WINDOWS 2000 ADVANCED SERVER CLASS LECTURE NOTES

Installation of Windows 2000 Advanced Server can be done in several ways:
CD-ROM
Installation floppies and CD-ROM
Installing over a network
Installing over an existing operating system

When planning to install Windows 2000 Advanced Server you need to take the following into consideration:
Select compatible components from Microsoft HCL.
Decide how to partition the disk storage (minimum 2GB)
Decide which file system to use - the recommended one is NTFS
Choose a server name
Choose an administrator account password
Choose a protocol setup

Post installation: Make sure that you make an emergency repair disk that must be updated every time you change the server configuration or install a Microsoft service pack.

Active directory: is a Windows 2000 Directory service, it is a database of all network resources, computers, users, groups, shared printers, shared folders and other network resources.

Converting FAT32 to NTFS:
Click: Start
Click: Run
Type: convert c: /fs:ntfs

You may install Windows 2000 on a FAT system and later convert it to NTFS. But once done you can not go back. NTFS has many advantages over FAT, such as smaller clusters, encryption, file compression, security etc. NTFS4 doesn't support FAT32 only FAT16.

Domain: is a grouping of resource objects. It is usually a higher level representation of how a business is organized, for example reflecting geographical site or major division of that organisation.


Some available services in Windows 2000 Server are:

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) - A network protocol that provides a way for the server to automatically assign an IP address to a workstation on its network.

Domain Name Server (DNS) - A TCP/IP application protocol that resolves domain and computer names to IP addresses, or IP addresses to domain and computer names.

Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) - Also does name resolution but only with Microsoft products.

Terminal Server - A server configured to offer terminal services so that clients can run applications on the server, which is similar to having clients respond as terminals.

Exchange Server - This is used for Internet email so the system can send and receive email.

Internet Information Server (IIS) - A component of Windows 2000 Server that provides Internet Web, FTP, mail, newsgroups and other services and particularly the ability to set up a Web server.

Proxy Server - It allows you to surf the web.

Windows Media - Allows for streaming audio/video.


Server Storage Options and Backup

Basic Disks
A physical disk that contains primary partitions, extended partitions, or logical drives. Basic disks may also contain spanned, mirrored, striped, and RAID-5 volumes created using Windows NT 4.0 or earlier. Basic disks can be accessed by MS-DOS.

Dynamic Disks
A physical disk that is managed by Disk Management. Dynamic disks can contain only dynamic volumes (that is, volumes created with Disk Management). Dynamic disks cannot contain partitions or logical drives, nor can they be accessed by MS-DOS.

Disk Partitioning
A hard disk that is low- level formatted can be set up for one or more file systems, such as Fat and Ntfs. The process of marking and blocking a group of tracks and sectors in preparation for a file system is called partitioning.


Backup
The Backup utility helps you create a copy of the data on your hard disk. In the event that the original data on your hard disk is accidentally erased or overwritten, or becomes inaccessible because of a hard disk malfunction, you can use the copy to restore your lost or damaged data.