Deploying Windows Server®

Using the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit

Installing Server Core (optional)

Configuring and Managing Server Core

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan Windows Server 2012 deployment.

Install Windows Server 2012 from local media.

Configure and manage servers remotely.

Secure Windows Server 2012 deployments.

Implement a suitable volume licensing strategy.

Organizations have different Windows Server installation and deployment needs. Often, the choice that is made about which deployment technology to use depends on the number of servers to be deployed. This module describes the key deployment scenarios and provides guidance about suitable Microsoft deployment technologies to facilitate them. The module then describes how to use the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) to assist with some of these deployment scenarios, the different types of images you use in some of these scenarios, and how to perform unattended installations of Windows Server 2012.

Selecting a Suitable Deployment Method

Overview of Image Files in the Deployment Process

The Windows Assessment and Deployment Toolkit

Working with Unattended Answer Files

Creating an Answer File

Using the Answer File to Launch Deployment

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Select an appropriate deployment strategy.

Describe how to use image files in the deployment process.

Use the Windows ADK to perform server deployment.

Work with unattended answer files.

Larger organizations need deployment technologies that can reduce or eliminate user-interaction during the deployment process. You can use Windows Deployment Services to help support both lite-touch and zero-touch, high-volume deployments. This module explores the functionality of Windows Deployment Services and explains how to use Windows Deployment Services tools to perform lite-touch deployments.

Overview of Windows Deployment Services

Implementing Deployment with Windows Deployment Services

Administering Windows Deployment Services

Installing and Configuring Windows Deployment Services

Creating Operating System Images with Windows Deployment Services

Configuring Custom Computer Naming

Deploying Images with Windows Deployment Services

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe how to use Windows Deployment Services to deploy Windows Server 2012.

Perform Windows Server deployments with Windows Deployment Services.

Administer Windows Deployment Services.

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2013 forms a unifying framework for Microsoft Windows Deployment Services, the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK), and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 (Configuration Manager 2012) with documentation on best practices to help you deploy the Windows Server 2012 operating system more easily. In addition, MDT 2013 includes some tools that accelerate image creation and deployment. MDT 2013, together with the supporting documentation and tools, helps lower the effort required for server deployment. This module explains how to configure MDT and how to perform lite-touch and zero-touch deployments by using MDT.

Overview of MDT 2013

Configuring Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

Performing Lite-Touch Deployments

Maintaining Images with MDT

Performing Zero-Touch Deployments

Installing and Configuring MDT

Creating and Customizing a Task Sequence

Configuring the Deployment Share

Performing a Lite-Touch Deployment

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe how to use Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2013 to deploy Windows Server 2012.

Configure MDT 2013 to support your deployment strategy.

Perform lite-touch deployments by using MDT 2013.

Maintain images by using MDT 2013.

Explain how to perform zero-touch deployments by using MDT 2013.

Most organizations are looking for ways to decrease the cost and complexity of providing an information technology (IT) infrastructure. Virtualization has become a key component in developing an efficient and cost effective IT strategy. This module introduces some of the critical planning components that you must consider when you are implementing virtualization.

Overview of Microsoft Virtualization

Evaluating the Current Environment for Virtualization

Planning for Virtualization

Planning a Server Consolidation and Virtualization Strategy

Evaluating Virtualization Candidates

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the virtualization options available in Windows Server 2012.

Evaluate your current infrastructure for virtualization candidates.

Plan for implementing virtualization.

Servers that run network services are responsible for facilitating communication between computers on your network, and ensuring that the configuration of network infrastructure components supports a reliable network environment. The two most common network infrastructure roles on Windows Servers are the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server role and the Domain Name System (DNS) server role. Upgrading and migrating these roles is a critical first step in the migration process to ensure that the rest of your migration project can use the network infrastructure.

In Windows Server 2012 R2, you can manage the DHCP and DNS server roles after or during migration with the new IP Address Management (IPAM) feature. IPAM enables you to centralize the management and monitoring of DHCP and DNS servers on your network.

This module will explain the tools and processes that you can use to migrate DHCP and DNS server roles, and will show you how you can use IPAM to manage and monitor your DHCP and DNS servers.

Migrating the DHCP Server Role

Migrating the DNS Server Role

Implementing IPAM

Migrating the DHCP Server Role

Migrating the DNS Server Role

Deploying and Configuring IPAM

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Migrate the DHCP server role to Windows Server 2012 R2.

Migrate the DNS server role to Windows Server 2012 R2.

Manage IP address spaces with IPAM.

File servers and web servers are present in almost all corporate networks. You should consider the impact of these servers on your network, and how migrating to Windows Server 2012 can improve the functionality of file servers and web servers on your network. This module explains the migration considerations and the processes for migrating file servers and web servers.

Upgrading and Migrating File Servers

Migrating Web and Application Servers

Preparing to Migrate to the File and Storage Services Role

Migrating to the File and Storage Services Role

Preparing to Migrate a Web Server

Migrating a Web Server

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Upgrade and migrate file servers to Windows Server 2012.

Upgrade and migrate web and application servers to Windows Server 2012.

This module explains how to prepare for migrating AD DS in Windows Server 2012. It also explains the tools that you can use to perform the migration. It then explains how to upgrade and restructure domain controllers.

Windows Server 2012 AD DS Upgrade and Migration Overview

Upgrading Domain Controllers to Windows Server 2012

Restructuring a Domain

Preparing the Forest for Upgrade

Deploying a Windows Server 2012 Domain Controller

Removing Legacy Domain Controllers

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Explain the process for upgrading and migrating AD DS to Windows Server 2012.

Upgrade domain controllers to Windows Server 2012.

Restructure a domain.

Access and Information Protection (AIP) management simplifies the user experience for online users while streamlining the administrative effort of IT departments. AIP management solutions are a set of technologies and products designed to help organizations manage user identities and associated access privileges by establishing a single authoritative source for user authentication. Windows Server provides a number of server roles for AIP management:

Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS)

Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS)

These roles have been improved in Windows Server 2012. Consequently, it is important that you know how to migrate these AIP roles from older versions of Windows Server. This module describes these AIP improvements and explains how to migrate these server roles.

Besides the included roles, Microsoft also provides cloud-based services to support AIP management, such as Windows Azure Active Directory (Windows Azure AD). Windows Azure AD is an online directory service that you can use for cloud-based applications. This module explores Windows Azure AD.

Migrating AD CS

Migrating AD FS

Migrating AD RMS

Overview of Windows Azure AD

Implementing Windows Azure AD

Preparing to Migrate AD CS

Migrating AD CS

Implementing Windows Azure AD for Office 365

Implementing Windows Azure AD for a Cloud-Based Application

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Migrate AD CS.

Describe how to migrate AD FS.

Describe how to upgrade AD RMS.

Describe Windows Azure AD.

Implement Windows Azure AD.