Windows Server 2019 Administration

Explore the requirements, editions, and deployment options of Windows Server 2019, including Windows Server Core, PowerShell management, and the administration tools overview.

Explore Windows Server 2019 editions, hardware requirements, deployment options, servicing channels, and licensing and activation options to ensure proper activation and licensing compliance.

Explore the four Windows Server 2019 editions, including essentials for small businesses limited to 25 users and 50 devices, with standard for physical servers and data center virtualization via Hyper-V.

Explore Windows Server 2019 hardware requirements, including 64-bit processors, minimum 512 MB RAM, and 32 GB disk space, and learn how roles, future growth, and virtualization affect resource planning.

Explore deployment options for windows server 2019, including clean installs and in-place upgrades, with guidance on standard vs data center licenses and desktop experience versus server core.

Learn how to install Windows Server 2019 by creating a Hyper-V virtual machine (generation two, 2048 MB min, 4096 MB recommended) with an external switch and ISO, or use VirtualBox.

Create and configure a Windows Server 2019 virtual machine using Hyper-V, including setting up an external virtual switch, generation two VM, dynamic memory, and booting from a local ISO.

Install Windows Server 2019 Data Center Evaluation Desktop Experience on a fresh virtual machine, complete with custom install, administrator password setup, and initial desktop configuration.

Complete post installation tasks by validating activation in server manager, setting a static IPv4 address and DNS, renaming the VM, and configuring a private virtual switch for isolated virtual machines.

Disable IPv6 on all virtual machines to prevent domain join issues and unintended internet traffic, and configure IPv4 settings in server manager to keep the environment isolated.

Choose a servicing channel when licensing Windows Server 2019: long term servicing lasts ten years with five years mainstream and five extended; semi-annual releases occur twice yearly for 18 months.

Explore the Windows licensing workflow by using the built-in slmgr.vbs script to view activation options, display license information, and manage expiration, keys, and KMS.

Compare Windows Server Core with desktop experience, highlighting a command-line interface versus a graphical user interface. Learn to install Server Core and configure it post-install with PowerShell and sconfig.

Compare server core and desktop experience by footprint, updates, and security; note app support, no graphical user interface, and manage with sconfig for Windows Server 2019.

Rename the server core and configure IP settings via a menu-driven TSS config tool. Set a static IP in the 192.168.1.x range with subnet mask 255.255.255.0, DNS 192.168.1.250, and reboot.

Explore built-in server core tools, Notepad, Task Manager, Regedit, and msinfo32, to edit scripts and view hardware or software, then use PowerShell with Get-Service or CMD for basic service management.

Manage virtual machines in Windows Server 2019 by saving the VM state to preserve work, or gracefully shut down from inside the operating system, avoiding the turn off option.

Implement least privileged management and delegated privileges for secure admin access. Use jump servers, Windows Server Admin Center, Server Manager, RSAT, and PowerShell basics.

enforce least privilege by using separate standard and administrative accounts, ensuring users log in with the minimum rights needed; this limits software installation, script execution, and exposure to malicious code.

Delegate specific privileges to non-admin users in a domain with the delegation of control wizard, enabling tasks like resetting passwords and creating accounts without full admin rights.

Establish a jump server to securely access and manage internal production servers through a perimeter network, ensuring high security and comprehensive monitoring.

Explore Windows Admin Center, a browser-based, single graphical console that consolidates Server Manager, Failover Clusters, Hyper-V servers, and Windows 10 clients for centralized administration.

demonstrates downloading, installing, and configuring Windows Admin Center from the microsoft evaluation center, including adding servers, enabling remote management, and using extensions to manage roles, features, and virtual machines.

Manage local and remote servers with server manager, configure settings like rename, IP, and updates, start or stop services, monitor logs and performance, and use BPAs with Azure integration.

Use server manager to configure roles and features, manage services, and monitor events, while creating Paris server groups and adding servers by Active Directory or IP for administration.

