
Explore Windows Server editions—Essentials, Standard, and Data Center—and their licensing, virtualization limits, and specialized variants like containers, Hyper-V Server, and IoT.
Compare wipe (clean install) and in-place upgrade, noting that wipe installs fresh while upgrade preserves applications, data, and settings, and consider image install and migration options.
Migrate user accounts and server roles from an old to a new Windows Server using side-by-side or wipe-and-load methods with the User State Migration Tools and Storage Migration Service.
Optimize Windows services by auditing autostart and scheduled tasks, disable startup items, and troubleshoot with Event Viewer and Reliability Monitor, checking dependencies and safe-mode start via the system configuration tool.
Manage servers, clusters, and client systems with Windows Admin Center, a browser-based tool. Install, configure, and monitor server roles without agent software, on premises or in Azure.
Learn how ntfs and share permissions, along with conditional access rules based on Active Directory attributes, protect file servers by using groups, sids, and acls to control access.
Audit file shares and printers in Windows Server 2019 with group policy. Track access events in the security log for authenticated users, specifying success or failure.
Explore web server basics in Windows Server 2019, including HTTP/HTTPS, ports, and TLS certificates. See how IIS supports websites, web applications, and the integration with application servers and DNS.
Explore remote access vpn flavors in Windows Server 2019, including traditional vpn, direct access, and always-on vpn, and how tunneling, authentication, and encryption secure traffic.
Explore remote administration tools for Windows Server 2019 administration fundamentals, including remote console, PowerShell remoting, remote assistance, and Quick Assist, to manage servers and support users efficiently.
You will find that almost all support roles in IT require some level of Microsoft skills. It is especially important to have a good grasp of Windows Servers, as every day, thousands of new servers go live and require an engineer to deploy, support and maintain the infrastructure.
By the end of this course, you’ll have a good idea of how Windows Server works and what its capabilities are and you will be confortable with basic Windows Server Administration. You will cover the baseline knowledge of building and managing Microsoft Windows servers, Windows-based network operating systems, Active Directory, account management and system recovery tools.
This course is designed to get you started as quickly as possible. There are a variety of self-paced learning activities. You will get:
Video lectures on each topic explaining each concept thoroughly with examples (and Demonstrations where applicable)
Links to additional resources/blogs/videos for further documentation and more in depth details reading.
Enroll now in Windows Server 2019 Administration Fundamentals and start learning about all fundamental concepts of Windows Server Administration, and also start your IT career as an IT Administrator.
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