Configuring and Troubleshooting Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services

Manage users and service accounts.

Manage groups.

Manage computer accounts.

Implement a Group Policy infrastructure.

Manage enterprise security and configuration by using Group Policy settings.

Secure administration.

Improve the security of authentication in an AD DS Domain.

Configure Domain Name System.

Administer AD DS domain controllers.

Manage sites and Active Directory.

Monitor, maintain, and back up directory Service to ensure continuity.

Manage multiple domains and forests.

Before attending this course, students must have:

Basic understanding of networking

Intermediate understanding of network operating systems

An awareness of security best practices

Basic knowledge of server hardware

Some experience creating objects in Active Directory

Basic concepts of backup and recovery in a Windows Server environment

70-640 TS: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring

This module explains how to install and configure Active Directory Domain Services and install and configure a read-only domain controller.

Lesson 1: Overview of Active Directory, Identity, and Access

Lesson 2: Active Directory Components and Concepts

Lesson 3: Install Active Directory Domain Services

This module explains how to work securely and efficiently in Active Directory.

Work with Active Directory Administration Tools

Custom Consoles and Least Privilege

Find Objects in Active Directory

Use Windows PowerShell to Administer Active Directory

This module explains how to manage and support user accounts in Active Directory.

Create and Administer User Accounts

Configure User Object Attributes

Automate User Account Creation

Create and Configure Managed Service Accounts

This module explains how to create, modify, delete, and support group objects in Active Directory.

Overview of Groups

Administer Groups

Best Practices for Group Management

This module explains how to create and configure computer accounts.

Create Computers and Join the Domain

Administer Computer Objects and Accounts

Perform an Offline Domain Join

This module explains what Group Policy is, how it works, and how best to implement Group Policy in your organization.

Understand Group Policy

Implement GPOs

Deeper Look at Settings and GPOs

Group Policy Preferences

Manage Group Policy Scope

Group Policy Processing

Troubleshoot Policy Application

This module explains how to manage security and software installation and how to audit files and folders.

Delegate the Support of Computers

Manage Security Settings

Manage Software with GPSI

Auditing

Software Restriction Policy and AppLocker

This module explains how to administer Active Directory Domain Services Securely.

Delegate Administrative Permissions

Audit Active Directory Administration

This module explains the domain-side components of authentication, including the policies that specify password requirements and the auditing of authentication-related activities.

Configure Password and Lockout Policies

Audit Authentication

Configure Read-Only Domain Controllers

This module explains how to implement DNS to support name resolution both within your AD DS domain and outside your domain and your intranet.

Review of DNS Concepts, Components, and Processes

Install and Configure DNS in an AD DS Domain

Integration of AD DS, DNS, and Windows

Advanced DNS Configuration and Administration

This module explains how to add Windows Server 2008 domain controllers to a forest or domain, how to prepare a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 forest or domain for its first Windows Server 2008 DC, how to manage the roles performed by DCs, and how to migrate the replication of SYSVOL from the File Replication Service (FRS) used in previous versions of Windows to the Distributed File System Replication (DFS-R) mechanism that provides more robust and manageable replication.

Domain Controller Installation Options

Install a Server Core DC

Manage Operations Masters

Configure DFS-R Replication of SYSVOL

This module explains how to create a distributed directory service that supports domain controllers in portions of your network that are separated by expensive, slow, or unreliable links.

Configure Sites and Subnets

Configure the Global Catalog and Application Partitions

Configure Replication

This module explains about the technologies and tools that are available to help ensure the health and longevity of the directory service. You will explore tools that help you monitor performance in real time, and you will learn to log performance over time so that you can keep an eye on performance trends in order to spot potential problems.

Monitor Active Directory

Manage the Active Directory Database

Active Directory Recycle Bin

Back Up and Restore AD DS and Domain Controllers

This module explains how to raise the domain and forest functionality levels within your environment, how to design the optimal AD DS infrastructure for your enterprise, how to migrate objects between domains and forests, and how to enable authentication and resources access across multiple domains and forests.

Configure Domain and Forest Functional Levels

Manage Multiple Domains and Trust Relationships

Move Objects between Domains and Forests