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Introduction
This three-day, instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and new skills needed to implement and manage a Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 networked environment.
Audience
This course is intended for systems engineers with experience planning, implementing, and supporting a Microsoft Windows NT® 4.0-based network. The course specifically targets students who have practical, hands-on experience using Windows NT 4.0 and who need to quickly learn how to apply those skills in a Windows Server 2003 environment.
At Course Completion
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Explain the features of the Windows Server 2003 family.
- Implement a Domain Name System (DNS) server.
- Manage and monitor Domain Name System.
- Install the Windows Server 2003 Active Directory® directory service.
- Create and manage Active Directory objects.
- Implement Group Policy to centrally manage a Windows Server 2003 family network.
- Configure and manage a user environment by using Group Policy.
- Configure and support network access.
- Secure network traffic and data files.
- Use advanced boot options, the Recovery Console, and the Backup utility.
- Restore data by using the Backup utility in Windows Server 2003.
- Plan and implement secure Routing and Remote Access.
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students must have met at least one of the following prerequisites:
- Certified as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) on Windows NT 4.0
- Attended Course 689, Supporting Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 - Enterprise Technologies
- Possess equivalent knowledge and skills.
Course Outline
- Introduction to the Windows Server 2003 Family
- Locate specific topics in the Help and Support System.
- Activate Windows Server 2003.
- List hardware requirements for Windows Server 2003.
- Install and configure Administrative Tools.
- Implementing the Domain Name System
- Describe the role of DNS in the network infrastructure.
- Install the DNS Server service.
- Configure the properties for the DNS Server service.
- Configure a DNS zone.
- Configure DNS zone transfers.
- Configure dynamic updates.
- Configure a DNS client.
- Delegate authority for zones.
- Describe how DNS dynamic updates work.
- Explain what resource records and record types are.
- Explain what dynamic updates are.
- Describe how DNS clients register and update their own resource records by using dynamic update.
- Describe how a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server registers and updates resource records by using dynamic update.
- Configure DNS manual and dynamic updates.
- Explain what an Active Directory-integrated DNS zone is.
- Configure Active Directory-integrated DNS zones to use secure dynamic updates.
- Managing and Monitoring the Domain Name System
- Manage DNS on a system running Windows Server 2003 and monitor DNS server performance on that system.
- Describe and configure the Time-to-Live value.
- Describe how aging and scavenging work.
- Configure aging and scavenging.
- Explain the purpose of verifying that a resource record exists.
- Explain what Nslookup is.
- Explain what DNSCmd is.
- Explain what DNSLint is.
- Verify that a resource record exists by using Nslookup, DNSCmd, and DNSLint.
- Describe how simple and recursive queries work.
- Test the DNS server configuration.
- Apply guidelines for monitoring DNS server performance by using the Performance console.
- Explain DNS event logging.
- Monitor DNS server performance by using logging.
- Installing Windows Server 2003 Active Directory
- Explain the basic concepts of Active Directory.
- Install Active Directory.
- Change the domain functional level.
- Creating and Managing Active Directory Objects
- Create organizational units, user accounts, and computer accounts.
- Create and modify groups.
- Apply the appropriate strategies when using groups.
- Use permissions to control access to Active Directory objects.
- Delegate control of Active Directory objects to support secure and decentralized administration.
- Move Active Directory objects.
- Implementing Group Policy to Centrally Manage a Windows Server 2003 Family Network
- Implement Group Policy objects on a domain.
- Modify Group Policy inheritance.
- Configuring and Managing User Environment by Using Group Policy
- Configure Group Policy settings.
- Use administrative templates in Group Policy to control a user environment.
- Use security templates to secure computers.
- Assign scripts to control user environments by using Group Policy.
- Determine applied Group Policy objects (GPOs).
Microsoft Certified Professional Exams
- Exam 70-290: Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment
- Exam 70-291: Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure
Course Materials
The student kit includes a comprehensive workbook and other necessary materials for this class.
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