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MCSA

Windows Server 2012 R2
®

Installation and Configuration
Study Guide

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MCSA

Windows Server 2012 R2
®

Installation and Configuration
Study Guide

William Panek

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This book is dedicated to the three ladies of my life: Crystal, Alexandria,
and Paige.

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Acknowledgments
I would like to thank my wife and best friend, Crystal. She is always the light at the end of
my tunnel. I want to thank my two daughters, Alexandria and Paige, for all of their love
and support during the writing of all my books. They make it all worthwhile.
I want to thank my family, and especially my brothers, Rick, Gary, and Rob. They have
always been there for me. I want to thank my father, Richard, who helped me become the
man I am today, and my mother, Maggie, for all of her love and support.
I would like to thank all of my friends and co-workers, especially Vic, Catherine, Jeff,

Stephanie, Don, Jason, Doug, Dave, Steve, Pat, Mike (all of them), Tommy, George, Greg,
Becca, Deb, Jeri, Lisa, Scotty, and all of the field guys. I want to also thank my team and
everyone who works with my group including Moe, Jimmy, Paul, Dana, Dean, Reanna,
Todd, and Will F. Because of all your hard work, you make me look good every day and
make it a pleasure to go to work. Thanks to all of you for everything you do.
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Schwartz, who helped me make this the best book possible, and Rodney R. Fournier, who
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me, and it is always great to write for him.
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make them the very best. I can’t thank you all enough for your hard work.

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About the Authors
William Panek  holds the following certifications: MCP, MCP+I, MCSA,
MCSA+ Security and Messaging, MCSE-NT (3.51 and 4.0), MCSE 2000
and 2003, MCSE+Security and Messaging, MCDBA, MCT, MCTS, MCITP,

CCNA, and CHFI. Will is also a Microsoft MVP.
After many successful years in the computer industry and a degree in
computer programming, Will decided that he could better use his talents and his
personality as an instructor. He began teaching for schools such as Boston University,
Clark University, and the University of Maryland, just to name a few. He has done
consulting and training work for some of the biggest government and corporate companies
in the world including the U.S. Secret Service, Cisco, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Army.
In January 2015, Will is now teaching for StormWind (www.stormwind.com).
He currently lives in New Hampshire with his wife and two daughters. Will was also
a representative in the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 2010 to 2012. In his
spare time, he likes to golf, ski, shoot, and go snowmobiling. Will is also a commercially
rated helicopter pilot.

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Contents at a Glance
Introductionxxiii
Assessment Test

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Chapter 1

Install Windows Server 2012 R2

1

Chapter 2

Configure Network Services

Chapter 3

Plan and Install Active Directory

163

Chapter 4

Configure Windows Server 2012 R2

205

Chapter 5

Administer Active Directory

245

Chapter 6

Manage GPOs

295

Chapter 7

Manage Security

355

Chapter 8

Configure TCP/IP

387

Chapter 9

Use Virtualization in Windows Server 2012

437

Appendix A

Answers to Review Questions

471

Appendix B

About the Additional Study Tools

483

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Contents
Introductionxxiii
Assessment Test
Chapter 1

xxxv
Install Windows Server 2012 R2

1

Features and Advantages of Windows Server 2012
and Server 2012 R2
2
Planning the Windows Server 2012 R2 Installation
5

Server Roles in Windows Server 2012 R2
5
Migrating Roles and Features to Windows
Server 2012 R2
8
Roles and Features That Have Been Reduced in
Windows Server 2012 R2
10
Deciding Which Windows Server 2012 R2
Versions to Use
14
Deciding on the Type of Installation
15
NIC Teaming
19
Installing Windows Server 2012 R2
20
Using Windows Deployment Services
24
Understanding Features On Demand
28
Storage in Windows Server 2012 R2
29
Initializing Disks
29
Configuring Basic and Dynamic Disks
30
Managing Volumes
32
Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2012 R2

33
Redundant Array of Independent Disks
34
Mount Points
38
Microsoft MPIO
39
iSCSI41
Internet Storage Name Service
44
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Fibre Channel
Network Attached Storage
48
Virtual Disk Service
48
Summary50
Exam Essentials
51
Review Questions
52
Chapter 2

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Configure Network Services

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Introducing DNS

The Form of an IP Address
Understanding Servers, Clients, and Resolvers
Understanding the DNS Process

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Introducing DNS Database Zones
Understanding Primary Zones
Understanding Secondary Zones
Understanding Active Directory Integrated DNS
Understanding Stub Zones
GlobalName Zones
Zone Transfers and Replication
Advantages of DNS in Windows
Server 2012 R2
Background Zone Loading
Support for IPv6 Addresses
Support for Read-Only Domain Controllers
DNS Socket Pools
DNS Cache Locking

