You have just moved jobs and you are working for an exciting new online business. You have been tasked with keeping software costs down but still maintaining high level of IT service to the business.

The business has given you a list of their operational requirements, one of them is to have the ability recover deleted files and restore system services from scheduled regular backup. You investigate your options and look into using the backup utility with Windows Server 2008 along with shadow copy functions.

For more information on Microsoft backups click on the following link Microsoft Technet

Installing backup and recovery tools

Step 1

Launch the Domain Controller from the Practice-Lab window.

Once the desktop appears, launchServer Manager from the quick launch bar or from the administrative tools section of the start menu.

Select the Features menu item and then in the right pane click Add Features. This opens the Add Features Wizard.

From the Select Features page in the Add Features Wizard locate the Windows Server Backup Features option and expand it.

Select the check boxes for Windows Server Backup and Command-line Tools.

Select Next and then Install.

Step 2

To confirm that the Windows Server Backup Features have been installed, select the Features icon from the menu.

In feature summary in the right hand pane you will see what features have been installed on this server.

Step 3

To access the Windows Server Backup console select it from administrative tools section of the start menu.

If you wish to use the command line version of Windows Server Backup, open a command console and type wbadmin at the command prompt for a list of available options.

Creating a manual backup and save it to a remote shared folder

Step 1

Still connecting to the Domain Controller in the Practice-Lab, power on the Domain Server.

To access the Windows Server Backup console select it from administrative tools section of the start menu.

From the Actions menu of the backup console select Backup Once. This will launch the backup configuration wizard.

Select the Different Option radio button if it is not already selected and click next.

Select custom andNext.

Select add items, select a single folder from the C:\ drive to backup, as an example select theUsers > Administrator folder and then clickNext.

Select theRemote shared folder option and clickNext.

Type in\\plabdm01\c$\Shared_Data then clickNext and then Backup.

Step 2

Connect to the Domain Server and navigate to theC:\Shared_Data folder in order to see how the image is created.

Step 3

Now restore the file you backed up from the Recover option in the Actions menu in Windows backup console.

Go through the menu option to recover your file to its original location or alternate location.

Microsoft Windows backup has a host of new features; explore these by trying different options in the backup procedures.

Summary

In this exercise you learnt how to install the Windows backup feature and carry out and backup, and hopefully a successful restore.

Your company needs to setup a new Internet website server to keep all clients updated on company news and provide relevant business information. You have also been asked to setup a secure FTP server so that the web developer can transfer new web pages to the web server securely. You decide to use the new IIS features in Windows Server 2008 to meet both of these needs.

Installing IIS

Step 1

Connect to the Domain Controller in the Practice-Lab , then when the desktop appears, click Start, point to Administrative Tools and then clickServer Manager (or click the server manager icon in the quick launch bar).

ClickRoles in the left hand pane and then clickAdd Roles in the right hand pane.

Use the Add Roles Wizard to add the Web server (IIS) role.

Click next then accept the default choices. Whilst IIS is installing switch server to theDomain Server.

From theDomain Server in the Practice-Lab , install the IIS management console by opening Server Manager, expand roles then right clickWeb Server IIS and select add role services.

Select IIS Management Console and FTP Server from the options.

ClickNext and theninstall.

Step 2

Once installed, launch the IIS Manager by going to run and typing in:inetmgr or navigate to administrative tools and launch from there.

If you compare the Domain Controller installation versus the Domain Server installation (once you have installed the features) you will notice, when you open up the IIS manager there is no option to configure an FTP site on the default installation (the install you ran on the Domain Controller), but on the Domain Server you are able to create an FTP site now that you have installed the features.

Creating a FTP Site Using the FTP Site Wizard and setting the permissions

Step 1

On the Domain Server, create a folder atc:\inetpub\ftproot calledftptest

Set the permissions to allow anonymous access:

Open a command prompt. Type the following command:

cacls c:\inetpub\ftproot\ftptest /G IUSR:R /T /E

Close the command prompt

Syntax Explanation

    /G user:permission Grant specified user access rights.
    /T Changes ACLs of specified files in the current directory and all subdirectories.
    /E Edit ACL instead of replacing it.

Step 2

Open IIS Manager. In the Connections pane, click the Sites node in the tree. As shown in the image below, right-click the Sites node in the tree and click Add FTP Site, or click Add FTP Site in the Actions pane.

When the Add FTP Site wizard appears:

EnterMy FTP site in the FTP site name box, then navigate to theC:\inetpub\ftproot\ftptest folder that you created previously.

Note: that if you choose to type in the path to your content folder, you can use environment variables in your paths.

When you have completed these items, click Next.

On theBindings and SSL Settings page of the wizard choose an IP address for your FTP site from the IP Address drop-down, or choose to accept the default selection ofAll Unassigned . I have also de-selected the requirement for SSL but allowed SSL, although in a production environment you should really enforce the use of SSL (albeit many systems still are unable to transfer files using SSL).

Because you will be using the administrator account later in this walk-through, you must ensure that you restrict access to the server and enter the local loopback IP address for your computer by typing127.0.0.1 in the IP Address box. (Note: If you are using IPv6, you should also add the IPv6 localhost binding of::1 .)

Enter the TCP/IP port for the FTP site in the Port box. For this walk-through, choose to accept the default port of 21.

For this example, do not use a host name, so make sure that the Virtual Host box is blank.

Make sure that the Certificates drop-down is set toNot Selected and that the Allow SSL option is selected.

When you have completed these items, clickNext.

On theAuthentication and Authorization Information page of the wizard:

Select Anonymous for the Authentication settings.

For the Authorization settings, chooseAnonymous users from the Allow access to drop-down, and select Read for the Permissions option.

When you have completed these items, clickFinish.

Step 3

Try connecting to the site from the Domain Controller:

Open a command prompt and type the following commands:

	FTP
	Open 192.168.0.2 (you could also select the dns record pbladm01)
	Enter the credentials: Anonymous
	Enter a valid email address

I then ran anLS which lists the files in the directory on the ftp server, why not place a file in the directory and re-run this command to see the files.

Summary

You have successfully created a new FTP site using the new FTP service. To recap the items that you completed in this exercise:

You created a new FTP site namedMy New FTP Site , with the site's content root at %SystemDrive%\inetpub\ftproot.

You bound the FTP site to all addresses for the server on port 21, and you chose not to enforce the use of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for the FTP site.

You created a default rule for the FTP site to allow anonymous usersRead access to the files.

NOTE : If you set up a ftp ssl connection you must use a third party client that can be an endpoint to the secure connection. To find out more about ssl connection go to Learn IIS

And finally

We recommend repeating these exercises as it will not only help build your confidence in the subject matter but will open your mind to the other capabilities. Do not feel afraid to experiment in our labs!

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