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1) Chapter 11 Automatic Updates

Here's a real world scenario. You are a help desk technician, you get a call from someone who's been out on a long term leave and just returned to work and started using their computer and now has discovered that they managed to get some malware on their computer. After investigating the problem you discover that they have missed some updates and their computer was vulnerable and thus got some malware. I'll expand on this story and solutions later as we talk about update and specifically automatic updates.

This is given scenario what was the issues? (I guess I've already provided a clue in the subject line). Why are updates important? And what are the benefits of an automatic update?

2) Chapter 11 Using Windows server update

One the most important things when looking at the health of a server is how current it is on updates and patching because if your servers aren't getting updates and current patches than your server is vulnerable to attacks, viruses and malware. And if that occurs than your server is in a lot of trouble and potentially cause problem to your users and client computers. That's the reason why I want to talk about WSUS and it's importance.

What is Windows Server Update Services? Why is it important? What are some advantages of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)?

Share your experiences with WSUS or what you've learned from the ready. Respond to your classmates comments and experiences.

3) CHapter 11 Monitoring

You're a network administrator and you get a call from users that states that they are not able to access some network resources. You're wondering to yourself why did I not know about that before hand? As a network administrator having monitor services is critical in know the health of your environment. You want to know before everyone else does so it doesn't impact business or cause down time.

What are some features of monitoring? What do you want to monitor?

Share your experiences with monitoring or monitoring software or what you've learned from the ready. Respond to your classmates comments and experiences.

4) Chapter 11 Event Viewer

like the event viewer in troubleshooting errors application errors. Often time when we install patches or update it can corrupt on a current program and when it run it will generate an error in the logs in the event viewer. Often time the event view will provide a Microsoft link to a fix or it will give you clues on what the problems are or how to fix it. This is certainly a valuable troubleshooting tool that can be used to identify problems.

5) Chapter 12 Understanding Routing

he concept of routing on the surface can seem to be simple but once you peel away the layers it can be complicated but there are a few concepts and terms if understood can making understanding routing easier. Having said that let get some understand of some terms:

Define these terms.

Routing table

Static Routing

Dynamic Routing

The Routing Information Protocol

Boarder Routing

Multicast Routing

6) Chapter 13

I think security has been covered in every class I have taken so far, and rightly so. You can never have enough security on your system, and hackers are always out there trying to get into it even if you think you've got it locked down. Active Directory really helps with this by letting you put user controls and group controls as well. I liked the part about smart cards, never looked into that so it was new.

7) Chapter 17

I felt this chapter might be key, so I'm happy to revisit! There were a few things I missed from last week - for one, AD account integration. I have sort of a different idea of "firewall". I mean, I know it's a firewall - designed to keep the bad ones out - but, this firewall actually uses AD to verify remote users have an authorized domainaccount, so it's more on the inside.

I also got a kick out of the author's Real World Scenario box referencing Firewalls.

Since we went over this chapter pretty in-depth, I thought I'd answer the review questions. See any wrong, please let me know!

Review QuestionsWhat are the various supported RAID types in Windows Server 2012? (Choose three.) RAID-5 RAID-1 RAID-0What type of MPIO policy allows load balancing across multiple active paths? Round robinWhat is the minimum number of disks required in a RAID-5 set? Three What is the minimum number of disks required in a RAID-1 set? TwoWhat is the default TCP port for iSCSI? 3260What is the largest partition size available for MBR? 2 TBHow many primary partitions can be made on a disk drive with MBR? FourWhich of the following names/terms identifies a Fibre Channel HBA? WWNTrue or False: A basic disk can be configured in a RAID-5 volume set. False Five 100 GB disk drives are used in a RAID-5 set. Approximately how much disk space is available? 400 GB

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8) Chapter 11