Take the following steps to create a baseline report:
Remote Desktop for Administration is a component of Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services, which is designed for server management. It is a convenient and efficient service for remote management, as it can be used on an already busy server without noticeably affecting CPU performance. Administrators can fully administer computers running Windows Server 2003 family operating systems from computers running earlier versions of Windows by installing the Remote Desktop Connection.
Automated System Recovery (ASR) is a feature of Windows Server 2003. It is used to perform a restore of the system state data and services in the event of a major system failure. An ASR restore includes the configuration information for devices. ASR backs up the system data and local system partition. It does not back up folders and files.
What is a Site?
A site is a collection of one or more well-connected (usually a local area network) TCP/IP subnets. The network between the subnets must be highly reliable and fast (512 Kbps and higher). Although the sites are generally defined on the basis of location, they can be spanned over more than one location. A site structure corresponds to the physical environment, whereas a domain is the logical environment of the network. A site can contain single or multiple domains, and a domain can contain single or multiple sites.
The Windows Server 2003 operating system is designed to work on a network. It receives traffic from other computers over the network. Based on the request made, it takes a decision to route packets to use its services, and processes the request sent by the client. Any computer, when accessible for communication, is also a security risk, if it is accessible from the Internet too. A server accessible from the Internet is open to all clients that can connect to it. An unauthorized user can attempt to access the system for many destructive purposes. The most common of them are listed below:
The 802.11g standard, defined by IEEE, is an extension to the 802.11b standard of wireless network. It operates in 2.4-GHz band and brings data rates up to 54Mbps using Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) technology. Since the 802.11g standard is backward compatible with 802.11b, an 802.11b device can interface directly with an 802.11g access point.
Public folders in an Exchange Server 2003 organization enable a member to access the e-mails sent by any other user of the organization. They are used to permanently store information, such as e-mail messages, graphics, and sound bites. The information stored in public folders is available to all the users of the organization. On an Exchange 2003 server, public folders are stored in the public information store (ExchsrvrMdbdataPub.edb). In an Exchange organization with multiple servers, public folders can be replicated to other servers for the purpose of load balancing and easy manageability of messages in the folders. The replication can occur among servers that reside either within a site or across multiple sites. With public folders, users can manage their messages very easily. They can be created from either Outlook or Exchange System Manager. Exchange administrators can use Exchange System Manager to create public folders.
Take the following steps to block an e-mail address:
Take the following steps to configure a Remote Access Server (RAS) connection:
Public key encryption is one of the encryption types, which uses a public key that is known to everyone and a private key that is known only to the recipient of the message. When a user wants to send a secure message to another user, the sending user uses the target user’s public key to encrypt the message, and the target user then decrypts the message using his private key, which is known only to the target user. If a public key is used to encrypt a message, only the corresponding private key can be used to decrypt it.