Deploy RSAT on a Windows 10 client to manage servers remotely. Download RSAT from the lesson resource URL to enable remote management of Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, and group policy.

Learn the fundamentals of PowerShell, including commandlets and modules, compare the GUI and console, and explore remote management, verb-noun syntax, and IntelliSense for efficient scripting.

Learn to use Get-Help and wildcards to find commands and learn syntax, with dash full and online examples. See PowerShell ISE IntelliSense guide command creation, including Add-VPNConnection.

Contrast workgroups and domains, define Active Directory terminology, and outline domains, forests, user and computer accounts, groups, containers, organizational units, plus domain controllers and the global catalog.

Explore the difference between workgroup and domain networks, how a system defaults to a workgroup, and how to join a domain using the network ID wizard with credentials.

Explore workgroup versus domain environments, noting centralized authentication and administration with domain controllers, Active Directory, and Group Policy, versus independent logins and low security in workgroups.

Compare domain and workgroup environments using a house analogy: domains enforce policies set by administrators, while workgroups offer autonomy with no centralized rules.

Learn to view and change workgroup or domain membership in Windows Server 2019 administration using Control Panel or Server Manager, and plan to install Active Directory to create a domain.

Explore Active Directory concepts, including domain, trees, and forest; learn domain controllers and read-only domain controllers, replication, and administrative boundaries; understand trust relationships for cross-domain access.

Configure the IP layout for three Windows Server 2019 machines, including a domain controller SDC1 acting as DNS, with no gateway and no alternate DNS.

Prepare for active directory installation by configuring a static ip, a fixed computer name, and defined dns server addresses; plan to place the ad database files on a separate drive.

Demonstrate a role-based installation of Active Directory Domain Services, configure DNS and forest settings, then promote the server to a new domain controller for a new forest named networking.com.

Verify DNS records created during Active Directory installation reside in the networking.com forward lookup zone, including MSDCS records and Kerberos and LDAP service location records for the domain controller.

Learn how active directory uses user objects, groups, and computer accounts to authenticate logons and simplify permissions with group-based access control.

Organizational units and containers organize an Active Directory domain, enabling group policy objects to apply to users and computers at organizational unit level, while containers hold and cannot host GPOs.

Demonstrates creating a new user and a sales users group in active directory, adding the user to the group, and moving them into a sales organizational unit.

Domain controllers host the Active Directory database (the Ntcip file) storing users, computers, and groups; Kerberos and the KDC perform authentication, with a minimum of two domain controllers for redundancy.

Discover the default active directory storage: the NTDS database housed in the NTDS folder under c:\ ools? No, hold on. The correct path from caption is c:\windows. Use that. New version: Discover the default active directory storage: the NTDS database housed in the NTDS folder under c:\windows, with reserve log files, and the sis file share for group policy and scripts.

Enable the global catalog to store a partial attribute set from other domains, enabling cross-domain searches. Deploy at least one global catalog per site to improve Outlook address lookups.

Open server manager and navigate to Active Directory sites and services. Enable or disable the global catalog by selecting or deselecting the global catalog server option in nt ds settings.

Join a Windows server core to a domain via Hyper-V and SConfig, verify DNS and credentials, manage remotely with Active Directory tools, then disjoin and clean up resources.

Create a virtual machine named dash svr one with 2048 MB RAM and dynamic memory, install Windows Server 2019 data center desktop experience, and join networking.com on same virtual switch.

Identify group policy objects (GPOs) and domain-based GPOs, explore group policy preferences and inheritance, and examine processing across local and Active Directory levels, plus GPUpdate and GPResult troubleshooting tools.

Configure group policy objects (gpos) to enforce security and desktop app settings across users and computers, leveraging 3500+ settings, including minimum eight-character passwords changed every 30 days and folder redirection.

Describes two default gpo objects: the default domain policy and the default domain controllers policy, with the former applying to all users and computers and the latter to domain controllers.

