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About This Book

at least three physical locations, a minimum of three Active Directory domain

controllers, and a variety of network services and resources, such as file and

print servers, client/server applications, Internet access, and remote access

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At least one year of experience implementing and maintaining desktop operating

systems

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Experience planning and designing networks

About the CD-ROM

For your use, this book includes a companion CD-ROM. This CD-ROM contains a vari-

ety of informational aids to complement the book content:

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The Microsoft Press Readiness Review Suite Powered by MeasureUp. This suite of

practice tests and objective reviews contains questions of varying degrees of com-

plexity and offers multiple testing modes. You can assess your understanding of

the concepts presented in this book and use the results to develop a learning plan

that meets your needs.

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An electronic version of this book (eBook). For information about using the

eBook, see the section “The eBook” later in this introduction.

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Lab files that you use to complete exercises in this training kit.

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Sample chapters from several Microsoft Press books that give you additional infor-

mation about Windows Server 2003 and introduce you to other resources that are

available from Microsoft Press.

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An overview of Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2003 R2.

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A free demo: “Answering Simulation Questions.”

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A demo and a simulation that introduce you to Shadow Copies.

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Bonus material including white papers and links to a free e-learning course and

clinic.

Two additional CD-ROMs contain a 180-day Evaluation Edition of Microsoft Windows

Server 2003 with SP1 and R2, Enterprise Edition. You will use SP1 to complete this

training kit. R2 is for your reference only; do not install R2 until you have completed

the training kit exercises.

Important

The 180-day Evaluation Edition provided with this training kit is not the full retail

product and is provided only for the purposes of training and evaluation. Microsoft Technical

Support does not support this Evaluation Edition.