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■ Textbook Organization

This textbook is organized in nineteen lessons, with each lesson corresponding to a particular exam objective for the 70-410 Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 exam. This MOAC textbook covers all the learning objectives for the 70-410 certification exam, which is the first exam needed in order to obtain a Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) certification. The exam objectives are highlighted throughout the textbook.

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■ Lesson Features

Exam Objective

Key Terms

Certification Ready Alert

Configuring File and Share Access | 129

or create new ones, based on your users’ needs. Scheduling shadow copies to occur

too frequently can degrade server performance and cause copies to be aged out too

quickly, whereas scheduling them to occur too infrequently can cause users to lose

work because the most recent copy is too old.

8. Click OK twice to close the Schedule and Settings dialog boxes.

9. Click Enable. The system enables the Shadow Copies feature for the selected volume and creates the fi rst copy in the designated storage area.

CLOSE Windows Explorer.

After you complete this procedure, users can restore previous versions of fi les on the selected volumes from the Previous Versions tab on any fi le or folder’s Properties sheet.

NTFS quotas enable you to set a storage limit for users of a particular volume. Depending on how you confi gure the quota, users exceeding the limit can be denied disk space or just receive a warning. The space consumed by individuals users is measured by the size of the fi les they own or create.

NTFS quotas are relatively limited in that you can set only a single limit for all users of a volume. The feature is also limited in the actions it can take in response to a user exceeding the limit. The quotas in File Server Resource Manager, by contrast, are much more flexible in the nature of the limits you can set and the responses of the program, which can send e-mail notifications, execute commands, and generate reports, as well as log events.

To confi gure NTFS quotas for a volume, use the following procedure.

CONFIGURE NTFS QUOTAS

GET READY. Log on to Windows Server 2012, using an account with domain administrative privileges.

1. Click the Windows Explorer icon in the taskbar. The Windows Explorer window appears.

2. In the Folders list, expand the Computer container, right-click a volume and, from the context menu, select Properties. The Properties sheet for the volume appears.

3. Click the Quota tab to display the interface shown in Figure 4-31.

4. Select the Enable quota management check box to activate the rest of the controls.

5. If you want to prevent users from consuming more than their quota of disk space, select the Deny disk space to users exceeding quota limit check box.

6. Select the Limit disk space to radio button and specify amounts for the quota limit and the warning level.

■ Configuring NTFS Quotas

THE BOTTOM LINE

Managing disk space is a constant concern for server administrators. One way to prevent users from monopolizing large amount of storage is to implement quotas. Windows Server 2012 supports two types of storage quotas. The more elaborate of the two is implemented as part of File Server Resource Manager. The second, simpler option is NTFS quotas.

CERTIFICATION READY Configure NTFS quotas. Objective 2.1

Easy-to-Read Tables

Bottom Line Reader Aid

Why should the administrators of an enterprise network want users to store their fi les on shared server drives, rather than their local workstation drives? The answers to this question typically include the following:

• To enable users to collaborate on projects by sharing files

• To back up document files more easily

• To protect company information by controlling access to documents

• To reduce the number of shares needed on the network

• To prevent the need to share access to workstations

• To monitor users’ storage habits and regulate their disk-space consumption

• To insulate users from the sharing and permission assignment processes

Without these problems, fi le sharing would simply be a matter of creating a share on each user’s workstation and granting everyone full access to it. Because of these problems, however, this practice would lead to chaos in the form of lost fi les, corrupted workstations, and endless help calls from confused users.

■ Designing a File-Sharing Strategy

THE BOTTOM LINE

Decide where users should store their files and who should be permitted to access them.

7 0 - 4 1 0 E X A M O B J E C T I V E

Objective 2.2 – Confi gure print and document services. This objective may include but is not limited to: Confi gure the Easy Print print driver; confi gure Enterprise Print Management; confi gure drivers; confi gure printer pooling; confi gure print priorities; confi gure printer permissions.

LESSON HEADING EXAM OBJECTIVE

Deploying a Print Server

Understanding the Windows Print Architecture

Sharing a Printer

Managing Printer Drivers Configure drivers

Using Remote Access Easy Print Configure the Easy Print print driver

Configuring Printer Security Configure printer permissions

Managing Documents

Managing Printers Configure print priorities Configure printer pooling

Using the Print and Document Services Role

Using the Print Management Console Configure Enterprise Print Management

Configuring Print and Document Services

5LESSON

K E Y T E R M S

Enhanced Metafile (EMF)

print device

print server

printer

printer control language (PCL)

printer driver

printer pool

Remote Desktop Easy

Print

spooler

XML Paper Specification

(XPS)

Table 5-1

Basic Printer Permissions PERMISSION CAPABILITIES

ADVANCED PERMISSIONS

DEFAULT ASSIGNMENTS

Print • Connect to a printer

• Print documents

• Pause, resume, restart, and cancel the user’s own documents

• Print

• Read Permissions

Assigned to the Everyone special identity

Manage this printer

• Cancel all documents

• Share a printer

• Change printer properties

• Delete a printer

• Change printer permissions

• Print

• Manage Printers

• Read Permissions

• Change Permissions

• Take Ownership

Assigned to the Administrators group

Manage documents

• Pause, resume, restart, and cancel all users’ documents

• Control job settings for all documents

• Manage Documents

• Read Permissions

• Change Permissions

• Take Ownership

Assigned to the Creator Owner special identity

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Configuring File and Share Access | 99

developing a consistent directory structure and duplicating it on all the servers is a good idea so that if users have to access a server in another department, they can fi nd their way around.

