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Windows Server 2008 r2 Interview Questions and Answers Part1
Windows Server 2008 r2 Interview Questions and Answers Part1
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How do you load the DNS zone changes on other site before the scheduled replication happens?
Refresh the Zone on the DNS server in the site you want to see the changes.
This command-line tool assists administrators in Domain Name System (DNS) management.
DNSCmd displays and changes the properties of DNS servers, zones, and resource records. It manually modifies
these properties, creates and deletes zones and resource records, and forces replication events between DNS server
physical memory and DNS databases and data files. Some operations of this tool work at the DNS server level while
others work at the zone level.
References:
Dnscmd
Dnscmd Examples: Domain Name System(DNS)
How do you allow users a domain be able to modify entries in one AD integrated DNS zone but not in the
other?
You need to modify the permissions on DNS server via DNS Manager to let users modify that DNS zone.
Run Dcpromo and choose Remove options. For automation, you can use an answer file.
Goto Server Manager, Roles and uninstall AD DS Role
How do you configure AD FS such that AD FS tokens contain information from AD? Or How do you integrate
AD FS with AD for populating the information from AD into AD FS tokens?
You need to Add and Configure a new Account Store in AD FS Trust Policy
How do you ensure that only Authenticated users are allowed to update Host (A) records in DNS zones?
One has to convert or setup such a DNS zone as Active Directory Integrated Zone. AD Integrated Zones allow only
Authenticated users to update the Host records.
How do you configure your Online Responder server to issue Certificate Revocation List (CRLs) for
enterprise root CA?
How do you configure the Change Auditing for a Standalone Certificate Authority (CA)?
Since the CA is a standalone server, that is it’s not part of your domain, so you can’t apply auditing from a domain
GPO rather you need to achieve the same via Local Group Policies. Here are the steps for configuring the same:
1. Enable the Audit Object Access setting in Local Security Policy on the CA server
2. Configure the Auditing in Certification Authority snap-in
3.
What are the possible ways to decommission a 2008 domain controller server and remove a child domain
of a Forest?
In order to decommission a child domain and it’s DC, first you have to move/migrate all the required AD objects
out from that domain to the parent domain or wherever needed. Then use need to uninstall the AD DS role on the
DC. This can be done via
How do you configure your Windows 2008 R2 environment to allow Zone transfers to a UNIX-based DNS
server?
In DNS Manager Console, choose the zone to be allowed for transfers to Unix server and enable the BIND
Secondaries
What are the steps involved in creating a New AD Site and Establishing Replication between two AD Sites?
How do you login to an external domain for which a AD Trust has been setup?
One has to login using the User Principal Name (UPN) like username@domain.suffix to an external domain that
trusts your domain.
What Forest level is required to support Active Directory Recycle Bin feature?
One has to run Windows Server 2008 R2 Forest Functional Level for the support of Active Directory Recycle Bin.
That means all your Domain Controllers should be running Windows Server 2008 R2.
Where do you manage the Password Replication Policy for a Read Only Domain Controller (RODC) ?
In Active Directory Users and Computers, Go to Domain Controllers OU, Select the RODC server object, Under the
properties control the list of user/group objects that are configured for password replication to that RODC server.
IIS
When we hosted our web Application on multiple web server under a load balancer call the Web Farm.
This is generally used for heavy load web application where there are many user requests at a time. So
When Web Application is hosted on Different IIS Server over a load balancer, Load balancer is
responsible for distribute the load on different server.
A Web garden is configured on a single server by specifying multiple worker processes for an application
pool. Web farms use multiple physical servers for supporting a single Web site.
What is the default Identity of an Application Pool ?
Network Services
What are the worker process for IIS 5.1 and IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0?
What are the different type of application pool available in IIS 7.0 ?
1. DefaultAppPool (Integrated)
2. ClassicAppPool
C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1
This is used automatically register the .NET Framework with your IIS.
How to check Installed .Net Version on IIS
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322>aspnet_regiis.exe –lv
If there are multiple worker process running on IIS, then how can you attach a particular worker process
for application ?
run cscript iisapi.vbs script to find out the process ID and Application Pool name . Based on the process
Id for particular application I have to attache the process from Visual studio IDE.
Tools is : msvsmon.exe
HTTP : 80 (default port for iis), SSL : 443,FTP : 21,SMTP : 25,POP2 : 109,POP3 : 110,IMAP : 143,NNTP :
119,LDAP : 89, DNS : 53,DHCP : 67
IIS Services?
1. www services
2. FTP services
3. SMTP services
4. NNTP services
What is App Pool and App Domain? What is the difference between these two?
1.Recycling
2.Perfomance
3.Health
4.Identity
1.In IIS Manager, right-click the Web site, and click Properties.
3.Under Secure communications, if the View Certificate button is activated, there is a certificate
attached to the Web site. If the button is not activated, you must attach a server certificate to the site to
use the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) features.