Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1: Introducing Windows Server and Installing Windows Server 2022

1

Getting Started with Windows Server

Technical requirements

Getting to know computer networks

What is a computer network?

The types of computer networks

Exploring computer network components

Clients and servers

Hosts and nodes

Investigating computer network architectures

P2P network architecture

Client/server network architecture

Getting to know IP addressing and subnetting

IPv4 network addresses

IPv6 network addresses

IPv4 subnetting

Exploring servers

Server hardware and software

Server sizes, form factors, and shapes

Understanding a NOS

Windows Server overview

Linux Server overview

macOS Server overview

Understanding Windows Server

The Windows Server timeline

Chapter exercise – downloading Windows Server 2022

Summary

Questions

Further reading

2

Introducing Windows Server 2022

Technical requirements

An overview of Windows Server 2022

Windows Server 2022 editions

Windows Server 2022 versus Windows Server 2019

The minimum and recommended system requirements

What’s new in Windows Server 2022?

Microsoft Edge Chromium

Azure hybrid center

Storage Migration Service

Storage Replica

Secured-core server

Azure Kubernetes Service

Containers

Windows Admin Center

Chapter exercise – downloading Windows Admin Center

Summary

Questions

Further reading

3

Installing Windows Server 2022

Technical requirements

Understanding the installation of Windows Server 2022

Getting to know the partition schemes

Getting to know the boot options

Accessing the advanced startup options

Various Windows Server 2022 installation methods

Choosing Desktop Experience, Server Core, or Nano Server installation

A clean installation

Installing over a network

Unattended installation

An in-place upgrade

Migrating network services

Trying Windows Server 2022 in Azure

Chapter exercise – setting up WDS

Installing WDS

Setting up WDS

Summary

Questions

Further reading

4

Post-Installation Tasks in Windows Server 2022

Technical requirements

Understanding devices and device drivers

Getting to know computer devices and device drivers

Working with devices and device drivers

Getting to know PnP, IRQ, DMA, and driver signing

Understanding the Windows Registry and its services

Windows Server Registry

Windows Server services

Working with Windows Registry and its services

Understanding Windows Server initial configuration

Using Server Manager in Desktop Experience

Using Server Configuration in Server Core

Chapter exercise – performing an initial Windows Server configuration

Performing Windows Server initial configuration using Server Manager

Performing Windows Server initial configuration using Server Configuration

Summary

Questions

Further reading

Part 2: Setting Up Windows Server 2022

5

Directory Services in Windows Server 2022

Technical requirements

Understanding the Active Directory infrastructure

DC

Domains

Tree domain

Forest

Child domain

Operations master roles

Comparing a domain with a workgroup

Trust relationship

Functional levels

Namespaces

Sites

Replication

Schema

Microsoft Passport

Understanding DNS

Adding the DNS role

The hosts and lmhosts files

Hostnames

DNS zones

WINS

UNC

Understanding OUs and containers

What are OUs?

Default containers

Hidden default containers

Uses of default containers

Delegating control to an OU

Understanding accounts and groups

Domain accounts

Local accounts

User profiles

Computer accounts

Group types

Default groups

Group scopes

Group nesting

Chapter exercise – installing the AD DS and DNS roles and promoting the server to a DC