Learn to create and link group policy objects in Windows Server 2019, configure computer and user settings, and apply policies by organizational units for secure device installation.

Explore how to structure active directory with OUs to control group policy inheritance, linking GPOs to laptops and workstations, and implement wireless and BitLocker settings via admin templates.

Discover group policy preferences, a set of client side extensions that deliver optional or enforced settings to domain computers, including baselines and user overrides via item level targeting.

Explore how to create and link a domain-level GPO for group policy preferences, configure power options and item level targeting, and preview how policy processing propagates to clients.

Understand the four-level group policy application order—local, site, domain, and organizational unit—and how lower levels override higher ones, shaping which settings take effect.

Demonstrates how group policy processing order and precedence determine which settings apply, showing link order, inheritance, and conflicts across default domain policy, power options, mobile security settings, and OU.

Explore how block inheritance, enforced domain policies, and security filtering modify GPO processing across OUs and domains.

Shows how to alter group policy processing in Windows Server 2019 by blocking inheritance, enforcing policies, and using security filtering with Active Directory groups to target users or computers.

Use starter GPOs as baseline templates to quickly configure security and administrative templates in group policy, copy settings into new GPOs, and enforce device installation restrictions across organizational units.

Learn how to back up all group policy objects, restore a deleted GPO, and preview settings before restoring, including how links are not automatically reconnected.

Learn how gpupdate processes group policy changes, performing incremental updates by default and a full update with /force, whether via PowerShell or command prompt, and interpret the policy update results.

Learn to verify every applied GPO with gpresult, generate an HTML report, and see exactly which GPOs apply, the individual settings, and their values for computer and user policies.

Discover how Active Directory sites control replication and service localization by mapping domain controllers to IP subnets, scheduling replication, and linking GPO to sites for targeted settings.

Discover how Azure Active Directory becomes Microsoft Entra ID within the Entra product family for identity and network access solutions, with no feature changes, and why documentation must be updated.

Explore Azure Active Directory, a cloud-based identity and access management service that connects on-premises Active Directory to the cloud with Azure AD Connect for seamless authentication across resources.

Explore Azure components for Windows Server 2019 administration, including Azure Active Directory and Azure Virtual Machines. Learn how to create a free trial subscription and note 30-day service limits.

Explore the Azure portal to manage Azure Active Directory, create users and groups, register devices, deploy virtual machines and networks, and back up to Azure using recovery services vaults.

Learn to synchronize on premise Active Directory with Azure AD using Azure AD Connect, assign global administrator roles, and verify directory sync in the Azure portal.

Create and link a group policy object to deploy an Internet Explorer favorites shortcut, apply item level targeting to the sales users group, and verify with gpupdate.

Deploy and manage DHCP and DNS on Windows Server 2019, enable automatic IP assignment, and configure DNS to resolve names to IP addresses, a prerequisite for Active Directory.

Automate IP configuration for clients using DHCP to assign addresses from a defined scope, following the DORA flow and lease renewals at 50% and 87.5% of an 8-day default.

Use wireshark to capture dhcp packets on the interface and observe the discover, offer, request, and ack flow as the host obtains an ip from the dhcp server at 192.168.1.1.

Install DHCP on Windows Server 2019 through Server Manager, Windows Admin Center, or PowerShell, ensuring management tools are loaded. Create DHCP Administrators and DHCP Users groups, and configure address ranges.

Configure DHCP scopes to define IP ranges, subnet masks, exclusions, and options such as gateway and DNS, then activate scopes and set lease durations; authorize servers to prevent rogue DHCP.

Install the DHCP server role via Server Manager using role-based installation, plan subnets, scopes, and exclusions, then authorize the server and create DHCP administrators and users groups.

Learn to install the DHCP server using PowerShell, view and install Windows features, add security groups, and authorize the DHCP server across servers.

Create and activate a DHCP scope in Windows Server 2019, configure 192.168.1.100–192.168.1.200 with exclusions, set gateway and DNS, authorize the server, and verify via ipconfig.

