Microsoft Course 6437 - Designing a Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure

Designing IIS Web Farms

The students will learn the process of designing IIS Web Farms with Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7. They will learn how to select the appropriate hardware and software platforms. They will learn techniques to leverage Web Farm Availability and Scalability. They will also learn how to select the proper content storage.

• Overview of Hardware and Platform Options
• Design Web Farm Availability and Scalability
• Design Content Storage

Optimizing IIS Performance and Stability

The students will learn about optimizing IIS performance and stability.

• Designing Application Pools
• Designing Script Mapping
• Designing Bandwidth Allocation
• Design Web Site Logging

Designing IIS Security

In this module, the students will learn to establish and maintain very tight security using Microsoft IIS 7

• Design and Verify Transport Security
• Design Authentication and Authorization
• Design Delegation Administration

Design IIS Maintenance and UDD

The students will learn how to plan for an IIS installation, taking into account these new features. They will also learn how to deploy UDDI services.

• Designing Internet Information Services Backup and Recovery
• Specify Monitoring Requirements
• Deploying UDDI Services
• Tuning and Troubleshooting IIS 7

Designing a Terminal Services Infrastructure

The students will learn how to design a terminal services infrastructure including how to design a terminal services licensing strategy and how to design for remote access with TS Gateways, TS Session Broker, RemoteApp programs, and TS Web Access.

• Design Terminal Services Licensing
• Specify Terminal Services Connection Properties
• Design Device Redirection
• Design Terminal Services Gateways
• Design Terminal Services Broker
• Design RemoteApp Programs
• Design Web Access

Designing a Terminal Services Maintenance Strategy

The students will be introduced to design and implementation planning using Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM) policies for application resource and reporting. The students will also learn about group policy settings for terminal servers and how to design high availability for terminal services. Finally, the students will learn to specify monitoring, maintenance, and recovery requirements and procedures for terminal services.

• Design Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM) Policies for Application Resource and Reporting
• Specify Group Policy Settings for Terminal Servers
• Design High Availability
• Specify Monitoring Requirements
• Specify Maintenance and Recovery

Design Windows Media Services Infrastructure Administration

The students will learn about designing Windows Media Services in Windows Server 2008. They will become familiarized with live and on-demand content delivery.

• Design Windows Media for Live Streaming
• Windows Media Services for On-Demand Content
• Improving Performance for On-Demand Content
• Monitoring Windows Media Services

Design Virtualization Infrastructure

The students will implement virtualization to consolidate servers, deploy branch office infrastructure servers, support legacy applications, and create a test environment.

• Virtualization of a Test Server Environment
• Virtualization and Migration of Legacy Applications
• Design and Test a Virtualized Development Environment

Designing Virtualization Provisioning

The students will learn how to determine virtualization appropriateness and virtual server provisioning. The students will also learn the importance of customizing virtual servers to standard configurations and also learn about virtual server deployment.

• Design Virtual Server Provisioning Workflow Model
• Evaluate Appropriateness for Virtualization
• Evaluate Customization to Standard Configuration
• Design Deployment for Virtualization