Pro/Server – 6/29/2009

Welcome back!  Today we jumped right into our new class by tackling the first three chapters of our XP Pro (70-270) book.

Just to reiterate, homework is now not the review questions in the back of each chapter — I have switched to giving a take-home quiz each week instead of having review questions and then an in-class quiz right off the bat.  I will upload PDFs of the each take-home quiz in the files section of the website if you miss class.  Again, missing class doesn’t give you an extension on these quizzes.  They’re late if not turned in the week after, and I’ll only allow two lates before zeroing them out.  You’ve been warned!

Chapter 1 covered the basics of Windows XP.  Chapter 2 got into a little more detail, including the various installation options available with Windows.  We have our choice between old-fashioned attended installation, network installations and CD-based unattended installation.  To that end, we actually created an unattended install disk and attempted an install (for some reason, the thing wouldn’t do a full-on unattended install — my thinking is that has something to do with being an evaluation copy of XP).

Chapter 3 covered disk management features of Windows.  We looked at various concepts such as creating new partitions, formatting, converting a FAT32 drive to NTFS, basic vs. dynamic disks, converting from a basic disk to a dynamic one, NTFS compression, NTFS encryption, and seemingly more.

Homework:

• Take Home Test 1 – download it here.