Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed

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Rand Morimoto, Ph.D., MCITP

Michael Noel, MVP, MCITP

Omar Droubi, MCSE

Ross Mistry, MVP, MCITP

Chris Amaris, MCSE, CISSP

Technical Edit by Guy Yardeni

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Windows Server®

2008 R2

U N L E A S H E D

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Windows Server® 2008 R2 Unleashed

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Tyson Kopczynski,

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Contents at a Glance

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Part I

Windows Server 2008 R2 Overview

1

Windows Server 2008 R2 Technology Primer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2

Planning, Prototyping, Migrating, and Deploying Windows Server

2008 R2 Best Practices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

3

Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 and Server Core. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Part II

Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory

4

Active Directory Domain Services Primer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

5

Designing a Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

6

Designing Organizational Unit and Group Structure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

7

Active Directory Infrastructure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

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8

Creating Federated Forests and Lightweight Directories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

9

Integrating Active Directory in a UNIX Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Part III

Networking Services

10

Domain Name System and IPv6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

11

DHCP/WINS/Domain Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

12

Internet Information Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Part IV

Security

13

Server-Level Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

14

Transport-Level Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

15

Security Policies, Network Policy Server, and Network Access

Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Part V

Migrating to Windows Server 2008 R2

16

Migrating from Windows Server 2003/2008 to Windows

Server 2008 R2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

17

Compatibility Testing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525

Part VI

Windows Server 2008 R2 Administration and Management

18

Windows Server 2008 R2 Administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549

19

Windows Server 2008 R2 Group Policies and Policy Management. . . . . . . . . 585

20

Windows Server 2008 R2 Management and Maintenance Practices . . . . . . . 639

21

Automating Tasks Using PowerShell Scripting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699

22

Documenting a Windows Server 2008 R2 Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763

23

Integrating System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 with

Windows Server 2008 R2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793

Part VII

Remote and Mobile Technologies

24

Server-to-Client Remote Access and DirectAccess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849

25

Remote Desktop Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 921

Part VIII

Desktop Administration

26

Windows Server 2008 R2 Administration Tools for Desktops. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 987

27

Group Policy Management for Network Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1023

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Part IX

Fault-Tolerance Technologies

28

File System Management and Fault Tolerance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1097

29

System-Level Fault Tolerance (Clustering/Network Load Balancing) . . . . . 1173

30

Backing Up the Windows Server 2008 R2 Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1227

31

Recovering from a Disaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1267

Part X

Optimizing, Tuning, Debugging, and Problem Solving

32

Optimizing Windows Server 2008 R2 for Branch Office

Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1305

33

Logging and Debugging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1345

34

Capacity Analysis and Performance Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1391

Part XI

Integrated Windows Application Services

35

Windows SharePoint Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1433

36

Windows Media Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1483

37

Deploying and Using Windows Virtualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1515

Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1553

Table of Contents

Introduction

1

Part I

Windows Server 2008 R2 Overview

1

Windows Server 2008 R2 Technology Primer

5

Windows Server 2008 R2 Defined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

When Is the Right Time to Migrate?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Versions of Windows Server 2008 R2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

What’s New and What’s the Same About Windows Server 2008 R2? . . . . . . . 16

Changes in Active Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Windows Server 2008 R2 Benefits for Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Improvements in Security in Windows Server 2008 R2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Improvements in Mobile Computing in Windows Server 2008 R2 . . . . . . . . . . 28

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Improvements in Windows Server 2008 R2 for Better Branch Office

Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Improvements for Thin Client Remote Desktop Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Improvements in Clustering and Storage Area Network Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Addition of Migration Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Improvements in Server Roles in Windows Server 2008 R2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

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