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Windows NT 4 — Basic Administration (Download pdf)

The outline listed below is a comprehensive list of items covered in a typical 1 day course for Window NT 4 basic administration. A basic working knowledge of Windows NT is assumed.

  • Basic Administration Issues
  • NT is a multi-user system
  • Default accounts
  • Terminology
  • The default group accounts
  • The user manager
  • Creating new accounts
  • Assigning user accounts to groups
  • The user environment profile
  • Copying, deleting, renaming and disabling user accounts
  • Creating a customised local group
  • Modifying account policies
  • User rights
  • Audit policies
  • Security and Shared Folders
  • Security and NT
  • Sharing folder
  • Connecting to a shared folder
  • Network Printer Issues & Administration
  • Network printers vs PCs with printers
  • Adding a local printer Sharing printers
  • Configuring a printer
  • Setting printer and document defaults
  • Installation techniques
  • Domain vs Workgroup Installation
  • Partitioning your disks
  • FAT vs NTFS
  • Converting FAT to NTFS
  • Creating a set of Windows NT boot disks
  • Hardware and the hardware compatibility
  • list WINNT and WINNT32
  • Troubleshooting
  • Troubleshooting issues and techniques
  • The NT boot process
  • Boot.INI switches
  • Last know good
  • The emergency repair disk
  • Recovery options
  • Removing non-responding processes
  • The event viewer Windows NT diagnostics
  • Service packs “the blue screen of death”
  • Technet and resource kits
  • Auditing, Performance & Backup Issues
  • Performance analysis
  • Applications, processes and performance
  • General backup issues
  • Viruses
  • Backing up and restoring data
  • Diskprobe and disksave