Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Insider Solutions
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This book provides field-proven information, including tips and best practices,
about administering the Windows Server 2003 environment that professionals must
know and can not get elsewhere. Rather than being a traditional planning, design,
and implementation guide, this book will be organized by technology solutions
with a focus on the best ways of implementing these solutions.
The author team for this book is part of the exlusive Joint Development Program
(JDP) and Rapid Development Program (RDP), which are, managed beta programs
through Microsoft Corporation, with only 30-40 participating companies in the
program including Boeing, Texaco, and NASDAQ. Rand Morimoto and his consultants
at Convergent Computing have been fortunate to be connected to Microsoft to
sponsor corporations in the JDP/RDP programs for Windows Server, Exchange, BizTalk,
and other Microsoft products for the past 10 years.
Table of Contents
Introduction.
I. SECURITY SOLUTIONS.
1. Securing Windows Server.
Improved Default Security in
Windows. Securing the Hatches. Know Who Is Connected Using Two-factor Authentication.
Using Templates to Improve Usage and Management. Patrolling the Configuration.
Securing the File System. Securing Web Services. Keeping Files Confidential
with EFS. Bulletproof Scenario. Summary.
2. Implementing Secured Wireless
Technologies.
Working Through Walls. Managing
Spectrums to Avoid Denial of Service. Implementing Support for Secure 802.1x
Technologies. Taking Advantage of Windows Server 2003 Security Features. Configuring
the Wireless Client. Maximizing Wireless Security through Tunneling. Maintaining
Knowledge of Your Wireless Networks. Summary.
3. Integrating Smartcard
and Secured Access Technologies.
Maximizing Certificate Services
Implementations. Securing Certificate Services. Getting the Most Out of Smartcards.
Tips and Tricks for Securing Access to the Network. Creating a Single Sign-on
Environment. Securing Access to Web Servers and Services. Protecting Certificate-based
Services from Disaster. Integrating Smartcards with Personal Devices. Summary.
II. MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION SOLUTIONS.
4. Distributing Administration.
Choosing the Best Administrative
Model for Your Organization. Using Role-based Administration for Optimal Delegation.
Leveraging the Delegation of Control Wizard. Enhancing Administration with Functional
Levels. Managing Domain and Enterprise Administration. Developing Group Policies
that Affect Administration. Testing Level of Administrative Access. Auditing
Administrative Activities. Summary.
5. Managing User Rights and
Permissions.
Leveraging Domain Local, Global,
and Universal Groups. Using NTFS and AD Integrated File Shares. Using Group
Policy to Administer Rights and Permissions. Maximizing Security, Functionality,
and Lowering Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) with User Profiles. Managing Rights
and Permissions for Specific User Types. Summary.
6. Implementing Group Policies.
Leveraging Group Policies. Group
Policy Deployment. Understanding GP Inheritance and Application Order. Understanding
the Effects of Slow Links on Group Policy. Using Tools to Make Things Go Faster.
Automating Software Installations. Enhancing Manageability with Group Policy
Management Console. Using Resultant Set of Policies in GPMC. Maximizing Security
with Group Policy. Increasing Fault Tolerance with Intellimirror. Leveraging
Other Useful Tools for Managing Group Policies. Using Administrative Templates.
Finding Additional Resources about Group Policy. Summary.
7. Managing Desktops.
Automating Backup of Desktop
Data. Accelerating Deployments with Workstation Images. Creating Windows XP
Images. Automating Software Installation. Slow Link Detection. Ensuring a Secured
Managed Configuration. Managing Systems and Configurations. Leveraging Useful
Tools for Managing Desktops. Summary.
8. Administering Windows
Server 2003 Remotely.
Using Remote Desktop for Administration.
Taking Advantage of Windows Server 2003 Administration Tools. Using Out-Of-Band
Remote Administration Tools for Emergency Administration. Using and Configuring
Remote Assistance. Securing and Monitoring Remote Administration. Delegating
Remote Administration. Administering IIS in Windows Server 2003 Remotely. Summary.
9. Maintenance Practices
and Procedures.
Maintenance Is Not As Interesting
as Implementing New Technology. What to Do Every Day. What to Do Every Week.
