To get the most out of this book

Before you start with this book with a view to preparing for Exam 70-740, you should have an understanding of networking in Windows Server 2016, imaging concepts, storage technology, virtualization, and related services. Experience of configuring Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2016, as well as working with virtualization, is required to better understand storage and virtualization-related services. The following Windows Server roles and services will be used in this book:

• File and storage services
• Hyper-V

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "By default, the location of the AD DS database is C:\Windows\NTDS\ntds.dit."

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

Install-WindowsFeature AD-Domain-Services -IncludeAllSubFeature -
IncludeManagementTools

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Select Operation Masters."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.