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Windows Server 2016 Administration Fundamentals

You're reading from Windows Server 2016 Administration Fundamentals Deploy, set up, and deliver network services with Windows Server while preparing for the MTA 98-365 exam and pass it with ease

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788626569

Length 386 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Hyper-V

Concepts

System Administration

Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

About the Reviewer

Customer Feedback

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Introducing Windows Server FREE CHAPTER

2. Installing Windows Server

3. Post-Installation Tasks in Windows Server

4. Directory Services in Windows Server

5. Adding Roles to Windows Server

6. Group Policy in Windows Server

7. Virtualization with Windows Server

8. Storing Data in Windows Server

9. Tuning and Maintaining Windows Server

10. Updating and Troubleshooting Windows Server

11. Studying and Passing the MTA 98-365 Exam

12. Examples of GPOs for Sys Admins

GPOs of interest to Sys Admins

13. Keyboard Shortcuts in Windows Server

Windows key combinations in Windows Server 2016

14. Answers to Chapter Questions

Chapter 7—Answers

True
Group Policy Management Console (GPMC):
1. Enabled
2. Disabled
True
Group Policies (GPs)
Local, Site, Domain, Organizational Units (OUs)
False
Not configured
gpupdate /force
Computer configuration policies are bound to computers, regardless of the users that are logged on to the computers. User configuration policies are the opposite of computer configuration policies.

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