Managing and Maintaining Physical and Logical Devices

Optimize server disk performance.

522

• Implement a RAID solution

522

• Defragment volumes and partitions

533

Troubleshoot server hardware devices.

672

• Diagnose and resolve issues related to hardware settings.

675

• Diagnose and resolve issues related to server hardware and harware driver upgrades.

672

Install and configure server hardware devices.

654

• Configure driver signing options.

659

• Configure resource settings for a device.

664

• Configure device properties and settings.

665

Managing Users, Computers, and Groups

Create and manage groups.

126

• Identify and modify the scope of a group .

129

• Find domain groups in which a user is a member.

148

• Manage group membership.

144

• Create and modify groups by using the Active Directory Users and Computers Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in.

138

• Create and modify groups by using automation.

149

Create and manage user accounts.

61

• Create and modify user accounts by using the Active Directory Users and Computers MMC

65

• Create and modify groups by using automation.

82

• Import user accounts.

91

Troubleshoot computer accounts.

96

• Diagnose and resolve issues related to computer accounts by using the Active Directory Users and Computers Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in.

113

• Reset computer accounts.

113

Troubleshoot user accounts.

96

• Diagnose and resolve account lockouts.

96

• Diagnose and resolve issues related to user account properties.

Managing and Maintaining Access to Resources

Configure access to shared folders.

163

• Manage shared folder permissions.

170

Troubleshoot Terminal Services

• Diagnose and resolve issues related to Terminal Services security.

470

• Diagnose and resolve issues related to client access to Terminal Services.

470

Configure file system permissions.

162

• Verify effective permissions when granting permissions.

186

• Change ownership of files and folders.

183

Managing and Maintaining a Server Environment

Manage servers remotely.

234

• Manage a server by using Remote Assistance.

243

• Manage a server by using Terminal Services remote administration mode.

238

• Manage a server by using available support tools.

235

Monitor file and print servers. Tools might include Task Manager, Event Viewer, and System Monitor

• Monitor disk quotas.

564

• Monitor server hardware for bottlenecks.

639

Monitor and optimize a server environment for application performance

• Monitor memory performance objects.

635

• Monitor network performance objects.

638

• Monitor process performance objects.

637

• Monitor disk performance objects.

636

Manage a web server

• Manage Internet Information Services (IIS).

196

• Manage security for IIS.

215

Managing and Implementing Disaster Recovery

Perform system recovery for a server

• Implement Automated System Recovery (ASR).

807

• Restore data from shadow copy volumes.

787

• Back up files and system state data to media.

769

• Configure security for backup operations.

778

Manage backup procedures

• Verify the successful completion of backup jobs.

780

• Manage backup storage media.

812