Managing Windows Server 2003 Best Practices

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Managing Windows Server 2003 Best Practices

• Daniel van Soest
• IT Pro Technology Advisor
• Microsoft BV
• danielvs_at_microsoft.com

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Agenda

• MOF Introduction
• WINS Operations
• DHCP Operations
• DNS Operations
• AD Operations
• MOM 2005
• Summary

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IT Project Life Circle
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MOF Process Model
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Manage Your Server
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WINS Operating Quadrant

• Daily
• Data backup
• Proactive analysis and review
• Weekly
• Storage resource management
• As needed
• Data backup, restore and recovery

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WINS Supporting Quadrant

• Daily
• Investigation and diagnosis
• Proactive analysis and review
• Weekly
• Investigation and diagnosis

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WINS Optimizing Quadrant

• Monthly
• Managing resources and server performance
• Capacity management
• Monitoring
• Analyzing
• Performance tuning
• Reporting

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WINS Changing Quadrant

• Daily
• Change classification and authorization
• Monthly
• Reviewing configuration items

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DHCP Operating Quadrant

• Daily
• Data backup
• Service monitoring and control
• Weekly
• Storage resource management
• As needed
• Data backup, restore and recovery

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DHCP Supporting Quadrant

• Daily
• Classification and initial support
• Investigation and diagnosis
• Weekly
• Investigation and diagnosis
• As needed
• Problem management

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DHCP Optimizing Quadrant

• Monthly
• Managing resources and server performance
• Capacity management
• Monitoring
• Analyzing
• Performance tuning
• Reporting

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DHCP Changing Quadrant

• Daily
• Change classification
• Monthly
• Configuration management
• Address pool exclusions
• Lease durations
• Reservations

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DNS Operating Quadrant

• Daily
• Data backup
• Proactive analysis and review
• Weekly
• Storage resource management
• As needed
• Data backup, restore and recovery

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DNS Supporting Quadrant

• Daily
• Proactive analysis and review
• Weekly
• Proactive analysis and review
• Monthly
• Incident closure
• As needed
• Problem recording and classification

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DNS Optimizing Quadrant

• Daily
• Managing resource and service performance
• Monthly
• Managing resource and service performance
• As needed
• Design for recovery

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DNS Changing Quadrant

• Daily
• Change classification and authorization
• Monthly
• Reviewing configuration items

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AD Operating Quadrant

• Daily
• Back up Active Directory
• As needed
• Restore Active Directory
• Manage a SYSVOL
• Manage Sites
• Recover a domain controller through
  reinstallation
• Security
• As needed

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ADSI Edit tool
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AD Supporting Quadrant

• Daily
• Investigation and diagnosis
• Proactive analysis and review
• Weekly
• Investigation and diagnosis

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AD Optimizing Quadrant

• Availability management
• As needed
• Managing the Active Directory database
• Adding a Global Catalog
• Managing the Windows Time Service
• Managing trusts
• Capacity management
• As needed
• Removing Global Catalog
• Reducing workload on PDC emulator

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AD Changing Quadrant

• Release Management
• As needed
• Installing a domain controller for an existing
  domain
• Change Management
• As needed
• Removing Active Directory

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MOM 2005 Workgroup

• Event and Performance Management
• Enterprise event collection
• Rules based filtering and consolidation
• Proactive alerting/action response
• Automation
• Scripts
• Tasks
• Diagnostics
• Apps/Role Monitoring
• Health Model
• Rules libraries
• Built-in knowledge-base

• Product Limitations
• Requires AD
• No Reporting
• No MCF

Up to 10 Monitored Computers
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MOM Stateview
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MOM AD Site Links
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MOM AD Connection Objects
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MOM Report
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Session Summary

• MOF includes how to plan and deploy and maintain
  IT operational processes
• www.microsoft.com/mof
• Use MOM for pro-active monitoring of AD
• www.microsoft.com/mom

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MS Press
www.microsoft.com/learning/books
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3rd Party Publications
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Daniel van Soest danielvs_at_microsoft.com