Course
Skills Expanded
Windows Operating System Fundamentals: Managing and Maintaining
Most home and businesses use Microsoft Operating Systems as their primary operating system for both workstations and servers. It is important to know how to secure, manage, maintain, and protect your workstations.
What you'll learn
More and more computers have become a part of our everyday life. We use them at work, home, and school. Most home and businesses use Microsoft Operating Systems as their primary operating system for both workstations and servers. It is important to have a basic foundation of how to protect, secure, manage, recover, and maintain Windows whether you are new to the IT field or just looking to learn the basics for your home computer. This course is designed to start the foundation with Microsoft Windows desktop operating system by learning solid skills in managing Windows and to build your IT future upon.
Table of contents
Introduction to Networking
37mins
Assigning IP Addresses
51mins
Local User and Group Management
40mins
- Local User and Group Management 2m
- User Accounts 2m
- Creating Users - Control Panel 3m
- Managing User - Control Panel 5m
- Creating Users - Computer Management 5m
- Managing Users - Computer Management 6m
- Group Accounts 2m
- Built-in Accounts 2m
- Managing Built-in Groups 4m
- Creating Groups 4m
- User Profiles 3m
- Summary 3m
Storage Devices
48mins
- Storage Devices 1m
- Types of Storage Device 3m
- Disk Configuration - Basic Disk 3m
- Disk Configuration - Dynamic Disk 2m
- Using Basic and Dynamic Disks 4m
- Creating a Simple Volume 6m
- Spanned Volumes 2m
- Creating a Spanned Volume 4m
- Striped Volumes 2m
- Creating a Striped Volume 3m
- Mirrored Volumes 3m
- Creating a Mirrored Volume 3m
- Cloud Storage 2m
- Installing SkyDrive 5m
- Summary 4m
Files, Folders, and File Systems
48mins
- Files, Folders, and File Systems 1m
- Files, Folders, and Libraries 2m
- Creating a Folder 3m
- Creating a File 4m
- File Systems 3m
- Creating a FAT Volume 3m
- Convert FAT to NTFS 4m
- New Technology File System (NTFS) 2m
- Encryption 2m
- Configuring Encryption 3m
- Compression 3m
- Configuring Compression 4m
- Disk Quotas 3m
- Configuring Disk Quotas 6m
- BitLocker Drive Encryption 3m
- Summary 2m
File and Print Sharing Basics
50mins
- File and Print Sharing Basics 1m
- Home Group 2m
- HomeGroup Share Permissions 2m
- Creating a Home Group 5m
- Joining a Home Group 4m
- Basic Sharing 3m
- Using the Shared Folder Wizard 4m
- Advanced Share Permissions 2m
- Using Advanced Sharing 5m
- Drive Mappings 3m
- Creating a Mapped Drive 5m
- Printer Sharing 3m
- Sharing a Print Device 3m
- Configuring Printer Sharing 2m
- Configuring Print Permissions 4m
- Summary 2m
NTFS Permissions
42mins
- NTFS Permissions 1m
- NTFS Permissions Overview 2m
- Access Control List (ACL) 2m
- Standard and Advanced Permissions 3m
- Creating our Test Folders 2m
- Using Standard Permissions 4m
- Configuring Advanced Permissions 4m
- Permission Inheritance 3m
- Viewing Permission Inheritance 3m
- Configuring Permission Inheritance 6m
- Effective Permissions 2m
- Viewing Effective Permissions 4m
- Copying versus Moving 3m
- Summary 3m
Remote Management and Assistance
42mins
- Remote Management and Assistance 1m
- Grandma's House 1m
- Remote Desktop Services 2m
- Remote Desktop Requirements 2m
- Configuring Remote Desktop Requirements 5m
- Remote Desktop Configuration 9m
- Connecting to a Remote Computer 4m
- Remote Assistance 2m
- Configuring Remote Assistance 3m
- Providing Support using Remote Assistance 9m
- Summary 3m
Maintaining and Updating
48mins
- Maintaining and Updating 1m
- Maintain Scenario 2m
- Tools Used to Maintain and Update Windows 5m
- Using Disk Defragmenter 5m
- Remove Old Files with Disk Cleanup 7m
- Creating a Basic Task 5m
- Task Scheduler Configuration 5m
- Using Task Manager 5m
- View Resources Using System Information 4m
- Maintaining a Healthy System Through Windows Updates 6m
- Summary 3m
Protecting Windows 7
48mins
- Protecting Windows 7 1m
- Ways to Protect Windows 7 4m
- Using Windows Defender 4m
- Configuring Windows Defender 6m
- Installing Microsoft Security Essentials 5m
- Configuring Microsoft Security Essentials 5m
- Running Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool 5m
- Using the Windows Firewall 8m
- Installing Windows Updates 6m
- Summary 3m
Understanding Windows Backup
33mins
- Understanding Windows Backup 2m
- What is a Backup? 1m
- Windows Backup and Restore 2m
- Using Windows Backup 6m
- Restoring Files or Folders 1m
- Restoring a File 3m
- Restore from a Restore Point 4m
- System Image 2m
- Creating a System Image 3m
- Restoring a System Image 2m
- Restoring from a System Image 3m
- Summary 3m
Recovery Methods
29mins
