Level: Intermediate
Planning for a successful server deployment requires more planning than most people want to allow. The key to a successful implementations is to think of everything and make sure to ask plenty of questions. A mastery knowledge of a complete Server infrastructure is required to begin this task. We will cover the following items:
- Plan server installations and upgrades: Windows Server 2008 edition selection, rollback planning, Bitlocker implementation requirements
- Plan for automated server deployment: standard server image, automation and scheduling of server deployments
- Plan infrastructure services server roles: address assignment, name resolution, network access control, directory services, application services, certificate services
- Plan application servers and services: virtualization server planning, availability, resilience, and accessibility
- Plan file and print server roles: access permissions, storage quotas, replication, indexing, file storage policy, availability, printer publishing