TABLE OF CONTENTS Being able to implement a Windows Server 2008 Active Directory environment is only half the battle. You must also be able to maintain the environment to provide minimum downtime and optimum performance of your enterprise. Various solutions and strategies come into play as part of maintenance. Some can be seen as larger disaster recovery components, whereas others may simply be tweaking the environment to improve user experience.
In some situations, maintenance may fall somewhere in between a user account is accidentally deleted, a file is accidentally deleted, or replication is under-performing or not performing at all! In this chapter, you will learn about the many maintenance and management tools offered as a part of Windows Server 2008, as well as some solutions to better improve your Windows Active Directory environment. These topics will be critical not only to your exam success, but also to your success as an IT professional. We will begin this section with a discussion of Windows Server Backup and how it has changed drastically from earlier versions of the Windows server product.
Most people never think about backup and recovery until they need it. Microsoft has been shipping a simple backup solution with Windows since Windows NT 3.1 back in 1993. The technology used today has changed since then, but the needs are still the same. Administrators need the ability to effectively back up servers, data, and the system state while also having an easy way to restore when needed.
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