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Windows Server 2008 Network Administrators

This five-day instructor-led course introduces students to network infrastructure and application platform concepts and configurations provided by Window Server 2008.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
  • Describe the fundamentals of an enterprise networking environment.
  • Describe the typical roles of IT Professionals in an enterprise environment.
  • Describe TCP/IPv4 configurations, protocols, and tools, and the fundamentals of communication technologies.
  • Create an IPv4 address range and subnet; configure IPv6 addresses
  • Administer a Windows 2008 server.
  • Describe basic security concepts for server roles, how to secure network traffic by using certificates, and how to configure Windows Firewall.
  • Configure and troubleshoot remote access.
  • Describe routing concepts, protocols, and quality of service.
  • Configure and test network load balancing.
  • Configure network print resources and printing pools.
  • Describe the functions included with Windows Server Virtualization (WSV).
This five-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to configure and troubleshoot a Windows Server 2008 network infrastructure..

After completing this course, students will be able to:

  • Install and configure servers.
  • Configure, manage, and troubleshoot DNS, WINS, DHCP.
  • Configure and troubleshoot IPv6 TCP/IP.
  • Configure and troubleshoot Routing and Remote Access.
  • Install, configure, and troubleshoot the Network Policy Server Role service.
  • Configure Network Access Protection.
  • Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot IPsec.
  • Configure and manage Distributed File System.
  • Configure and manage storage technologies.
  • Configure availability of network resources and content.
  • Configure server security compliance.

Windows Server 2008 Network Engineers/Enterprise Administrators

6431 - Managing and Maintaining Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Servers (2 days)

This two-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to manage and maintain Windows Server 2008 network infrastructure servers.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
  • Create a plan for managing the addition, removal, and migration of Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Server roles.
  • Develop baselines for monitoring and managing Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Server roles.
  • Evaluate performance baselines and establish monitoring rules, and design acceptable thresholds and alarms when problems occur.
  • Analyze the implementation and configuration of a network environment running several network policy and access server roles.
  • Plan for the implementation and configuration of a RAS.
  • Evaluate and plan for the deployment of DNS and DHCP Server roles.
  • Maintain security for network infrastructure servers.
 
In this 3-day instructor-led course, the students will learn to install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot an Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Web Server in Windows Server 2008.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
·    Describe the IIS 7.0 modular architecture and workloads.
·    Configure an IIS 7.0 Web Server.
·    Secure Web sites and Web application pools.
·    Troubleshoot Web servers, sites and applications.
·    Use command line tools and scripting tools.
·    Tune IIS to improve performance.
·    Maintain Web sites.
·    Enable integrated technologies to extend IIS 7.0 functionality.
 
This two-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to configure, manage, monitor, and troubleshoot a Terminal Services (TS) environment. The course focuses on configuring of TS core functionality, TS licensing, TS Gateway, and TS Web Access.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
·    Configure the TS role., manage TS licensing.
·    Administer TS connection properties using the Terminal Services Configuration snap in and Group Policy.
·    Configure TS Easy Print and TS RemoteApp programs.
·    Configure the TS Web Access role service.
·    Configure a TS session broker for a load-balanced TS farm.
·    Configure and troubleshoot TS Gateway.
·    Maintain TS connections post installation and configure WSRM for TS.
 
This five-day course will provide students with an understanding of how to design a Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure that meets business and technical requirements for network services.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
·   Describe key components of network infrastructure design.
·   Describe how to design a secure network.
·   Design a plan for allocating IP addresses to workstations and servers.
·   Design a network topology.
·   Describe the internal considerations for network security and how they can be addressed.
·   Design an appropriate name resolution system that incorporates Domain Name System (DNS).
·   Optimize a name resolution system that incorporates DNS and Windows Internet Name Service (WINS).
·   Design a solution for network access.
·   Design a Network Access Protection (NAP) solution.
·   Design a solution for operating system deployment and maintenance.
·   Design the deployment of file services.
·   Design print services in Windows Server 2008.
·   Design high availability for applications and services.
 