Learn to create IPv4 Dhcp scopes with PowerShell on Windows Server 2019 using the Dhcp server module. Add, view, and remove IPv4 scopes via commands like add-dhcp-server-v4-scope and remove-dhcp-server-v4-scope.

Explore DHCP high availability in Windows Server 2019, including split scope with non-overlapping scopes and DHCP failover with replicated databases, featuring load balance mode and hot standby mode.

Demonstrates configuring dhcp failover for high availability between two servers, choosing load balance (50/50) or hot standby, and replicating scopes so both servers lease addresses based on Mac addresses.

Explore DNS components, records, and zones, learn to create records, configure zones, and set up forwarding, and understand DNS integration with Active Directory for essential network services.

Explore the dns components, including private and public namespaces, top-level domains, and fully qualified domain names, and understand how dns servers and resolvers resolve names using zones and resource records.

Learn how DNS resolves a domain from the client cache or host file to the local DNS server, root and .com namespace servers, via recursive and iterative queries.

Explore common DNS record types, including A, AAAA, CNAME/alias, SRV, and PTR, and learn how dynamic creation and automatic updates of DNS records support logon and service resolution.

Discover how DNS forward and reverse lookup zones map names to IP addresses and explore primary, secondary, stub, and Active Directory integrated zone types, including replication and usage.

Install the DNS role on Windows Server 2019 using Server Manager or PowerShell, verify with Get-WindowsFeature, and confirm DNS server installation on the domain controller.

Explore DNS zone diagrams across primary and secondary DNS servers, read-only copies, and stub zones, including Active Directory integrated zones with multi-master replication and secure dynamic updates.

Demonstrates creating a primary zone, linking a secondary zone and a stub zone in Windows Server 2019, with notes on Active Directory integration, zone transfers, and dynamic updates.

Master Active Directory integrated zones by creating and converting between primary and Active Directory integrated, configuring secure dynamic updates, and managing replication to domain controllers, stub, and secondary zones.

Create and configure reverse lookup zones in DNS to map IPv4 addresses to names, using network IDs like 192.168.1 and the 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa format with pointer records.

Configure forwarders and conditional forwarders to resolve non-local domains by delegating to external DNS servers. Root hints provide the public root servers to enable internet name resolution.

Configure standard and conditional forwarders, use root hints, and create a root zone named dot to control external name resolution, including restoration of root hints after changes.

Explore managing file servers and storage solutions in Windows Server 2019, covering volume and file system management, folder sharing, storage spaces, data deduplication, and DFS namespaces and DFS replication.

Explore the Windows file systems you can choose from, review disk volumes, and learn how to configure them.

Compare NTFS as the default file system on Windows Server 2019 with Fat and exfat for portability, and refs for self-healing, while examining permissions, encryption, and compression options.

Explore NTFS and resilient file systems' file and folder security via the security tab, applying read, read and execute, create, modify, and full control permissions for users or groups.

Learn how NTFS permissions from multiple groups combine to yield the highest effective permission, illustrated by sales managers and sales users, and why deny trumps allow.

Learn how share permissions complement NTFS controls to govern network access, with read, modify, and full control, and how the lowest versus highest permissions determine access, including 2008 changes.

Create a shared folder, assign NTFS permissions for the sales users group, configure share permissions via advanced sharing, and apply the effective permission as the lower of NTFS and share.

Explore advanced NTFS permissions and how basic rights map to underlying settings, including deleting sub folders and files, and the impact of special permissions on access control.

Explore NTFS inheritance to simplify permissions by assigning them at the sales reports folder and letting them apply to subfolders, with options to disable inheritance and convert to explicit permissions.

Use file server resource manager to enforce per-folder quotas and hard limits, monitor usage, trigger notifications, and implement file screening to block disallowed extensions.

Install and configure the file server resource manager via server manager or PowerShell, covering file and storage services and role-based features.