DNS Security Extensions
DNS Devolution
Zone Level Statistics
Record Weighting
Netmask Ordering
DnsUpdateProxy Group
Windows PowerShell Support
Introducing DNS Record Types
Start of Authority Records
Name Server Records
Host Record
Alias Record
Pointer Record
Mail Exchanger Record
Service (SRV) Record
Configuring DNS
Installing DNS
Load Balancing with Round Robin
Configuring a Caching-Only Server
Setting Zone Properties
Configuring Zones for Dynamic Updates
Delegating Zones for DNS
DNS Forwarding
Manually Creating DNS Records
DNS Aging and Scavenging
Monitoring and Troubleshooting DNS
Monitoring DNS with the DNS Snap-In
Troubleshooting DNS
Overview of DHCP
Introducing the DORA Process

Advantages and Disadvantages of DHCP

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Ipconfig Lease Options
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Understanding Scope Details

Installing and Authorizing DHCP
120
Installing DHCP
120
123
Introducing the DHCP Snap-In
Authorizing DHCP for Active Directory
124
Creating and Managing DHCP Scopes
126
Creating a New Scope in IPv4
127
134
Creating a New Scope in IPv6
Changing Scope Properties (IPv4 and IPv6)
136
Changing Server Properties
138
Managing Reservations and Exclusions
141
Setting Scope Options for IPv4
144
Activating and Deactivating Scopes
147
Creating a Superscope for IPv4
147
149
Creating IPv4 Multicast Scopes
Integrating Dynamic DNS and IPv4 DHCP
151

153
Using Multiple DHCP Servers
Working with the DHCP Database Files
154
Summary156
Exam Essentials
157
Review Questions
159
Chapter 3

Plan and Install Active Directory

163

Verifying the File system
164
Resilient File System (ReFS)
165
NTFS166
Verifying Network Connectivity
169
Basic Connectivity Tests
169
Tools and Techniques for Testing
Network Configuration
170
172
Understanding Domain and Forest Functionality
About the Domain Functional Level

172
About Forest Functionality
174
Planning the Domain Structure
176
Installing Active Directory
177
Adprep177
Active Directory Prerequisites
177
The Installation Process
178
Deploying Active Directory IaaS in Windows
Azure187
Verifying Active Directory Installation
188
Using Event Viewer
188
Using Active Directory Administrative Tools
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Testing from Clients
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Creating and Configuring Application Data Partitions
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Creating Application Data Partitions
Managing Replicas
196
Removing Replicas
196
Using ntdsutil to Manage Application Data
Partitions196
Configuring DNS Integration with Active Directory
199
Summary201
201
Exam Essentials
Review Questions
202
Chapter 4

Configure Windows Server 2012 R2

205

Understanding File Servers
206
Configuring File Servers
207
Sharing Folders

207
Making Active Directory Objects Available
208
to Users
Access-Based Enumeration
210
210
Configuring Offline Files
Volume Shadow Copy Services
213
216
Configuring Permissions
Configuring Disk Quotas
222
Configuring Print Services
224
Creating and Publishing Printers
224
Configuring Printers
226
Migrating Print Servers
230
Printer Pooling
231
Easy Print Driver
231
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Configuring Remote Management
Windows Remote Management
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Windows PowerShell
Configuring Down-Level Servers
236
Configuring Server Core
237
Summary239
Exam Essentials
240
Review Questions
242
Chapter 5

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Administer Active Directory

245

An Overview of OUs
The Purpose of OUs
Benefits of OUs
Planning the OU Structure
Logical Grouping of Resources
Understanding OU Inheritance

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Delegating Administrative Control
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Applying Group Policies
Creating OUs
253
Managing OUs
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Moving, Deleting, and Renaming OUs
Administering Properties of OUs
259
Delegating Control of OUs
261
Troubleshooting OUs
265
Creating and Managing
266
Active Directory Objects
Overview of Active Directory Objects

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Managing Object Properties
273
Understanding Groups
277
Filtering and Advanced Active Directory Features
278
Moving, Renaming, and Deleting
280
Active Directory Objects
Resetting an Existing Computer Account
281
282
Publishing Active Directory Objects
Making Active Directory Objects Available
282
to Users
Publishing Printers
282
Publishing Shared Folders
284
Querying Active Directory
285
Using the Active Directory Administrative
Center287
Using the Command Prompt for Active Directory
Configuration288
Summary290
Exam Essentials
290

Review Questions
292
Chapter 6

Manage GPOs
Introducing Group Policy
Understanding Group Policy Settings
The Security Settings Section of the GPO
Group Policy Objects
Group Policy Inheritance
Planning a Group Policy Strategy
Implementing Group Policy
Creating GPOs
Linking Existing GPOs to Active Directory
Managing Group Policy
Managing GPOs
Security Filtering of a Group Policy

