Lessons Learned Forum at Chesapeake

For this week’s assignment, we’d like you to review the demo from Microsoft’s website (at the link provided below). Write 5-7 lines summarizing how best to use shared folders within a workgroup. Also feel free to respond to your classmates posts regarding different ways you’ve shared resources before, challenges you’ve run into, or concepts that helped you learn how to share folders and restrict access to them. Postings and at least one comment to another classmates posting are due by Monday at midnight.

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/help/9d98dcbd-853a-4235-82e5-00e8e468dec21033.mspx

Ken

As a network administrator one of your tasks is to configure a solution to allow your client’s access to the network. One way to simplify client access is to use the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, DHCP, to assign IP Addresses to the client computers. Your task this week is to find an article on the Internet describing what DHCP is or why DHCP can benefit you as a network administrator. You will then write 5-7 lines summarizing what you have found. Please include the link and your summary for this week’s assignment. Please remember that these comments can be viewed and commented on by your fellow classmates. Postings and at least one comment to another classmates posting are due by Sunday at midnight.

Ken

For this week’s assignment, you will view the “Demo: What’s new with the Windows desktop and Start menu?” listed at the link provided below. It will demonstrate some of the new features of Vista that are discussed in Chapter 3 of the Vista Configuration book. Please write 5-7 lines discussing these new features, their advantages and/or their disadvantages, and what you learned from the demo. Remember that your comments will be viewed by your classmates. Postings and at least one comment to another classmates posting are due by Monday at midnight.

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/help/d2db5040-9277-487e-8aca-8eb32b5584b91033.mspx

Ken

For this week,  we’d like you to write a summary (5-7 lines) of what you’ve learned in the first Server 2003 book - what was challenging, what was interesting, and/or what you hope to pick up in the next book (Network Infrastructure (70-291)). Feel free to reference chapters/pages in the book, labs completed, or Internet links to articles supporting your summary. Please remember that these comments can be viewed and commented on by your fellow classmates. Postings and at least one comment to another classmates posting are due by Sunday at midnight.

Ken

For the first assignment, we’d like you to write a small paragraph (5-7 lines) discussing some of the components of Vista that you are looking forward to learning in this module. Feel free to bring up topics that you think will be challenging to learn as well. Please remember that these comments can be viewed and commented on by your fellow classmates. Postings and at least one comment to another classmates posting are due by Monday at midnight.

Ken

Review the following video on Active Directory and post 5-7 sentences on what you’ve learned.  Learning ADUC in and out will help you in your future career.  Please remember that these comments can be viewed and commented on by your fellow classmates. Postings and at least one comment to another classmates posting are due by Sunday at midnight.

http://www.vtc.com/products/MicrosoftWindowsServer200370290/ManagingUsersAndComputers/35804

Ken

For this assignment, you should review the animation from the following link for the Managing Permissions on Files and Folders topic, and Users and Groups subsection. The animation is 6:35 minutes long. Following review, write a short paragraph (5-7 lines) discussing the benefits and disadvantages of the different group scopes that we discussed this week. Please remember that these comments can be viewed and commented on by your fellow classmates. Postings and at least one comment to another classmates posting are due by Sunday at midnight.

http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsServer2003/evaluation/demos/sims/dayinlife/viewer.htm

Ken

As a network administrator one of your many tasks will be to create accounts in Active Directory. The most common account that you will create is a User Account.  Unfortunately, you will not always have the GUI available for your usage. The following link is an article on the Microsoft TechNet website that discusses the different command line tools that you can use to create and modify user accounts. Your task this week is to write a paragraph (5 to 7 lines) summarizing when you would use each of the three different command line tools to create user accounts. Please remember that these comments can be viewed and commented on by your fellow classmates.  Postings and at least one comment to another classmates posting are due by Sunday at midnight.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc778414(WS.10).aspx

Ken

For the final blog post, write a summary of your experience here at ComputerTraining.com. Include an overall summary of what skills you have gained, what you intend to accomplish following the class, and what you would have done differently if you could do it all again.

As your instructor, I always learn from my students and each class that I teach. I am proud to say that I’ve learned a lot about your class – your hard work, dedication, and perseverance have impressed me tremendously over the last 6 months. I personally wish each of you only the best and hope to continue to hear from each of you about your successful IT careers and new certifications in the near future.

Please remember that these comments can be viewed and will be commented on by your fellow classmates.

Ken

Your task this week is to read the following article and write a paragraph (5 to 7 lines) summarizing when to use each backup type as part of a design/recovery strategy. For example, when would it be best to use a Differential backup - for faster backups or faster restores? Please remember that these comments can be viewed and commented on by your fellow classmates. Postings and at least one comment to another classmates posting are due by Sunday at midnight.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc784306.aspx

Ken