Demonstrates creating custom quotas in file server resource manager, using templates to derive quotas and applying changes to derived quotas.

Create and customize file screens in Windows Server 2019, using templates or custom properties to block or monitor file types, with active or passive modes and notifications.

Learn how basic disks use partitions and how dynamic disks create volumes across up to 32 disks, including simple, span, striped, mirrored, and raid 5 configurations.

Explore disk management in Windows Server 2019, including basic vs dynamic disks, and create span, stripe, mirrored, and raid five volumes, while monitoring disk performance with Resource Monitor.

Explore storage spaces in Windows Server 2019, including what storage spaces are, their components, and usage scenarios, plus how to completely set up a storage space.

Create storage pools from mixed disks (SSD and HDD) and build flexible virtual disks. Auto-tiering places hot data on SSDs and offers hot spares for fault tolerance.

Explore data deduplication in Windows Server 2019 by examining its components, how the deduplication process works under the hood, deployment steps, and backup and restore considerations and efficiencies gained.

Explore how data deduplication (dedupe) reduces storage costs by consolidating duplicate data and compressing it on volumes. See typical savings across documents, deployment shares, virtualization libraries, and file shares.

Explain how data deduplication scans files against optimization policies, chunks data into reusable pieces, stores unique chunks in a chunk store, and uses reparse points to rebuild files.

Install and enable data deduplication on server volumes (not the OS drive), configure per-volume settings for general file servers, and use a PowerShell data deduplication evaluation to estimate space savings.

Use data deduplication to halve backup storage and speed up backups and restores. Deduping 100 GB to 50 GB keeps backups in a deduplicated state, compatible with Windows Server backup.

Explore the DFS namespace and DFS replication, learn how to implement both solutions, and review use case scenarios to determine when they benefit your environment.

Explore how DFS namespace creates an artificial hierarchy across multiple servers, delivering a domain-based or standalone solution that lets users browse location for east, north west, and south west sales.

DFS replication copies a folder from one server to another to synchronize data across branch offices and hub sites, either bidirectionally or unidirectionally, and overwrites changes for non-collaborative editing.

Install and configure DFS namespace and replication on Windows Server 2019, create a domain-based namespace named Sales, map regional folders to remote shares, and present a hierarchical view for users.

Configure a DFS replication group across multiple servers, selecting full mesh topology, bandwidth schedules, and a primary member for initial replication, while adjusting staging quotas for efficient data syncing.

Explore Azure file sync to automatically replicate local file shares to Azure storage, enabling cloud backups to an Azure backup vault and bi-directional synchronization with secure SSL over port 443.

Demonstrates configuring Azure file sync between an on-premises server and Azure storage, creating a sales file share, mapping a z drive, and syncing with a sync group and registered servers.

Explore Hyper-V virtualization, Microsoft's platform for running multiple virtual machines on a single physical computer, each with its own operating system; learn configuration requirements and how to build virtual machines.

Explore Hyper-V and the Hyper-V Manager to create and configure virtual machines, and learn best practices for Hyper-V configurations.

Explore Hyper-V, Microsoft's virtualization role on Windows Server for running and migrating virtual machines across hosts. Supports Linux and other OS; portable to the Azure cloud.

Install the Hyper-V role on Windows Server 2019 using Server Manager or PowerShell, and verify installation with Get-WindowsFeature. Be aware Hyper-V may require a reboot after installation.

Install Hyper-V and the Hyper-V manager to configure and manage local and remote virtual machines, hosts, switches, and storage, via the graphical user interface, PowerShell, or Windows Admin Center.

Apply Hyper-V best practices by sizing hardware and memory, placing VMs on separate disks, monitoring resources, avoiding co-locating other server roles, and using dedicated drives for database VMs; manage remotely.

learn to run Hyper-V inside a virtual machine by enabling nested virtualization on a Windows Server 2016/2019 host or Windows 10 client, with RAM guidance and virtualization extensions via PowerShell.