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Delegating Administrative Control of GPOs
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313
Controlling Inheritance and Filtering Group Policy
Assigning Script Policies
314
Understanding the Loopback Policy
316
316
Managing Network Configuration
Automatically Enrolling User and Computer
Certificates in Group Policy
317
Redirecting Folders
320
Managing GPOs with Windows PowerShell
322
Group Policy Cmdlets
Deploying Software Through a GPO

322
The Software Management Life Cycle
323
The Windows Installer
324
Deploying Applications
328
Implementing Software Deployment
329
330
Preparing for Software Deployment
Software Restriction Policies
331
331
Using AppLocker
Group Policy Slow Link Detection
331
Publishing and Assigning Applications
332
Applying Software Updates
333
Verifying Software Installation
334
Configuring Automatic Updates in Group Policy
335
Configuring Software Deployment Settings
336
The Software Installation Properties Dialog Box
336
339

Removing Programs
Microsoft Windows Installer Settings
340
342
Troubleshooting Group Policies
RSoP in Logging Mode
343
RSoP in Planning Mode
345
Using the gpresult.exe Command
347
Summary348
Exam Essentials
349
Review Questions
351
Chapter 7

Manage Security
Managing Security
Understanding Security Principals
Managing Security and Permissions
Using ACLs and ACEs
Configuring User Account Control
Delegating Control of Users and Groups
Understanding Dynamic Access Control
Using Group Policy for Security

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Implementing an Audit Policy
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Overview of Auditing
Implementing Auditing
372
Using the Auditpol.exe Command
374
374
Features of Windows Server 2012 R2 Auditing
Configuring Windows Firewall Options
375
Summary383

383
Exam Essentials
Review Questions
384
Chapter 8

Configure TCP/IP

387

Understanding TCP/IP
388
Details of the TCP/IP Model
388
389
How TCP/IP Layers Communicate
Understanding Port Numbers
389
Understanding IP Addressing
391
The Hierarchical IP Addressing Scheme
391
Understanding Network Classes
393
Subnetting a Network
396
Implementing Subnetting
398
An Easier Way to Apply Subnetting
404

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Applying Subnetting the Traditional Way
Working with Classless Inter-Domain Routing
416
Supernetting419
Understanding IPv6
420
IPv6 History and Need
420
New and Improved IPv6 Concepts
421
IPv6 Addressing Concepts
423
IPv6 Integration/Migration
428
Summary432
Exam Essentials
433
Review Questions
434
Chapter 9

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Use Virtualization in Windows Server 2012

437

Hyper-V Overview
What Is Virtualization?

Hyper-V Features
Hyper-V Architecture
Hyper-V Requirements
Hyper-V Installation and Configuration
Install the Hyper-V Role
Hyper-V in Server Manager
Using Hyper-V Manager
Configure Hyper-V Settings

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Manage Virtual Switches
451
454

Managing Virtual Hard Disks
Configuring Virtual Machines
459
Creating and Managing Virtual Machines
459
Summary467
Exam Essentials
467
Review Questions
469
Appendix A

Appendix B

Answers to Review Questions

471

Chapter 1: Install Windows Server 2012 R2
Chapter 2: Configure Network Services
Chapter 3: Plan and Install Active Directory
Chapter 4: Configure Windows Server 2012 R2
Chapter 5: Administer Active Directory
Chapter 6: Manage GPOs
Chapter 7: Manage Security
Chapter 8: Configure TCP/IP
Chapter 9: Use Virtualization in Windows Server 2012

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About the Additional Study Tools

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Additional Study Tools
484
484
Sybex Test Engine
Electronic Flashcards
484
484
PDF of Glossary of Terms
Adobe Reader
485
System Requirements
485
Using the Study Tools
485
Troubleshooting485
Customer Care
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Table of Exercises

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Exercise 1.1

Installing Windows Server 2012 R2 with the GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Exercise 1.2

Installing Windows Server 2012 R2 Using Server Core . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Exercise 1.3

Initializing Disk Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Exercise 1.4

Converting a Basic Disk to a Dynamic Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Exercise 1.5

Creating a Volume Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Exercise 1.6

Creating Mount Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Exercise 1.7

Installing Microsoft MPIO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Exercise 1.8

Configuring iSCSI Storage Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Exercise 1.9

Installing the iSNS Feature on Windows Server 2012 R2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Exercise 2.1

Installing and Configuring the DNS Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Exercise 2.2

Configuring a Zone for Dynamic Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Exercise 2.3

Creating a Delegated DNS Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Exercise 2.4

Manually Creating DNS RRs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Exercise 2.5

Simple DNS Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Exercise 2.6

Using the nslookup Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Exercise 2.7

Installing the DHCP Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Exercise 2.8

Unauthorizing a DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Exercise 2.9

Authorizing a DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Exercise 2.10

Creating a New Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Exercise 2.11

Configuring User Class Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Exercise 2.12

