Windows Server 2003 Active Directory

This training focuses on how to install, configure and manage a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure. You will learn how to configure sites, plan and implement the user environment with group policy, implement software restriction policies using security templates and manage replication.

This course is available with Anytime Online Access for 12 Months and has been divided into 11 parts to aid learning and help with exam preparation as shown below:

* Logical & Physical Components of Active Directory
* An Introduction to the Active Directory Schema
* An Introduction to Global Catalog Servers and Universal Group Caching
* Replication Partitions
* Planning the Active Directory Infrastructure Design
* Verifying the Active Directory Installation
* Troubleshooting the Active Directory Installation
* Removing Active Directory from a Domain Controller
* Video: Promote & Configure a 2003 Server into a Domain Controller

* Administrative Tools
* Forest and Domain Functional Levels
* Operational Master Roles
* Restructuring a Domain
* Renaming a Domain Controller
* Creating a new MMC to configure the schema
* Video: Using the NETDOM command to rename a Domain Controller

* Managing Trust Relationships
* The types of trust relationship
* Managing and configuring trusts using the AD Domains and Trusts snap-in
* Using the NETDOM command to configure trusts
* Video: Creating and Administering a Forest Trust

* The Replication Process
* The Replication topology
* The Replication Protocols
* Sites, Site links and attributes
* Bridgehead Servers
* Monitoring and Troubleshooting Replication
* The Global Catalog and Universal Group Caching
* Application Directory Partitions
* Video: Configuring Sites and Site Links

* Create and Manage User Accounts in Active Directory
* Managing User Profiles & Home Folders
* Smart Card Authentication
* Manage Group Membership in Active Directory
* Group Scopes and Group Nesting
* Video: Create and Manage User Accounts in Active Directory

* Controlling Access to Active Directory Objects
* Understanding Organisational Units
* The DSMOVE.EXE command line tool
* Finding objects in the Directory
* The DSQUERY command line tool

* Group Policy components
* Linking GPO's and Administrative templates
* Group Policy Inheritance and GPO conflicts
* Delegation of control of a GPO
* Planning Group Policy
* An Introduction to the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC)
* Troubleshooting Group Policy
* Video: Create, modify and Delegate control of a GPO

* Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP)
* Reviewing Folder Redirection and Offline Files
* The deployment of software using group policy
* Planning and preparing software deployment
* Maintaining software deployment with group policy
* Video: Deploying & Assigning Software with Group Policy

* Implementing software restriction policies
* Default Security Levels
* Software Restriction Policy Rules
* Software Restriction Policy Recommendations
* Troubleshooting Software Restriction Policy
* Audit Policy and the Security Log of the Event Viewer
* What are security templates
* Managing security configuration with security templates
* The default security templates which are available
* Deploying security templates with group policy
* The Security Configuration and Analysis Tool
* Video: Modifying and Applying a Security Template

* Backing up Files and Folders
* The Types of Backup
* Restoring Files and Folders
* System State Data
* Non-Authoritative Restore & Authoritative Restore
* Active Directory Database Maintenance using the NTDSUTIL commandWhat are security templates
* Video: Backing up System State Data on a Domain Controller

* The System Monitor Tool
* Performance Logs and Alerts
* Typical Active Directory Objects and Counters
* Managing Active Directory Performance via Command Line
* Troubleshooting Performance Logs and Alerts
* Video: Configuring a Performance Log and Generating a Report

This course also includes downloadabkle PDF notes and exercises