Windows 7 Administration Training

Windows 7 Administration Training

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Introduction
	Introduction

Windows 7 Editions

New User Interface Part 1 - Taskbar, Jump Lists, Notification Area

New Mouse Gestures - Peak, Snap, Shake

Windows 7 Installation
	System Requirements

Windows 7 Compatibility Center

Performing a Clean Installation of Windows 7 Part 1

Performing a Clean Installation of Windows 7 Part 2

Downloading and Installing the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor

Using Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor

32 bit vs 64 bit, and am I running 32 bit or 64 bit Version of Windows?

Can I Install a 64 bit Operating System on My Computer?

Notes on Upgrading to Windows 7

Downloading Windows Easy Transfer

Using Easy Transfer to Transfer Files and Settings to a Windows 7 Computer

Upgrading to Windows 7 from Windows XP With Windows Easy Transfer Part 1

Upgrading to Windows 7 from Windows XP With Windows Easy Transfer Part 2

Upgrading to Windows 7 from Windows XP With Windows Easy Transfer Part 3

Upgrading to Windows 7 from Windows Vista

Some Cool New Features Overview
	Action Center

HomeGroups

Libraries

Windows Search Document Preview

Windows 7 and Solid State Drives

Power Saving Options

ReadyBoost Improvements

Devices and Printers

Connect to a Projector

Other Useful Tools That Come With Windows 7
	Sticky Notes

Snipping Tool

XPS Viewer

Magnifier

Parental Controls
	Setting Computer Usage Times for Children

Downloading and Installing Windows Family Safety

Monitoring and Restricting Internet Usage

Installing and Managing Drivers and Devices
	The Driver Store and Driver Staging vs Installation

Enhancements to Device Installation With Windows 7

Driver Signing

Driver Ranking

Staging Drivers with PnPutil.exe

Using Device Manager and Devices and Printers

Configuring Device Installation Settings

Locating Drivers for Windows 7 In the Real World

Installing Drivers Part 1

Installing Drivers Part 2

Locating and Installing Automatic Driver Installation Software For You Computer Part 1

Locating and Installing Automatic Driver Installation Software For You Computer Part 2

Using Group Policy to Manage Drivers and Devices

Troubleshooting Drivers With SetupAPI.log files and Error Codes

Troubleshooting Drivers With Driver Verifier

Troubleshooting Drivers With Signature Verifier

Basic Windows 7 Administration in a Domain
	Domains vs Workgroups and Local Users vs Domain Users

Joining a Windows 7 Computer to a Domain

Group Policy and Windows 7
	What is Group Policy?

New Features in Group Policy with Windows 7

Managing User Profiles and User Data
	User Profile Namespace

Deleting User Profiles

Default User Profile

Downloading the Windows AIK to Make an Unattend.xml to Modify the Default User Profile

Installing the Windows Automated Installation Kit

Creating an Unattend.xml to Modify the Default User Profile

Modifying the Local Default User Profile Part 1

Modifying the Local Default User Profile Part 2

Creating a Network Default User Profile

Modifying the Network Default User Profile

Modifying the Local Default User Profile After Windows 7 Has Been Deployed - Unsupported

