Section A: MW 11:30 - 12:45am in Nichols 022
Optional Lab Meeting Time: F 11:30 - 12:45 in Nichols 022 (actual dates will be announced in class)
Information will be posted here as the class progresses. In the meantime, for students currently enrolled in the class, please refer to K-State Canvas for the latest information.
Teaching Assistants:
- Steven Blits - sblits AT ksu DOT edu
- Kevin Dice - kmdice AT ksu DOT edu
Class Content
- Syllabus
- Schedule
- Lecture 1 - Introduction & Motivation
- Lecture 2 - Duties of a System Administrator
- Lecture 3 - Computer Hardware
- Lecture 4 - Virtual Machines & OS Installation
- Lecture 5 - Windows 10 In-Depth
- Lecture 6 - Ubuntu 14.04 In-Depth
- Lecture 7 - User Account Management
- Ubuntu 14.04 User Accounts
- Ubuntu 14.04 User Management (Ubuntu Server Guide)
- How to Add and Delete Users on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS (Digital Ocean)
- Installing the "Users and Groups" Management Tool in Ubuntu 14.04 (Ubuntu Handbook)
- The Beginners Guide to Managing Users and Groups in Linux (How-To Geek)
- How to Manage Microsoft and User Accounts in Windows 10 (Windows Central)
- How to Set Up and Configure User Accounts on Windows 10 (How-To Geek)
- The Geek's Way of Managing User Accounts and Groups on Windows
- Lecture 8 - File System Management
- Hard Drives (Explain That Stuff)
- Hard Disk Drive (Wikipedia)
- Solid State Drive (Wikipedia)
- Amazing Facts and Figures about the Evolution of Hard Disk Drives
- Hard Disk Partitions Explained (How-To Geek)
- How to Manage Partitions on Windows Without Downloading Any Other Software (How-To Geek)
- How to Partition (Ubuntu Community Guides)
- How to Resize your Ubuntu Partitions (How-To Geek)
- Windows Folder & File Permissions (Windows 2000 Administrator's Pocket Consultant)
- How to Understand those Confusing Windows 7 Fileshare Permissions
- How to Take Ownership and Change Permissions on Files and Folders (Windows 7 Tutorials)
- An Introduction to Linux File Permissions (Digital Ocean)
- File Permissions (Ubuntu Community Guides)
- Lecture 9 - Service & Process Management
- Lecture 10 - Software & Exam 1 Review
- Installation (Computer Programs) (Wikipedia)
- Here's What Happens when you Install the Top 10 Download.com Apps (How-To Geek)
- Systinternals Process Monitor
- InstallWatch Pro 2.5 on Lo4d.com (USE WITH CAUTION! This download has been unreliable in the past)
- Installing Software (Ubuntu Community Guides)
- How To Use Apt-get (Ubuntu Community Guides)
- How Software Installation Package Managers Work on Linux
- EXAM 1
- Lecture 11 - Networking
- Lecture 12 - Command Line Interfaces & Simple Scripts
- Lecture 13 - Scripts for Automation
- Lecture 14 - Troubleshooting & Maintenance
- VMWare - Set BIOS Boot Delay
- How-to Geek - Set BIOS Boot Delay in VMWare
- Window 10 - Boot in Safe Mode
- Download Offline NT Password & Registry Editor
- Reset Windows Password (How-To Geek)
- Offline NT Password & Registry Editor Walkthrough
- Windows Blue Screen Error Code Reference
- Ubuntu Recovery Mode
- Ubuntu Reset Password
- Ubuntu Filesystem Troubleshooting
- Lecture 15 - The Cloud
- DigitalOcean - Creating your First Droplet
- DigitalOcean - How to Connect to your Droplet with SSH
- DigitalOcean - Initial Server Setup with Ubuntu 14.04
- DigitalOcean - Additional Recommended Steps for New Ubuntu 14.04 Servers
- DigitalOcean - How To Protect SSH With Fail2Ban on Ubuntu 14.04
- DigitalOcean - How to Install LAMP Stack on Ubuntu 14.04
- DigitalOcean - How to Create an SSL Certificate on Apache for Ubuntu
- Ubuntu - How to set up SSH Keys
- DigitalOcean- How to set up SSH Keys
- Lecture 16 - Monitoring & Backups
- DigitalOcean - How to Install Linux Dash
- DigitalOcean - How to Install the Munin Monitoring Tool
- DigitalOcean - How to Install Ganglia
- Glances (Python System Monitor Script)
- CloudStats.me - Digital Ocean Droplet Monitoring & Alerts
- Wikipedia - Backup
- How-to Geek - How to Back Up Ubuntu the Easy Way with Deja Dup
- Ubuntu - Backup Your System
- PCWorld - How to use Windows 10's File History Backup Feature
- How-to Geek - How to Use All of Windows 10's Backup and Recovery Tools
- DriveImage XML
- Ubuntu - Data Recovery
- Lecture 17 - Security & Best Practices for System Administrators