Event Review: How to accomplish familiar Windows NT 4.0 tasks in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Session TNT1-144)

Session Outline

This session looks at how to accomplish everyday Windows NT Server 4.0 administrative tasks in a Windows Server 2003 environment. The session covers standard administrative tasks such as adding users, changing passwords, and administering file/print shares. It also covers where to find your favorite tools and how these tools differ in Windows Server 2003. The session looks at how to use the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and how to add and remove Windows components using the Windows Components Wizard. Also covered is how to configure the server using the Configure Your Server Wizard, the differences in Group Policy management, and using the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) to create and apply a Group Policy.

Session Agenda

• How to Configure Permissions Using Windows Server 2003
  
• Installing and Using IIS 6.0
  
• Using Active Directory
  
• How to Configure Your Server Using the Configure Your Server Wizard
  
• How to Create and apply a Group Policy Using GPMC
  
• How to Use the New and Improved Windows 2003 Backup Program
  

Microsoft Press Books

• Introducing Microsoft Windows Server 2003
  

  Summary: This official first-look guide shows you exactly what's new and improved in this powerful network operating system, including advanced technologies for Web services and components, security, networking, Active Directory directory service, Microsoft Internet Information Services, support for IPv6, and more.

• 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.

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, is designed to accommodate 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 is used to 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.

Training and Certification

• Course 2273: Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment: Five Days (Classroom/Online)
  

  Summary: This course provides students with the knowledge and skills required to manage accounts and resources, maintain server resources, monitor server performance, and safeguard data in a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 environment.

• Course 2274: Managing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment: Five days: Instructor-led
  

  Summary: This five-day, instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to manage accounts and resources in a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 environment. The course is intended for prospective systems administrators and systems engineers who are responsible for managing accounts and resources. These tasks include managing user, computer, and group accounts; managing access to network resources; managing printers; managing an organizational unit in a network based on the Active Directory directory service; and implementing Group Policy to manage users and computers.

• Course 2275: Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment: Three days: Instructor-led
  

  Summary: This three-day, instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively maintain server resources, monitor server performance, and safeguard data on a computer running one of the operating systems in the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family.