Monday, September 15, 2008

Week 10

This week was a revision lesson

We installed server 2003
set up the servers with active directory, DNS etc...
Created user accounts (tyron and tyson)
Configured the permissions for the accounts
Installed IIS (web hosting server)
Configured permissions for accessing the web server
Created web site for web server
Tested the server -

- logins
- accessing the web site
- Setting different folder permissions for users

Monday, September 8, 2008

Week 9 - Security

Activity 1 -

Recommendations for a 'good' password

- use minimum of 8 characters
- Using different characters such as numbers, letters and symbols

Activity 2 -
Computer user accounts

1 How was the account issued?

2 Does the organisation have an acceptable usage policy?

3 Do your passwords have to meet any requirements such as a minimum length?

4 Does the user account have an expiry date?

Activity 3
- creating a user
- Configuring user settings
- Create additional users

Activity 4
- Create global security group
- Create an additional group

Activity 5
- Creating the audit policy
- Create an additional group
- viewing the audit logs

Installed Windows Server 2003, configured the network by installing:

Active directory users and computers

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Week 8 - User account configuration

Tasks:

Install Windows Server 2003 on a single machine -
- configure it as a server
- Connect 1 or 2 computers to the network
- Add user accounts
- Manage the users access to mapped networked drives
-Managing user accounts
-Managing access controls