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No part of this documentation may be reproduced, transmited, or translated by any means, electronic, mechanical, optical, other by any other means without the prior written permission of Digiliant, LLC. 1 OVERVIEW OF WINDOWS STORAGE SERVER 2012 ................................................................................................ 1 NEW STORAGE INNOVATIONS IN WINDOWS STORAGE SERVER 2012......................................................................................... 1 The goals for storage were to deliver innovations in four areas: ..................................................................................... 1 New capabilities: ..................................................................................................................................................................... 1 EDITIONS ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 2 2 BASIC CONFIGURATION AND REMOTE ACCESS START UP ................................................................................ 4 WINDOWS STORAGE SERVER 2012 GUI ..................................................................................................................................... 4 SERVER MANAGER ........................................................................................................................................................................ 5 Server Roles, Role Services, and Features for Windows Server 2012 .......................................................................... 6 BASIC CONFIGURATION ................................................................................................................................................................. 7 Add Roles ................................................................................................................................................................................ 9 Add Features ......................................................................................................................................................................... 10 CONNECTING WITH THE REMOTE DESKTOP PROTOCOL ............................................................................................................ 11 Remote Desktop Connection Client ................................................................................................................................... 11 3 SETTING UP USER ACCESS .......................................................................................................................................... 12 CREATING NEW USERS AND GROUPS ........................................................................................................................................ 12 Creating New Users ............................................................................................................................................................. 13 Creating User Groups .......................................................................................................................................................... 13 Assigning Users to Groups ................................................................................................................................................. 15 4 DISK, VOLUME, AND SHARE MANAGEMENT ........................................................................................................... 16 DISK MANAGEMENT ..................................................................................................................................................................... 16 Advanced Volume Features ................................................................................................................................................ 16 STORAGE SPOOL AND STORAGE SPACE .................................................................................................................................... 17 Creating Storage Pool .......................................................................................................................................................... 18 Creating Storage Space ...................................................................................................................................................... 18 SHARE AND STORAGE MANAGER ................................................................................................................................................ 19 Creating Shared Folders in Server Manager .................................................................................................................... 19 Changing Shared Folder Setting ........................................................................................................................................ 21 MANAGING SHARE PERMISSIONS ............................................................................................................................................... 22 Various Share Permissions ................................................................................................................................................. 22 Viewing and Configuring Share Permissions ................................................................................................................... 22 VIEWING USER AND COMPUTER SESSIONS ................................................................................................................................ 24 MANAGING SESSIONS AND SHARES ............................................................................................................................................ 24 Ending Individual Sessions ................................................................................................................................................. 25 Ending All Sessions .............................................................................................................................................................. 25 Managing Open Resources ................................................................................................................................................ 25 Closing an Open File ............................................................................................................................................................ 25 Closing All Open Files .......................................................................................................................................................... 26 Stopping File and Folder Sharing ....................................................................................................................................... 26 CONFIGURING NFS SHARING ..................................................................................................................................................... 26 USING SHADOW COPIES ............................................................................................................................................................. 27 Understanding Shadow Copies .......................................................................................................................................... 27 Creating Shadow Copies ..................................................................................................................................................... 27 Restoring a Shadow Copy ................................................................................................................................................... 28 Reverting an Entire Volume to a Previous Shadow Copy .............................................................................................. 28 Deleting Shadow Copies ..................................................................................................................................................... 28 Disabling Shadow Copies ................................................................................................................................................... 29 5 DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM (DFS) AND REPLICATION ........................................................................................ 30 Installing Support for Namespaces and Replication ........................................................................................................ 30 DFS Management ................................................................................................................................................................ 31 CREATING A NEW NAMESPACE ..................................................................................................................................................