Windows 2008 / 7 / Vista / XP / 2003

Objective
To provide the knowledge and skills required to understand the fundamental characteristics of Windows 2008 and, in particular, Version R2.

Target audience
System or network administrators, and IT technicians.

Prerequisites
Experience with Windows 2003 administration (Course MS307).

Topics covered

• Presenting Windows Server 2008 R2
• The version of 2008 R2 for the 64 bit platform
• Active Directory: Active Directory Administrative Center (the new administration console based on PowerShell v2), PowerShell Active Directory, Offline Junction and Corbeil Active Directory
• Network services: Direct Access, DHCP Failover functionality and DNSSEC functionality
• Hyper-V v.2

Objective
To provide the knowledge and skills required to configure and administer Windows 7 systems in an enterprise environment.

Target audience
System and network administrators, and IT technicians.

Prerequisites
Experience with the Windows user interface.

Topics covered

• Presenting Windows 7
• Comparison with Windows Vista and Windows XP
• Hardware requirements
• Automating an installation
• The management interface
• Configuring the working environment
• Network configuration
• Managing wireless networks
• Security concepts
• Performance optimization
• Remote management
• Maintenance tools
• Backups and Shadow Copy

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Objective
To provide the knowledge and skills required to install and configure a Windows 2008 server and to administer an Active Directory domain.

Target audience
System and network administrators, and technical support personnel.

Prerequisites
Experience with Windows XP / 2003 / Vista.

Topics covered

• Installing Window Server 2008
• Local and remote server administration
• DDNS administration
• Setting up and managing Active Directory services
• Introduction to group strategies
• Managing and securing disk resources (NTFS and EFS) and partitions
• Managing print services
• Preventive maintenance and system monitoring
• Backing up and restoring data
• Using Hyper-V
• The WDS deployment service

Objective
To provide the knowledge and skills required to effectively handle the administrative tasks associated with Active Directory under Windows Server 2008.

Target audience
System or network administrators and IT technicians.

Prerequisites
Experience with Windows Server 2008 administration (Course MS320).

Topics covered

• Setting up a domain name server (DNS)
• Setting up and administering Active Directory
• Integrating DNS and Active Directory
• Administering group strategies
• Analyzing Active Directory performance
• Managing user group and system accounts
• Creating Active Directory sites
• Read-Only Domain Controllers (RODC)
• Managing administrator roles
• Functionality levels associated with Forests and Domains
• AD Lightweight Directory Service
• Backing up and restoring Active Directory
• The multiple account strategy

Objective
To provide the knowledge and skills required to design, implement and maintain the network infrastructure for Windows Server 2008.

Target audience
System or network administrators and IT technicians.

Prerequisites
Experience with Windows Server 2008 administration (Course MS320).

Topics covered

• Setting up the TCP/IP protocol
• IP routing
• Address management and DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
• Domain name resolution, and setting up DDNS (Dynamic Domain Name Service)
• Essential connections between DDNS and Active Directory
• WSUS update services
• Providing file access with DFS (Distributed File System)
• Version maintenance (Shadow copy, VSS)
• Networks and security (IPSEC, NAP)
• Remote access: virtual private networks (VPN)
• Event subscriptions

Objective
To provide the knowledge and skills required to configure, administer and optimize Hyper-V services.

Target audience
System or network administrators and IT technicians.

Prerequisites
Experience with Windows Server 2008 administration (Course MS320).

Topics covered

• Introduction to virtualization
• Installing and configuring Hyper-V services
• Configuring virtual networks
• Storage for virtual machines
• Managing virtual machines
• High availability with Hyper-V
• Installing SCVMM (System Center Virtual Machine Manager)
• Managing VM and models from SCVMM
• Advanced features of SCVMM

Objective
To provide the knowledge and skills required to configure, administer and optimize terminal services with Windows Server 2008, and to deploy applications that make use of terminal services.

Target audience
System or network administrators and IT technicians.

Prerequisites
Practical experience with Windows Server 2008 administration and Active Directory (Course MS320).

Topics covered

• Advantages and disadvantages of Server Based Computing
• Installing and configuring Terminal Services (TS) with Windows Server 2008
• Thin clients and communication protocols
• Administering and configuring the user environment
• Deploying applications on a server that provides terminal services (TS server)
• Publishing office and windowing applications
• Managing security for a TS server
• Setting up a server farm
• Monitoring and optimizing a TS server
• Organizing the production environment

Objective
To provide the knowledge and skills required to install, configure and administer Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.

Target audience
System or network administrators and IT technicians.

Prerequisites
Practical experience with Windows 2003 administration (Course MS307) or Windows Server 2008 administration (Course MS320).

Topics covered

• Web administration fundamentals
• Overview of IIS and its architecture
• Administering Web services
• Administration via the command line
• Configuring virtual services and sites
• Configuring ASP.NET sites
• Web server security: NTFS permissions and authentication
• Implementing security strategies
• Administering messaging services (SMTP and POP3)
• Performance tracking and IIS optimization
• Backing up and restoring sites and IIS configurations

Objective
To provide the knowledge and skills required to configure a Windows 2003 Server and to administer an Active Directory domain.

Target audience
System or network administrators and IT technicians.

Prerequisites
Knowledge of the Windows XP/2003 user interface.

