If you have a power outage while you are flashing the BIOS, you can just restart the process when the power is restored.
Windows Server 2008 R2 can be only on 64-bit processors.
The lowest edition of Windows Server 2008 R2 is the Standard edition.
When you clone a server with Windows Server 2008 R2, you just need to blank the computer name and administrator password.
The standard protocol to share files on Windows Server 2008 is SMB.
By default, UAC is disabled.
When you right-click Computer in Windows Server 2008, the Computer Management console will open.
You can install signed 32-bit drivers on Windows Server 2008 R2.
A black exclamation point in the Device Manager means the device is disabled.
To connect to a remote computer running a Server Core, you can use only a command prompt escalated as an administrator.
When configuring IDE drives, you must configure a SCSI ID and terminate both ends of the chain.
Two volume types used by Windows Server 2008 are MBR and GPT.
NTFS is the preferred file system used by Windows Server 2008.
Basic disks can be resized without rebooting.
GUID partition types can support up to 18 EB drives.
The best method for data recovery is backup.
Shadow copies are only available under older file systems.
99.9999 availability means that a system can be down for 4.32 minutes a year
To view Windows log, use the Log Viewer application.
Clusters nodes will protect against faulty power supplies, faulty processors, and faulty RAM.
A collection is two or more trees.
A site and domain controllers are the physical aspects of the network.
A member server is running Active Directory domain services.
Higher domain and forest functional levels will enhance the functionality of Active Directory.
Active Directory is closely tied to DNS.
If Full Control is assigned to a parent object for a user, the Full Control permission will overwrite explicit permissions at a child object.
To see who accesses a file over time, you only have to turn on object access audit events.
When you are looking at NTFS permissions that are grayed out, it means that you don’t have the permissions needed to modify the NTFS permissions.
You can encrypt and compress a file within NTFS at the same time.
When calculating the NTFS and share permissions, you would apply the more restrictive permissions between the NTFS and shared permission.
When typing in a URL that does not specify a directory, your browser will always return a 404 error.