Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure

Aims and Objectives
Describe the logical and physical components of Active Directory and explain the purpose of Active Directory.
Describe the Domain Name System (DNS) requirements for Active Directory and explain how DNS supports Active Directory.
Design, create and configure a forest and domain structure based on a given Active Directory infrastructure.
Plan and implement an organisational unit structure.
Plan and implement Active Directory user group and computer account strategies.
Plan and implement a Group Policy stratety to centrally manage users, computers and services in the enterprise.
Deploy, manage and troubleshoot software that is deployed using Group Policy.
Plan and implement sites to manage and monitor Active Directory replication.
Plan and implement the placement of domain controllers, global catalog servers and Active Directory integrated DNS servers.
Plan and manage operations masters, Backup, restore and maintain Active Directory.

Target Audiences
This course is intended systems administrators planning to use Microsoft Windows Server 2003.

Prerequisites
Before attending this course students must have completed Course 2278- Planning and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure or have equivalent knowledge and skills.

Course Content
Module 1: INTRODUCTION TO ACTIVE DIRECTORY INFRASTRUCTURE
Module 2: IMPLEMENTING AN ACTIVE DIRECTORY FOREST AND DOMAIN STRUSTURE
Module 3: IMPLEMENTING AN ORGANISATIONAL UNIT STRUCTURE
Module 4: IMPLEMENTING USER, GROUP AND COMPUTER ACCOUNTS.
Module 5: IMPLEMENTING GROUP POLICY
Module 6: DEPLOYING AND MANAGING SOFTWARE BY USING GROUP POLICY
Module 7: IMPLEMENTING SITES TO MANAGE ACTIVE DIRECTORY REPLICATION
Module 8: IMPLEMENTING PLACEMENT OF DOMAIN CONTROLLERS
Module 9: MANAGING OPERATIONS MASTERS
Module 10: MAINTAINING ACTIVE DIRECTORY AVAILABILITY
Module 11: PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING AN ACTIVE DIRECTORY INFRASTRUCTURE