Category: Server

This section discusses various preinstallation design considerations when building your deployment environment. Windows Vista architecture supports many different customization points during the deployment process. In the following deployment illustration, you can see the various points where you can customize your installation. Defining your image early in the deployment process ensures a stable, consistent image. You can thoroughly build and test your installation in a lab environment prior to deployment. This design is the fastest method for deploying Windows because there is minimal time spent on the factory floor. However, when new updates are released, your image becomes out-of-date. You must […]

Windows Server 2008 R2 contains features to help you create backups and, if needed, perform a recovery of your operating system, applications, and data. By using these features appropriately and implementing good operational practices, you can improve your organization’s ability to recover from damaged or lost data, hardware failures, and disasters. For Windows Server 2008 R2, there are new features that expand what you can back up, where you can store backups, and how you can perform recoveries. This topic contains the following sections: Backup and recovery technologies Shadow Copies of Shared Folders overview Windows Server Backup overview Windows Recovery […]