Maintenance of Server and Clients in a network

Hello Everyone!!!

Friends Recently I got a job in a small company which has One DNS Server and another server used for POSTMASTER and PROXY for internet.

My responsibility is to maintain all the systems and Server. But I am very new in networking. So can u pls help me in few points like:
• How to maintain the Server, what r the thing I should keep in mind.
• How I can maintain all other PC without going to every client desktop.
• How I can configure other PC from my server like- disk defragmentation, software removal/installation, system shutdown, antivirus update and scanning etc.

I hope u r getting what I want to know. So if U can give me tips then pls help me.
If there is any online good tutorial on this then pls give me that link.

Thanx & Regards

 

How did you get this job? Anyway, that was a cheap shot, I apologize. Doing this helps me sharpen my own skills, since as some guy once said, "If you want to prove you know something, explain it to someone else."


This is general, not step-by-step:

The best way to do maintenence on a series of desktops connected to your server would be options inside your servers' OS. You should be running a server-edition operating system (Windows 2000 Server as opposed to say Windows 2000 Professional). Most server OS's have tools for sending out updates to all the boxes that they serve or are in their domain name under them.

Also, if your sending identical updates to identical boxes (giving them all Windows, Office, yadda yadda), then third-party software can help you out loads. You're gonna wanna make sure that you back up all the data somewhere, so you don't lose it all, so somethign like Norton Ghost could be very helpful in scheduling automated backups.

 

Honestly, you should really start taking some classes. We could not even begin to touch upon the necessary things you need to know to do your job on a daily basis. If you aren't going to take classes, Google.com needs to become your best friend...if you don't know...ask google.

 

Sainit, Welcome to MajorGeeks. You didn't specify what the computers were using for OS's but I would start with a trip to the book store. This is a great one for Server 2003. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/07...102-3904662-4734509?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

 

Hello Everyone!!!

Thanx alot for ur good suggestion and link provided by jerkyking.
Friends some of u r having ??? that how i got this job.

Friends this is not a hardcore networking job. simple backup, maintainence etc. Just for my information and for a good future i want to gain this knowledge.

 

If this is a business, backup is anything but simple. You have the very life of the business in your hands if disaster strikes. Uh....and it will.

REMEMBER: Your backup is only as good as your last restore!!!!