This five day course is intended for IT Professionals who are interested in the knowledge and skills necessary to plan and implement a Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 environment. It incorporates both the planning of the server infrastructure and key aspects of the implementation, management and maintenance of Active Directory and Network Infrastructure. It is the primary training resource for Exam 70-646 preparation (MCITP: Server Administrator certification). It covers the most important job tasks for Server Administrators who are responsible for the planning, operations, and day-to-day maintenance of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 servers in the enterprise.
- Developing a Deployment Strategy
- Virtualisation Considerations
- Selecting an Automation Strategy
- Implementing an Automation Strategy
- Planning a Windows Server 2008 R2 Deployment
- Modifying a Windows Server 2008 R2 Image
- Preparing to Deploy the Windows Server 2008 R2 Image
- Develop a deployment strategy.
- Determine factors that affect the implementation of virtualisation within your organisation.
- Select a strategy for deployment automation.
- Implement the selected automation strategy.
- Server Management Tools
- Decentralising Systems Administration
- Create an administrative-level role group
- Creating an account management group
- Enable and configure auditing for sensitive groups
- Plan for the implementation and use of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2007 R2 remote management tools
- Plan and Implement decentralised systems administration
- Provisioning IPv4 Addresses on Enterprise Networks
- Provisioning IPv6 Addresses on Enterprise Networks
- Transitioning to IPv6
- Provisioning DNS Services on Enterprise Networks
- Planning the Deployment of DHCP and DNS Servers
- Implementing DNS
- Implementing DHCP
- Provision an IPv4 addressing scheme within your organisation
- Provision an IPv6 addressing scheme within your organisation
- Plan the transition to IPv6
- Plan and implement DNS name resolution services within your organisation’s network
- Deploying Domain Controllers in Multi-Site Organisations
- Planning Administrative and Management Structures for AD DS
- Planning a Maintenance Strategy for AD DS
- Planning a Backup and Restore Strategy for AD DS
- Planning an Active Directory Structure
- Planning an AD DS Maintenance Strategy
- AD DS Backup and Recovery
- Identify considerations for deploying domain controllers in multi-site organisations
- Plan administrative and management structures for AD DS
- Plan a maintenance strategy for AD DS
- Plan a backup and recovery strategy for AD DS
- Planning Group Policy Settings
- Planning Group Policy Assignment
- Planning the Management of Group Policy Objects
- Planning Group Policy
- Implementing the Proposed GPO Plan
- Plan GPO settings
- Plan the assignment of group policy objects to AD DS containers
- Plan how to manage GPOs within your organisation
- Enterprise PKI Deployment and Administration
- Managing Certificate Templates
- Planning Certificate Enrolment and Revocation
- Certificate Services Deployment Planning
- Standalone Root and Subordinate CA
- Configure Key Archiving and Recovery
- Describe which roles and configurations require the deployment of Active Directory Certificate Services as part of a network’s infrastructure services.
- Know when to deploy an enterprise or standalone Certification Authority
- Determine when to deploy an offline root Certification Authority
- Understand when to deploy a subordinate or issuing Certification Authority
- Plan the deployment of key archiving and recovery
- Develop an appropriate Certification Authority management strategy
- Planning and Provisioning Web Services
- Planning and Provisioning Presentation Virtualisation
- Planning and Provisioning Application Virtualisation
- Planning Application Deployment
- Configuring Remote Desktop Policies
- Configuring Recovery for Application Servers
- Configuring WSRM Policies
- Plan and provision web application servers
- Plan and provision remote desktop services application servers
- Plan and provision application virtualisation servers
- Provisioning File Services
- Provisioning and Managing Storage
- Provisioning and Managing Network Print Services
- Migrating File and Print Services
- Planning File Services
- Implementing File Services in the Branch Office
- Implementing Print Services in the Branch Office
- Plan and implement the file service role
- Plan and manage storage
- Plan and manage shared printers
- Plan the migration of file and print services to Windows Server 2008 R2
- Planning Network Security
- Planning Virtual Private Networks
- Planning Network Access Protection
- Planning DirectAccess
- Planning Network Access
- Implementing Network Access
- Plan network infrastructure components to improve network security
- Plan and implement VPNs
- Plan and implement NAP
- Plan DirectAccess
- Planning and Implementing Distributed File System
- Planning and Implementing BranchCache
- Provisioning Storage
- Planning Data Access
- Installing and Configuring DFS
- Enabling and Configuring BranchCache
- Plan and implement the Distributed File System
- Plan and implement BranchCache
- Provision an appropriate storage solution
- WSUS Topologies
- Update Management
- Analyse WSUS Deployment Plan
- Configure a Replica WSUS Server
- Configure WSUS for BranchCache and BITS
- Plan an appropriate Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) topology
- Deploy and manage updates
- Planning Network Load Balancing
- Planning Failover Clustering
- Planning for Service Availability
- Planning High Availability
- Implementing High Availability
- Plan and deploy network load balancing
- Plan and deploy failover clustering
- Plan for high service availability
- Monitoring and Analysing Server Performance
- Managing Events
- Planning Enterprise Event Log Management
- Configuring Event Subscriptions
- Creating Custom Views
- Creating Event Tasks
- Monitor and analyse server performance
- Manage events
- Disaster Recovery Concepts
- Planning Windows Server Backup
- Planning and Administering Recovery
- Creating a Disaster Recovery Plan
- Configure network backup with Windows Server Backup
- Mount Backup VHD and Extract Data
- Configure a Windows Server 2008 server to boot from backup VHD
- Understand Disaster Recovery Concepts
- Plan Windows Server Backup
- Plan recovery of data and servers
The course is intended to build on the student’s existing skills in the areas of Active Directory and Network Infrastructure for Windows Server 2008, therefore it is not suitable for new or inexperienced server administrators.
- At least one year experience in implementing or contributing to server and client planning
- At least one year experience carrying out day to day network Infrastructure and Active Directory management and maintenance tasks
- Technology skills equivalent to moc course 6418C: Deploying Windows Server 2008
- Plan Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Sp1 deployments and upgrades
- Plan server management and delegated administration strategies
- Plan for network addressing with IPv4 and IPv6 and also the provisioning of DNS services
- Plan and provision Active Directory Domain Services
- Plan and implement Group Policy strategy
- Plan and implement Active Directory Certificate Services
- Plan and provision Application servers including Web services, presentation virtualisation and application virtualisation
- Plan and implement file and print server roles
- Plan and implement secure network access policies such as VPNs, Network Access Protection (NAP) and Direct Access
- Plan and provision data and storage
- Plan and implement an update management strategy using Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
- Plan and implement high availability
- Plan for server performance and event monitoring
- Plan and implement a backup and recovery strategy
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