Maintaining and Monitoring Windows Server 2019
by Glenn Weadock
This course will teach you how to keep Windows Server 2019 running reliably, securely, and smoothly by using WSUS for updates, backup and restore tools for disaster recovery, and performance tools for logging and tracking.
What you'll learn
The success of a network depends on how well its servers function over time. In this course, Maintaining and Monitoring Windows Server 2019, you’ll learn to keep your servers running reliably, securely, and smoothly. First, you’ll explore ways to streamline the operating system update process and incorporate antimalware updates in a WSUS environment. Next, you’ll discover methods for backing up and restoring servers, both in the general case and for specific server types such as domain controllers. Finally, you’ll learn how to use built-in tools to troubleshoot performance problems in real time, as well as create performance baselines to help ensure that your servers stay quick and efficient years after they are deployed and configured. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of server maintenance and monitoring needed to ensure that your network infrastructure just works, day in and day out.
About the author
Glenn E. Weadock (MDAA, MCAAA, MCT, MCSE, MCSA, MCITP, A+, Security+) is the president of Independent Software Inc., which he founded in 1982 after graduating from Stanford University's engineering school. ISI provides expert witness, consulting, and training services in the IT field with a focus on operating systems and networking technologies. Glenn is the author of 18 commercial books on topics such as Windows clients and servers, Microsoft certification, website design, troubleshooting, and ... moreclient/server networking, for publishers including McGraw-Hill, Wiley, Sybex, and the famous Dummies series. Glenn has developed seminars and video courses for Data-Tech Institute, Global Knowledge, and O’Reilly Media; co-authored two Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) courses on Windows Server 2008; and has taught PC and network troubleshooting, design, and support to tens of thousands of students in the US, UK, Canada, and Southeast Asia. Glenn advised the U.S. Justice Department in the Microsoft antitrust case, and has been an expert witness in patent cases involving companies such as IBM, Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, Disney, and LendingTree. He has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering With Distinction, from Stanford University, where he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi honor societies. In his spare time, Glenn enjoys hiking, reading, and music.