Course Description
This
is an introduction to the process of choosing, installing, configuring and
maintaining Microsoft Windows client and server systems. Topics include user management, file
systems, network domains and domain management, mailers, and printing. Students get practice in writing
scripts for performing maintenance tasks.
Also, students learn how these tasks fit into the more general system
administration process.
Course Goals
The goal of this course is
to introduce the student to Windows client and server (and Windows network)
administration. Microsoft
Windows differs from UNIX in several ways:
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UNIX is an
open-source operating system; one may read the source code to determine how an
application or systems tool works.
Windows is closed; one must rely on the (Microsoft) documentation as to
how a program works.
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The principal
interface to UNIX for the system administrator is the command line. The
principal interface to Windows is the (More graphical and more directive)
Wizard.
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Windows, like
UNIX, does support scripting.
While UNIX scripts are most often written in shell script and Perl,
Windows server scripts are usually written in VBScript.
Students will learn how to
install, configure, and administer the most current Windows client and server
architectures.
How the Course Serves
Students
IT442 is a required course
in the System Administration track of the new BS in Information Technology (IT)
degree, offered jointly by the Department of Computer Science (CSM) and the
MSIS Department (CM). The System
Administration track is offered by the Computer Science Department. The trackÕs purpose is to prepare the
student for a career in computer system administration and/or information technology
in general.
Syllabus
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Installing and
configuring Windows client and server operating systems.
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Managing users
and groups.
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Window Network
Administration.
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Interoperating
with UNIX.
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Configuring mail
services.
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Deploying
terminal services.
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Internet services
and servers.
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Performance
monitoring.
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Network and
server security.
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Troubleshooting
and recovery.
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Using the
registry.
Projects
Much of the material in this
course will be transmitted by way of hands-on projects, where students, working
in small teams, set up small networks of computers running Windows.
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Installing a
Windows client on a PC.
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Installing a
Windows server.
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Setting up a
network of Windows machines.
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Defining and
implementing a domain
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Installing and
configuring a domain name server
(DNS and WINS)
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Installing and
configuring a network files system (NFS)
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Installing and
configuring print services
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Installing and
configuring Email
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Installing and
configuring DHCP
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Installing and configuring a local
firewall, antivirus software, antiSpyware, and antiPhishing software.
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Set up OS
patching, both manually and automated (using WUS); application patching (using
MSUpdate and WUS).
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Setting up a
local firewall
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Backup, restore,
vaulting and archiving (disk to tape, extranets, disk to disk to tape).
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Setting up and
using remote access management: Remote Desktop and VPN
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Merging with a
UNIX Network.
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Setting up an
educational network (allowing professors, students and graders to co-exist).
Grading
Projects and
Engineering Notebook 50%
Midterm Exam 20%
Final
Exam 30%
Textbooks and
Readings
Accommodations
Section 504 of the Americans
with Disabilities Act of 1990 offers guidelines for curriculum modifications
and adaptations for students with documented disabilities. If applicable,
students may obtain adaptation recommendations from the Ross Center for
Disability Services, Campus Center 2nd Floor, 2100 Street, Room 2010,
617-287-7430. The student must present these recommendations and discuss them
with each professor within a reasonable period, preferably by the end of
Drop/Add period.
Academic Honesty
All students are expected
to follow the University's Code of Student Conduct. If you are caught cheating, we will follow the
guidelines for punishment outlined in the code.
When you turn in work that
you have discussed with someone, or which contains ideas that you found in a
book, you must indicate that fact. We
expect you to talk to each other and to read materials other than those
assigned. We also expect to see in your work evidence that you have done so.
Learning to acknowledge intellectual debts is part of learning. You should be
reading, talking to each other, and telling the world that you have done so.
When group work is called for the group solution should note whenever a part of
the project was done by only a part of the group.
Some kinds of sharing,
however, are unacceptable. You may not use the computer to copy someone's work
and submit it as your own -- even if you acknowledge that theft! You may not
have your friends do your work for you. Versions of some of the assignments in
this course may have been given in previous years. You may not use answers to
those assignments.