This three-day course will prepare IT professionals for the role of Enterprise Administrator. Students will learn how to design application infrastructure solutions based on Windows Server 2008 to meet varying business and technical requirements.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
·    Design IIS 7 Web farms.
·    Optimize IIS 7 for performance and stability.
·    Design IIS 7 for security, reliability, recovery, and monitoring
·    Design and prepare a Terminal Services infrastructure.
·    Design a Terminal Services maintenance strategy.
·    Plan and configure a Windows Media Services infrastructure for live and on-demand delivery.
·    Implement virtualization to consolidate servers, support legacy applications, and create a test environment.
·    Determine virtualization appropriateness and virtual server provisioning.
 

 
2Windows Server 2008 Server Administrators/Engineers
 
This 3-day instructor-led course provides students with an understanding of migrating and deploying Windows Server 2008 including installation, configuration, and upgrading. Special emphasis is given to upgrading common server configurations and using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
 
·   Install Windows Server 2008.
·   Install, configure, and manage Windows Server 2008 Server Core.
·   Deploy a Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC)
·   Install and configure Windows Deployment Services (WDS).
·   Install Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT).
·   Prepare a Windows Server 2003 domain and forest for upgrade to Windows Server 2008.
·   Install a domain controller in an existing domain using Windows or the Command Line.
·   Describe considerations for upgrading file and print, Web application, and remote infrastructure servers.
·   Install and configure the file and print server roles.
·   Create and replicate a Distributed File System (DFS) namespace.
·   Configure IIS 7.0 on Windows Server 2008
 
This five-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to plan and administer Windows Server 2008 servers.
 
After completing this course, students will be able to:
 
·    Plan a Windows Server 2008 deployment.
·    Plan and implement server commissioning and decommissioning
·    Plan the installation of server roles for Windows Server 2008.
·    Create a configuration change plan for Windows Server 2008.
·    Plan and implement Windows Server 2008 security.
·    Plan for a high-availability Windows Server 2008 deployment.
·    Plan a server update maintenance schedule for Windows Server 2008.
·    Maintain a Distributed File System (DFS) in Windows Server 2008.
·    Define server backup requirements and policies for Windows Server Backup.
·    Plan and implement a Windows Server 2008 restore.
·    Plan Windows Server 2008 monitoring.
·    Troubleshoot hardware, software, and network issues.
 
 
This three-day instructor-led course teaches students how to implement and manage Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. It also teaches students how to manage Hyper-V with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) and with PowerShell.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
·   Install and configure Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
·   Understand Hyper-V Virtual Networking
·   Understand the types of Virtual Hard Drives and their benefits
·   Create and manage Virtual Machines on the Hyper-V server
·   Understand how to configure the Hyper-V server to ensure high availability
·   Monitor the performance of the Hyper-V server
·   Understand how to use existing virtual machines in the Hyper-V server
·   Understand the issues with migrating existing Virtual Machines to Hyper-V
·   Understand how System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) can be used to manage Hyper-V servers throughout the enterprise
·   Use PowerShell to manage the Hyper-V server and the virtual machines hosted on the Hyper-V server
·   Implement a disaster recovery plan for Virtual Machines on Hyper-V
 
This three-day instructor-led course on Windows Server 2008 clustering provides students with the knowledge and skills to implement, maintain, and troubleshoot clusters.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
·   Identify Windows Server 2008 high-availability solutions
·   Identify Windows Server 2008 clustering solutions
·   Prepare to install a failover cluster
·   Understand storage technologies such as Storage Area Networks, configuring iSCSI storage connections
·   Configure a failover cluster
·   Configure cluster resources and server roles
·   Maintain Microsoft failover clusters
·   Implement multi-site clusters
·   Implement Network Load Balancing clusters

2Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Administrators
 
This three-day instructor-led course provides Active Directory Technology Specialists an introduction to Active Directory server roles in Windows Server 2008. The course is intended for entry level students who want to get familiar with the Active Directory server roles and their basic functionality.
After completing this course, students will be able to understand:
 
·   Active Directory server roles
·   Active Directory Domain Services
·   Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
·   Active Directory Certificate Services
·   Active Directory Rights Management Services
·   Active Directory Federation Services
·   Active Directory Domain Services user and computer objects
·   Active Directory Domain Services groups and Organizational Units
·   Managing access to resources in Active Directory Domain Services
 
This five-day instructor-led course provides to teach Active Directory Technology Specialists with the knowledge and skills to configure Active Directory Domain Services in a distributed environment, implement Group Policies, perform backup and restore, and monitor and troubleshoot Active Directory related issues.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
 
·   Implement Active Directory Domain Services
·   Configure Domain Name Service for Active Directory Domain Services
·   Configure Active Directory Objects and Trusts
·   Configure Active Directory Sites and Replication
·   Create and configure Group Policy
·   Configure user environments using Group Policy
·   Implement security using Group Policy
·   Implement an Active Directory Domain Services monitoring and maintenance Plan
·   Troubleshoot Active Directory, DNS, and replication issues
·   Troubleshoot Group Policy issues
·   Implement an Active Directory Domain Services infrastructure

2Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Engineers/Enterprise Administrators
 
This two-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to manage and maintain Windows Server 2008 Active Directory servers. The course focuses on the Active Directory server lifecycle by creating baselines, monitoring the system health, and maintaining security for the Active Directory servers.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
·    Plan an Active Directory server deployment.
·    Identify different approaches to Active Directory server deployment.
·    Add and Remove an AD DS server role.
·    Identify strategies for developing, monitoring, and reviewing baselines.
·    Create baselines for different Active Directory roles with the appropriate metrics using the Windows Reliability and Performance Monitor (WRPM).
·    Create and evaluate a monitoring plan based on business needs and environments.
·    Determine the health of Active Directory servers using performance monitoring and event log triggers.
·    Describe and implement the methodology of maintaining Windows Server 2008 AD DS.
·    Perform AD DS maintenance and administrative tasks.
·    Explain and deploy proven methods to harden the Active Directory servers.
·    Decide which Windows Server 2008 security features can address a given business situation.
·    Add service roles to a Windows Server 2008 network.
·    Deploy and operate an Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) server role.
 
This three-day instructor-led course provides the knowledge and skills that IT Professionals need to configure identity and access solutions with Windows Server 2008 Active Directory.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
·    Describe identity and access solutions.
·    Configure Active Directory Certificate Services.
·    Deploy and manage certificates.
·    Configure Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services.
·    Configure Active Directory Federation Services.
·    Configure Active Directory Rights Management Services.
·    Maintain access management solutions.
·    Troubleshoot identity and access solutions.
 
At the end of this five-day course, students will learn how to design an Active Directory Infrastructure in Windows Server 2008. Students will learn how to design Active Directory forests, domain infrastructure, sites and replication, administrative structures, group policies, and Public Key Infrastructures. Students will also learn how to design for security, high availability, disaster recovery, and migrations.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
·   Design an Active Directory Forest infrastructure in Windows Server 2008
·   Design an Active Directory Domain infrastructure in Windows Server 2008
·   Design Active Directory Sites and replication in Windows Server 2008
·   Design Active Directory Domain administrative structures
·   Design Active Directory Group Policy
·   Design AD DS security in Windows Server 2008
·   Design Active Directory high availability in Windows Server 2008
·   Design Active Directory disaster recovery in Windows Server 2008
·   Design Public Key Infrastructure in Windows Server 2008
·   Design an AD RMS infrastructure in Windows Server 2008
·   Design an Active Directory Federation Services implementation in Windows Server 2008
·   Design an AD LDS implementation
·   Design Active Directory migrations in Windows Server 2008.

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