both servers are periodically synchronized.

The document discusses the Domain Name System (DNS), explaining that it is a globally distributed database that translates human-friendly website addresses into computer-friendly IP addresses and vice versa. DNS uses a hierarchical system to organize domain names and resolve queries through recursive or iterative processes, with DNS messages containing header, question, answer, and additional record sections to facilitate name-address mapping.

This document outlines the steps to configure a server and client computer on a network. It describes installing roles like Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, file services, and remote desktop on the server. It also covers configuring the client to join the domain, enable folder redirection via group policy, map a network drive, and test the connection between server and client using ping and remote desktop. The overall goal is to set up a basic client-server network environment.

This document summarizes a presentation about Windows Server 2012 R2. It begins with an agenda that includes trends, challenges, capabilities, and momentum. It then discusses customer challenges around scalability, manageability, applications, and access. Next it outlines capabilities in virtualization, storage, networking, management, web/apps, access/security, and VDI. Examples of customer deployments and testimonials are provided. It concludes by recommending further resources on Windows Server and cloud optimization.

El DNS es un sistema jerárquico que traduce nombres de dominio legibles para humanos a direcciones IP, permitiendo la localización de recursos en Internet. Consiste en clientes DNS, servidores DNS y zonas de autoridad que almacenan información sobre dominios. Los servidores DNS resuelven consultas de nombres recurriendo primero a su caché o realizando búsquedas recursivas hasta encontrar la respuesta.

This document provides instructions for creating a starter Group Policy Object (GPO) in 7 steps: 1) Open the Group Policy Management tool; 2) Expand the forest and domain; 3) Right click to create a new GPO or folder; 4) Name the new GPO; 5) Edit the GPO assignment; 6) Configure user configuration settings like the desktop; 7) Enable settings and apply the policy. It also describes how to back up an existing GPO and restore it from the backup.

The Domain Name System (DNS) was invented in 1983 to translate between hostnames that are easy for humans to remember and IP addresses that computers use, through a hierarchical system where each part of a domain name separates levels of delegation down to individual host machines, with top-level domains and country domains at the top level managed by centralized authoritative name servers. DNS uses a distributed database across multiple name servers that can query each other to lookup and cache hostname to IP mappings, using both UDP and TCP protocols to handle queries and full database replication respectively.