A well-designed sharing strategy provides each user with three resources:

• A private storage space, such as a home folder, to which the user has exclusive access

• A public storage space, where users can store files that they want colleagues to be able to access

• Access to a shared workspace for communal and collaborative documents

One way to implement this strategy would be to create one share called Home, with a private folder for each user on it, and a second share called Public, again with a folder for each user. Depending on your network’s hardware confi guration, you could create both shares on a separate server for each department or workgroup, split the shares and folder among multiple servers in each department, or even create one big fi le server containing all the shares for the entire company.

MORE INFORMATION

Even if you split the Home and Public shares among multiple servers, you can still make them appear as a single

unified directory tree by using the Windows Server 2012 Distributed File System (DFS). See Objective 2.1,

“Configure Distributed File System (DFS),” in Exam 70-411, “Administering Windows Server 2012.”

✚

Controlling Access

On most enterprise networks, the principle of “least privileges” should apply. This principle states that users should have only the privileges they need to perform their required tasks, and no more.

A user’s private storage space should be exactly that—private and inaccessible, if not invisible, to other users. This is where each user can store his or her private fi les without exposing them to other users. Therefore, each user should have full privileges to his or her private storage with the ability to create, delete, read, write, and modify fi les. Other users should have no privileges to that space at all.

The easiest way to create private folders with the appropriate permissions for each user is to create a home folder through each Active Directory user object.

TAKE NOTE*

Each user should also have full privileges to his or her public folder. This is where users can share fi les informally. For example, when Ralph asks Alice for a copy of her budget spreadsheet, Alice can simply copy the fi le from her private folder to her public folder. Then, Ralph can copy the fi le from Alice’s public folder to his own private folder, and access it from there. Thus, public and private folders vary in that other users should be able to list the contents of all public folders and read the fi les stored there, but not be able to modify or delete fi les in any folder but their own. Users should also be able to navigate throughout the Public folder tree, so that they can read any user’s fi les and copy them to their own folders.

Although users should have full privileges to their personal folders, you should not leave their storage practices unmonitored or unregulated. Later in this lesson, you learn how to set NTFS quotas limiting users’ storage space.

TAKE NOTE*

Configuring File and Share Access | 99

developing a consistent directory structure and duplicating it on all the servers is a good idea so that if users have to access a server in another department, they can fi nd their way around.

A well-designed sharing strategy provides each user with three resources:

• A private storage space, such as a home folder, to which the user has exclusive access

• A public storage space, where users can store files that they want colleagues to be able to access

• Access to a shared workspace for communal and collaborative documents

One way to implement this strategy would be to create one share called Home, with a private folder for each user on it, and a second share called Public, again with a folder for each user. Depending on your network’s hardware confi guration, you could create both shares on a separate server for each department or workgroup, split the shares and folder among multiple servers in each department, or even create one big fi le server containing all the shares for the entire company.

MORE INFORMATION

Even if you split the Home and Public shares among multiple servers, you can still make them appear as a single

unified directory tree by using the Windows Server 2012 Distributed File System (DFS). See Objective 2.1,

“Configure Distributed File System (DFS),” in Exam 70-411, “Administering Windows Server 2012.”

✚

Controlling Access

On most enterprise networks, the principle of “least privileges” should apply. This principle states that users should have only the privileges they need to perform their required tasks, and no more.

A user’s private storage space should be exactly that—private and inaccessible, if not invisible, to other users. This is where each user can store his or her private fi les without exposing them to other users. Therefore, each user should have full privileges to his or her private storage with the ability to create, delete, read, write, and modify fi les. Other users should have no privileges to that space at all.

The easiest way to create private folders with the appropriate permissions for each user is to create a home folder through each Active Directory user object.

TAKE NOTE*

Each user should also have full privileges to his or her public folder. This is where users can share fi les informally. For example, when Ralph asks Alice for a copy of her budget spreadsheet, Alice can simply copy the fi le from her private folder to her public folder. Then, Ralph can copy the fi le from Alice’s public folder to his own private folder, and access it from there. Thus, public and private folders vary in that other users should be able to list the contents of all public folders and read the fi les stored there, but not be able to modify or delete fi les in any folder but their own. Users should also be able to navigate throughout the Public folder tree, so that they can read any user’s fi les and copy them to their own folders.

