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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 disks, volumes, and filesystem options using Disk Management and Windows PowerShell


I guess you have noticed what happens to the disk during the Windows 10 installation process? Disk partitioning and formatting are two of the processes that are required to install Windows 10. If these can be regarded as Disk Management activities at the pre-installation phase of Windows 10, then there are also disk management activities at the post-installation phase. Some of these post-installation disk management activities include initializing disks, creating volumes, formatting volumes, moving disks between computers, changing disks between basic and dynamic types, and changing the disk's partition scheme. So, in the following sections, you will become familiar with Disk Management and Windows PowerShell as two old tools that continue to be available in Windows 10, too, for managing disks.

Managing storage with Disk Management

As you know, Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) is a snap-in of theMicrosoft...