Creating a Superscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Exercise 2.13

Creating a New Multicast Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Exercise 2.14

Enabling DHCP-DNS Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Exercise 3.1

Viewing Disk Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Exercise 3.2

Promoting a Domain Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Exercise 3.3

Installing AD DS on Server Core . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Exercise 3.4

Viewing the Active Directory Event Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Exercise 3.5

Joining a Computer to an Active Directory Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Exercise 3.6

Configuring DNS Integration with Active Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Exercise 4.1

Creating and Publishing a Shared Work Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Exercise 4.2

Configuring Offline Folder Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Exercise 4.3

Configuring a Shared Network Folder for Offline Access . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Exercise 4.4

Configuring a Shadow Copy on a Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Exercise 4.5

Configuring Shared and NTFS Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

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Exercise 4.6

Configuring Disk Quotas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Exercise 4.7

Creating and Publishing a Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Exercise 4.8

Starting the Windows PowerShell Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Exercise 5.1

Creating an OU Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Exercise 5.2

Modifying OU Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Exercise 5.3

Using the Delegation of Control Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Exercise 5.4

Delegating Custom Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Exercise 5.5

Creating Active Directory Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Exercise 5.6

Creating a User Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Exercise 5.7

Managing Object Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Exercise 5.8

Moving Active Directory Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Exercise 5.9

Resetting an Existing Computer Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Exercise 5.10

Creating and Publishing a Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Exercise 5.11

Creating and Publishing a Shared Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Exercise 5.12

Finding Objects in Active Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Exercise 6.1

Creating a Group Policy Object Using the GPMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Exercise 6.2

Linking Existing GPOs to Active Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Exercise 6.3

Filtering Group Policy Using Security Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Exercise 6.4

Delegating Administrative Control of Group Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Exercise 6.5

Configuring Automatic Certificate Enrollment in Group Policy . . . . . . . 319

Exercise 6.6

Configuring Folder Redirection in Group Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Exercise 6.7

Creating a Software Deployment Share . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Exercise 6.8

Publishing and Assigning Applications Using Group Policy . . . . . . . . . 332

Exercise 6.9

Applying Software Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Exercise 7.1

Delegating Control of Active Directory Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Exercise 7.2

Enabling Auditing of Active Directory Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Exercise 7.3

Configuring Windows Firewall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Exercise 8.1

Class C, 10 Hosts per Subnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Exercise 8.2

Class C, 20 Hosts per Subnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Exercise 8.3

Class C, Five Subnets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Exercise 8.4

Class B, 1,500 Hosts per Subnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Exercise 8.5

Class B, 3,500 Hosts per Subnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Exercise 9.1

Installing Hyper-V in Full Installation Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Exercise 9.2

Creating an Internal Virtual Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Exercise 9.3

Creating a Differencing Hard Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Exercise 9.4

Creating a New Virtual Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Exercise 9.5

Installing Hyper-V Integration Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

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Introduction
This book is drawn from more than 20 years of IT experience. I have taken that experience
and translated it into a Windows Server 2012 R2 book that will help you not only prepare
for the MCSA: Windows Server 2012 R2 exams but also develop a clear understanding of
how to install and configure Windows Server 2012 R2 while avoiding all of the possible
configuration pitfalls.
Many Microsoft books just explain the Windows operating system, but with MCSA:
Windows Server 2012 R2 Complete Study Guide, I go a step further by providing many
in-depth, step-by-step procedures to support my explanations of how the operating system
performs at its best.
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 is the newest version of Microsoft’s server operating
system software. Microsoft has taken the best of Windows Server 2003, Windows Server
2008, and Windows Server 2012 and combined them into the latest creation, Windows
Server 2012 R2.
Windows Server 2012 R2 eliminates many of the problems that plagued the previous
versions of Windows Server, and it includes a much faster boot time and shutdown. It is
also easier to install and configure, and it barely stops to ask the user any questions during
installation. In this book, I will show you what features are installed during the automated
installation and where you can make changes if you need to be more in charge of your
operating system and its features.
This book takes you through all the ins and outs of Windows Server 2012 R2, including
installation, configuration, Group Policy objects, auditing, backups, and so much more.
Windows Server 2012 R2 has improved on Microsoft’s desktop environment, made
networking easier, enhanced searching capability, and improved performance—and that’s
only scratching the surface.

When all is said and done, this is a technical book for IT professionals who want to take
Windows Server 2012 R2 to the next step and get certified. With this book, you will not
only learn Windows Server 2012 R2 and ideally pass the exams, but you will also become a
Windows Server 2012 R2 expert.

The Microsoft Certification Program
Since the inception of its certification program, Microsoft has certified more than
2 million people. As the computer network industry continues to increase in both size
and complexity, this number is sure to grow—and the need for proven ability will also
increase. Certifications can help companies verify the skills of prospective employees and
contractors.

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