NET 173 - Configuring Advanced Windows Server Services

Credits: 4
Lecture Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 6
Practicum Hours: 0
Work Experience: 0
Course Type: Voc/Tech

Covers implementing, managing, maintaining and provisioning services and infrastructure in a Windows Server environment. This course focuses on advanced configuration of services necessary to deploy, manage and maintain a Windows Server infrastructure, such as advanced networking services, Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS), Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), PowerShell scripting, Network Load Balancing, Failover Clustering, business continuity and disaster recovery services as well as access and information provisioning and protection technologies such as Dynamic Access Control (DAC), and Web Application Proxy integration with AD FS and Workplace Join. This course covers the current objectives for the Microsoft Certification Exam.
Competencies

Implement advanced network services
1. Configure advanced features in DHCP with Windows Server
2. Organize advanced DNS settings in Windows Server
3. Design IP address management in Windows Server
Execute advanced file services
1. Configure iSCSI
2. Implement BranchCache using Windows Server
3. Use Windows Server features that optimize storage utilization
Apply dynamic access control
1. Explain DAC
2. Configure components of DAC
3. Implement DAC on file servers
4. Describe access-denied assistance
5. Integrate work folders with DAC
Perform distributed active directory domain services
1. Describe the components of a highly complex AD DS deployment
2. Realize complex AD DS deployment
3. Configure AD DS trusts
Implement active directory domain services sites and replication
1. Describe how replication works in a Windows Server AD DS environment
2. Configure AD DS sites in order to optimize AD DS network traffic
3. Monitor AD DS replication
Employ AD CS
1. Use certificates in business environments
2. Describe the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) components and concepts, and the options for implementing a certification authority infrastructure
3. Plan an AD CS certification authority infrastructure
4. Design a certificate distribution and revocation
5. Configure key archival and recovery
Use active directory rights management services
1. Describe what AD RMS is, and how it can be used to achieve content protection
2. Deploy an AD RMS infrastructure
3. Configure content protection using AD RMS
4. Enable users outside the organization to access content protected by using AD RMS
Administer AD FS
1. Describe the identity federation business scenarios and how AD FS can be used to address the scenarios
2. Configure the AD FS prerequisites and deploy the AD FS services
3. Implement AD FS to enable SSO in a single organization and between federated partners
4. Apply the Web Application Proxy
5. Explain WorkPlace Join integration with AD FS
Plan NLB implemenatation
1. Describe how NLB works
2. Configure an NLB cluster
3. Apply network load balancing
Implement failover clustering
1. Explain failover clustering features in Windows Server
2. Describe how to implement a failover cluster
3. Summarize how to configure highly available applications and services on a failover cluster
4. Illustrate how to maintain a failover cluster and how to use new maintenance features
5. Outline how to implement multi-site failover cluster
Execute failover clustering with Hyper-V
1. Explain options for making virtual machines highly available
2. Describe how to implement virtual machines in a failover cluster deployed on a host
3. Outline options for moving a virtual machine or its storage
4. Summarize a high level overview of Microsoft System Center - Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)
Develop plan to implement server and data recovery
1. Describe the considerations that must be included when you are implementing a disaster recovery solution
2. Implement a backup solution for Windows Server