Step-by-step guides for deployment

The Microsoft Web site provides tutorials that you can use to learn about and deploy the operating system. These technical walkthroughs provide step-by-step instructions and illustrations for installing and configuring key features.

You can access the Step-by-Step Guides at the Microsoft Web site.

The following list includes some of the topics that you can find in these guides:

• Building a common network infrastructure
  
  

• Setting up additional domain controllers
  
  
• Delegating control of objects
  
  
• Managing Active Directory
  
  
• Managing replication topology
  
  
• Using LDAP and VBScript to manage Active Directory
  
  
• Extending Active Directory using the Schema and display specifiers
  
  

• Understanding Group Policy
  
  
• Managing remote installation of the operating system
  
  
• Managing application deployments for groups of users and computers
  
  
• Managing user data and user settings
  
  

• Setting up a certification authority
  
  
• Configuring a domain to trust an external certification authority
  
  
• Managing Certificate Services
  
  
• Obtaining and managing certificates
  
  
• Configuring automatic certificate requests
  
  

• Requesting certificates using Web pages
  
  
• Mapping certificates to user accounts to be used on a Web site
  
  

• Configuring local security policy on individual computers
  
  
• Managing security in an enterprise network
  
  
• Encrypting files
  
  
• Using Kerberos V5
  
  
• Encrypting IP network traffic using Internet Protocol security (IPSec)
  
  

• Creating logical views of directories and files
  
  

• Installing a typical two-node cluster on Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition and Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition