6425 Configuring & Troubleshooting Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services

Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

The primary audience for this course are AD Technology Specialists, Server Administrators, and Enterprise Administrators who want to learn how to implement AD in a distributed environment, secure domains using Group Policies, and perform backup, restore, and monitor and troubleshoot AD configuration to ensure trouble free operation.

Before attending this course, students must have:

• Basic understanding of networking.
• Intermediate understanding of network operating systems.
• An awareness of security best practices.
• Basic knowledge of server hardware.
• Some experience creating objects in Active Directory.
• Completed 6424, Fundamentals of Windows Server 2008 Active Directory or have equivalent knowledge.
• Basic concepts of backup and recovery in a Windows Server Environment.

The audience for this course is IT Professionals who plan to take the following exam:

• Exam 70-640 MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring

After completing this course, students will be able to implement and configure Active Directory domain services in their enterprise environment.

Module 1: Introducing Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)

Introducing Active Directory, Identity, and access
Active Directory Components and Concepts
Install Active Directory Domain Services
Extend IDA with Active Directory Services

Module 2: Secure and Efficient Administration of Active Directory

Work with Active Directory Snap-ins
Custom Consoles and Least Privilege
Find Objects in Active Directory
Use DS Commands to Administer Active Directory

Module 3: Manage Users

Create and Administer User Accounts
Configure User Object Attributes
Automate User Account Creation

Module 4: Manage Groups

Manage an Enterprise with Groups
Administer Groups
Best Practices for Group Management

Module 5: Support Computer Accounts

Create Computers and Join the Domain
Administer Computer Objects and Accounts

Module 6: Implement a Group Policy Infrastructure

Understand Group Policy
Implement a Group Policy
Explore Group Policy Settings and Features
Manage Group Policy Scope
Group Policy Processing
Troubleshoot Policy Application

Module 7: Manage Enterprise Security and Configuration with Group Policy Settings

Delegate the Support of Computers
Manage Security Settings
Manage software with GPSI
Auditing

Module 8: Secure Administration

Delegate Administrative Permissions
Audit Active Directory Changes

Module 9: Improve the Security of Authentication in an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Domain

Configure Password and Lockout Policies
Audit Authentication
Configure Read-Only Domain Controllers

Module 10: Configure Domain Name System (DNS)

Review DNS Concepts, Components, and Processes
Install and Configure DNS Server in an AD DS Domain
AD DS,DNS, and Windows
Advanced DNS Configuration and Administration

Module 11: Administer Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Domain Controllers

Domain Controller Installation Options
Install a Server Core DC
Manage Operations Masters
Configure DFS Replication of SYSVOL

Module 12: Manage Sites and Active Directory Replication

Configure Sites and Subnets
Configure the Global Catalog and Application Partitions
Configure Replication

Module 13: Directory Service Continuity

Monitor Active Directory
Manage the Active Directory Database
Back Up and Restore AD DS and Domain Controllers

Module 14: Manage Multiple Domains and Forests

Configure Domain and Forest Functional Levels
Manage Multiple Domains and Trust Relationships

Infero Training Ltd is based in the Lace Market in Nottingham. Training courses take place at the following locations including Nottingham, Derby, Loughborough, Mansfield, Chesterfield, Burton-on-Trent, Lincoln, Leicester, Sheffield, Stoke-on-Trent, Tamworth, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Birmingham, Solihul, Coventry, Nuneaton, Peterborough, Grantham.