Windows Server 2022 Administration

Explore the essentials of Windows Server 2022, covering requirements, additions, deployment options, and core configurations. Learn administrative methods and tools to manage Windows Server.

Explore Windows Server editions, hardware requirements, and deployment options, and understand servicing channels that determine upgrade frequency. Set up a licensing server and enable client activation through Windows Server.

Explore Windows Server 2022 editions for small business essentials, standard, data center, and Azure edition, highlighting unlimited virtual licenses in data center and two licenses in standard.

Discover Azure edition features that boost uptime with no reboot hot patch, secure smb over quic with tls 1.3, and extend Azure to preserve on-prem private ip addresses during migration.

Explore how Windows Server 2022 integrates with Microsoft Azure, covering Azure subscriptions, virtual machines, storage, file shares, Entra ID, and on-premises AD synchronization; bonus module covers configuration.

Launch and explore the Azure Edition by selecting virtual machines and choosing Windows Server 2022 Azure Edition from the image list in the Azure Marketplace, where many OS options exist.

Understand the hardware requirements for Windows server 2022, including a 64-bit processor, 512 MB–2 GB RAM (desktop experience vs server core), 32 GB disk space, and a gigabit network adapter.

Demonstrates using the Microsoft lifecycle policy site to find start and end dates, retirement notices, and hardware requirements for Windows Server 2022, plus verifying your current version with winver.

Learn to deploy Windows Server 2022 with clean installs or in-place upgrades, choosing architecture and desktop experience, and configuring initial Hyper-V VM settings.

Create a new Hyper-V virtual machine, configure generation two, assign dynamic memory, attach Windows Server 2022 ISO, and set an external virtual switch for internet access.

Install Windows Server 2022 on a new VM, choose data center with the desktop experience, perform a clean custom install, set the administrator password, and complete setup.

Configure ip addressing and dns for a domain controller hosting active directory domain services. Use 192.168.1.250 as the dns server and 192.168.1.251 for the member server, with no gateways.

Open server manager to verify activation status and complete post-install tasks. Configure a static IPv4 address and DNS server, then rename the server for an upcoming domain controller deployment.

Windows Server 2022 offers two servicing channels: LTSC for long-term stability with updates but no new features, and the semi-annual channel for faster feature updates with 18 months of support.

License Windows Server 2022 by cores, with a 16-core minimum per server and 8-core per processor. Acquire CALs per user or device for concurrent connections, and note Hyper-V limits.

Learn Windows activation methods: manual keys, KMS, AD-based activation, and automatic VM activation, and how DNS detects KMS hosts to activate devices.

Install and configure volume activation services on Windows Server 2022, choosing KMS or Active Directory based activation and using Volume Activation Tools.

Demonstrates using the slmgr.vbs script to manage licensing on Windows Server 2022, including activation (ATO), displaying license information (DLI), and checking expiration (/expr), with KMS options and port changes.

Compare Windows server core and desktop experience, choosing when to deploy each. Learn local post-install tasks, renaming, domain joining, IP configuration, and remote management using sconfig, PowerShell, and feature installation.

Explore server core as a minimal, GUI-free installation using PowerShell and command line, delivering a smaller footprint, reduced attack surface, and remote GUI management, with setup and Sconfig guidance.

Watch how to install server core on a Windows Server 2022 virtual machine using a Hyper-V workflow, configure network settings, rename the computer, and explore sconfig post-install options.

Demonstrates creating a new Hyper-V virtual machine named SVR1, installing Windows Server 2022, and completing post-install tasks such as activation, IP configuration, DNS settings, and renaming.

Harness Copilot, a Microsoft conversational AI powered assistant integrated across Windows, Azure, and Microsoft 365, offering memory, real-time web search, content generation, image tools, and step-by-step task help.

Learn how copilot guides you through setting an IP address using the Windows control panel, Network and Sharing Center, and IPv4 properties.

Explore Active Directory Domain Services on Windows Server 2022, deploy domain controllers, and implement group policy to manage users and computers across environments.

Understand workgroups and domains, and learn essential Active Directory terms and forests. Explore Active Directory objects—users, computers, and groups—domain controllers, and the Global Catalog.

Compare workgroup and domain architectures, highlighting centralized authentication in domains versus local accounts in workgroups. Explain how domain controllers and active directory enable scalable, centralized administration.

