MCITP Windows Server 2008 Server Administrator Study Guide

526 Pages·2008·10.4 MB·English

by  Darril Gibson

MCITP
Windows Server® 2008
Server Administrator
Study Guide
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MCITP
Windows Server® 2008
Server Administrator
Study Guide
Darril Gibson
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MCITP : Windows server 2008 server administrator study guide (Exam 70-646) / Darril Gibson. — 1st ed.
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To my loving wife of more than 16 years, who continues to provide me love
and encouragement even when I don’t deserve it.
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Acknowledgments
No book is written alone. Instead, there is a wealth of people working behind the scenes to
help make a book the best possible. I’m grateful for the hard work put in behind the scenes
by several people. Stuart Ami, the technical editor; Candace English, the development editor;
Eric Charbonneau, the production editor; and Kim Wimpsett, the copy editor, all provided a
significant amount of work that helped produce this book. I’m grateful to each of them.
I’m also grateful to my agent, Carole McClendon, for helping open up so many oppor-
tunities for me, including this one, and to Jeff Kellum, the acquisitions editor, for having
the faith in me to take on this project.
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About the Author
Darril Gibson has been teaching Microsoft networking concepts since the NT 4.0 days
and has been teaching a myriad of other topics since many years before then. He’s been a
Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) since 1999 and holds many other certifications, includ-
ing MCSE (NT 4.0, 2000, 2003), MCDBA (SQL Server 7.0 and 2000), MCTS (Vista,
Server 2008 Active Directory, Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure, Server 2008 Net-
work Infrastructure and SQL Server 2005), MCITP (Server 2008 Server Administrator,
Vista Enterprise Support Technician, SQL Server 2005 Database Administrator and SQL
Server 2005 Database Developer), MCAD (.NET), and MCSD (VB 6, .NET).
Darril has developed several video training courses for KeyStone Learning Systems and
has written and co-authored several other technical books. He has a passion for teaching
and enjoys sharing knowledge in the classroom as much as he does through books.
He currently works full-time on a government contract providing a wide array of tech-
nical training to military and government personnel in support of a network operations
support center (NOSC). The NOSC supports over 100,000 users and provides a great envi-
ronment to see current technologies in action. He moonlights as an adjunct professor at a
local college (ECPI College of Technology) teaching system engineer courses.
Darril lives with his wife and two dogs in Virginia Beach, Virginia, but on most weekends
they can be found playing on about 24 acres of land in Halifax County. He’s been learning
the power of water as he’s tried to create a pond on this land. He’s found that configuring
networks is a piece of cake compared to building a good pond, but he hasn’t given up yet.
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