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This five-day instructor-led course includes self-paced and instructor-facilitated components. It provides students with the knowledge and skills to successfully plan, implement, and troubleshoot a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory directory service infrastructure. The course focuses on a Windows Server 2003 directory service environment, including forest and domain structure, Domain Name System (DNS), site topology and replication, organizational unit structure and delegation of administration, Group Policy, and user, group, and computer account strategies.
This is the sixth course in the Windows Server 2003 Systems Engineer curriculum.
This course is appropriate for individuals who are employed or seeking a position as a systems engineer. This course is also appropriate for individuals who currently support a competitive platform who want to enhance their skills using Windows Server 2003 Active Directory.
Professionals who take this course should meet the following entry criteria:
Before attending this course, students must have completed:
This module introduces students to the Active Directory infrastructure, its logical and physical structure, and its function as a directory service. The module also introduces the command-line tools and snap-ins that you can use to examine the components of Active Directory and the Active Directory design, planning, and implementing process.
Lessons
After completing this module, students will be able to:
This module discusses Active Directory installation requirements, how to create a forest and domain structure by using the Active Directory Installation Wizard, and the post-installation tasks you must perform. It also explains how to configure DNS in an Active Directory environment, raise forest and domain functional levels, and create trust relationships.
Lessons
Lab A: Implementing Active Directory
After completing this module, students will be able to:
This module discusses how to create organizational units, how to delegate common administrative tasks, how to customize the delegation of administrative tasks for an organizational unit, and how to plan the implementation of an organizational unit structure.
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Lab A: Implementing an Organizational Unit Structure
After completing this module, students will be able to:
This module explains how to plan and implement Active Directory user, group, and computer accounts. It also explains how to create multiple user and computer accounts by using command-line tools such as CSVDE and LDIFDE, and how to manage accounts by using Windows Script Host. The module also explains how to implement User Principle Name (UPN) suffixes.
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Lab A: Implementing an Account and Audit Strategy
After completing this module, students will be able to:
This module explains how to plan and implement a Group Policy strategy to centrally manage users and computers in an enterprise.
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Lab A: Implementing Group Policy
After completing this module, students will be able to:
In this module, students learn how to deploy and manage software by using Group Policy. The module focuses on basic concepts of deploying, configuring, and maintaining software, troubleshooting deployed software, and planning software deployment.
Lessons
Lab A: Deploying and Managing Software Using Group Policy
After completing this module, students will be able to:
This module explains how to implement sites to manage and monitor replication in Active Directory. The module presents basic concepts of replication and sites in Active Directory, specifically: creating, configuring, and managing sites; monitoring and troubleshooting replication failures; and planning a site strategy.
Lessons
Lab A: Implementing Sites to Manage Active Directory Replication
After completing this module, students will be able to:
This module introduces students to the placement of domain controllers. It focuses on the placement and planning of domain controllers, including global catalog servers, and DNS servers that are integrated with Active Directory. The module also discusses guidelines for caching universal group membership for a site.
Lessons
Lab A: Implementing the Placement of Domain Controllers
After completing this module, students will be able to:
This module introduces students to managing operations masters in Active Directory. It explains the purpose of each of the five types of operations masters, how to transfer and seize operations master roles, and how to plan a strategy for placing operations masters.
Lessons
Lab A: Managing Operations Masters
After completing this module, students will be able to:
This module explains basic concepts about maintaining Active Directory availability, including how to defragment, move, back up, restore, and monitor an Active Directory database.
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Lab A: Maintaining Active Directory
After completing this module, students will be able to:
This module provides students with the skills to plan and implement an Active Directory service infrastructure based on the business requirements of a fictitious organization.
Lessons
Lab A: Creating the Active Directory Implementation Plan for Tailspin Toys Lab B: Implementing the Active Directory Infrastructure for Tailspin Toys
After completing this module, students will be able to: