Lessons Learned Forum at King of Prussia

For this week’s assignment, write a 5-7 line summary of what you like or dislike about ISA 2004 so far.. Please include details from the book (referencing chapter/page), labs, or Self Test. Describe some advantages/disadvantages of the tool as a whole. Please remember that these comments can be viewed and will be commented on by your fellow classmates at Computertraining.Com, King of Prussia, PA. Postings and at least one comment to another classmates posting are due by Sunday at midnight.

Kevan

Hello All,

I thought you might enjoy reading the article available from Microsoft at the link below. It provides a nice summary of things to check to ensure that you are getting the most performance out of your Vista based machine.  Your task this week is to review the article and write a paragraph (5 to 7 lines) summarizing what you do to ensure your Vista machine is running well. Please remember that these comments can be viewed and commented on by your fellow classmates at Computertraining.Com, King of Prussia, PA. Postings are due by Monday at midnight.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=AB377598-A637-432C-A3C8-1607AB629201&displaylang=en

Kevan

The following link is an article written by Charlene Shepard who is part of the Windows team at Microsoft. In the article she discusses the User Account Control (UAC) feature of Windows Vista. Your task this week is to read the article and write a paragraph (5 to 7 lines) summarizing what the UAC is and why the UAC is an important part of the Vista Operating System. Please remember that these comments can be viewed and commented on by your fellow classmates at Computertraining.Com, King of Prussia, PA. Postings are due by Monday at midnight.

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-us/help/f941cb45-

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Kevan

For this week’s assignment you will go to the following link and download the Microsoft Technet demonstration regarding DNS (download content named TNT1-114Demo2.exe – 36.7MB in size). In this demo a new zone delegation will be created within the root domain and allow management of that domain on a secondary server. This will install locally the files necessary to watch the demonstration. It is 13 minutes in length. Following the video, write a 5-7 line summary of what you have learned from the demonstration. Please remember that these comments can be viewed and will be commented on by your fellow classmates at Computertraining.Com, King of Prussia, PA. Postings and at least one comment to another classmates posting are due by Sunday at midnight.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6D28E688-F7F1-4A5E-9E7D-B377FE862CB0&displaylang=en

Kevan

Hello All,

I hope you used your week off to study hard.  If it wasn’t all focused on DHCP then here is a refresher.

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/DHCP_Server_Windows_2003.html

This article has a nice step by step walk through on setting up DHCP.

I would like to have everyone give it a try in their Virtual PC.

Please give me a bit of feedback on issues you had along the way or tips you find helpful when setting up the server.  As always your posts can be viewed by all and can be commented on by your fellow classmates at Computertraining.com at King of Prussia, PA. Your post is due by Sunday midnight.

For this week’s assignment, you will view the “Demo: What’s new with the Windows desktop and Start menu?” listed at the link provided below. It will demonstrate some of the new features of Vista that are discussed in Chapter 3 of the Vista Configuration book. Please write 5-7 lines discussing these new features, their advantages and/or their disadvantages, and what you learned from the demo. Remember that your comments will be viewed by your classmates at the King of Prussia, PA campus. Your postings and at least one comment to another classmates posting are due by midnight on Monday 5/19.

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/help/d2db5040-9277

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This week I’ll be taking it easy on you. (kind of )

Please summarize the key components and benefits of active directory.

You can use the Active Directory packet from class or other resources you find.

Please remember that these comments can be viewed and commented on by your fellow classmates at Computertraining.com King of Prussia, PA.. Postings are due by Sunday at midnight.

Kevan

If so you should have known all about RAID…….

The following article does a nice job showing the step by step on setting up RAID on a Windows PC.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb726998.aspx

Write and post a paragraph (5 to 7 lines) about which level(s) of raid you plan on using in your next server. Y Please remember that these comments can be viewed and commented on by your fellow classmates from ComputerTraining.Com King of Prussia PA. Postings are due by Sunday at midnight.

Kevan

Hello All,

The following articles discuss Setting up user accounts and grouping them together (via Microsoft best practices) to grant them access to resources inside our domains.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGDLP

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-22_11-5483957.html

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/networking/?p=427

Your task this week is to write a paragraph (5 to 7 lines) summarizing the different methods of creating user access to the domain and it’s resources.. Please remember that these comments can be viewed and commented on by your fellow classmates at Computertraining.Com, King of Prussia, PA. Postings are due by Sunday at midnight.

Kevan

As a network administrator one of your many tasks will be to plan a disaster recovery strategy to include backing up and restoring your data. The following link is an article on the Microsoft TechNet website that discusses the five different backup types. Your task this week is to write a paragraph (5 to 7 lines) summarizing when you would use each of the five different backup types as part of your disaster recovery strategy. Please remember that these comments can be viewed and commented on by your fellow classmates at Computertraining.Com, King of Prussia, PA. Postings are due by Sunday at midnight.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc784306.aspx

Kevan