1.
Speed Secrets of the User Interface
- Customizing
the
Task Bar
- Learning shortcuts
to the shortcuts
- Controlling file
associations
- Preventing the most
common errors users make
2.
Understanding 2000’s Architecture
- Not your father’s OS
- Understanding HAL,
Kernel, and 2000 Executive Services
- Following the 2000 Boot
Sequence
- Hardware and software
compatibility issues
3.
Planning & Installation
- Checking system
compatibility with the new hidden tool
- Configure and
partition disk subsystems for successful NTFS installation
- Ensure foolproof,
successful installations - every time!
- Dual-boot or
Multi-boot - do it right
4.
Automating 2000 Deployment
- Learn undocumented
secrets for unattended script installations
- Using the Uniqueness
Difference Files to automate multiple installations
- Unleash the power of
SYSDIFF.EXE to distribute applications and data
- Learn how to clone a
system successfully
5.
Windows 2000 Hardware Driver Secrets
- How Windows 2000
eliminates this problem
- Fixing bad drivers
- Tuning drivers for
optimum performance
- How and where to get
latest releases
- Making Plug-and-Play
behave
6.
Directory Services
- How Windows 2000
eliminates the old problems and introduces many new ones
- Compatibility issues
between Windows NT and Windows
2000
- Discover the tools
that will ease the pain in transition
- Learn the simple way
to add multiple new users
- Manage users in the
one way that will keep you from reorganizing in the future
- Discover how to
“edit” rather than “replace” permissions
- Understand
Microsoft’s “magic numbers” -
SIDs
- Trace permissions
using Resource Kit utilities
- Leverage the
difference between permissions, rights and capabilities
- Learn when logon
scripts outperform profiles
- Script effective
mappings to network resources
- Implement resource
access and logon auditing
7.
Administering Domains
- Learn how the PDC
validates user access to the domain network resources
- See how Windows 2000
eliminates some of the domain problems and creates new ones
- Discover the
advantages and limitations of the Master Domain structure
- Allow users to log on
to multiple workgroups, servers and applications with trust relationships
and pass-through validation
8.
Resource Access
- Create user home
directories automatically
- Learn why share
permissions create potential security problems
- Create individual and
group profiles
- Make users’ desktops
“indestructible” with mandatory profiles
- Eradicate a deadly
hidden permission
9.
The Windows 2000 Registry
- Working with the
Registry
- Saving and Restoring
the Registry
- Automating Registry
Updates
- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
- HKEY_USERS
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
- Protect the Registry
from malicious or accidental reconfiguration
10.
Managing System Policies
- Restrict user behavior
with System Policy Editor
- Where policies fit
into your environment
- Requirements to
implement System Policies
- Defining policies by
User, Group and Computer
- Managing priorities
between groups and individual user policies
- Using existing ADM
templates to define policies
- Creating your own ADM
templates
11.
Server Configuration &
Optimization
- Reduce memory
requirements and tweak disk cache size
- Boost paging file
(virtual memory) performance
- Turbocharge
processor-intensive applications
- Rebuild security
easily with RDISK
- Upgrade disk capacity
without losing data accessibility
- Learn why compression
increases network security and performance
- Examine applications,
handles, threads and priorities
- Learn how Windows 2000 handles crashes and system lockups
- Deploy additional
virtual machines for enhanced WIN16 stability
- Protect your Registry
from near and long-term failures
- Recover from Registry
crashes and the dreaded “Blue Screen of Death”
- Exploit Performance
Monitor to isolate bottlenecks
- Learn how to correctly
tweak service priorities
12.
Network Configuration &
Optimization
- Determining which
network protocol is best for you: TCP/IP, NWLink (IPX/SPX), NetBEUI
- Crash course in TCP/IP
Essentials
- Troubleshoot
inaccessible systems using Event Viewer and Performance Monitor
- Shutdown problem
servers or machines from remote locations
- Start and stop
services from any location
- Learn to analyze data
packet captures
- Update all or selected
nodes with hot Resource Kit and Windows 2000 tools
- Use Network Monitor to
check bandwidth utilization and capture information for analysis
- Gather detailed
information of a remote system using Diagnostics
13.
Remote Administration and Wide Area Networks
- How to establish a RAS
connection and service
- How to use Remote
Access Server (RAS, RRAS) to make a WAN connection
- How to create Virtual
Private Networks using Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP), L2TP and
IPSec
- Windows Proxy
configurations
14.
Windows 2000 Security
- Why
Windows 2000 has been
criticized
- Workarounds for the
lack of security
- Protecting against
viruses and other attacks
- How to use the NetBIOS
Auditing Tool to check for easy-to-crack user names and passwords
- How L0phtCrack quickly
and easily pulls user names and passwords from your Windows 2000 system and
how to set-up your system to protect against it
- Is BackORIFICE a virus
or a utility?
- How NTFSDOS works and
how to protect against it
- When and how to apply
Microsoft’s security patches
- Finding out about new
vulnerabilities and protecting yourself proactively
15.
Service Packs, Updates and Staying Current
- When is it safe to
deploy a Service Pack?
- Fixing what isn’t
broken
- Best strategies for
success
- Resources to help you
keep current
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