1. 6/14/20161 System Administration 1-Introduction to System Administration

2. 6/14/20162 What is a system administrator? System Admin Tasks and Duties:  install systems (including clients/servers): hardware, software and o.s.  upgrade systems: hardware, software and o.s.  backups  start/stop system (reboot)

3. 6/14/20163 Other Duties  create accounts (add/delete), passwords, account management  job scheduling  security  performance monitoring and tuning

4. 6/14/20164 Some More Duties  documentation and testing  communication and help (with user community and internal)  networking (client/server)  handling printers, tape drives, modems, disks, UPS, and other peripherals  Memory Management

5. 6/14/20165 Almost The Last Duties  disk space management (formatting, partitions, quotas)  writing/modifying scripts (perl, shell, C, etc..)  running specialized services/servers (email server, web server, DNS etc..)  problem resolution

6. 6/14/20166 Last Duties  Training (others and oneself)  Fixing Bugs  Automate Tasks  Maintain system files  Analysis of logs/systems, collect stats, reports  Planning and Recommendations  Work with vendors, customers  Research New Technologies

7. 6/14/20167 History System Administration:  1940s - today: supercomputer, mainframes, minis, micros, pda  1980-1990s: networks, client/server, "system administrator" "network administrator" (vs. programmers/operators)  2000 and beyond - hot area of computing

8. 6/14/20168 NT - Microsoft, Proprietary. New Technology.  Clients: Dos-->Windows 3.1 --> Windows 95 --> Windows 98 --> Windows 2000 --> Windows XP -->  Windows Vista --> Windows 7  Servers: Windows NT --> Windows 2000 (aka NT 5.0) --> Windows 2003 (aka NT 6.0) --> Windows 2008 --> Windows 2008 R2  2012 --> Windows 2012 R2

9. 6/14/20169 Historical Timeline:  (http://www.worldowindows.com/wintime. html )  1975 - Microsoft Formed  1980 - Xenix released by Microsoft  1981 - MS-DOS 1.0 released with new IBM PC  1985 - Windows 1.0 released  1992 - Windows 3.1 released  1993 - Windows NT 3.1 released (over 6 million lines of code) 

10. 6/14/201610 1995 - Windows NT 3.5.1 released - Windows 95 released - Windows 95 released 1996 - Windows NT 4.0 released 1996 - Windows NT 4.0 released 1998 - Windows 98 released 1998 - Windows 98 released 1998 - Microsoft announces Windows NT 5.0 will be renamed Windows 2000 1998 - Microsoft announces Windows NT 5.0 will be renamed Windows 2000 2000 - release of windows 2000 (aka NT 5.0) 2000 - release of windows 2000 (aka NT 5.0) 2001 - release of windows XP (aka NT 5.1) 2001 - release of windows XP (aka NT 5.1) 2003 - release of windows 2003 server 2003 - release of windows 2003 server 2008 - release of Windows 2008 server 2008 - release of Windows 2008 server 2012 - release of Windows 2012 server 2012 - release of Windows 2012 server

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