Windows Server / Basic: platform and service foundations

Windows Server β€” Basic: platform and service foundations

Establish installation, management, storage, SMB, network, and DNS contracts.

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What you will learn

  • Explain baseline and role assumptions without claiming platform execution.
  • Separate identity, file access, transport, and name-resolution evidence.

  1. Windows Server baseline, installation, and roles

    Choose a supported server baseline and installation option from workload requirements. Separate edition, role, feature, patch level, and recovery assumptions before planning a host.

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  2. Management tools and service lifecycle

    Choose local and remote management according to identity, transport, module support, and ownership. Distinguish installed capability, running process, readiness, and completed user work.

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  3. Storage layers, volumes, and filesystems

    Separate physical storage, pools, virtual disks, partitions, volumes, and filesystems. Review capacity, resiliency, compatibility, and recoverability without touching a real disk.

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  4. SMB sharing and effective file access

    Trace a remote file operation through identity, share permission, filesystem access, transport protection, and application behavior. Avoid reducing access control to a single Allow checkbox.

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  5. Addressing, routing, and firewall boundaries

    Reason about host connectivity from configured addresses, prefixes, gateways, DNS clients, routes, and effective firewall policy. Use documentation addresses only and perform no network operation.

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  6. DNS resolution, zones, and caching

    Follow a name from a client resolver through cache, forwarding, authority, and application identity. Separate DNS-server data from DNS-client configuration and from Active Directory design.

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