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MCSAWindows Server® 2012 R2

Complete Study Guide

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MCSAWindows Server® 2012 R2

Complete Study Guide

William Panek

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This book is dedicated to the three ladies of my life:

—Crystal, Alexandria, and Paige.

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AcknowledgmentsI would like to thank my wife and best friend, Crystal. She is always the light at the end of my tunnel. I want to thank my two daughters, Alexandria and Paige, for all of their love and support during the writing of all my books. They make it all worthwhile.

I want to thank my family, and especially my brothers, Rick, Gary, and Rob. They have always been there for me. I want to thank my father, Richard, who helped me become the man I am today, and my mother, Maggie, for all of her love and support.

I would like to thank all of my friends and co-workers, especially Vic, Catherine, Jeff, Stephanie, Don, Jason, Doug, Dave, Steve, Pat, Mike (all of them), Tommy, George, Greg, Becca, Deb, Jeri, Lisa, Scotty, and all of the field guys. I want to also thank my team and everyone who works with my group including Moe, Jimmy, Paul, Dana, Dean, Reanna, Todd, and Will F. Because of all of your hard work, you make me look good every day and make it a pleasure to go to work. Thanks to all of you for everything that you do.

I want to thank everyone on my Sybex team, especially my development editor, Gary Schwartz, who helped me make this the best book possible, and Rodney R. Fournier, who is the technical editor of many of my books. It’s always good to have the very best technical guy backing you up.

I want to also thank Mike Rice, Winston McMiller, and Jeff Stokes for helping me update some of my chapters from Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2012 R2. Their hard work and knowledge helped finish this huge undertaking.

I want to thank Eric Charbonneau, who was my production editor, and my acquisitions editor, Jeff Kellum, who served as lead for the entire book. He has always been there for me, and it is always great to write for him.

Finally, I want to thank everyone else behind the scenes who helped make this book pos-sible. It’s truly an amazing thing to have so many people work on my books to help make them the very best. I can’t thank you all enough for your hard work.

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About the AuthorsWilliam Panek holds the following certifications: MCP, MCP+I, MCSA, MCSA+ Security and Messaging, MCSE-NT (3.51 and 4.0), MCSE 2000 and 2003, MCSE+Security and Messaging, MCDBA, MCT, MCTS, MCITP, CCNA, and CHFI. Will is also a two time Microsoft MVP (he won in October 2013 and October 2014).

After many successful years in the computer industry and a degree in com-puter programming, Will decided that he could better use his talents and his personality as an instructor. He began teaching for schools such as Boston University, Clark University, and the University of Maryland, just to name a few. He has done consulting and training work for some of the biggest government and corporate companies in the world including the U.S. Secret Service, Cisco, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Army.

In January 2015, Will is now teaching for StormWind (www.stormwind.com). He cur-rently lives in New Hampshire with his wife and two daughters. Will was also a Represen-tative in the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 2010 to 2012. In his spare time, he likes to golf, ski, shoot, and go snowmobiling. Will is also a commercially rated helicopter pilot.

Michael Allen Rice holds these certifications: MCP, MCTS, MCSA, MCSE, MCITP, CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Security+, VMware Certified Professional 5 - DCV, and NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator 7-mode.

Michael currently works as a Data Center Administrator for Intelligent Software Solu-tions, Inc., based in Colorado Springs. He lives there with his wife and two children. He specializes in leading the way for corporate infrastructure in the areas of virtualization, storage, and systems administration. Over the past decade as an IT professional, Michael has received numerous awards for his outstanding performance and dedication to excel-lence within the IT community.

Winston McMiller holds these certifications: MCP, MCP+I, MCSA, MCSE 2000, 2003, 2012/2012 R2, and ITIL. Winston is a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer.

After 18 years in the computer industry and a degree in information technology, Win-ston has done consulting and training for some of the largest companies in the world including General Electric, HP Enterprise services, Chrysler, and IBM.

He currently lives in the Seattle area. In his spare time, he likes to ski, do photography, and travel. He is an avid audiophile and songwriter.

Jeff Stokes holds these certifications: MCT, MCSA, MCSE 2003, and MCTS: Windows Internals. Jeff Stokes runs @WindowsPerf, a Windows Performance social networking prop-erty. He is a frequent guest on RunAsRadio and an avid blogger.

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xii About the Authors

As a previous Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft, Jeff has worked in the Fortune 1000 space for the last eight years. After 21 years in the IT field, Jeff has established himself as a performance SME and a VDI pioneer in Microsoft technologies, including Windows optimization as a VDI guest. His work appears in VDI optimization guidance papers from Microsoft and other parties.

He currently lives in the Atlanta area. In his spare time, he analyzes performance traces, games, and mentors others in the IT field.

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Contents at a GlanceIntroduction xxxix

Assessment Test lxi

Part I Exam 70-410: Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 R2 1

Chapter 1 Install Windows Server 2012 R2 3

Chapter 2 Configure Network Services 57

Chapter 3 Plan and Install Active Directory 165

Chapter 4 Configure Windows Server 2012 R2 207

Chapter 5 Administer Active Directory 247

Chapter 6 Manage GPOs 297

Chapter 7 Manage Security 357

Chapter 8 Configure TCP/IP 389

Chapter 9 Use Virtualization in Windows Server 2012 439

Part II Exam 70-411: Administering Windows Server 2012 R2 473

Chapter 10 Manage and Maintain Servers 475

Chapter 11 Manage File Services 529

Chapter 12 Configure DNS 555

Chapter 13 Configure Routing and Remote Access 619

Chapter 14 Configure a Network Policy Server Infrastructure 661

Chapter 15 Configure and Manage Active Directory 697

Chapter 16 Configure and Manage Group Policy 751

Part III Exam 70-412: Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 R2 Services 817

Chapter 17 Configure and Manage High Availability 819

Chapter 18 Configure File and Storage Solutions 857

Chapter 19 Implement Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery 901

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