Some introductionary notes and links on Windows Server systems and Microsoft Architectures



Section 1: My own simple notes:

1. Some simple notes on Architectures and methods:

- General Architecture Win2K3 / Win2K8 64 bits:
Simple Overview Win2K3/Win2k8 64 bit Architecture (Excel format)

- General Architecture Win2K / Win2K3:
Simple Overview Win2K/Win2K3 Architecture (Excel format)
Simple Overview Bootsequence Win2K3, XP (Excel format)

-AD:
Simple Overview Active Directory Architecture (Excel format)

-Printing Engine, Groups, Perfmon:
Simple Overview Printing Architecture Windows (Excel format)
Some simple notes on using Groups (Excel format)
Some simple notes on Win2Kx Performance Monitoring (Excel format)


2. Some simple notes on Win2K3/Win2K8 clustering:

Some simple notes on repairing Win2K3 / Win2K8 clusters (html, v. 0.3)


3. Exam prep support files:

Some Windows Server and Active Directory keypoints (for exam 070-290, Excel format)


4. Some basic Windows shell commands posters:

Basic commands to get system / process info (Excel format)
Basic commands to get system / process info (HTML format)
Basic commands to get system / process info (text file)


5. Some simple notes on SPN, Kerberos, Delegation:

Some notes on SPN, Kerberos, Delegation (1) (txt format)


6. Some simple notes on Sharepoint and SQL Server storage:

Some simple notes on Sharepoint, focused on SQL Server storage (html format)


7. Listing of fixes, KB's, Bulletins:

Listing of fixes and associated KB numbers, Bulletins (txt format)




Section 2: Other notes or links:

8. Some article on some relevant Performance counters:

Avg. Disk Queue Length
Pages/sec
Investigating Paging
Processor Queue Length


9. Architecture NT: "The Predecessor...":

Presentation on NT Architecture


10. Architecture Win2K3 / Win2K8:

9.1 AD and protocols/traffic:

Architecture, AD, protocols and traffic (1)
Architecture, AD, protocols and traffic (2)
rpc null sessions
protocols and traffic


11. Disk Architecture Win2Kx:

Dynamic Disks and LDM (1)
Dynamic Disks and LDM (2)
Dynamic Disks and LDM (3)


12. Info related to Automated installations:

My quick note
What is Windows PE
What is Windows PE 2.0 (Vista based)
What is Windows PE 3.0 (Win7 based)
Walkthrough: Create a Custom Windows PE Image
Download: The Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Win7 and Win2K8 R2


13. Sharepoint Architecture:

Please see my page Application Servers






Last update: 7 Februari, 2012