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Lesson 7
Popular Windows Network Services and Applications
Learning Objectives
Students will learn about:
Web Servers
Remote Access
Remote Administration
Server Virtualization

ODN Skills

Understand web services

Understand server virtualization

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Lesson Summary Lecture Notes

This lesson picks up where Lesson 6 left off by discussing network services, including
web services, terminal services, and server virtualization. Therefore, review quickly what
the Internet is and that fact that users access a web page, they are accessing the web page
from a web server. Of course, this is a good time to discuss the standard web protocols,
including HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and SMTP and the ports that these protocols use.
Now that the students have a general understanding of the Internet, introduce Microsofts
web server, Internet Information Services (IIS). When users access web sites, they access
folders. Some of those folders may be located separately (virtual directories) so that they
can be reused by multiple websites or accessed from a different server. Next, discuss web
applications and application pools as a method to isolate one web site from another
website. The last part that deals with discussing Microsofts web servers includes a
discussion of security. Therefore, you should discuss URL authorization rules, available
methods of authentication, SSL, and digital certificates. The next part of the discussion
covers providing FTP services with IIS. Again, review which ports FTP users.
The next part of the lesson deals with Remote Access. Students need to understand the
benefits that remote access can offer an organization and the challenges that it represents.
You can then define a virtual private network (VPN) and list the different types of
tunneling available with Windows Server 2008, including PPTP, L2TP, and SSTP. Along
with discussing the encryption that VPNs offer, discuss the different methods of
authentication available for VPN. Lastly, discuss split tunneling with an emphasis on why
you should not do it.

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Since many organizations could be large or spread out, you may have a need to connect
to a server remotely. Therefore, you will be discussing Remote Desktop Services. You
should emphasize that before Windows Server 2008 R2, Remote Desktop Services was
known as Terminal Services. You should also compare and contrast Remote Desktop
Connections and Remote Assistance. You should demonstrate using Remote Desktop
Connections to connect to another computer.
The last part of the lesson is server virtualization with an emphasis on Hyper-V. Of
course, you should start out with a discussion of what a virtual machine is and how it is
used by different organizations. When discussing Hyper-V, you should cover the system
requirements, including 64-bit Windows, 64-bit processors and BIOS that support
virtualization and Hardware Data Execution Prevention (DEP). Next, discuss how to
create virtual machines and the files that make up a virtual machine and how snapshots
are used with virtual machines. The last part of the discussion covers managing virtual
networks and network cards.

Key Terms
Application A grouping of content on a Web site that is defined at the root level or in a
separate folder that has specific properties, such as the application pool in which the
application runs and the permissions that are granted on the folder.
application pool A set of resources (a worker process or a set of worker processes)
used by a Web site or application that defines the memory boundaries for the Web site.
digital certificate A electronic document that can contain an encryption key to encrypt
data.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) A standard network protocol used to transfer a file from
one host to another over a TCP/IP-based network.
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) The predominant markup language
interpreted by browsers for web pages.
hypervisor The component that is installed between the hardware and the operating
system and is the main component that manages the virtual computers.
Internet Information Services (IIS) Microsofts web server.
physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversion A process that allows you to convert a physical
computer to a virtual computer.
Remote Assistance Technology used to connect and interact with a users session on
another computer.
Remote Desktop Services Formerly known as Terminal Services, this is a Microsoft
Windows component that allows a user to access applications and data on a remote
computer over a network.
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) A supplemental protocol used with HTTP to secure
traffic with a digital certificate.

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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) A protocol used to transfer emails over the
Internet.
snapshot A point-in-time image of a virtual machine that you can return to.
virtual directory A directory used in a Web site that corresponds to a physical
directory elsewhere on the server, on another server, or on a Web site.
virtual machine Technology that allows you to run multiple operating systems
concurrently on a single machine, which allows separation of services while keeping cost
to a minimum.
virtual private network (VPN) Technology that links two computers through a widearea network such as the Internet. To keep the connection secure, the data sent between
the two computers is encapsulated and encrypted.
web server A server that provides web pages to clients using TCP port 80.
World Wide Web (WWW) A system of interlinked hypertext documents known as
Web pages that can be viewed with a Web browser such as Internet Explorer

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