Designing a Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure

Designing an IPv6 Addressing Scheme

Designing a DHCP Implementation

Discuss IP Address Allocation

Implementing an IPv4 Addressing Scheme

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Design an IPv4 addressing scheme.

Design an IPv6 addressing scheme.

Develop an IPv6 transition strategy.

Design a DHCP implementation.

Plan DHCP scope configuration and options.

This module explains how to design an appropriate name resolution strategy that incorporates DNS. The module also covers DNS namespaces, DNS zone implementation, replication, and delegation.

Collecting Information for a Name Resolution Design

Designing a DNS Server Strategy

Designing a DNS Namespace

Designing DNS Zone Implementation

Designing Zone Replication and Delegation

Designing a DNS Namespace

Designing a DNS Server Strategy

Designing a DNS Zone and Replication Strategy

Implementing Name Resolution

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Determine the information required to plan name resolution.

Design a DNS server strategy.

Design a DNS namespace.

Design a DNS zone strategy.

Design a DNS zone replication strategy.

This module explains how to design an advanced name resolution strategy by optimizing DNS queries, designing DNS for high availability, and designing a NetBios name resolution plan.

Optimizing DNS Queries

Designing DNS for High Availability and Security

Designing a NetBIOS Name Resolution Strategy

Designing an Optimized DNS Solution

Designing High Availability for Name Resolution

Designing NetBIOS Name Resolution

Implementing the Optimized Design

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Optimize DNS resolution.

Design DNS for high availability and security.

Design a NetBIOS name resolution strategy.

This module explains how to design a network access solution. The module also describes how to secure network access, design a strategy for RADIUS authentication with NPS, design wireless access, and Internet connectivity.

Securing and Controlling Network Access

Designing Remote Access Services

Designing RADIUS Authentication with Network Policy Services

Designing Wireless Access

Designing Internet Connectivity and Perimeter Networks

Designing a VPN Solution

Designing Network Policy Services

Designing a Wireless Connection Solution

Implementing Network Access

Designing a Perimeter Network

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Secure and control network access.

Design remote access services.

Design a Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) solution.

Design wireless access.

Design a perimeter network.

Describe how to design network infrastructure to support Windows 7 DirectAccess.

This module explains how to design a network security plan. The module describes the defense-in-depth model for network security and explains how to implement Windows Firewall and NAP policies.

Overview of Network Security Design

Identifying and Analyzing Threats to Network Security

Designing a Windows Firewall Implementation

Designing a Network Access Protection Infrastructure

Assembling a Team for the Security Plan

Identifying Security Threats

Designing a Windows Firewall Implementation

Designing an IPsec Implementation

Implementing Windows Firewall

Analyze NAP Enforcement Methods

Designing DHCP NAP Enforcement

Designing IPsec NAP Enforcement

Implementing VPN NAP Enforcement

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the network security design process.

Describe how to identify and analyze threats to network security.

Describe a Windows Firewall implementation.

Design a NAP infrastructure.

This explains how to design application deployment. This includes deployment of local applications, virtual applications, and virtual desktop.

Overview of Application Deployment

Designing Deployment of Local Applications

Designing Deployment of Virtual Applications

Designing Deployment of Virtual Desktops

Selecting an Application Deployment Method

Deploying a Desktop Application

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the different ways that you can deploy applications to users.

Select an appropriate way to deploy desktop applications.

Determine how to use Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) and Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (Med-V) for application deployment.

Determine how to use virtual desktops for application deployment.

This module explains how to design remote desktop services. This includes designing RemoteApp, remote connectivity for RDS, and planning a monitoring and management strategy for RDS.

Designing Remote Desktop Services Connectivity

Designing RemoteApp

Designing Remote Connectivity for RDS

Monitoring and Managing RDS

Designing Deployment for a Line of Business Application

Deploying an Application by Using RemoteApp

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Design RDS connectivity.

Design RemoteApp deployment.

Design the Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) service and Remote Desktop Connection Broker (RD Connection Broker) deployment.

Monitor and manage RDS.

This module explains how to design IIS for web-based applications. The module describes how to design a plan to optimize IIS performance, security, and maintenance.

Designing Web-based Application Infrastructure

Optimizing IIS Performance and Stability

Designing IIS Security

Monitoring and Maintaining IIS

Designing the Infrastructure for a Web-Based Application

Configuring IIS for a Web-Based Application

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Design an appropriate IIS infrastructure for hosting web-based applications.

Determine the appropriate IIS configuration options to increase performance and scalability of web-based applications.

Determine the appropriate IIS configuration option to secure web-based applications.

Design a strategy to maintain IIS for web-based applications.

The module explains how to design file and print services.

Designing File Services

Designing File Server Resource Management

Designing File Encryption

Designing Print Services

Designing File Services

Designing Print Services

Implementing a Consolidated File Share

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Design a file share configuration.

Determine the appropriate way to deploy File Server Resource Manager.

Design file encryption.

Design print services.

This module explains how to design a file replication and caching strategy. The module describes how to use DFS to implement file replication and caching.

Branch Office Data Access

Designing Distributed File System

Designing File Caching

Creating a Design for File Replication and Caching

Implementing DFS

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe data access for branch offices, and how it can be improved.

Design a distributed file system.

Design file caching for branch offices and mobile users.

This module explains how to design for business continuity by planning for disaster recovery. The module also describes how to design network load balancing, failover clustering, and geographically dispersed clusters.

Disaster Recovery Planning

Designing Windows Server 2008 Network Load Balancing

Designing Failover Clustering for High Availability

Designing Geographically Dispersed Clusters

Creating a Disaster Recovery Plan

Creating a High Availability Plan for a Stateful Application

Implementing NLB

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Design a disaster recovery plan.

Design Windows Network Load Balancing.

Deploy an application using App-V.

Design geographically dispersed clusters.

This module explains how to design a virtualization infrastructure.

Introduction to Virtualization

Determining Virtualization Suitability

Server Virtualization Design Considerations

Migrating and Managing Virtualized Workloads

Designing Server Migration to a Virtualized Environment

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the benefits of virtualization.

Determine virtualization suitability.

Design a server virtualization strategy.

Explain how to migrate workloads to a virtual environment, and then manage those virtualized workloads.

This module explains how to design an update deployment strategy. This includes designing a WSUS topology and an update management strategy.

Designing a WSUS Topology

Designing an Update Management Strategy

Designing an Update Deployment Strategy

Implementing the Update Deployment Strategy

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Design a WSUS topology.

Design an update management strategy.