What to Do Every Month. Consolidating Servers as a Maintenance Task. Backup
Tips and Tricks. Making Automated System Recovery Work for You. Leveraging Scripting
for Maintenance Practices. Why Five-9s Might Be a Bad Idea. Automating Updates.
Summary.
III. DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION SOLUTIONS.
10. Advanced Active Directory
Design.
Implementations Small and Large.
Configuring and Reconfiguring Domains and Organizational Units. Sites and the
New Knowledge Consistency Checker. Using Cross-Forest Trusts Effectively. Interforest
Synchronization. Active Directory Migration Tool Best Practices. Using Microsoft
Metadirectory Services Effectively. Domain Controller Placement. Global Catalog
Placement. Taking Advantage of Replication Improvements. Active Directory Functional
Levels. Summary.
11. Implementing Microsoft
Windows Server.
Best Practices for Successful
Server Deployments. Licensing and Activating Windows Server. Automating Deployment
with Remote Installation Service. Using Sysprep for Servers to Maximize Consistency.
Customizing Setup Using Unattend and Setup Manager. Creating Custom Bootable
CDs for Rapid Deployment. Optimizing Standard Server Configurations. Customizing
Servers with Setup Wizards. Controlling the Back-end with the Windows Registry.
Summary.
12. Implementing Microsoft
Active Directory.
Taking Advantage of Functional
Levels. Improving Domain Controller Installation. Getting the Most Out of Global
Catalog Servers. Maximizing Flexible Single Master Operation (FSMO) Roles. Expanding
the Enterprise by Interconnecting Forests and Domains. Enhancing Flexibility
with Renaming Domains. Managing the Active Directory Schema. Improving Replication—with
Application Partitions. Summary.
13. Establishing a Solid
Infrastructure Foundation.
Focusing on the Windows Server
2003 Infrastructure Components. DNS in an Active Directory Environment. The
Domain Name System (DNS) In Depth. Installing DNS Using the Configure Your Server
Wizard. Configuring DNS to Point to Itself. Using Resource Records in a Windows
2003 Environment. Establishing and Implementing DNS Zones. Creating Zone Transfers
in DNS. Understanding the Importance of DNS Queries. Other DNS Components. DNS
Maintenance, Updates, and Scavenging. Troubleshooting DNS. The Dynamic Host
Configuration Protocol (DHCP) In Depth. DHCP Changes in Windows Server. Installing
DHCP and Creating New Scopes. Creating DHCP Redundancy. Advanced DHCP Concepts.
Optimizing DHCP through Proper Maintenance. Securing a DHCP Implementation.
Continuing Usage of Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS). Installing and Configuring
WINS. WINS Planning, Migrating, and Maintenance. Global Catalog Domain Controllers
(GC/DCs) Placement. The Need to Strategically Place GCs and DCs. Summary.
IV. MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION SOLUTIONS.
14. Migrating from Windows
NT 4.0
Migrating to a Scalable Windows
2003 Server Environment. Fallback Plans and Failover Procedures. Tips to Minimize
Network Downtime. Planning and Implementing Name Resolution When Migrating.
Planning and Upgrading File Systems and Disk Partitions. Avoiding Failures and
Disruptions During Server Upgrades. Keeping Windows Servers Current with Windows
Updates. Finalizing Server Upgrades with Windows Update. Supporting Windows
Clients During Coexistence. Implementing and Securing Password Migrations. Addressing
Permissions Issues When Migrating Desktops. Best Practices for Maintaining and
Managing Coexistence. Common Mistakes When Decommissioning Domains and Servers.
Summary.
15. Migrating from Windows.
Preparing the Migration. Windows
Server 2003 Applications Compatibility. Using the Application Compatibility
Tool Kit. Upgrading and Installing Windows Server. Migrating Network Services.
Migrating Active Directory Objects. FailOver Best Practices. Supporting Clients
with Windows Server. Decommissioning Windows. Raising Windows 2003 Functional
Levels. Summary.
16. Integration with Unix/LDAP-Based
Systems.
