🖥️ Windows Server Essentials

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📌 Networking Fundamentals

• 🌐 What is Network
• 🌐 IP Address
• 🌐 Classful Address
• 🌐 Public and Private IP Address
• 🌐 Network for Subnet Mask
• 🌐 Network Topology
• 🌐 MAC (Media Access Control) Address
• 🌐 Networking Devices in Computer Network
• 🌐 OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) Model
• 🌐 TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and UDP (User Datagram Protocol)
• 🌐 Internet Services with TCP and UDP Ports
• 🌐 Booting Process
• 🌐 Computer Fundamentals

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📌 NAT and ARP

• 🔄 NAT (Network Address Translation)
• 🔄 ARP (Address Resolution Protocol)

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📌 Ngrok

• 🚀 What is Ngrok?
• 🚀 How to Use Ngrok?

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🛠️ Installation

• 💻 Install Windows 7 in Oracle VM VirtualBox
• 💻 Install Windows Server 2012 R2 in VirtualBox
• 💻 What is Windows Manager?
• 💻 What is Server Manager?

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⌨️ Commands and Shortcuts

• 🔧 Common Networking Commands in Windows Command Prompt (CMD)
• 🔧 Windows Shortcuts

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🔌 Port Forwarding

• 🔐 Introduction to Port Forwarding

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🛡️ Proxy Server

• 🌍 What is a Computer Proxy?
• 🌍 Proxy Server Configuration CCPROXY
• 🌍 Proxy Filter in CCProxy Software

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💽 RAID Levels

• 🔄 HDD vs SSD
• 🔄 What is RAID?

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📈 Software Development Life Cycle

• 📊 Software Development Life Cycle
• 📊 Secure Software Development Life Cycle

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👥 User and Group Management

• 🔹 Types of Groups in Windows
• 🔹 User Group Capabilities
• 🔹 User Accounts in Windows
• 🔹 User Groups Overview
• 🔹 Group Policy in Windows
• 🔹 File System in Windows
• 🔹 NTFS (New Technology File System) Permissions

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🔒 VPN Server

• 🌐 What is VPN (Virtual Private Network)

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💾 Backup in Windows Server

• 🛡️ How to Backup in Windows Server

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🏢 ADDS (Active Directory Domain Services)

• 🖥️ Install Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS) on Windows Server 2022
• 🔗 How to Join a Computer to a Domain
• 🗂️ Organizational Units (OUs) in Active Directory
• 📜 Group Policy Management (GPM) in Active Directory
• 📁 Folder Redirection
• 💻 Deploy Software Using Group Policy
• 🔄 DFS (Distributed File System) Role
• 📊 File Server Resource Manager (FSRM)
• 🛠️ Group Policy Console (GPMC)

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🌐 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

• 🖧 What is DHCP Server
• ⚙️ DHCP Server Configuration
• 🚨 DHCP Starvation Attack
• 🔄 DORA process

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🖥️ DNS (Domain Name System)

• 📜 Story of Domain Name Structure
• 📝 Domain Appraisal
• 📂 Hosts File in Windows
• ⚙️ Working of DNS
• 🗃️ Type of DNS Server
• 🔍 Recursive (Caching) DNS Server
• 📡 DNS in Wireshark
• 🖥️ NetBIOS Name?
• 🥇 What is a Primary DNS Server?
• 🥈 What is a Secondary DNS Server?
• 🔄 Dynamic DNS Server
• 🔁 AXFR (Authoritative Transfer) and IXFR (Incremental Zone Transfer)

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🌐 Internet Information Services (IIS) Configuration

• 🔗 Types of Site Binding
• 🖥️ Site Binding in Windows Server
• ⚙️ IIS Site Binding Settings Configuration
• 📁 FTP Server Installation
• 🌍 FTP Site Binding
• 🔐 FTP Server Configuration

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🅾️ Created by Nikhil Patidar

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📜 Windows Server Exam Certificate

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📚 Reference & Attribution

🧾 Disclaimer:
This repository is a collection of Windows Server notes, built with reference to the sessions conducted by Mr. Sachin Verma Sir at Armour Infosec.
While the foundational knowledge and many core concepts are derived from the coaching content, I have also:

• 🛠️ Rewritten and structured the material in my own way
• 🧠 Added personal insights, practical examples, and formatting
• 📝 Included extra references and enhancements wherever needed 💡 The goal of this repo is to reinforce my own learning and to help the broader community — not for commercial purposes. 🙏 Special thanks to Mr. Sachin Verma Sir for their high-quality training and mentorship.

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🤝 Contributing

Feel free to contribute by adding similar content to this repository. Your help in improving the documents and making them more valuable is always appreciated.

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