Compare domain and workgroup concepts by showing how a domain enforces policies set by administrators, while a workgroup offers autonomy and individual rule-making.

Verify domain or workgroup status via system properties in settings, Windows 11. Join a domain with credentials or change the workgroup name.

Explore Active Directory domain services terms, including domains, domain trees, forests, organizational units, containers, domain controllers, read-only domain controllers, plus replication and administrative boundaries and trust relationships.

Active Directory manages user objects, groups, and computer objects to enforce authentication and access control, with groups simplifying read permissions across data and domain resources.

Configure IP and DNS for a domain controller to support active directory domain services, with DNS name resolution, resource location, and credential authentication for domain joins.

Demonstrates installing Active Directory domain services on Windows Server 2022, configuring the domain name system server, and promoting a domain controller to create the forest and domain.

Create a new user, configure password options, and assign group membership in Active Directory users and computers. Apply group permissions to a shared folder to illustrate group-based access control.

Demonstrates joining a desktop experience server to the domain, checking ip/dns, and signing in with a domain administrator. Also shows using server manager for remote management of the domain-joined server.

Join the core server to the domain by configuring a static IP and DNS, and domain credentials, then restart to sign in and manage remotely.

Organizational units and containers organize Active Directory objects; apply group policy objects at the OU level, delegate permissions, noting containers cannot host GPOs, with policies differing for laptops and desktops.

Create and organize an active directory structure with organizational units and containers, delegate control at the Sydney OU, and understand protection from accidental deletion and group policy scope.

Host Active Directory domain services database on domain controllers, store users, computers, and groups in the Ntcip file, and ensure redundancy with two controllers for Kerberos via the KDC.

Explore the Active Directory domain controller by locating the NTDS.dit database and its logs. Review the SYSVOL file share containing group policies and scripts used by policies.

Enable global catalog to provide a forest-wide directory of users with searchable attributes, replicated across domain controllers within a domain and across domains, improving Outlook address lookups and site efficiency.

Identify and manage Global Catalog servers using Active Directory sites and services; toggle the Global Catalog checkbox on a domain controller to promote or remove Global Catalog status.

Explore group policy objects across user and computer accounts, including domain-based GPOs and policy preferences, then examine inheritance, processing, and how to use gpupdate and gpresult with demonstrations.

Leverage group policy objects to enforce security settings, desktop configurations, folder redirection, and network controls across users and computers, with more than 3500 configurations.

Redirect the documents folder for sales users to a shared folder via a group policy object, ensuring seamless access across computers and automatic saving to the centralized location.

Identify the two default GPOs: default domain policy and default domain controllers policy. Active Directory creates and links them to domain level, applying to all users, computers, and domain controllers.

Demonstrates restoring default policies in Windows Server 2022 using the DC GPO fix tool to restore both default domain policy and default domain controllers policy, or target one.

Apply group policy preferences to domain-joined computers as a flexible baseline that users can modify. Use item level targeting by operating system, IP range, or Mac address to tailor configurations.

Demonstrates mapping a network drive using group policy preferences in Windows Server 2022, by creating a sales managers group, a shared sales-reports folder, and a GPO with item-level targeting.

discover how group policy applies in four levels: local, site, domain, and organizational unit. learn how precedence works so OU policies override domain, site, and local settings in conflicts.

Demonstrates group policy processing order across domain and OUs, showing how linked GPOs, inheritance, and precedence affect settings. Learn to reorder GPOs to resolve conflicts and enforce most powerful policy.

Explore how to alter group policy processing using block inheritance, domain level enforcement, and security filtering to control which users and groups receive policies.

Block inheritance, enforce GPOs, and use security filtering to determine which group policies apply to sales users by adjusting scope, precedence, and targeted groups.

Gpupdate is a command line utility that processes group policy changes since Windows 2000. Without switches, it updates incrementally; with /force, it reprocesses all policies on the client.

Use gpresult to verify group policy application, view user and computer configurations, generate an html report, and troubleshoot with gpupdate and event viewer for mapped drives and folder redirection.

Master Windows Server 2022 administration through least privileged administration, Active Directory delegation, and jump servers, and use PowerShell with Windows Server Admin Center, Server Manager, and Arsat on clients.