Summary

Questions

Further reading

6

Adding Roles to Windows Server 2022

Technical requirements

Understanding server roles and features

Server roles

Role services

Server features

Server Manager

Understanding application servers

Email server

Database server

Collaboration server

Monitoring server

Data protection server

Understanding web services

IIS

WWW

FTP

Separate worker processes

Adding components to the IIS

Sites

Ports

SSL

Certificates

Understanding Remote Access

Remote Assistance

RSAT

RDS

RDS Licensing

RDG

VPN

App-V

Multiple ports

Understanding file and print services

File Services role

PDS role

Understanding user rights, NTFS permissions, and share permissions

Understanding file server auditing

Chapter exercise – installing the Web Server (IIS) and PDS roles

Installing the Web Server (IIS) role

Installing a PDS role

Summary

Questions

Further reading

Part 3: Configuring Windows Server 2022

7

Group Policy in Windows Server 2022

Technical requirements

Understanding GP

Managing GPOs

GPO configuration settings

Processing GPOs

Types of GP editors

Local Group Policy Editor

Updating local GPOs

GPO configuration settings

Chapter exercise – examples of GPOs for system administrators

Renaming the administrator account

Renaming the guest account

Blocking the Microsoft accounts

Prohibiting access to the Control Panel and PC settings

Denying access to all removable storage classes

Summary

Questions

Further reading

8

Virtualization with Windows Server 2022

Technical requirements

Understanding server virtualization

Virtualization modes

The Hyper-V architecture

Hyper-V’s installation requirements

Nested virtualization

Getting to know Hyper-V Manager

Configuration settings in Hyper-V

Creating and configuring VHDs

Managing a VM’s virtual memory

Setting up a virtual network

Understanding checkpoints

VHD and VHDX formats

P2V conversion

V2P conversion

Configuring VM settings

Managing VMs

Chapter exercise – installing Hyper-V on Windows Server 2022

Summary

Questions

Further reading

9

Storing Data in Windows Server 2022

Technical requirements

Understanding storage technologies

Exploring different storage types

Adapter and controller types

Serial bus technologies

Storage protocols

File-sharing protocols

The HBA and FC switches

The iSCSI hardware

S2D

Dedup

Storage tiering

Managing storage

Understanding RAID

Types of RAID

Hardware versus software RAID

SDS

Resiliency using S2D

High availability

Understanding disks

HDDs

SSDs

ODDs

Basic disk

Dynamic disk

Mount points

Filesystems

Mounting a VHD

DFS

Chapter exercise – enabling Dedup on Windows Server 2022

Summary

Questions

Further reading

Part 4: Keeping Windows Server 2022 Up and Running

10

Tuning and Maintaining Windows Server 2022

Technical requirements

Understanding server hardware components

Processor

Memory

Disk

Network interface

32-bit and 64-bit architectures

Removable drives

Graphics cards

Cooling

Power supply

Physical ports

Understanding performance monitoring

Performance monitoring methodology

Performance monitoring procedures

Server baselines

Performance Monitor

Resource Monitor

Task Manager

Performance counters

Understanding logs and alerts

Chapter exercise – working with the Performance Logs & Alerts service

Starting the Performance Logs & Alerts service

Accessing the Performance Monitor logs folder

Creating performance data logs

Setting up performance counter alerts

Summary

Questions

Further reading

11

Updating and Troubleshooting Windows Server 2022

Technical requirements

Understanding updates

Understanding Windows Update

Updating Microsoft programs

Updating third-party programs

Updating the device drivers

Getting to know WSUS

Understanding the troubleshooting methodology

Best practices, guidelines, and procedures

Troubleshooting process

The systematic versus the specific approach

Troubleshooting procedures

ITIL

Event Viewer

Understanding the startup process

BIOS

UEFI

TPM

POST

MBR

BCD

Bootloader

Boot sector

Boot menu

Safe Mode

Understanding business continuity

DRP

Data redundancy

Clustering

Folder redirection

Backup and restore

Active Directory (AD) restore

Power redundancy

Chapter exercise – using Event Viewer to monitor and manage logs

Setting up centralized monitoring

Filtering Event Viewer logs

Changing the default logs location

Summary

Questions

Further reading

Part 5: Studying and Preparing for Microsoft Certification Exams

12

Preparing for Microsoft Certifications

What is Microsoft Certification?

What is Microsoft role-based certification?

Who should take a Microsoft Certification exam?

Which skills are measured by Microsoft Certification exams?

Deploy and manage Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) in on-premises and cloud environments (30–35%)

Manage Windows Servers and workloads in a hybrid environment (10–15%)

Manage virtual machines and containers (15–20%)

Implement and manage an on-premises and hybrid networking infrastructure (15–20%)

Manage storage and file services (15–20%)

What should you expect in a Microsoft Certification exam?

How should you prepare for a Microsoft Certification exam?

How do you register for a Microsoft Certification exam?

On the day of the Microsoft Certification exam

New Microsoft Certification validity period and renewal format

Summary

Further reading

Assessments

Index

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