Designing and Planning Platform
Integration. Creating an Integrated Infrastructure. Integrating Directories
Across Environments. Using Password Synchronization. Centralizing the Management
of Cross-Platform Resources. Accessing Unix from a Windows Perspective. Accessing
Windows from a Unix Perspective. Migrating Resources from One Platform to the
Other. Summary.
17. Integrating Windows 2003
with Novell Networks.
Leveraging Services for NetWare.
Creative Ways of Bridging the Gap Between Novell and Windows. Installing the
Microsoft Services for NetWare Tool. Creating a Single Sign-on Environment.
Synchronizing eDirectory/NDS with Active Directory. Replacing NetWare Servers
with Windows Servers. Summary.
V. REMOTE AND MOBILE USER SOLUTIONS.
18. VPN and Dial-up Solutions.
Choosing the Right VPN Solution.
Best Practices for Securing L2TP. Best Practices for Securing PPTP. Taking Advantage
of Internet Authentication Service. Using VPN for Wireless. Deploying VPN and
Dial-up Services. Using Site-to-Site VPNs. Using Load Balancing to Add Scalability
and Resiliency. Summary.
19. Web Access to Windows
Server 2003 Resources.
Best Practices for Publishing
Web Shares to the Internet. Securing Access to Resources with SSL. Enabling
SSL on a Web Server Directory. Enabling and Securing Internet Printing. Best
Practices for Securing FTP Services. Accessing Resources with Terminal Services
and Remote Desktops. Monitoring IIS Access Through Auditing and Logging. Using
Windows Tools and Scripts to Manage IIS. Summary.
20. Advanced Active Directory
Design.
Advantages of Using Terminal
Services. Keeping Users Connected with Session Directory. Adding Redundancy
to Session Directory. Optimizing Terminal Service Performance. Managing Terminal
Service Users with Group Policy. Keeping Terminal Service Secure. Leveraging
Local Resources. Summary.
VI. BUSINESS CONTINUITY SOLUTIONS.
21. Proactive Monitoring
and Alerting.
Leveraging Windows Management
Instrumentation. Leveraging Scripts for Improved System Management. Deciding
What to Monitor. Determining What to Monitor and Alert Upon. Responding to Problems
Automatically. Using Microsoft Operations Manager for Advanced Automation. Summary.
22. Creating a Fault-Tolerant
Environment.
Optimizing Disk Management for
Fault Tolerance. Maximizing Redundancy and Flexibility with Distributed File
System. Simplifying Fault Tolerance with Volume Shadow Copy. Optimizing Disk
Utilization with Remote Storage. Optimizing Clusters to Simplify Administrative
Overhead. Leveraging Network Load Balancing for Improved Availability. Realizing
Rapid Recovery Using Automated System Recovery (ASR). Summary.
VII. PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION SOLUTIONS.
23. Tuning and Optimization
Techniques.
Understanding of Capacity Analysis.
Best Practice for Establishing Policy and Metric Baselines. Leveraging Capacity-Analysis
Tools. Identifying and Analyzing Core Analysis and Monitoring Elements. Optimizing
Performance by Server Roles. Summary.
24. Scaling Up and Scaling
Out Strategies.
Size Does Matter. Building Bigger
Servers. Building Server Farms. Avoiding the Pitfalls. Making It Perform. Scaling
the Active Directory. Scaling for the File System. Scaling for RAS. Scaling
Web Services. Scaling for Terminal Services. Summary.
25. Utilizing Storage Area
Networks.
Defining the Technologies. When
Is the Right Time to Implement NAS and SAN Devices? Designing the Right Data
Storage Structure. Adding in Fault Tolerance for External Storage Systems. Combining
Hardware Fault Tolerance with Windows Server 2003 Technologies. Best Practices
for SAN and NAS. Recovering from a System Failure. Leveraging NAS and SAN Solutions
for Server Consolidation. Summary.
VIII. BUSINESS PRODUCTIVITY SOLUTIONS.
26. User File Management
and Information Look-up.
Enabling Collaboration with Windows
SharePoint Services. Expanding on the File and Data Management Capabilities
of Windows. Simplifying File Sharing with Office. Improving Data Lookup with
Indexing. Taking Advantage of Revision Control Management. Implementing Information,
Communication, and Collaboration Security. Summary.
Index.
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