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Windows Server 2008 R2 technology primer -- Planning, prototyping, migrating, and deploying Windows Server 2008 R2 best practices -- Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 and Server Core -- Active Directory Domain Services primer -- Designing a Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory -- Designing organization unit and group structure -- Active Directory infrastructure -- Creating federated forests and lightweight directories -- Integrating Active Directory in a UNIX environment -- Domain name system and IPv6 -- DHCP/WINS/domain controllers -- Internet information services -- Server-level security -- Transport-level security -- Security policies, network policy server, and network access protection -- Migrating from Windows Server 2003/2008 to Windows Server 2008 R2 -- Compatibility testing -- Windows Server 2008 R2 administration -- Windows Server 2008 R2 group policies and policy management -- Windows Server 2008 R2 management and maintenance practices -- Automating tasks using PowerShell scripting -- Documenting a Windows Server 2008 R2 environment -- Integrating System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 with Windows Server 2008 R2 -- Server-to-client Remote Access and DirectAccess -- Remote desktop services -- Windows Server 2008 R2 administration tools for desktops -- Group policy management for network clients -- File system management and fault tolerance -- System-level fault tolerance (clustering/network load balancing) -- Backing up the Windows Server 2008 R2 environment -- Recovering from a disaster -- Optimizing Windows Server 2008 R2 for branch office communications -- Logging and debugging -- Capacity analysis and performance optimization -- Windows SharePoint services -- Windows media services -- Deploying and using Windows virtualization.