Description

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. The course covers Windows server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Sp1.

Audience :

This course is intended for experienced IT Professionals looking to gain deeper insight and decision making knowledge for a variety of planning and implementation tasks typically carried out by Server Administrators. Also, this course is relevant for you if you have been working as a Server Administrator on a previous version of Windows Server and want to update your skills to the Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Sp1 environment. 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.

Topics :

Planning Server Deployment and Upgrade

·     Developing a Deployment Strategy

·     Virtualization Considerations

·     Selecting an Automation Strategy

·     Implementing an Automation Strategy

Planning Server Management and Delegated Administration

·     Remote Server Management Tools

·     Decentralizing Systems Administration

Planning Network Addressing and Name Resolution

·     Provisioning IPv4 Addresses on Enterprise Networks

·     Provisioning IPv6 Addresses on Enterprise Networks

·     Transitioning to IPv6

·     Provisioning DNS Services on Enterprise Networks

Planning and Provisioning Active Directory Domain Services

·     Deploying Domain Controllers in Multi-Site Organizations

·     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 Group Policy Strategy

·     Planning Group Policy Settings

·     Planning the Assignment of Group Policies

·     Planning the Management of Group Policy Objects

Planning Active Directory Certificate Services

·     Enterprise PKI Deployment and Administration

·     Managing Certificate Templates

Planning and Provisioning Application Servers

·     Planning and Provisioning Web Services

·     Planning and Provisioning Presentation Virtualization

·     Planning and Provisioning Application Virtualization

Planning File and Print Services

·     Provisioning File Services

·     Provisioning and Managing Storage

·     Provisioning and Managing Network Print Services

·     Migrating File and Print Services

Planning Network Access

·     Planning Network Security

·     Planning Virtual Private Networks

·     Planning Network Access Protection

·     Planning DirectAccess

Provisioning Data and Storage

·     Planning and Implementing Distributed File System

·     Planning and Implementing BranchCache

·     Provisioning Storage

Planning Update Deployment

·     WSUS Topologies

·     Update Management

Planning High Availability

·     Planning Network Load Balancing

·     Planning Failover Clustering

·     Planning for Service Availability

Planning Performance and Event Monitoring

·     Monitoring and Analyzing Server Performance

·     Managing Events

Enterprise Backup and Recovery

·     Disaster Recovery Concepts

·     Planning Windows Server Backup

·     Planning Recovery of Data and servers

Training Materials :

Microsoft Official Courseware (MOC)

Labs :

This course includes several labs to ensure you will gain the targeted skills and experience.

Credential :

This course is a credit towards Microsoft Certified IT Professional MCITP: Server Administrator