Dauti Windows Server 2025 Administration Fundamentals

A beginner's guide to managing and administering Windows Server environments
4. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-83620-500-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, 634 Seiten

In this extensively updated fourth edition, veteran author Bekim Dauti delivers practical, real-world guidance for deploying, managing, and securing modern server environments, with a strong focus on virtualization and hybrid cloud integration. Ideal for IT professionals, system administrators, and certification candidates, this hands-on guide equips you to confidently manage, update, and troubleshoot Windows Server 2025 environments using Microsoft-recommended best practices.
You'll be introduced to network fundamentals and installation procedures, and go through post-installation tasks, directory services, and adding roles. This updated edition covers the new and enhanced features of Windows Server 2025 extensively, including Active Directory Domain Services enhancements, SMB over QUIC, advanced security features, and hotpatching with Azure Arc. Additionally, numerous questions and answers at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge of the concepts covered.
By the end of this book, you'll be fully prepared to ensure server stability, security, and performance, and to pass the Microsoft AZ-800 Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure exam with confidence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dauti, Bekim

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ozkaya, Dr. Erdal

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Computerkommunikation & -vernetzung Netzwerkprotokolle
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Systemverwaltung & Management
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Betriebssysteme Windows Betriebssysteme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents - Network Fundamentals and Introduction to Windows Server 2025
- Installing Windows Server 2025
- What to Do After Installing Windows Server 2025
- Directory Services in Windows Server 2025
- Adding Roles to Windows Server 2025
- Group Policy in Windows Server 2025
- Virtualization with Windows Server 2025
- Storing Data in Windows Server 2025
- Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Enhancements
- Configuring SMB over QUIC
- Implementing New Security Enhancements in Windows Server 2025
- Managing Updates with Hotpatching, Azure Arc, and More in Windows Server 2025
- Tuning and Maintaining Windows Server 2025
- Updating and Troubleshooting Windows Server 2025
- Understanding Microsoft Certifications and Preparing for the AZ-800 Exam

