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Installing and Configuring Windows 10: 70-698 Exam Guide

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Installing and Configuring Windows 10: 70-698 Exam Guide

Overview of this book

The Installing and Configuring Windows 10: 70-698 Exam Guide is designed to confirm what you already know, while also updating your knowledge of Windows 10. With its easy-to-follow guidance, you will quickly learn the user interface and discover steps to work efficiently in Windows 10 to rule out delays and obstacles. This book begins by covering various ways of installing Windows 10, followed by instructions on post-installation tasks. You will learn about the deployment of Windows 10 in Enterprise and also see how to configure networking in Windows 10. You’ll understand how to leverage Disk Management and Windows PowerShell to configure disks, volumes, and file system options. As you progress through the chapters, you will be able to set up remote management in Windows 10 and learn more about Windows update usage, behavior, and settings. You will also gain insights that will help you monitor and manage data recovery and explore how to configure authentication, authorization, and advanced management tools in Windows 10. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with enough knowledge to take the 70-698 exam and explore different study methods to improve your chances of passing the exam with ease.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Configuring filesystem permissions


As you know, Windows 10 is an operating system in which it is very easy to store, organize, and manage files and folders using File Explorer. That is the result of the filesystem that Windows is using. So, let's look at some of the filesystems that historically have been associated with the Windows OS:

  • File Allocation Table (FAT): This is the earliest filesystem and was used by both MS-DOS and Windows. It uses a table that contains a map of clusters, where a cluster represents a logical storage unit. FAT32 is the latest version of FAT.
  • Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT): This is a new version of FAT that isprimarily used in USB flash drives and SD cards. exFAT is platform-independent, enabling drivesto work on Apple Mac computers too.
  • New Technology File System (NTFS): This was introduced with Windows NT 3.1, and is still in use in both Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019. NTFS is a feature-rich OS; disk quotas, Encrypting File System (EFS), journaling...