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ChromeOS System Administrator's Guide

By : Dr. Willie Sanders, Jr.
Book Image

ChromeOS System Administrator's Guide

By: Dr. Willie Sanders, Jr.

Overview of this book

Google's ChromeOS provides a great platform for technicians, system administrators, developers, and casual users alike, providing a seemingly simplistic architecture that is easy enough for a novice user to begin working with. However, beneath the surface, this operating system boasts a plethora of powerful tools, able to rival any other OS on the market. So, learning how to harness the full potential of the OS is critical for you as a technical worker and user to thrive at your workplace. ChromeOS System Administrator’s Guide will help you reap the benefits of all features of ChromeOS. This book explains ChromeOS’ unique architecture and its built-in tools that perform essential tasks such as managing user accounts, working with data, and launching applications. As you build your foundational knowledge of the OS, you'll be exposed to higher-level concepts such as security, command line, and enterprise management. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to perform a range of system administration tasks within ChromeOS without requiring an alternative operating system, thereby broadening your options as a technician, system administrator, developer, or engineer.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1:Working with ChromeOS
5
Part 2:Security and Troubleshooting
9
Part 3:Advanced Administration

Recovering from Disasters

As you’ve learned from the previous chapters of this book, both hardware and software play important roles in making ChromeOS a cutting-edge operating system. But at the end of the day, it’s not the computer system or its software that you or the users you support care about...it’s the data. In our digital world, data is king!

Google’s understanding of the true value of data has led them to design ChromeOS with several built-in data protection features. Users can leverage these features to ensure the security of not only their data but their apps as well. These protections can help to provide peace of mind for our most important and sensitive data assets. Additionally, if your data becomes totally unavailable due to a physical or technical disaster scenario, ChromeOS provides Disaster Recovery.

In this chapter, you’ll learn about the following:

  • ChromeOS’s default data encryption technologies
  • How...