Unit 12: Installing, Configuring and Administering Mirosoft Server Learning Outomes A andidate following a programme of learning leading to this unit will be able to: Selet a suitable NOS to install for given requirements Identify system requirements for a seleted NOS Install a NOS and implement required file server failities Configure the server Install and onfigure Protools, Bindings, Network servies and adaptors neessary to omplete the network Configure and test/verify a TCP/IP onfiguration Configure a onnetion to a different network system Manage user and group aounts Manage data and disks, inluding ompressing and enrypting data Add and share a printer Set up and use a web based printer servie Bakup and restore files and folders Plan and implement seurity audit settings on a loal omputer and a server Implement disaster protetion Plan, install and onfigure terminal servies Install appliations on a terminal server NB Before starting this unit please refer to the Vendor website for available examinations, up-to-date examination speifiations and availability. 102 OCR Level 3 Certifiate/Diploma for IT Professionals
Unit 12: Installing onfiguring and administering Mirosoft server Unit Content: Installing, Configuring and Administering Mirosoft Windows Server 1 Install and set-up Network OS and lient OS Preparation a Selet a suitable NOS to install for given requirements b Identify system requirements for a seleted NOS Identify different server funtions and the essential requirements for eah d Understand how to install a NOS and implement required file server failities e Understand server onfiguration Network Connetivity f Understand Protools, Bindings, Network servies and adaptors neessary to omplete the network g Understand a TCP/IP onfiguration h Understand the onfiguration of a onnetion to a different network system 2 Manage Aounts User Aounts a Understand the use of Logon and User names b Set-up password ontrol and alloation Speified requirements (purpose, network size, enterprise networks, database intensive, on-line transation rate, web server CPU spe, number of CPUs, HDD spae, memory, number of HDD, aessories, disk partition requirements, file system, liensing, workgroups, domains, pre-installation hek list Server (file, print, web, appliation, domain, DNS, WINS, DHCP) Requirements (data seurity, RAM for printing, proessing speed) Language, name and organisation, liene agreement, partition, regional settings (date, time, urreny), keyboard, typial or ustom installation, omputer name, administrator password, prepare disks, set up data struture Diretory servies, DNS, file server, print server, web server, networking servies, appliation server, installing hardware, installing hardware drivers, VDU properties, multiple monitors, environment variables, start-up and reovery options, add/remove programs, lient Internet options (home page, ahing temp files) Client software, file sharing, print sharing, TCP/IP, protools (IPX, NWLink et) DHCP, auto addressing Windows, Novell Netware Unique, haraters required, haraters not allowed, onventions used Alloate administrator passwords, alloate password reation failities Set-up Aount Options Logon times, expiry times, omputers allowing aess, domains d Create and onfigure domain user aounts Passwords, aount properties, logon options, user profiles Group Aounts e Identify a group aount and the failities Workgroups, domain groups provided OCR Level 3 Certifiate/Diploma for IT Professionals 103
Unit 12: Installing onfiguring and administering Mirosoft server f Define group types and their sopes Group Types (seurity groups, distribution groups) Group sopes (global, domain Loal, universal) g Understand how to reate and delete domain groups and add members to a group 3 Managing Data and Disks File System Permissions a Define file system folder and file permissions b Understand how file system permissions are affeted Grant permissions for folders and files d Use disk quotas to limit disk spae for users Compressed Data e Understand the purpose of using ompression f Understand the effets of moving or opying ompressed files Data Enryption g Understand the purpose of enrypting data h Enrypt and derypt a folder or file i Reover an enrypted folder or file Shared Folders j Understand the purpose of using shared folders Read, write, list, read and exeute, modify, full Inherited, umulative, priority of file and folder permissions, effets of opying or moving files and folders Groups, all, individuals Copy or move (within a partition, between a partition) k Set-up and modify shared folders Shared name, ontrol (read, hange, full), stop sharing, modify permissions, remove a share Hard Data Disks l Identify the different types of disk that may be used m Understand how to reate, repair and delete partitions and volumes on disks n Add new disks and transfer disks from one omputer to another o Set and manage drive letters p Test, analyse and defragment disks and partitions 4 System Performane Monitoring Performane a Understand the event logs available in the NOS b View, examine and desribe properties from event logs Set the allowable size of event log files Partitions (primary, extended, logial drive), volumes, RAID, striped volume, spanned volume, mirrored Add, import foreign disk, mount to an empty file system folder System, appliation, seurity Type, soure, ategory, user, desription 104 OCR Level 3 Certifiate/Diploma for IT Professionals
Unit 12: Installing onfiguring and administering Mirosoft server d Monitor the use of system resoures and desribe the information available e Add speifi objets to monitor when using system monitor, define the display type and set alerts Optimise Performane f Analyse monitoring data and identify ways of optimising performane 5 Apply Seurity Seurity Poliies a Understand tehniques for implementing seurity poliies b Implement agreed seurity settings on a loal omputer and a server Create ustom seurity templates Seurity Audit d Understand seurity audit settings on a loal omputer and a server Bakup and restoration e Configure file and folder bakup and implement different types of bakup f Restore files and folders using a bakup opy Disaster Protetion g Define a omputer disaster Programs, proesses, performane Cahe, memory, paging, disks, main proessor, system, proess, thread display type (bar hart, report, graph) Memory, proessor ativity, disk ativity, network ativity Templates, group poliy, loal seurity settings Password (history, age, length, omplexity) Aount (lokout, domain seurity) Aount logon, aount management, diretory servie aess, logon, aess to resoures, poliy hange, privileged use, system Normal, differential, inremental, daily Sheduled (date, time, frequeny) Corrupted boot blok, loss of system files, system devie failure, destrution of omputer (fire, damage due to fore) h Identify tehniques to improve fault tolerane UPS, RAID, (mirrored, striped, striped volumes with parity) i Install, test and onfigure a UPS j Implement a fault tolerant volume RAID k Create an emergeny repair disk l Start a omputer using advaned start-up Reovery onsole options Repair disk Safe mode Last good onfiguration Debug mode Enable VGA mode Using CD driver 6 Use Printer servies Adding a printer a Add a printer (loal) for aess by restrited users Loation, port, driver installation, name, shared name, test page OCR Level 3 Certifiate/Diploma for IT Professionals 105
Unit 12: Installing onfiguring and administering Mirosoft server b Add a network interfae printer Port, type, IP address, name Share a printer and set printer priorities Web based Printing d Set up and use a web based printer servie 7 Use Terminal Servies User Environment a Identify the purpose, features and benefits of Terminal Servies b Plan, install and onfigure terminal servies Install appliations on a terminal server Unique user environment Proesses lient requests Remote desktop protool Client appliations, hardware, server onfiguration, lienses Assessment This unit will be assessed by an on-line Mirosoft-set examination for Installing, Configuring and Administering Mirosoft Windows Server. Notes for Tutors Completion of Unit 12 is a pre-requisite for this Unit. This unit may be delivered stand alone using Mirosoft Offiial Curriulum. Alternatively, for students wishing to study both units, the knowledge and understanding for both units 11 and 12 an be delivered through the Mirosoft Offiial Curriulum without overlap or redundany. Developments in software by Mirosoft present entres with the option to hoose one from a number of examinations. Please hek the Mirosoft website to ensure the validity of ontent and examination being taken. 106 OCR Level 3 Certifiate/Diploma for IT Professionals