Topics covered

• Overview and installation of Windows 2003 Server
• Configuring the working environment
• Local and remote server administration
• Implementing and administering Active Directory
• User accounts and groups in an Active Directory domain
• Introduction to group strategies
• Managing the security of file system resources and partitions (NTFS and EFS)
• Data backup and restoration
• Disk management and crash protection
• Preventive maintenance and system monitoring
• Managing print services
• Managing service packs

Objective
To provide the knowledge and skills required to carry out Active Directory and network service administrative tasks.

Target audience
System or network administrators and IT technicians.

Prerequisites
Practical experience with Windows XP administration (Course MS306) and Windows Server 2003 administration (Course MS307).

Topics covered

• Designing a Windows XP/2003 network
• Implementing the TCP/IP protocol
• Configuring sites
• Installing a domain name server (DNS)
• Implementing and administering Active Directory
• Integrating DNS and Active Directory
• Administering group policy
• Managing Active Directory performance
• Implementing Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
• Deploying Windows XP using WDS
• Managing disks with Distributed File System (DFS) and maintaining versions with Shadow copy and VSS
• Remote access: routing and virtual private networks (VPN)
• Supporting address translation (NAT)
• Security: IPSec and monitoring

Objective
To provide the knowledge and skills required to use Group Policy Objects to administer Active Directory in Windows 2003/2008 networks.

Target audience
System or network administrators and IT technicians.

Prerequisites
Practical experience with Windows Server administration and Active Directory (Course MS307).

Topics covered

• How Group Policy Objects (GPOs) work; using preferences
• Security features provided by GPOs
• Differences between local policies and Active Directory domain policies
• Security models and administrative models
• Using the new GPMC (Group Policy Management Console)
• Restricting access to software with GPOs
• Using GPOs to deploy service packs
• Using GPOs to deploy applications (Office)
• Configuring firewalls with GPOs
• Documenting and policy validation

Objective
To provide the knowledge and skills required to secure a Windows 7 / 2008 / XP / 2003 / Vista network.

Target audience
System or network administrators and IT technicians.

Prerequisites
Experience with Windows XP and Windows 2003 administration, and with Active Directory (Course MS307).

Topics covered

• Introduction to Microsoft Windows network security
• Security issues at the Active Directory level
• Authenticating users and clients
• Planning the administrative structure for security groups
• Security issues related to designing group policies
• Using smart cards for network authentication
• Securing file systems with EFS encryption
• Evaluating and analyzing workstation security
• Securing network services: DNS, DHCP, RIS, SNMP and TS
• Planning a public key infrastructure (PKI)
• Securing data at the application layer
• Remote access and Internet security

Objective
To provide the knowledge and skills required to automate standard administrative tasks such as security management and user account management with PowerShell commands and scripts.

Target audience
System and network administrators and IT technicians.

Prerequisites
Experience with Windows 2003 / 2008 administration (Courses MS307 and MS 320).

Topics covered

• The structure of PowerShell
• Programming with PowerShell (introduction to .NET oriented scripting)
• Cmdlet: naming principles, providers, pipelining, WMI and others
• COM objects with PowerShell
• Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) with PowerShell: using and executing requests
• Managing Internet Information Service (IIS7)
• Managing user accounts
• Managing security
• Searches and management of Active Directory
• Configuring authentication scripts, and network components
• Configuring the registry
• Managing printers

Objective
To provide the knowledge and skills required to configure an ESX server and to master the main administrative tasks associated with a VMI 3.5 infrastructure.

Target audience
System and network administrators, and IT technicians.

Prerequisites
Experience with Windows administration.

Topics covered

• Introduction to virtualization technologies
• The benefits of virtualization
• Installing an ESX server
• The file system under VMware ESX
• Network configuration parameters
• Storage for virtual machines
• Installing Virtual Center
• The VMI client
• Managing licenses
• Installing Virtual Center
• Creating and managing virtual machines with vCenter
• Advanced features of VMI: HA - vMotion - DRS
• Update services
• Tools for backing up virtual machines

Objective
To provide the knowledge and skills required to administer a SCCM 2007 environment.

Target audience
System or network administrators and IT technicians.

Prerequisites
Practical experience with Windows 2003 administration (Course MS307).

Topics covered

• Overview of System Center Configuration Manager 2007
• Planning an installation of the System Configuration Manager 2007 infrastructure
• Site configuration
• Resource discovery
• Installing the Configuration Manager client
• Inventory management and remote control
• Managing pools
• Managing and publishing applications
• Managing Windows updates
• Managing requests and creating reports
• Security management
• Recovery processes
• SCCM 2007 maintenance

Objective
To provide the knowledge and skills required to install, configure and administer Exchange Server 2007 at a central site.

Target audience
System or network administrators and IT technicians.

Prerequisites
Practical experience with Windows 2003 administration (Course MS307).

Topics covered

• Overview of Exchange 2007
• Pre-deployment planning
• Exchange 2007 installation
• The architecture of Exchange 2007
• Mailbox management
• Public folders
• The Anywhere Access tools (OWA, Outlook AnyWhere)
• Anti-spam/Anti-virus and the Edge Transport server
• Exchange Server 2007 roles
• Exchange 2007 and high availability
• The Outlook 2007 client
• Migration strategies and planning