System Administration and Maintenance

A computer that provides services (Ex: File Server, Web Server, and Application Server)

• Client

• Server

• Performance

• Availability

A computer that request services (Ex: Workstation)

• Server

• Performance

• Client

• Cost

Servers are intended to provide network services to many users.

• Performance

• Availability

• Cost

• Essentials

If the server fails or become unavailable, the issue will affect multiple people - How much or how highly available a server needs to be.

• Performance

• Cost

• Client

• Availability

How to balance available budget with the goals of performance and availability - You need to balance what you need.

• Client

• Performance

• Cost

• Availabity

Uses Client Access Licenses as their way to ensure that their product is activated.

• Windows Server 2015

• Windows Server 2016

• Windows Server 2017

• Windows Server 2018

This is used for large organization as it contains features where you can setup in unlimited volume like Hyper-V, OSE Container which is not present in Standard Edition.

• Datacenter

• Standard

• Essentials

• Windows Server 2016

This is used for more than 25-50 users. It has a lot of features, but not essential for big organizations because of limited features.

• Performance

• Standard

• Essentials

• Datacenter

This type of activation integrates activation process to the virtual machine host.

• Active Directory Activation

• Key Management Service (KMS)

• Automatic Virtual Machine Activation (AVMA)

• Windows Activation

This is a type of activation where it is stored in the schema of the domain.

• Active Directory-based Activation

• Automatic Virtual Machine Activation (AVMA)

• Windows Activation

• Key Management Service (KMS)