Overview of Window Server 2003 ZZZZZz!

The Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Editions

It comes in 4 types of flavours

• Web edition - Basically a stripped down version. Mainly used for building and hosting web applications
• Windows server 2003 standard - mainly for small to medium businesses who use print and file servers
• Enterprise edition (Star Trek version!) for medium to large businesses.
• Data Centre edition - large businesses. Very powerful **THE BEAST!**

The Tech stuff

Windows server 2003 is available in 64bit as well as 32 bit editions

64 bit provides higher clock and processing speeds then 32bit editions

• Web Edition - It allows up to 2 processors with support for a maximum of 2GB of RAM. Does not contain Active Directory.
• Standard Edition - 32 bit version support of 4 processors with up to 4GB of RAM, 64bit version is capable of addressing up to 32GB of RAM.
• Enterprise Edition - Up to 8 processors with support for up to 32 GB of memory
• Datacentre Edition - On 32 bit platform provides 32 GB of RAM and on 64 bit platforms with 512 GB of RAM

The Licensing information

Need Client Access License (CAL) installed to enable user or device to connect to the windows 2003 server Not required for Web edition of Windows Server 2003

2 types of CAL

• Windows DEVICE CAL Allows a DEVICE to connect to server regardless of the number of users who might use the device for example 10 night shift workers can user 1 computer (device)
• Windows USER CAL Allows a USER to connect to a server from number of devices for example 10 night shift workers - people who need to access the network from different computers (devices)

2 types of licensing

• Per Server Licensing Requires a Windows USER CAL or Windows DEVICE CAL for each connection License are allocated when a user or device connects to the server or product
• Per device or Per user licensing License allows a single Windows USER CAL to authorise a user OR windows DEVICE CAL to connect to any number of servers.

Installation Of Windows Server 2003

• Insert the Windows 2003 CD in CD-Rom
• Press the reset button
• Press an key to boot
• Press Enter for new install
• F8 to agree
• Pressing D to delete existing partitions if there partitions to be deleted
• Press C to create partition space
• Type 4000/5000 then press enter (creates 4 GB / 5 GB partition)
• Enter to install
• Select NTFS system
• Click on next
• Select typical settings (clock , date & time zone)
• Click on next
• Select typical settings
• Workgroup
• Ctrl Alt Del

Windows networks support 2 directory service models

Microsoft Windows networks support 2 directory service models

• Workgroup model - A peer to peer type network ,seen as a standalone model, there is no central server managing the network , does not use central directory database
• Domain model - Machines that run windows operating systems that share a central directory database called Active Directory

Active Directory

Active Directory is a directory service which contains information of all user accounts and shared resources on a network. It uses domains, domain controllers, organisational units and group policy to manage administration. There are 2 main ways of installing

Installation of Active directory

• Using the Active Directory Installation Wizard
• Using DCPROMO from the command line

The main features of active directory

• Allows administrators to assign policies, deploy software, and apply critical updates to an organization
• Provides user logon and authentication services
• Organise and manage user accounts, computers, groups, network resources using Group Policy

Domain

Active directory cannot exist without a domain, a logical secure administrative boundary. By having a domain you have a domain controller

Domain Controller

This the main tool within Active Directory, the domain controller allows you to hold user account details, authenticates user’s logon details and enforce security policy for a Windows domain.

How to indentify domain controller

• Go to Start
• Click in Run
• Type CMD – press ENTER
• Type net_accounts ENTER
• Shows primary controller

Organisational Units (OU)

A container which contains Active Directory Objects (Users, Groups, OU & other objects) used for minimizing administrative tasks.

Group Policy

• Allow or deny users to logon to a particular machine
• Allow or deny users access to particular software
• Restricting access to certain folder
• Type net_accounts ENTER
• Disabling downloading certain files

Examples of Group Policy

A container which contains Active Directory Objects (Users, Groups, OU & other objects) used for minimizing administrative tasks.