Best Practices
The following are best practices from this chapter:
• Use System Manager as the central point of administration for Windows Server 2012 servers.
• Manage servers based on their roles by placing them into convenient groups.
• Try to maintain the network environment’s systems periodically to avoid any inefficiency.
• Audit not only to identify security breaches or suspicious activity, but also to gain insight into how the network, network devices, and systems are accessed.
• Enable audit policies through the local system policy or group policy objects.
• Remotely manage systems using Role and Feature tools, Remote Desktop for Administration, scripting, Windows Remote Management, and command-line utilities.
• Use System Center Operations ...
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