Planning 2012 R2 Installation Flashcards
AD CS server role
allows you to build a PKI and provide public key cryptography, digital certificates, and digital signature capabilities for your organization
AD CS Feature
provides a customizable set of services that allows you to issue and manage PKI certificates. These certificates can be used in software security systems that employ public key technologies
AD DS Role
allows you to create a scalable, secure, and manageable infrastructure for user and resource management and to provide support for directory-enabled applications, such as MS exchange server
AD FS (Acronym)
Active Directory Federation Services
AD FS
provides Internet-based clients with a secure identity access solution that works on both Windows and non-Windows OSes. It gives users the ability to do a single sign on and access applications on other networks without needing a secondary password
AD LDS (Acronym)
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
AD LDS
an LDAP directory service that provides flexible support for directory-enabled applications without the dependencies and domain-related restrictions of AD DS
AD RMS (Acronym)
Active Directory Rights Management Services
AD RMS
provides you with management and development tools that work with industry security technologies including encryption, certificates, and authentication to help organizations create reliable information protection solutions
Application Server
provides an integrated environment for deploying and running custom, server-based business applications
Failover Clustering
Provides a way to create, configure, and manage failover clusters for up to 4,000 virtual machines or up to 64 physical nodes
File and Storage Services
Allows an admin to set up and manage one or more file servers. These servers can provide a central location on your network where you can store files and then share those files with network users.
Group Policy
A set of rules and management configuration options that you can control through the Group Policy settings. These policy settings can be placed on users’ computers throughout the organization
Networking (feature)
allows administrators to design, deploy, and maintain a server 2012 R2 network. Includes 802.1X authenticated wired and wireless access, BranchCache, Data Center Bridging, low-latency workload technologies, etc
NLB (Acronym)
Network Load Balancing
NLB
dispenses traffic across multiple servers by using TCP/IP networking protocol. By combining 2+ computers that are running applications in 2012 R2 into a single virtual cluster. It provides reliability and performance for mission-critical servers
Network Policy and Access Services
Us this role to install and configure NAP, secure wired and wireless access points, and RADIUS servers and proxies
NAP (Acronym)
Network Access Protection
Print and Document Services
alls the admin to centralize print server and network printer tasks. This role allows you to receive scanned documents from network scanners and route the documents to a shared network resource, sharepoint site, or email addresses. Also provides fax servers with the ability to send/recieve faxes while giving the admin the ability to manage fax resources such as jobs, settings, reports, and fax devices on the fax server
VDI (Acronym)
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Security and Protection features
Access Control, AppLocker, BitLocker, Credential Locker, Kerberos, NTLM, passwords, security auditing, smart cards, and WBF
WBF (Acronym)
Windows Biometric Framework
Telemetry
allows the windows feedback forwarder to send feedback to MS automatically by deploying a Group Policy setting to one or more organizational units.
Volume Activation
Deploys and manages volume licenses for a medium to large number of computers
Web Server IIS
allows an admin to set up a secure, easy to manage, modular, and extensible platform for reliably hosting websites, services, and applications
Windows Server Backup Feature
gives an organization a way to back up and restore windows servers. Can be used to back up the entire server (all volumes), selected volumes, the system state, or specific files/folders
WSUS (Acronym)
Windows Server Update Services
WSUS
allows admin to deploy application and operating system updates. Gives the ability to manage updates that are released through MS update to computers in their network. Intigrated with the OS as a server role on a 2012 R2 system