Demonstrate nested virtualization on Windows Server 2019 by installing Hyper-V on a host, enabling virtualization extensions with set-VMProcessor, and handling post-install configuration in Hyper-V Manager.

Use Azure Migrate to migrate your on premise workloads, including applications, virtual machines, and databases, to Azure, using server assessment and server migration components.

Configure virtual machines by adjusting VM settings, selecting virtual hard disk types, and building virtual networks with switches, while managing checkpoints to revert to a previous state.

Compare gen one and gen two virtual machines: gen two uses uefi and 64-bit OS, supports secure boot and shielded VMs; default to gen two unless you need 32-bit OS.

Demonstrates creating a new Hyper-V virtual machine for Windows Server 2019, covering generation choice, memory configuration, network setup, virtual hard disk options, and attaching an ISO for installation.

Master Hyper-V virtual machine settings for Windows Server 2019, including hardware and management options, boot order, secure boot and TPM, shielding, memory configuration, and integration services.

Install Windows Server 2019 on a new virtual machine, configure a 127 GB VHD with NTFS, and create partitions. Complete by post-install tasks like renaming, IP, activation, and domain join.

Plan for storage of virtual hard disks with high-performance external connections on Hyper-V servers, ensure redundancy to avoid a single point of failure, and use storage pools for scalable growth.

Discover virtual hard disks in Hyper-V, including legacy VHDs and newer VDCs, with migration and format conversion. Explore fixed, dynamic, differencing, and pass-through disks for performance and testing.

Shut down the virtual machine, remove checkpoints, and edit the virtual hard drive to convert between VHD and VHDX, expand or shrink capacity, and perform compacting or fixed-size configurations.

Demonstrate creating a differencing virtual hard disk in Hyper-V and attaching it to a test VM, illustrating a parent-child disk relationship and space savings.

Explore the three types of Hyper-V virtual switches—external, internal, and private—and learn how each type governs connectivity between virtual machines, the host, and external networks.

Learn to create and manage Hyper-V virtual switches, choosing external, internal, or private types, and apply VLANs, SR-IOV, and bandwidth controls for isolated test networks.

Explore how Hyper-V handles VM states—from off to running, paused, and saved—and how production and standard checkpoints let you revert a VM to a specific moment in time.

Explore how to create, apply, and manage Hyper-V checkpoints in Windows Server 2019, revert to previous states, including automatic checkpoints, and understand where checkpoint data and configuration are stored.

Move a running VM between Hyper-V hosts with no downtime via live migration; changes replicate until completion, then traffic switches. Access through Hyper-V manager or PowerShell.

Demonstrate live migration prerequisites by preparing a virtual machine, renaming it to arts serve to, setting a static IP, connecting to V switch, joining the domain, and enabling Hyper-V nesting.

Shut down the VM, enable nested virtualization, and install Hyper-V on SVR2. Then configure a static IP and DNS, join the domain, and prepare live migration prerequisites for the lab.

Learn how to export and import virtual machines between Windows 10 and Hyper-V on Windows Server 2019, including register vs restore options, maintaining the same ID, and default storage locations.

Export a VM via Hyper-V manager to a folder or USB drive. Import it with the Hyper-V wizard, selecting the VM and import type: register in place, restore, or copy.

Learn how Hyper-V replica provides asynchronous replication from a primary site to a secondary site, enabling continuous availability during outages through per virtual machine replication, failover, and DNS updates.

Configure Hyper-V replica across domains or workgroups using Kerberos within the forest or certificate-based authentication for untrusted domains, and require membership in Hyper-V Administrators with group filtering and firewall rules.

Configure the target as a Hyper-V replica server using Kerberos over port 80, enable replication, set five-minute intervals and latest recovery points, and choose initial copy over network.

Create a Windows Server 2019 virtual machine in Azure, selecting a resource group, region, networking, and OS disk, then connect via RDP while considering availability options and cost controls.