Map Active Directory sites to IP subnets to control replication and service localization across locations; leverage local domain controllers for authentication and apply site-based group policy.

Apply least privilege by using separate admin and non-admin accounts. Grant only the permissions needed and manage groups for read-only or read-write access.

Demonstrate least privilege by signing in as a standard user and running tools as an administrator with run as different user; shift-right-click reveals this option in Server Manager.

Configure delegated privileges for non-admin users using the delegation of control wizard in Windows Server 2022, enabling creation or resetting of accounts without delete rights in Active Directory.

Delegate control in Active Directory using the delegate control wizard to assign granular tasks at an OU or domain level, including creating users while restricting deletion and considering group policy.

Explore how a jump server in Windows Server 2022 Administration acts as a hardened middleman to securely manage internal production servers from a perimeter network, with centralized authentication and monitoring.

discover how Windows admin center consolidates admin tools into a single web console, enabling you to manage on premise servers, failover clusters, Hyper-V, Windows 10/11 clients, and Azure resources.

Discover how to install and use Windows Admin Center to remotely manage Windows Server 2022 instances, monitor performance, configure firewalls, manage files, run PowerShell, and administer local and Azure resources.

Learn to use server manager to manage local and remote servers, group them for easy management, configure core settings, monitor performance, and apply best practice analyzers with Azure integration.

Navigate the server manager to review local server properties, manage updates, and monitor events, services, and best practices analyzer results for a domain controller.

Enable remote server administration tools (RSAT) on Windows 10 or 11 to manage server roles from a client, installing Active Directory services, DHCP, DNS, and group policy.

Learn PowerShell fundamentals for Windows Server 2022 administration, including verb-noun syntax, commandlets and modules, GUI versus PowerShell, and remote management.

Learn to use PowerShell help to locate commands like Get-EventLog, view syntax with full help, and leverage PowerShell ISE IntelliSense to create and run VPN connection scripts.

Explore the Active Directory Administrative Center, a PowerShell-based graphical interface for managing users, groups, and OUs, and compare it to Active Directory Users and Computers on Windows Server 2022.

discover how to generate and run powershell scripts with ai tools like chatgpt to list disk space on windows server 2022, and test scripts in a safe environment.

Configure and manage DHCP to automatically assign IP addresses to Windows, Linux, Mac, and mobile devices across home networks and enterprise environments, using Microsoft's DHCP on Windows Server.

Install and configure dhcp, set up scopes, authorize with Active Directory, and implement dhcp failover for high availability to ensure uninterrupted ip address assignment.

Learn how DHCP automates IP configuration for Windows, Mac, and Linux devices using scopes and the discover, offer, request, acknowledge handshake with 50% and 87.5% renewals.

open Wireshark to capture ethernet traffic, then observe DHCP discover, offer, request, and acknowledge packets, alongside ipconfig release and renew, revealing how a DHCP server assigns an IP address.

Isolate virtual machines by converting a Hyper-V virtual switch from external to private in Windows Server 2022 Administration, safeguarding DHCP from external networks.

Install DHCP using Windows Admin Center, Server Manager, or PowerShell, create DHCP administrators and DHCP users groups, and configure address ranges and leases.

Configure dhcp scopes to manage IP addresses with start and end ranges, subnet mask, and exclusions, then authorize dhcp servers to prevent rogue servers and ensure reliable leases.

Install dhcp on a domain controller using server manager or remote powershell, plan subnets, scopes, and exclusions, and complete post deployment configuration with Dhcp administrators and Dhcp users.

Learn to configure a DHCP server in Windows Server 2022, including scope creation, authorization, gateway and DNS settings, reservations, and activating scopes.

Learn how to achieve DHCP high availability with split scope using non-overlapping scopes, or DHCP failover that replicates a scope between two servers, offering load balancing or hot standby.

Demonstrates configuring DHCP high availability with a secondary server, split scopes, and failover options. Explains load balancing and hot standby, including exclusions, renewals, and deactivation for safe testing.

Explore managing the Domain Name System (DNS), which resolves names like google.com to IP addresses and powers application servers, web servers, database servers, file servers, and Active Directory.

Explore the components of DNS, including records and zones, and learn to create and manage DNS records and zones, configure DNS forwarding, and integrate DNS with Active Directory.

Explore the dns components, including public/private namespaces, top-level domains, fully qualified domain names, dns zones, resource records, dns servers, resolvers, and the name resolution process.

Explain how DNS resolves a domain to an IP address using local cache, hosts file, and recursive and iterative queries, with load balancing and TTL concepts.

Explore common DNS records such as A, AAAA, CNAME (alias), SRV, and PTR, and learn how forward and reverse lookups, dynamic registration, and Windows Admin Center support DNS administration.

Explore DNS records in Windows Server 2022, including forward lookup zones and host A records. Create a web01 host and a www alias to resolve to its IP.

Explore DNS zones, including forward lookup zones and reverse lookup zones, and the four zone types—primary, secondary, stub, and Active Directory integrated—and how they store, replicate, and locate records.

Install DNS on Windows Server 2022 using Server Manager and PowerShell, and include management tools to access the full graphical DNS management experience.

Explore how DNS zones diagram compares primary and secondary DNS, stub zones, and Active Directory integrated zones, illustrating load balancing, caching, and secure dynamic updates across the WAN.

Demonstrates creating a primary dns zone contoso.local with dynamic updates and aging scavenging, adding a host record pc01, then configuring a secondary, read-only zone via zone transfers.

Convert a standard DNS zone to an Active Directory integrated zone to enable secure-only dynamic updates, and set replication to the domain by default.

Learn to create a reverse lookup zone in Windows Server 2022, configure AD integrated replication to all domain controllers, and manage pointer records for host mappings.

Learn how DNS forwarding and root hints enable internet name resolution, using forwarders and conditional forwarders, stub zones, and a perimeter network for secure, non-local domain resolution.

Configure dns forwarding and conditional forwarders, explore route hints and root hints, and create a root zone to isolate a dns server to local zones.

Explore managing file servers and storage in Windows Server 2022 by configuring volumes and file systems, setting sharing and permissions, and deploying storage spaces, deduplication, and a distributed file system.

Explore file system security, including file and folder level security, permission inheritance, NFS and share permissions, quotas via file server resource manager, and file screens to restrict types.

Explore Windows file systems, including NTFS, FAT, exFAT, and ReFS, and learn how permissions, auditing, encryption, and compression apply to data drives.

Apply NTFS permissions to users or groups to control access. Compare read, read and execute, write, modify, full control, and list folder contents; clarify folder-level vs file-level permissions.

Explore how NTFS permissions combine across user and group memberships to yield the effective highest permission, with deny trumping allow and the practical implications for administration.

Learn how share permissions and NTFS permissions interact to yield effective access using read, read and execute, modify, and full control, and why the lowest versus highest rule matters.

Configure NTFS and share permissions on a Windows Server 2022 folder, assign Harvey to finance groups, and use effective access to see how permissions flow to files.

Demonstrates configuring NTFS and sharing permissions in Active Directory by using a temp account, creating a temp finance group, and applying explicit deny to prior-year folders to restrict access.

Configure advanced NTFS permissions to let sales managers delete only files, not folders, by enabling modify with delete disabled on subfolders and files and applying it to files only.

Explore how NTFS inheritance works in Windows Server 2022, including disabling inheritance, converting inherited permissions to explicit, and administrative considerations for sales reports 2023.

Enable the File Server Resource Manager to create per-folder quotas, monitor usage, and enforce space limits with alerts. Use file screening to restrict allowed extensions and block disallowed files.

Demonstrates installing file server resource manager (fsrm) via server manager, adding roles and features under file and storage services, and verifying completion in administrative tools.

Demonstrates configuring a 25 GB hard quota in file server resource manager, setting 90% usage alerts, email notifications and event log entries, and managing quota templates for derived quotas.

Create and manage file screens in Windows Server 2022 to block or monitor audio and video files using templates and custom file groups, with audit reports.

Learn to manage file systems and volumes in Windows Server, including basic and dynamic disks, their differences and use cases, and raid redundancy.

Compare basic disks and dynamic disks, and see how volumes replace partitions on drives. Learn about simple, span, striped, mirrored volumes and raid 5 parity for data integrity and performance.

Windows server 2022 raid demo demonstrates attaching three extra disks, initializing them, converting to dynamic disks, and creating a raid 5 volume with redundancy.

Learn to create and manage virtual hard disks (vhd/vhdx), choose dynamic or fixed sizing, attach and format them, monitor per process disk activity, and secure volumes with encryption.

Explore storage spaces to combine multiple disks into large, accessible server storage, examine different deployment scenarios, and learn how to implement this solution.

Combine any type of disk into a single storage pool, create virtual disks with drive letters, and extend capacity while using hot spares for fault tolerance.

Create a storage pool on Windows Server 2022 by adding disks, then provision a thin 200 GB virtual disk with an NTFS volume at drive L.

Explore the data deduplication components, the deduplication process, deployment steps, and backup and restore considerations for this service.

Enable data deduplication to optimize volume space by identifying duplicates, consolidating them, and compressing data for significant storage savings.

Windows Server 2022 deduplication scans the file system according to an optimization policy, chunks data into pieces, stores duplicates once in a chunk store, and rebuilds files via reparse points.

Plan and deploy data deduplication by choosing target volumes, evaluating potential space savings with the DDP eval tool, and configuring policies and scheduling before installation.

Install data deduplication on Windows Server 2022, evaluate space savings with ddp eval, and configure throughput or background optimization schedules for a file server.

Demonstrates how deduplication halves backup size and keeps data in a deduplicated state for fast backups and restores, with Windows Server Backup supporting deduped data.

Explore the DFS namespace and DFS replication, then walk through a full implementation of both components to demonstrate hands-on setup and integration.

Explore DFS namespace, creating an artificial hierarchy that aggregates multiple regional shares into one navigable path. Learn domain-based vs standalone deployment, linking servers under a namespace for seamless end-user access.

Dfs replication replicates a folder from one server to another, enabling file sharing across branch offices over the wan with bi-directional or unidirectional options and no built-in collaboration.

Configure a dfs namespace in Windows Server 2022 to provide a domain-based, single location for east and southwest sales shares, with target paths mapped to individual servers.

Demonstrates configuring a DFS replication group for bi-directional replication between two servers, including topology, staging quota, primary member, and bandwidth-aware replication scheduling.

Implement Hyper-V virtualization to run multiple virtual machines on a single host, enabling efficient consolidation and management within Windows Server 2022.

Understand Hyper-V fundamentals and the Hyper-V manager. Explore the components within the tool and best practices for various Hyper-V configuration types.

Explore how Hyper-V on Windows Server 2022 enables hardware virtualization, creating and managing virtual machines running Windows, Linux, or client OS, with migration and built-in disaster recovery and backup.

Explore how the Hyper-V manager, a graphical user interface, lets you manage local and remote Hyper-V machines, create and monitor virtual machines, virtual switches, and settings from a centralized console.

Learn Hyper-V best practices for efficient virtualization, ensuring adequate hardware resources, monitoring usage, separating disks for VMs, and remote management via Hyper-V manager or server core.

Explore nested virtualization with Hyper-V by enabling virtualization extensions on a virtual machine to run Hyper-V inside a guest, supported on Windows Server 2016–2022, with static RAM considerations.

Learn to install Hyper-V on Windows Server 2022 via Server Manager, including handling nested virtualization in a virtual machine and configuring virtual switches, with PowerShell to expose virtualization extensions.

Demonstrates how to configure Hyper-V host settings on Windows 11 and server editions, including default paths, numa spanning, storage migrations, and enhanced session mode for device redirection.

Configure virtual machines by mastering settings, virtual hard disks, and virtual networking, and manage checkpoints to ensure reliable server virtualization.

Choose generation two for most virtual machines, as it supports 64-bit OS, secure boot, shielded VMs, and larger boot volumes, while generation one remains for 32-bit OS and legacy setups.

Review the upcoming lessons that cover creating a Hyper-V virtual machine and installing Windows Server 2022. Skip these tasks if you are already familiar.

Create a new Hyper-V virtual machine with generation two, 4 GB memory, and a 127 GB dynamic disk; connect to an external switch to install Windows Server 2022 from ISO.

Demonstrates creating a generation two virtual machine, configuring startup and dynamic memory, storage with VHD and ISO handling, network options, and security features like secure boot and TPM.

Demonstrates installing Windows Server 2022 on a new virtual machine, choosing data center with the desktop experience and performing a clean install via custom partitioning.

Understand Hyper-V storage planning with high-performance, redundant storage; compare VHD and VD formats; choose fixed or dynamic disks; explore differencing disks, parent-child setups, and passthrough for production and lab environments.

Power off the virtual machine, edit the vhdx under the scsi controller to compact and reclaim space, and optionally convert between vhd and vhdx while expanding to a max size.

Learn how to create and use a differencing disk in Hyper-V, connecting a child differencing disk to a read-only parent VHD, and manage checkpoints in a Windows Server 2022 lab.

Examine Hyper-V virtual networking by using three switch types: external, internal, and private. External provides network and internet access; internal and private keep VMs isolated, with flexible switch management.

Configure Hyper-V virtual switches to external, internal, or private modes, attach them to network adapters, and manage connectivity, isolation, VLAN tagging, and bandwidth.

Discover how virtual machines transition between off, starting, running, paused, and saved states, with memory retained, and how production and standard checkpoints enable reverting to a specific moment.

Learn to manage Hyper-V checkpoints in Windows Server 2022 by creating, applying, and deleting manual and automatic checkpoints, changing checkpoint locations, and reverting to prior states.

Export and import virtual machines between Windows machines and Hyper-V, and learn when to register, restore, or copy, plus how IDs and default locations affect running VMs.

Implement Windows print server to centrally manage all printers from a single console, deploy printers, troubleshoot print issues, and monitor how printers are working from a centralized server.

Learn how a Windows print server works and the best practices for implementing and managing it, including type three and type four printers, print permissions, pooling, and priority.

A Windows print server centralizes management of all printers, drivers, and print jobs, enabling easy installation, troubleshooting, and security across multiple locations through spooling and centralized administration.

Discover how a Windows print server receives, spools, and forwards print jobs to printers, monitors queues and issues, and notifies users, with deployment via print server role and group policy.

Use a dedicated print server to boost performance and reliability; test and deploy updated drivers, configure permissions to limit printing and printer management, and monitor usage for growth.

Compare type three and type four printers, noting that manufacturer drivers for type four may differ in features from Microsoft drivers and Windows compatibility.

Demonstrates configuring printer redirection in Hyper-V, adding a local or network printer with manual settings, sharing it, and installing the Windows Server 2022 print and document services with print management.

Explore the three print permissions in Windows: print, manage documents, and manage printer. Learn how default settings and the managed printer allow control over print queue, permissions, and printer properties.

Configure and publish a printer in Active Directory, adjust sharing and permissions, and guide users to connect by finding a printer in the directory on Windows clients.

Enable printer pooling in Windows Server 2022 to pool multiple printers into a single logical printer and balance print jobs based on queue length, using the same print driver.

Enable printer pooling in Windows Server 2022 administration by adding a second local printer on LPT2, sharing it, and enabling pooling so jobs go to printer with the smallest queue.

Explore how Windows Server print priority works by using two logical printers (p1 users, p1 managers); higher-priority managers leapfrog others without interrupting current jobs.

Configure printer priority on a Windows Server 2022 by adding local and shared printers, assigning ports like Lp3, and setting priorities 1 and 99 to manage the print queue.

Explore the print management console to manage drivers, forms, ports, and printers across local and remote servers; deploy printers via group policy and monitor queues with custom filters.

Explore disaster recovery in Windows Server 2022 by examining the native backup and restore utility built into the platform.

Explore an overview of Windows Server Backup, implement backup and restore on the server and virtual machines, and review Azure Backup for backing on premise resources directly to the cloud.

Discover how Windows Server Backup, built into the OS, supports full server, system state (including Active Directory), and file backups, plus Hyper-V configuration and VM backups, all scheduled via PowerShell.

Explore Azure backup as a cloud-based off-site protection that can replace or extend on-prem backups, with encryption, unlimited storage, and support for on-prem and Azure virtual machines.

Back up Hyper-V virtual machines from the host or inside the VM, including virtual hard disks. Enable VSS on all volumes and ensure integration services for no-downtime online backups.

Install and configure Windows Server Backup from Server Manager, choose full server or custom backups, back up VMs and data to a remote share, and mount backups for data recovery.

Use the recovery wizard to restore data and a Hyper-V VM from a remote backup, selecting files, folders, or the VM and handling overwrite options and ACLs.