Microsoft

Windows Server 2003: Optimisation and Troubleshooting

Course Code: MW03-OT      Days: 5
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Course Overview

Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 offer reliable troubleshooting features that allow organisations to operate with improved efficiency. Mastering the technologies available in these systems is essential to the successful operation of your Windows enterprise.

In this course, you gain the skills needed to efficiently optimise and troubleshoot your Windows operating system in order to minimise downtime and maximise system availability.

Audience

This course is valuable for anyone responsible for supporting Windows operating systems. Experience with Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 is assumed.

Skills Gained

  • Implement troubleshooting and maintenance tools to support Windows operating systems
  • Increase system performance and stability
  • Collect and analyse performance statistics and baselines
  • Maintain hard disk partition and boot record integrity
  • Back up, edit and restore the Registry
  • Determine origin and nature of network traffic
  • Perform short- and long-term capacity planning techniques

Course Outline

Overview of Windows Operating Systems

  • Major operating system components
  • Client/server OS functionality
  • User mode vs. Kernal mode processes
  • Multitasking vs. multiprocessing

Collecting System Configuration Information

Tools and techniques

  • Service, device and process management
  • WMI console capabilities
  • Service management wizards
  • Remote control technologies
  • Troubleshooting and diagnostic tools

Maintaining your operating system

  • Advanced administrative tasks
  • Analysing system information and event logs
  • Coping with driver-related Bluescreens
  • Updating critical system files

Analysing Performance

Collecting data

  • Processor and memory utilisation
  • Network and disk I/O sources

Establishing a baseline using the System Monitor and benchmarks

  • Creating custom baselines
  • Taking a snapshot of an optimal system

Creating and interpreting performance logs

  • Configuring performance alerts
  • Establishing utilisation trends

Advanced System Troubleshooting

Monitoring operating system components

  • Maintaining file system integrity
  • Lowering downtime with Automated System Recovery
  • Integrating virtual machines into the troubleshooting process

Improving operating system efficiency

  • Tuning memory management
  • Selecting the most effective hardware

Maintaining services and device drivers

  • Manipulating operating system files
  • Resolving problems remotely
  • Rapidly restoring previous device drivers

Boot process troubleshooting

  • Identifying common problems
  • Repairing system files and boot process components

Demystifying the Bluescreen

  • Identifying common causes of core dumps
  • Coping with boot-time Bluescreens

Managing Registry Integrity

Modifying the Registry

  • Making changes with the Registry Editor
  • Advanced Registry content analysis

Restoring Registry components

  • Restoring Registry hives manually
  • Installing a local copy of the Recovery Console
  • Creating and using pre-installation environments

Maintaining Disk and Network Reliability

Windows disk features

  • Observing Windows file protection in action
  • Providing data fault tolerance
  • Backing up critical files

Identifying critical components

  • Troubleshooting boot sectors
  • Repairing corrupt partition tables

Optimising network components

  • Disabling unneeded network services
  • Configuring optimum performance of application and file servers

Maximising resource availability

  • Forming network behaviour expectations
  • Observing traffic with a protocol analyser

Capacity Analysis and Planning

Evaluating utilisation trends

  • System logging and monitoring methods
  • Referencing baselines and benchmarks

Determining future requirements

  • Planning for upgrades
  • Integrating new technologies


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