Introduction to Windows Server 2003 Physical and Logical Devices

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:10:18 EST

Windows Server 2003 gives Administrators various options to use when physical and logical disks need managing.

You can perform tasks such as assigning drive letters, and creating partitions and volumes. Disks can be managed via the always present command prompt or the Microsoft management console. Before you begin to manage your disks you need to understand the different disk types, and how to Optimize and troubleshoot your disks. This chapter will also show you how you can:

? Manage basic and dynamic disks using the command prompt and the Computer Management console

? Configure shadow copies of volumes

? Configure and troubleshoot your Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks RAID configuration

? Use the performance logs and alerts console in Windows Server 2003 to configure performance baselines and alerts for your hardware

? Troubleshoot hardware devices using the Control Panel and the Hardware Troubleshooting Wizard.

This is full of information to assist you with the preparation for Microsoft 70-290 exam Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment as well as some real-world solutions for managing your Microsoft Windows Server 2003 disks and hardware devices.

Getting Ready Questions
1. On what operating systems can you have local dynamic disks?
Answer: You can have local dynamic disks on Windows 2000 Server and Professional, Windows XP and Windows 2003. Operating systems prior to Windows 2000 (including MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT) as well as Windows 2000 Home Edition cannot support dynamic disks locally.

2. How can you access Device Manager?
Answer: There are three ways to access Device Manager-through Administrative Tools | Computer Management; right-click My Computer | Hardware; and through the keyboard shortcut Windows Key | Pause.

3. Under Server 2003, what type of fault tolerant volumes are available on basic disks?
Answer: None. Fault tolerant volumes on basic disks are no longer supported in Windows Server 2003.

4. For what do you use the FTOnline tool?
Answer: The FTOnline command-line tool can be used on Fault Tolerant disks to mount and recover files on Windows Server 2003 systems that have been upgraded. Once the server has been rebooted the disks are not mounted by FTOnline.

5. The Windows Server 2003 operating system uses which features to guarantee that the device driver has not been altered?
Answer: The Windows Server 2003 operating system uses three features to guarantee that the device driver has not been altered and is in its original pristine state:
•File Signature Verification
•System File Checker
•Windows File Protection

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