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