Windows Server 2008

Stores all information related to system hardware drives, services, software, and windows setting.

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER
• HKEY_USERS
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
• HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG

Contains information about the desktop setup for the account presently logged on the system.

Stores configuration information for all users configured on your system.

Comprises information related to applications registered on your system, file associations, & the OLE class ID's of the applications that are used to manage these entities.

• Is a mirror of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and is generated for the current user at runtime.
• To include software and hardware information for the current user.

• - Process Authentication
• - Centralize Configuration
• - Deploy Policy

• - Extensible Framework
• - Hierachical
• - Fault Tolerant

• Roaming Profile
• - Profile saved on the server
• - Copied to every Pc when user logs on
• - Consistent environiment

• Mandatory Profile
• - User cannot change profile
• - Any changes are descarded

• Security Groups
• - Used for assigning permissions

• Distribution Groups
• - Used to send emails to multiple users

• Local
• - Just on that PC
• Domain Local
• - Exists on only that domain.
• - Used to assign permissions
• Gobal
• - Can be assigned rights throughout the forest
• - used to group together users
• Universal
• -Exists in every domain in the forest
• - Used for cross-domain resource sharing

• Forests
• Trees
• Domains
• OU's
• Sites

• A grouping of active directory trees which each has:
• - contiguous namespaces within their own domain structive, but that have disjointed namespaces between trees.
• - The trees & their domains use the same schema & golbal catalog.

• -Related domains that use a contiguous namepace
• - share the same schema
• - have two way trust

A grouping of objects typically as a primary containers within active directory

A grouping of related objects within a domain that provides a means to establish specific policies for governing those objects, & that enables object management to be delegated.

To interconnect IP subnets.

Enables active directory to create redundant routes for DC replication.

• - schema master
• - domain naming master

• - Application Server Role
• - DHCP Server Role
• - DNS Server Role
• - File Services Role
• - Windows Deployment Service Role

Makes applications available to users on a network or over ther web.

Server leases IP addresses to network clients so users do not have to configure their own IP addresses.

Mantains tables from which this service translates domain and computers names into IP addresses and vice versa.

Enables users to access and share files through one or mone servers.

Provides the ability to administer hundreds of servers on a mass scale with the help of scripts.

If a company buys multiple pc's without operating systems they can use this role to install all the OS's at one time.