Windows Server 2003 - Step-by-step guides for deployment

The Microsoft Web site provides tutorials that you can use to learn about and deploy the operating system. These technical walkthroughs provide step-by-step instructions and illustrations for installing and configuring key features.

You can access the Step-by-Step Guides at the Microsoft Web site(http://www.microsoft.com/).

The following list includes some of the topics that you can find in these guides:

Infrastructure
- Building a common network infrastructure

Active Directory
- Setting up additional domain controllers
- Delegating control of objects
- Managing Active Directory
- Managing replication topology
- Using LDAP and VBScript to manage Active Directory
- Extending Active Directory using the Schema and display specifiers

Management service
- Understanding Group Policy
- Managing remote installation of the operating system
- Managing application deployments for groups of users and computers
- Managing user data and user settings

Security services
Setting up and configuring certificates
- Setting up a certification authority
- Configuring a domain to trust an external certification authority
- Managing Certificate Services
- Obtaining and managing certificates
- Configuring automatic certificate requests

Using certificates
- Requesting certificates using Web pages
- Mapping certificates to user accounts to be used on a Web site

Additional security features
- Configuring local security policy on individual computers
- Managing security in an enterprise network
- Encrypting files
- Using Kerberos V5
- Encrypting IP network traffic using Internet Protocol security (IPSec)

File and print services
- Creating logical views of directories and files

Clustering
- Installing a typical two-node cluster on Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition and Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition

From: Help and Support Center - Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition