Overview
Course Instructor: Doug Bassett
Course Outline
01. Chapter 1: Designing a Complex Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Infrastructure
- Overview of Design Models
- Designing a Forest Structure
- Designing an Active Directory Domain Structure
- Overview of Forest and Domain Trust Models
- Overview of Physical Requirements and Physical Topology
- Overview of Site and Replication Topology
- Choosing Server Roles
02. Chapter 2: Planning Naming Conventions, Networking, and Access Principles
- Network Addressing
- Naming Conventions for Windows Server 2008
- Planning for Network Access
03. Chapter 3: Planning for Forestwide and Domainwide Upgrades with Server 2008
- The Essence of Migration
- Using the Active Directory Migration Tool
- Using Caution with Migration
- Migrating Objects
- Options with the Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT)
- Migrating User Accounts
- Migrating Computer Accounts
- Cross-forest Authentication
- Planning for Upgrades in an Existing Forest
04. Chapter 4: Planning for Terminal Services and Application Virtualization
- Reviewing Terminal Services’ Roles
- Terminal Services Server Load
- Terminal Services Licensing
- Terminal Services Gateway
- Terminal Services Session Broker
- Terminal Services Web Access
- Terminal Services Group Policy Options and Changes
- Terminal Services Maintenance and Error Recovery
- Application Virtualization
- Scaling an Enterprise with Application Virtualization
05. Chapter 5: Designing an Effective Administration Model
- Object Essentials
- OU Design Requirements
- Groups in Active Directory
- Group Scope
- Planning for Groups
- Planning Delegation
- Inheritance
- Using the Security Configuration Wizard for Compliance Auditing
06. Chapter 6: Planning and Designing Group Policy
- Understanding Group Policy Scope
- Applying Group Policy
- Understanding Loopback Processing
- Understanding Group Policy Security Filtering
- Planning Group Policy
- Working with the Default Domain Policy and Domain Controllers
- Policy
- Delegating Group Policy Administration
- Exploring New Windows Server 2008 Group Policy Features
- Configuring Automatic Updates with Group Policy
- Restricting Group Membership with Group Policy
- Controlling User Installation of Devices
- Searching GPOs
- Using the Group Policy Modeling Tool
07. Chapter 7: Administering Security in an Enterprise-Level Infrastructure
- Enterprise Security Concerns
- Using Windows Server 2008 PKI Additions in a Legacy Environment
- Designing a Certificate Authority Hierarchy
- Modeling Your Structure
- Following the Administrative Structure
- Following an Independent Structure
- Design Factors
- X.509
- Using Certificate-Monitoring Tools
- Reasons for a PKI
- Components of the Public Key Infrastructure
- Certificate Authority Roles
- Using the Online Certificate Status Protocol
- OCSP Components
- Working with Certificate Templates
- Using Cryptography Next Generation
- Managing External Clients
- Enrollment Strategies
- Types of Enrollment
- Enrollment Agents and Restricted Enrollment Agents
- The Network Device Enrollment Service
- Virtual Private Networks and Security
08. Chapter 8: Planning for Business Continuity and Backup
- Introducing RAID
- Introducing the Distributed File System
- Introducing Failover Clustering
- Introducing Quorums
- Introducing Network Load Balancing
- Using Windows Server Backup Tools
- Introducing the Encrypting File System
- Introducing Windows BitLocker
- Recovering Active Directory Domains Services
- Introducing Windows Recovery Environment
- Using Windows Recovery
- Using Volume Shadow Copy
- Using Server Core
- Introducing Active Directory Rights
09. Chapter 9: Designing a Windows Update Strategy for the Enterprise
- Establishing a Security Baseline
- The Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer Tool
- System and Environment Health Models
- Planning and Implementing Windows
- WSUS Options
- Overview of System Center Essentials 2007
- Overview of System Center Configuration Manager 2007
- Overview of Windows Update
- Real-World Update Practices
- Update Compliance
10. Chapter 10: Using Virtualization to Increase Productivity and Facilitate Consolidation
- Introducing Virtualization
- The Different Types of Virtualization
- Introducing Server Consolidation
- Understanding Virtualized Machine Components
- Network Setups with All Types of Virtual Machines
- Virtual Networks
- Multiple Network Interface Cards with Virtual Networks
- Installing Hyper-V
- Introducing iSCSI
- Windows Vista x64 Hyper-V Management Server Core and Virtualization
- Using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007
- Using Virtual Server 2005 R2
Skills Learned
After completing this online training 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.