Step-by-step guides for deployment
Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2
Step-by-step guides for deployment
The Microsoft Web site provides tutorials that you can use to learn about and deploy the operating system. These technical walkthroughs provide step-by-step instructions and illustrations for installing and configuring key features.
You can access the Step-by-Step Guides at the Microsoft Web site.
The following list includes some of the topics that you can find in these guides:
Infrastructure
- Building a common network infrastructure
Active Directory
Setting up additional domain controllers
Delegating control of objects
Managing Active Directory
Managing replication topology
Using LDAP and VBScript to manage Active Directory
Extending Active Directory using the Schema and display specifiers
Management services
Understanding Group Policy
Managing remote installation of the operating system
Managing application deployments for groups of users and computers
Managing user data and user settings
Security services
Setting up and configuring certificates
Setting up a certification authority
Configuring a domain to trust an external certification authority
Managing Certificate Services
Obtaining and managing certificates
Configuring automatic certificate requests
Using certificates
Requesting certificates using Web pages
Mapping certificates to user accounts to be used on a Web site
Additional security features
Configuring local security policy on individual computers
Managing security in an enterprise network
Encrypting files
Using Kerberos V5
Encrypting IP network traffic using Internet Protocol security (IPSec)
File and print services
- Creating logical views of directories and files
Clustering
- Installing a typical two-node cluster on Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition and Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition