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70-290 Review Day 1: Introduction and briefing

I started reviewing the MCSA/MCSE Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment Self-Paced Training Kit today. The first chapter is just a briefing introduction of Windows Server 2003, nothing interesting and just something like product brochure. The difference between different versions of Windows Server 2003:

 

Web

Standard

Enterprise

Datacenter

SMP (symmetric multiprocessor)

2

4

8

32/64

RAM (GB)

2

4

32/64

64/512

Clustering

 

 

8

 

  • Microsoft Metadirectory Services (MMS), which enables the integration with Active Directory
  • Hot Add Memory
  • Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM), which supports the allocation of CPU and memory resources on a per-application basis

Networks were created on the day when the first user decided he or she didn��t want to walk down the hall to get something from another user.

tree vs. forest

  • Multiple domain models create logical structures called tress when they share contiguous DNS names.
  • An Active Directory forest includes all domains within that Active Directory. A forest may contain multiple domains in multiple trees, or just one domain.

The only computers or users that will be affected by a policy are those that are beneath the OU to which the policy is linked.

Above sentence is a citation from the book, it is a typical sentence from American computer manuals and guides, it is always wasting time to read such sentences.
Related link: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003

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