You are the network administrator for your company, which employs 1,500 users. The network consists of a single Active Directory domain.
All network servers run Windows Server 2003.

Most client computers run Windows XP Professional, and the rest run Windows NT 4.0 Workstation.
Two terminal servers are available to network users. You install a new application on both terminal servers.
Everyone who uses the new application to create data must save the data directly in a folder on the local hard disk.
You need to ensure that client disk drives are always available when employees connect to the terminal servers.

Which two actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose two.)

You are the network administrator for your company’s Active Directory domain.
The domain includes Windows Server 2003 domain controllers and Windows XP Professional client computers.

A new administrator named Paul is hired to assist you in deploying Windows XP Professional to 100 new computers.
Paul installs the operating system on a new computer named Client1. However, when Paul tries to log on to the domain from Client1, he is unsuccessful.
The logon dialog box does not allow him to view and select the domain name. You need to ensure that Paul can log on to the domain from Client1.

What should you do?

You are the network administrator for your company. The network consists of a single Active Directory domain. All domain controllers run Windows Server 2003.
All client computers run Windows XP Professional with default settings. Some users have portable computers, and the rest have desktop computers.

You need to ensure that all users are authenticated by a domain controller when they log on.

How should you modify the local security policy?

You are the network administrator for your company. The network consists of a single Active Directory domain.
The functional level of the domain is Windows Server 2003. Some user accounts have expiring passwords and some do not.
You need to identify all user accounts that do not have expiring passwords.
You need to modify the password property to allow the passwords on these accounts to expire.
You must complete this task by using the minimum amount of administrative effort.
First, you create a saved query to obtain a list of all user accounts that do not have expiring passwords.
What should you do next?

You are the network administrator for your company. The network consists of a single Active Directory domain. All network servers run Windows Server 2003.
Three thousand client computers run Windows 2000 Professional, and 1,500 client computers run Windows XP Professional.

A new employee named Peter is hired to assist you in installing Windows XP Professional on 150 new client computers.
You need to ensure that Peter has only the minimum permissions required to add new computer accounts to the domain and to own the accounts that he creates.
Peter must not be able to delete computer accounts.
What should you do?

You are the network administrator for your company. The network consists of a single Active Directory domain. All network servers run Windows Server 2003.
Some client computers run Windows 2000 Professional, and the rest run Windows XP Professional.
All user accounts in the sales department are located in the Sales organizational unit (OU).
To store roaming user profiles, you create a shared folder named Profiles on a member server named File1.
You assign the Allow – Full Control permission on the Profiles folder to the Everyone group.
Now you need to create roaming user profiles for the user accounts in the Sales OU.

What should you do?

You are the network administrator for your company. All network servers run Windows Server 2003. Server1 hosts highly confidential files.

The Disk Management console for Server1 is shown in the exhibit.

You need to ensure the security of all files on Server1. In the event of disk failure, you need to minimize the time required to make these files available again. You also need to improve file system performance.

Which two actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose two.)

You are the network administrator for your company. All network servers run Windows Server 2003. A server named Server1 hosts applications for network users.

Server1 contains a motherboard that can support two CPUs.
One CPU is currently installed. Server1 has 512 MB of RAM and a single 36-GB integrated device electronics (IDE) hard disk.
It has a 10 Mb Ethernet card connected to a 10/100 Mb switch.
After Server1 is in use for five months, network users report unnacceptable response times on their applications.
You open System Monitor on Server1 and see the information shown in the following table.

You need to improve the performance of Server1. What should you do?

You are the domain administrator for your company’s Active Directory domain. All servers run Windows Server 2003.
All client computers run Windows XP Professional and have the latest service pack installed.
You manage a server that has Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) installed.
The latest updates were synchronized and approved for installation on the client computers.
You need to configure the client computers to download and automatically install the approved updates from the WSUS server.
What should you do?

You are the domain administrator for your company’s Active Directory domain. All servers run Windows Server 2003.
The information technology (IT) department recently installed Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) to manage security updates.

The server that runs WSUS is configured to automatically approve critical and security updates, and to synchronize automatically every day at 7:00 A.M.
New critical security updates were released today at 9:00 A.M.
You need to manually update the WSUS server and make the updates available to client computers.
What should you do?