1.1 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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

1.2 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Introducing the Windows Server 2003 Family of Operating Systems Windows Server 2003 products  Standard Edition: for small to medium-sized businesses  Enterprise Edition: for mission-critical server workloads  Datacenter Edition: for medium to large-sized organizations that require high levels of scalability and reliability  Web Edition: for dedicated Web serving and hosting; also a platform for building and hosting Web applications (Skill 1)

1.3 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Figure 1-1 The four main products in the Windows Server 2003 family (Skill 1)

1.4 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Exploring the Features of Windows Server 2003  Active Directory  Network security  Automatic installation and configuration  Familiar appearance and easy server management  Security from unauthorized logon  Network protocols  Connectivity  Multi-lingual capabilities  Web-based Enterprise Management (WBEM) (Skill 2)

1.5 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Exploring the Features of Windows Server 2003 (2)  Automatic detection of Plug and Play hardware devices  Volume Shadow Copy/Restore service  Command line management  Intelligent File Systems  Encrypting File System (EFS)  Distributed File System (Dfs)  File Replication Service (FRS)  Microsoft Management Console (MMC)  Group Policy and Group Policy Management Console (Skill 2)

1.6 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Figure 1-2 Windows Server 2003 features (Skill 2)

1.7 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Figure 1-3 File Server Management console (Skill 2)

1.8 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Figure 1-4 Scheduling a Volume Shadow Copy (Skill 2)

1.9 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Figure 1-5 The Group Policy Management console (Skill 2)

1.10 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Overview of Windows Server 2003 Operating System Architecture  Modular structure with each module contributing specific functionality  Basically the same for Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, and Web Editions  Two primary layers  User mode  Kernel mode (Skill 3)

1.11 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Overview of Windows Server 2003 Operating System Architecture (2) User mode layer  Consists of a set of components known as subsystems, responsible for relaying input/output requests to the appropriate kernel mode driver through the Input/Output (I/O) system services  Environmental subsystems provide APIs  Integral subsystems  Perform various functions such as the creation of security tokens and monitoring user rights and permissions  Run in user mode, but perform essential operating system functions (Skill 3)

1.12 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Overview of Windows Server 2003 Operating System Architecture (3) Kernel mode layer  Operates in a protected area of memory  Provides services to user mode subsystems, which functionally protects and isolates the hardware from the software (Skill 3)

1.13 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Figure 1-6 User mode and kernel mode layers (Skill 3)

1.14 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Overview of Windows Server 2003 Operating System Architecture (4)  Kernel mode layer components  Executive  Microkernel  Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)  Set of kernel mode drivers  Executive Services are responsible for performing I/O requests and object management (Skill 3)

1.15 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Overview of Windows Server 2003 Operating System Architecture (5)  Executive Services key components  I/O Manager  Security Reference Monitor  Interprocess Communication (IPC) Manager  Virtual Memory Manager (VMM)  Process Manager  Plug and Play (PnP) Manager  Power Manager  Window Manager and the Graphical Device Interface (GDI)  Object Manager (Skill 3)

1.16 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Overview of Windows Server 2003 Operating System Architecture (6)  Microkernel  Core of the operating system  Manages the computer’s processors  Handles scheduling, interrupts, exception dispatching, and CPU synchronization  Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)  Hides the hardware interface details from the end user by acting as an interface between the user and the hardware devices  Handles I/O interfaces, interrupt controls, and multiprocessor communication mechanisms (Skill 3)

1.17 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Overview of Windows Server 2003 Operating System Architecture (7)  Kernel mode drivers  Translate I/O requests into hardware functions  Are modular components each with a well-defined and specific set of functionality requirements  Three main classifications  Lowest-level drivers control peripheral devices  Intermediate drivers are device type-specific  Highest-level drivers are file system drivers (Skill 3)

1.18 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Figure 1-7 Components of Executive Services (Skill 3)

1.19 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Figure 1-8 Classifications of kernel mode drivers (Skill 3)

1.20 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

1.21 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

1.22 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Figure 1-9 Workgroup model (Skill 4)

1.23 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

1.24 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

1.25 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Figure 1-10 Domain model (Skill 4)

1.26 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

1.27 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

1.28 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

1.29 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

1.30 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

1.31 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

1.32 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Figure 1-12 Routing and Remote Access (Skill 5)

1.33 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Figure 1-13 Internet Authentication Service (Skill 5)

1.34 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

1.35 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

1.36 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

1.37 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

1.38 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

1.39 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

1.40 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

1.41 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

1.42 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

1.43 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

1.44 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)

1.45 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 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)