Chapter 1: Planning Server Deployments

It's not hard to see why the authors of the book led with this! The first chapter deals with the various hardware and logistical concerns that surround a server deployment, and also the tools that Windows Server 2008 provides for making them easier. I'm sure much of this was old news to some of my classmates, but as someone new to the server world, I found the information valuable and useful. The MAP tool in particular seems as though it'd be a godsend. The lab and chapter also covered remote deployment services, which I found to be pretty cool.