Use the Azure pricing calculator to estimate monthly costs for Azure virtual machines, compare to on premise environments, adjust region, OS, and VM size, and explore pay-as-you-go and reserved pricing.

Explore the concept of an iSCSI SAN and walk through a full demonstration of setting up the iSCSI SAN.

Discover how Windows Server 2019 acts as an iSCSI target to create disks on back-end storage and expose them via a storage area network to front-end servers.

Learn to set up a Windows iSCSI SAN by creating an iSCSI target server, provisioning two 100 GB dynamically expanding disks, and connecting two hosts as initiators to access storage.

Explore failover clustering and high availability in Windows Server 2019, covering cluster components, quorum concepts, and planning considerations to eliminate single points of failure.

Identify failover clustering, nodes providing high availability and scalability for roles like file servers and virtual machines, ensuring no single point of failure with active and passive nodes.

Explore the core failover cluster components: two windows server 2019 nodes, a cluster storage volume (csv), and centralized storage with redundant connections and a dedicated heartbeat network.

Explore how a failover cluster uses quorum to maintain service by voting across nodes, with file share, disk, or azure cloud witnesses, preventing split-brain scenarios.

Use the validation wizard to verify your Windows Server 2019 failover cluster. Create the cluster, configure storage, networking, and roles, set quorum options, and manage cluster properties.

Validate your failover cluster configuration with the built-in wizard, then create the cluster and manage storage, network requirements, and preferred owners for failover.

Install and configure a failover cluster on Windows Server 2019, including adding clustering features, creating the cluster, configuring storage, and deploying a highly available file server across two nodes.

Configure failover cluster networks, node drain behavior, and evicting nodes in Windows Server 2019. Understand cluster aware updating and quorum options like disk or Azure cloud witness.

Learn to make a virtual machine highly available by configuring a Hyper-V failover cluster, placing VMs on cluster storage, and enabling failover, replication, and migrations.

Overview of Windows Server Backup explains how to enable the built-in tool, perform full server backups, and back up files, system state, and the Hyper-V configuration on separate schedules.

Backup Hyper-V from the host or inside VMs, offering centralized management and identical restore options. Enable integration services, NTFS basic disks, and VSS on all volumes for online backups.

Leverage Azure Backup to protect on-prem and Azure resources by backing up to the cloud, with encrypted data and a centralized Recovery Services Vault for flexible, scalable off-site protection.

Install and configure Windows Server backup, compare full server and custom backups, and select destination options like shared folders or disks with bare metal recovery.

Demonstrates how to locate, mount, and copy files from a Windows image backup stored on a shared folder, by mounting VHDs, assigning drive letters, and copying data.

Configure Windows Server 2019 to implement Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), keeping servers and clients current with updates, deploy to specific groups after testing, and manage group policy settings.

Master WSUS deployment options by implementing an ongoing update management process that approves, tests, and ensures critical and security updates are deployed across your Windows Server environment.

Set up and manage updates with WSUS to centralize Windows and Microsoft product patches on a local server, test deployment, control timing, and monitor update status to save bandwidth.

The lecture outlines WSUS requirements and deployment options, including processor, memory, disk space, network adapter, and .NET 4.0; it compares Windows internal database with SQL Server for updates.

Explore WSUS deployment options from a single server to a multi-server parent-child hierarchy, choosing autonomous mode or replica, and deciding between Windows internal database or SQL, to optimize update distribution.

Install and configure Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) by adding the WSUS role, selecting the Windows internal database, configuring update storage, and completing post-installation tasks.

Explore configuring Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) in a real-world setup, covering the initial wizard, offline sources, replica versus autonomous mode, synchronization, automatic approvals, and group policy integration.

Demonstrates wsus configuration by connecting the source to the internet, switching the virtual switch to external, and starting synchronization, noting offline failures and that the process can take some time.

Watch how to perform a full WSUS sync, observe the initial download of thousands of updates, and review the products and classifications list, with tips to avoid lengthy initial synchronization.