1. 1.1 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Goals  Introduce the Windows Server 2003 family of operating systems  Explore the features of Windows Server 2003  Introduce Windows Server 2003 operating system architecture  Understand workgroups and domains  Introduce Windows Server 2003 network services  Understand Windows Server 2003 network protocols  Introduce Windows Server 2003 network security services

2. 1.2 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Introducing Workgroup and Domains  Windows Server 2003 operating system supports workgroups and domains, the two basic network model types that enable users to share common resources  A workgroup or peer-to-peer network is a logical group of computers that are interconnected, generally over a local area network (LAN)  A domain is a logical grouping of network computers that share a central directory database (Skill 4)

3. 1.3 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Introducing Workgroup and Domains (2)  Workgroup features  The administration of user accounts and resource security in a workgroup is decentralized  To gain access to resources on any computer in the workgroup, user must have an account on that computer  Workgroup limitations  A workgroup model is practical only in smaller environments where computers are in close proximity  Microsoft recommends that a workgroup consist of less than 10 computers (Skill 4)

4. 1.4 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Figure 1-9 Workgroup model (Skill 4)

5. 1.5 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Introducing Workgroup and Domains (3)  Domain features  Active Directory database  Stores information about how the network is structured and organized  Enables users to identify and locate resources on the network  Domain controller  Windows Server 2003 computer on which Active Directory resides  Manages security-related aspects of user/domain interactions (Skill 4)

6. 1.6 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Introducing Workgroup and Domains (4)  Domain advantages  Centralized security and administration means that a change to any object within the domain is available to the entire domain  Provide a single logon process for users to gain access to network resources, such as file, print, and application resources (Skill 4)

7. 1.7 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Figure 1-10 Domain model (Skill 4)

8. 1.8 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Introducing Network Services in Windows Server 2003  Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)  Domain Name System (DNS)  Windows Internet Name Service (WINS)  Virtual Private Networks (VPN)  Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS)  Internet Authentication Service (IAS) and Load Balancing  Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) (Skill 5)

9. 1.9 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Introducing Network Services in Windows Server 2003 (2)  Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)  Provides the standard used by DHCP servers on the network  DHCP servers manage the dynamic allocation of IP addresses and the related configuration details for DHCP-enabled clients on your network  Domain Name System (DNS)  Main name resolution service for Windows Server 2003  Enables access to computers on a TCP/IP network using the domain name (Skill 5)

10. 1.10 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Introducing Network Services in Windows Server 2003 (3)  Windows Internet Name Service (WINS)  Assigns or maps an IP address to a computer name so network users can find a computer on a TCP/IP network using the NetBIOS name  WINS server database provides a lookup directory  Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)  Provide connections to private networks, such as a LAN, through a non-secure communication channel like the Internet  Use tunneling and encryption to create a virtual tunnel for secure information exchange (Skill 5)

11. 1.11 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Introducing Network Services in Windows Server 2003 (4)  Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS)  Allows remote or mobile workers to connect to a firm’s networks so that they can work as if their computers were physically connected to the network  Workers connect to the LAN via modem or Virtual Private Network (VPN)  IAS RADIUS and Load Balancing  Internet Authentication Service (IAS) is Windows Server 2003’s Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) server component  Network Load Balancing (NLB) allows certain types of servers (mostly file/print servers and Web servers) to scale to a much larger size than would otherwise be possible (Skill 5)

12. 1.12 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Introducing Network Services in Windows Server 2003 (5)  IAS Enhancements  Centralize services for wireless users and logs information to a Microsoft SQL server  Allow advanced SQL queries  Provides new 801.1X authentication features and cross-forest authentication  Internet Connection Firewall (ICF)  Supplies basic protection on computers directly connected to the Internet or on LAN segments  Designed for use in a small business (Skill 5)

13. 1.13 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Figure 1-11 Networking services offered by Windows Server 2003 (Skill 5)

14. 1.14 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Figure 1-12 Routing and Remote Access (Skill 5)

15. 1.15 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Figure 1-13 Internet Authentication Service (Skill 5)

16. 1.16 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Introducing Network Protocols  Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)  Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)  Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (L2TP)  Hypertext Transmission Protocol (HTTP) (Skill 6)

17. 1.17 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Introducing Network Protocols (2)  Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)  Core protocol suite used by the Internet and Windows 2003 Server networks  Scalable and routable transport protocol suite used for both large and small networks  Enables you to route messages across networks and between computers using different operating systems and with widely varying structural designs (Skill 6)

18. 1.18 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Introducing Network Protocols (3)  Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)  Tunneling protocol used to create secure connections to corporate networks, over any intermediate network  Secure connections for VPNs are created using either PPTP or Layer Two Tunneling Protocol  Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (L2TP)  Another tunneling protocol used to create VPNs  Creates a “tunnel” but does not encrypt data  Use in conjunction with IPSec, which provides data encryption (Skill 6)

19. 1.19 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Introducing Network Protocols (4)  Hypertext Transmission Protocol (HTTP)  Part of the TCP/IP protocol suite  Standard protocol used in the transmission of data across the Internet (Skill 6)

20. 1.20 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Figure 1-14 Network protocols supported by Windows Server 2003 (Skill 6)

21. 1.21 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Introducing Network Security Services  Kerberos v.5  Hypertext Transmission Protocol (HTTP)  Internet Protocol Security (IPSec)  Encrypting File System (EFS)  Internet Protocol Security (IPSec)  Security configuration tools (Skill 7)

22. 1.22 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Introducing Network Security Services (2)  Kerberos v.5  A ticket-based authentication protocol  Provides high security for authentication traffic using digital signatures and mutual authentication mechanisms  Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and Microsoft Certificate Services  PKI is a system of digital certificates and trusted Certification Authorities (CAs) as well as other registration authorities that issue them  Verifies and authenticates the validity of each party in a communication exchange (Skill 7)

23. 1.23 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Introducing Network Security Services (3)  Internet Protocol Security (IPSec)  A vendor-independent encryption protocol  The ability to sign and/or encrypt any IP packet makes it vendor- and application-independent  Encrypting File System (EFS)  Encrypts data stored in files and folders to protect against unauthorized access  In the EFS encryption technique, important data is secured using an asymmetrical cryptographic key pair: a public key and a private key (Skill 7)

24. 1.24 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Introducing Network Security Services (4)  Internet Protocol Security (IPSec)  A vendor-independent encryption protocol  The ability to sign and/or encrypt any IP packet makes it vendor- and application-independent  Security configuration tools  Cost reduction tools provided by Windows Server 2003  Include the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) used to configure Windows Server 2003 security settings and conduct system analysis (Skill 7)

25. 1.25 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Figure 1-15 Security Services provided by Windows Server 2003 (Skill 7)

26. 1.26 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Figure 1-16 The SNMP Service Properties dialog box (Skill 7)

27. 1.27 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Figure 1-17 The Manage Your Server graphical user interface (Skill 7)