Windows Server Certification - Microsoft Courses

Pre-requisites

• It is required that the delegates have at least a year’s experience in administering Windows Server 2008 in a medium to large company

Who should attend?

• A server administrator who is responsible for the operations and day-to-day management of an infrastructure of Windows Server 2008 R2 servers for an enterprise organisation.

Course Structure

• Plan server installations and upgrades
  • Windows Server 2008 edition selection; rollback planning; Bitlocker implementation requirements
• Plan for automated server deployment
  • Standard server image; automation and scheduling of server deployments
• Plan infrastructure services server roles
  • Address assignment; name resolution; network access control; directory services; application services; certificate services
• Plan application servers and services
  • Virtualisation server planning; availability, resilience and accessibility
• Plan file and print server roles
  • Access permissions; storage quotas; replication; indexing; file storage policy; availability; printer publishing
• Plan server management strategies
  • Remote administration; remote desktop; server management technologies; Server Manager and ServerManagerCMD; delegation policies and procedures
• Plan for delegated administration
  • Delegate authority; delegate Active Directory objects; application management
• Plan and implement group policy strategy
  • GPO management; GPO backup and recovery; group policy troubleshooting; group policy planning
• Implement patch management strategy
  • Operating system patch level maintenance; Windows Server Update Services (WSUS); application patch level maintenance
• Monitor servers for performance evaluation and optimisation
  • Server and service monitoring; optimisation; event management; trending and baseline analysis
• Monitor and maintain security and policies
  • Remote access; monitor and maintain NPAS; network access, server security, firewall rules, and policies; authentication and authorisation; data security; auditing
• Provision applications
  • Presentation virtualisation; terminal server infrastructure; resource allocation; application virtualisation alternatives; application deployment; System Center Configuration Manager
• Provision data
  • Shared resources; offline data access
• Plan storage
  • Storage solutions; storage management
• Plan high availability
  • Service redundancy; service availability
• Plan for backup and recovery
  • Data recovery strategy; server recovery strategy; directory service recovery strategy; object level recovery