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Welcome to article 8 in my 70-240 in 15 minutes a week series. This week’s article is the first in our look at the Windows 2000 Server portion of the exam – it covers an introduction to both Windows 2000 Server as well as Active Directory concepts… Upgrading to Windows 2000 You should be familiar […]

Terminal Services Windows 2000 Server includes terminal services for the purpose of remote administration of servers as well as the ability to provide centralized access to software and the Windows 2000 desktop. Not installed by default, terminal services provides an environment that is often referred to as ‘thin client’. In this environment (also provided by […]

Internet Information Services For the Windows 2000 Server exam you are required to be familiar with the essentials of IIS 5.0, which is installed by default on a new Windows 2000 Server installation, and upgrades systems with IIS 4.0. The two main features of IIS remain its functionality as both a web and ftp server, […]

As you may have noticed, for a website you are able to set basic permissions that will apply to all users who connect to the site. However, you should also note that all resources may also be protected by NTFS permissions, and this allows you a more granular level of control, if required. For example, […]

The Database Setting section maps out the requirements of the template, while the Computer Setting section shows my current configuration. The green checkmarks indicate that my system meets or exceeds the requirements, while the red circles with the X indicate that my system does not meet the requirement. If neither icon is shown, it simply […]

Of course, after user accounts have been created, a number of common management tasks may need to be performed. Note that while many of these involve setting up information relating to a particular user (phone numbers, addresses, etc), some have father-reaching implications in terms of security. Note that the most important account settings are found […]

Standard Installation Options Windows 2000 Professional still allows you to do plain-vanilla installations. That means we can install from the setup disks, CD-ROM, or off the network. Important stuff you should know: – There are now 4 setup disks instead of 3. These are no longer created using winnt32 /ox. The CD now includes a […]

Unattended Installations If you were a Windows NT pioneer, or handled deployment on systems with different hardware, you might remember that before we had the luxury of imaging all of our identical systems, we could take the time to create an unattended installation. After all, an installation was only a series of questions to be […]

There is still one last thing about RIS – how do we control who gets an image? Well, there are two main options. When you run Riprep.exe, you get to choose whether anyone can obtain an image or whether the RIS server should not respond to ‘unknown’ clients. An unknown client is any system whose […]

As far as compression is concerned, you still need to know what happens when you copy or move compressed files within and between volumes. The table below outlines what happens to the compression attribute on a file in the different scenarios. Remember, both copying and moving a file to a FAT or FAT32 volume results […]

Shared Folders I’m not going to bore you with a great deal of information about shared folders, because most of it remains the same as in NT 4.0. However, the important stuff you need to know: – Hidden administrative shares still exist, such as C$, D$, Admin$, and so forth. Only someone with administrator-level privileges […]

Having said this, how is it that the recovery agent is also able open the file? Well, the FEK is also separately encrypted by the public key of each recovery agent, and stored in different header fields in the encrypted file, called Data Recovery Fields (yes, if there is more than one recovery agent, there […]