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Event Review: Overview of Storage Management in Windows Server 2003 (Session TNT1-138)

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Session Outline

The integrated storage services in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 have undergone enhancements and expansion to include a number of new features. These features help businesses control storage management costs and increase availability of data. This session covers Windows Server 2003 storage features such as the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and the Virtual Disk Service (VDS), which make it easier to manage and maintain disks, helping lower total cost of ownership (TCO) especially in complex multivendor storage environments. Point-in-time imaging capability through VSS simplifies and speeds up both backups and restores, and the Shadow Copies of Shared Folders feature of VSS enables users to restore their own files and folders without IT intervention. This session also covers improvements in other storage-related areas of Windows Server 2003, such as Encrypting File System (EFS), and Distributed File System (DFS).

Session Agenda

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Microsoft Press Books

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Administrator's Companion

    Summary: This comprehensive administrator's reference describes operating system features and capabilities and provides easy-to-follow procedures, practical workarounds, and key troubleshooting tactics for on-the-job results with the Windows Server 2003 family.

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Administrator's Pocket Consultant

    Summary: Don't get caught at work without this handy guide to Windows Server 2003. It puts all the answers to questions about system administration at your fingertips.

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit

    Summary: Get the essential reference for managing and optimizing Windows Server 2003 with expert insights and best practices from those who know the technology best-Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs), field consultants, and the Microsoft Windows Server team. Featuring six volumes of in-depth technical information along with 200+ timesaving tools and scripts, this official Microsoft Resource Kit helps Windows administrators optimize performance, implement security services, manage users and computers with Group Policy, master the Registry, troubleshoot Windows servers, and automate administration.

Third-Party Books

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Unleashed, 2nd Edition

    Summary: Get a fresh perspective on planning, designing, implementing, and migrating to a Windows Server 2003 environment. The authors rely on their experience from several large client implementations to compile best practices, installation and migration tips and tricks, performance optimization techniques, configuration tuning, and server management techniques.

  • The Ultimate Windows Server 2003 System Administrator's Guide

    Summary: Windows Server 2003, the successor to Windows 2000 and Windows NT, accommodates the seamless exchange of information through Web services. It delivers the increased flexibility and power needed to administer networks as global entities, but its enhanced management tools and security features present as many challenges as opportunities. This book helps readers negotiate these challenges while taking advantage of the opportunities.

  • Inside Windows Server 2003

    Summary: This book contains comprehensive information on deploying, managing, and troubleshooting systems using both Windows Server 2003 and its predecessor. Each chapter contains a lively feature description followed by extensively illustrated procedures for setting up and managing each service.

  • Inside Active Directory: A System Administrator's Guide

    Summary: This book helps provide a solid understanding of Active Directory fundamentals. It demonstrates how Active Directory can store and access data and how it uses industry standards such as LDAP. Numerous diagrams and tables explain the sometimes complex technologies involved in migrating to Windows 2000 from Windows NT or other platforms.

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