Public User Profile

Roaming User Profiles and Enhancements to Roaming Profiles in Windows 7

Configuring a Group for Roaming Profile Users

Configuring a Share and Permissions for Roaming Profiles

Configuring Users to use Roaming Profiles and Seeing it in Action

Configuring Roaming Profiles With Group Policy

Implementing Mandatory User Profiles

Implementing Super Mandatory User Profiles

Enhancements to Folder Redirection with Windows 7

Setting Permissions for Folder Redirection

Creating a Folder Redirection GPO

Linking the GPO and Seeing Folder Redirection in Action

Advanced Folder Redirection

Setting Permissions for Advanced Folder Redirection

Creating a GPO for Advanced Folder Redirection

Linking the GPO for Advanced Folder Redirection and Seeing it in Action

Offline Files and Folders
	Offline Files and Folder Enhancements in Windows 7

Configuring Files and Folders to be Available Offline

Sync Center

Configuring Disk Space Available for Offline Files

Encrypting Offline Files

Configuring a GPO to Not Make a Redirected Folder Available Offline

Configuring Offline Files with Group Policy

Disk Quotas
	Configuring Disk Quotas

Configuring Disk Quotas From the Command Line

Configuring Disk Quotas With Group Policy

Managing Search in Windows 7
	Using Search in Windows 7

Configuring Search Options

Configuring Index Locations

Changing the Location of the Index

Rebuilding the Index

Searching Encrypted Files

Setting Indexing Options for File Types

Indexing TIFFs

Federated Search

BranchCache
	What is Branch Cache?

Configuring Windows 7 Clients for Distributed Branch Cache

Configuring Windows 7 Clients for Hosted Branch Cache

Disable Branch Cache

Using Group Policy to Configure Branch Cache

Libraries
	Adding Folders to a Library and Removing Folders From a Library

Creating Additional Libraries

Customizing Libraries

Library Description Files

Managing Disks, Drives, and Data
	Adding a Disk and Creating a New Drive

MBR vs GPT Partitions

Converting MBR Partitions to GPT

Basic vs Dynamic Disks

Converting a Basic Disk to a Dynamic Disk

Creating a Spanned Volume

Creating a Striped Volume

Resizing a Volume

Deleting a Volume

Using Virtual Hard Disks

Disk and Data Tools
	Using CheckDisk

Defragmenting Drives

Disk Usage Command

SDelete

Flushing the Cache with Sync

MoveFile and PendMove

Printing
	Printing Enhancements in Windows 7

Adding and Removing Printers

Configuring Printer Security

Configuring Printer Driver Isolation Mode

Managing Print Jobs and Printer Queues

Sharing Printers

Connecting to Shared Printers

Using Location Aware Printing

Backup and Restore
	Backing Up Files and Folders

Restoring Files and Folders

Taking a System Image Backup

Restoring a System Image Backup

Restoring System Settings To a Certain Point in Time

Using Shadow Copies and Previous Versions

Managing Backups With Group Policy

Backup Best Practices

Security
	User Account Control - UAC

Enabling, Disabling, and Configuring UAC

Managing the UAC with Group Policy

AppLocker

Windows Defender

Microsoft Security Baseline Analyzer

BitLocker and BitLocker To Go

Using the Encrypting File System to Encrypt Files and Folders

Giving Other Users Permissions to Use Encrypted Files

EFS Dump

Windows Firewall

Networking
	Configuring a Network Adapter

Connecting to a VPN

Remote Desktop
	Configuring Remote Desktop

Connecting to a Computer With Remote Desktop Enabled

Updating Windows 7
	Using and Configuring Windows Update

Configuring Windows with Group Policy

Other Tools for Updating Windows

Application Compatibility and Windows XP Mode
	Running an Application in Compatibility Mode

Automatically Configuring Applications to Run With Administrative Privileges

Determining if Your Computer Can Use Windows XP Mode

Downloading Components for Windows XP Mode

Installing Components for Windows XP Mode

Configuring Windows XP Mode

Installing Applications and Using Windows XP Mode

Virtual Hard Drives
	Creating a Virtual Hard Drive

Mounting a Virtual Hard Drive

Create a Bootable Windows 7 VHD Part 1

VHD Boot

Troubleshooting Windows 7
	Task Manager

Event Viewer

Resource Monitor

Reliability Monitor

Performance Monitor

Troubleshooting Windows 7 Startup Issues
	Using Startup Repair from the System Recovery GUI

System Restore from the System Recovery GUI

Windows Memory Diagnostics

Using Tools From the System Recovery Command Prompt

Replacing Missing or Corrupt Files from the System Recovery Command Prompt

Using Group Policy to Troubleshoot Boot or Shutdown Performance

Safe Mode

Last Known Good Configuration

Boot Logging

Using the Shift Key During Startup

MSConfig


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