Leseproben

Contents

1. Windows Server 2025 Administration Fundamentals
2. Foreword
3. Contributors
4. About the author
5. About the reviewer
6. Preface
   1. Who this book is for
   2. What this book covers
   3. To get the most out of this book
   4. Conventions used
   5. Get in touch
   6. Share Your Thoughts
   7. Making the Most Out of This Book – Get to Know Your Free Benefits
      1. Step 3
7. Part 1:Introducing Windows Server and Installing Windows Server 2025
8. Chapter 1: Network Fundamentals and Introduction to Windows Server 2025
   1. Technical requirements
   2. Understanding hosts, nodes, and client/server architecture
      1. What is a computer network?
      2. Types of computer networks
      3. Understanding computer network components
      4. Understanding Computer Network Architectures
   3. Overview of IP addressing and subnetting
      1. IPv4 network addresses
      2. IPv6 network addresses
      3. IPv4 subnetting
   4. Getting to know the server
      1. Understanding server hardware and software
      2. Understanding server sizes, form factors, and shapes
   5. Understanding Network Operating System
      1. Windows Server overview
      2. Linux Server overview
      3. macOS Server overview
   6. Overview and editions of Windows Server 2025
      1. Windows Server eras overview
   7. Windows Server 2025 overview
      1. Windows Server 2025 editions
   8. Key differences between Windows Server 2025 and Windows Server 2022
   9. Minimum and recommended system requirements for Windows Server 2025
   10. Chapter exercise 1.1 – downloading Windows Server 2025
       1. Downloading Windows Server 2025
   11. Chapter exercise 1.2 – downloading Windows Admin Center
       1. Downloading Windows Admin Center
   12. Summary
   13. Questions
   14. Further reading
9. Chapter 2: Installing Windows Server 2025
   1. Technical requirements
   2. Understanding disk partitioning and storage options
      1. Understanding partition schemes
      2. Overview of storage options
      3. Accessing the advanced startup options
   3. Exploring boot configurations and startup options
      1. Understanding boot options in UEFI
      2. Getting to know the startup process in BIOS
      3. A different firmware program for booting modern computers
      4. Understanding TPM
      5. A crucial test for server hardware
      6. GPT and the boot programs
      7. A database for booting Windows OS
      8. What is the bootloader?
      9. What is the boot sector?
      10. How to use the boot menu?
      11. How does Safe Mode operate?
      12. Windows setup and disk configuration errors
   4. Installation options for Windows Server 2025
      1. Understanding the role of your server
      2. Pre-installation checks – resource compatibility checks
      3. Which installation option for Windows Server 2025 should I choose?
      4. Comparing Nano Server and Server Core
      5. Using logs to diagnose installation failures
      6. Network connectivity and domain joining
      7. Activation and licensing issues
   5. Various methods for deploying Windows Server 2025
      1. Clean install
      2. Deploying with the MDT
      3. In-place upgrade
      4. Migration
      5. Deploying in Azure
   6. Summary
   7. Questions
   8. Further reading
10. Chapter 3: What to Do After Installing Windows Server 2025
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Understanding and managing devices and drivers, including Plug and Play, IRQs, and driver signing
       1. Understanding computer devices and device drivers
       2. Managing devices and device drivers
       3. Customizing the Start menu for efficient navigation
       4. Working with devices and Device Manager
       5. Understanding PnP, IRQ, DMA, and driver signing
    3. Managing and optimizing registry entries and service accounts
       1. Windows Server registry
       2. Services Control Manager and Windows Server services
       3. Accessing and managing the Windows registry and services
    4. Performing initial server setup for better performance and security
       1. Initial settings for Windows Server
       2. Managing configuration drift with PowerShell Desired State Configuration
       3. Validating hardware stability with memory testers and burn-in applications
    5. Chapter exercise – performing an initial Windows Server configuration
       1. Using Server Manager to configure the initial settings for Windows Server
       2. How to use Server Configuration for Windows Server initial setup
    6. Summary
    7. Questions
    8. Further reading
11. Part 2: Setting Up Windows Server 2025
12. Chapter 4: Directory Services in Windows Server 2025
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Understanding the AD infrastructure in Windows Server 2025
       1. Addressing the importance of AD
       2. Core protocols and services supporting AD
       3. Tools and roles for administering AD
    3. Adding and configuring the AD DS role
       1. Understanding DCs
       2. Understanding domains
       3. Understanding the Domain Tree
       4. Understanding the Forest
       5. Understanding the Child Domain
       6. Understanding Operations Master Roles
       7. Understanding the difference between domains and workgroups
       8. Understanding trust relationships
       9. Understanding functional levels
       10. Exploring the concept of namespaces
       11. Sites explained
       12. Exploring replication
       13. Understanding the schema
       14. Microsoft Passport explained
    4. Exploring DNS fundamentals and configurations in Windows Server 2025
       1. Understanding how DNS works
       2. Installing the DNS role
       3. Understanding the role of hosts and lmhosts files
       4. Understanding hostnames
       5. Understanding DNS zones
       6. Getting to know WINS
       7. The UNC explained
    5. Managing OUs and default containers
       1. Understanding OUs
       2. Default containers explained
       3. Understanding hidden default containers
       4. The purpose of default container types
       5. Delegating authority within an OU
    6. User and group management within AD
       1. Domain accounts explained
       2. Understanding the Local Accounts
       3. The User Profiles Explained
       4. Understanding Computer Accounts
       5. Understanding Group Types
       6. Getting to know default groups
       7. Understanding group scopes
       8. Group nesting explained
    7. Chapter exercise – installing the AD DS and DNS roles and promoting the server to a DC
    8. Summary
    9. Questions
    10. Further reading
13. Chapter 5: Adding Roles to Windows Server 2025
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Understanding server roles and features in Windows Server...

Über Autor(innen)

Dauti Bekim:

Bekim Dauti works in the administration of servers, computer networks, and training in Cisco, CompTIA, and Microsoft. He has a bachelor's degree from the University of Tirana and a master's degree from UMGC Europe, both in IT. Additionally, he has nearly 20 years of experience as a Cisco Certified Academy Instructor (CCAI) and more than 15 years of experience as a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). Bekim holds several certifications from vendors such as ECDL, Certiport, CompTIA, Cisco, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems. Bekim has contributed to nearly 20 books and dozens of articles for PC World Albanian and CIO Albanian. He founded Dautti LLC. These days, he blogs on Bekim Dauti's Blog. In addition, he works as a Microsoft Certified Trainer.