Windows Server 2016: Server Infrastructure

Practical and precise, this hands-on guide with ready answers is designed for IT professionals working with Windows Server 2016. If you're an IT Pro responsible for configuring, managing and maintaining servers running Windows Server 2016, start with this well-organized and authoritative resource.

Inside, you'll find expert insights, tips, tricks and workarounds that will show you how to master Windows Server 2016 in the shortest amount of time possible. During the course of reading this book, you will master a number of complex topics, techniques, commands and functions.

This book, Windows Server 2016: Server Infrastructure, is designed to be used with Windows Server 2106: Essentials for Administration which collectively provide over 250,000 words and 1000 pages of expert advice. Using the books together, you can answer most of the everyday questions you’ll have with Windows Server 2016.

Topics discussed in this book include:

Planning for Windows Server 2016 and developing a deployment plan

Implementing TCP/IP networking and NIC teaming

Managing file services and data storage

Partitioning and optimizing drives

Using TPM and BitLocker Drive Encryption

Using Storage Spaces and Storage Pools

Configuring file sharing and disk quotas

Configuring Shadow Copies and Work Folders

Using group policy for administration

Configuring and maintaining print services

Deploying essential infrastructure services including DHCP and DNS

And much, much more!!!

Not only will this informative training manual help you become familiar with many new ideas, it'll help you master Windows Server 2016 in the shortest amount of time possible. This is the ideal concise, immediate reference you’ll want with you at all times.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Deploying Windows Server 2016 1

Chapter 2. Implementing TCP/IP Networking 33

Chapter 3. Data Storage: The Essentials 59

Chapter 4. Partitioning and Optimizing Drives 93

Chapter 5. Using TPM and BitLocker Drive Encryption 116

Chapter 6. Using Storage Spaces 162

Chapter 7. Using RAID 187

Chapter 8. Maintaining Partitions and Drives 199

Chapter 9. Implementing File Sharing 217

Chapter 10. Using Shadow Copies and Work Folders 255

Chapter 11. Managing Permissions and Auditing 270

Chapter 12. Configuring Disk Quotas 290

Chapter 13. Using Group Policy for Administration 311

Chapter 14. Implementing Print Services 337

Chapter 15. Configuring and Maintaining Print Services 367

Chapter 16. Implementing DHCP 388

Chapter 17. Managing and Maintaining DHCP 411

Chapter 18. Implementing DNS 449

Chapter 19. Managing and Maintaining DNS 473

Index 507

About the Author 517