Although users should have full privileges to their personal folders, you should not leave their storage practices unmonitored or unregulated. Later in this lesson, you learn how to set NTFS quotas limiting users’ storage space.

TAKE NOTE*

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Windows versions prior to 2008 use the correct terminology in the Disk Management snap-in. The menus enable you to create partitions on basic disks and volumes on dynamic disks. Windows Server 2012 uses the term volume for both disk types, and enables you to create any of the available volume types, whether the disk is basic or dynamic. If the volume type you select is not supported on a basic disk, the wizard converts it to a dynamic disk as part of the volume creation process.

Despite the menus that refer to basic partitions as volumes, the traditional rules for basic disks remain in effect. The New Simple Volume menu option on a basic disk creates up to three primary partitions. When you create a fourth volume, the wizard actually creates an extended partition and a logical drive of the size you specify. If any space remains on the disk, you can create additional logical drives in the extended partition.

To create a new simple volume on a basic or dynamic disk using the Disk Management snap-in, use the following procedure.

CREATE A NEW SIMPLE VOLUME

GET READY. Log on to Windows Server 2012, using an account with Administrator privileges.

1. In the Server Manager window, click Tools > Computer Management.

2. In the Computer Management console, click Disk Management.

3. In the Graphical View of the Disk Management snap-in, right-click an unallocated

disk area on which you want to create a volume. From the context menu, select

New Simple Volume. The New Simple Volume Wizard appears.

4. Click Next to dismiss the Welcome page. The Specify Volume Size page appears, as

shown in Figure 3-25.

Creating a Simple Volume

Technically speaking, you create partitions on basic disks and volumes on dynamic disks. This is not just an arbitrary change in nomenclature. Converting a basic disk to a dynamic disk actually creates one big partition, occupying all space on the disk. The volumes you create on the dynamic disk are logical divisions within that single partition.

Figure 3-25

The Specify Volume Size page

When you use

DiskPart.exe, a command-line

utility included with Windows

Server 2012, to manage basic

disks, you can create four primary

partitions, or three primary

partitions and one extended

partition. The DiskPart.exe utility

contains a superset of the

commands supported by the Disk

Management snap-in. In other

words, DiskPart can do everything

Disk Management can do, and

more. However, while the Disk

Management Snap-in prevents

you from unintentionally

performing actions that might

result in data loss, DiskPart has

no safeties, and thus does not

prohibit you from performing such

actions. For this reason, Microsoft

recommends that only advanced

users use DiskPart and that they

use it with due caution.

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Informative Diagrams

X Ref Reader Aid

Configuring File and Share Access | 129

or create new ones, based on your users’ needs. Scheduling shadow copies to occur

too frequently can degrade server performance and cause copies to be aged out too

quickly, whereas scheduling them to occur too infrequently can cause users to lose

work because the most recent copy is too old.

8. Click OK twice to close the Schedule and Settings dialog boxes.

9. Click Enable. The system enables the Shadow Copies feature for the selected volume and creates the fi rst copy in the designated storage area.

CLOSE Windows Explorer.

After you complete this procedure, users can restore previous versions of fi les on the selected volumes from the Previous Versions tab on any fi le or folder’s Properties sheet.

NTFS quotas enable you to set a storage limit for users of a particular volume. Depending on how you confi gure the quota, users exceeding the limit can be denied disk space or just receive a warning. The space consumed by individuals users is measured by the size of the fi les they own or create.

NTFS quotas are relatively limited in that you can set only a single limit for all users of a volume. The feature is also limited in the actions it can take in response to a user exceeding the limit. The quotas in File Server Resource Manager, by contrast, are much more flexible in the nature of the limits you can set and the responses of the program, which can send e-mail notifications, execute commands, and generate reports, as well as log events.

To confi gure NTFS quotas for a volume, use the following procedure.

CONFIGURE NTFS QUOTAS

GET READY. Log on to Windows Server 2012, using an account with domain administrative privileges.

1. Click the Windows Explorer icon in the taskbar. The Windows Explorer window appears.

2. In the Folders list, expand the Computer container, right-click a volume and, from the context menu, select Properties. The Properties sheet for the volume appears.

3. Click the Quota tab to display the interface shown in Figure 4-31.

4. Select the Enable quota management check box to activate the rest of the controls.

5. If you want to prevent users from consuming more than their quota of disk space, select the Deny disk space to users exceeding quota limit check box.

6. Select the Limit disk space to radio button and specify amounts for the quota limit and the warning level.

■ Configuring NTFS Quotas

THE BOTTOM LINE

Managing disk space is a constant concern for server administrators. One way to prevent users from monopolizing large amount of storage is to implement quotas. Windows Server 2012 supports two types of storage quotas. The more elaborate of the two is implemented as part of File Server Resource Manager. The second, simpler option is NTFS quotas.