Designing and Implementing Windows 2000 Directory Services

This practical four-day course willl provide support professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to plan, design and implement Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Directory Services in an enterprise environment. Topics covered by this course include:

• Active Directory naming strategy for an enterprise
• Delegate administrative authority in a domain
• Plan ways to organize objects in a domain and implement a directory with multiple domains
• Manage Microsoft Active Directory replication
• Use sites to manage replication traffic
• Backup, recover, maintain and optimize Active Directory
• Plan directory synchronization between Exchange and AD
• Plan an upgrade of directory services
• Designing naming strategies, schema and group policy and site topologies

Target audience

This course is intended for experienced network support professionals, network managers and network designers who are required to plan, design and implement Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services. Before attending this course, students should have attended the following courses or have equivalent practical knowledge and experience:

• M744eng Windows 2000 Administration
• M745eng Windows 2000 Support

This course will help to prepare students for the following Microsoft Certified Professional exams:

• 70-217 Implementing and Administering a Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure.
• 70-219 Designing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure

Course content

Name Resolution Using DNS DNS Overview • Introduction to DNS • Domains and Subdomains • DNS Servers and the Internet • Host Names • Zones • Name Servers • Forwarders and Slaves • Caching Only Servers • Name Resolution • Recursive and Iterative Queries • Inverse Queries • What is in a Zone? • Installing Microsoft DNS Server • Creating a Forward Look up Zone • Creating a Reverse Lookup Zone • Adding Records • Enabling Dynamic Update • Configuring the Zone • Configuring Clients for DNS • Troubleshooting DNS With NSLOOKUP • DNS Delegation • Planning DNS • Integration with the Internet

Active Directory Design What is a Directory? • Domains • Multiple Domains • Organisational Units (OUs) • Sites • Active Directory Standards • Active Directory Naming Conventions • Global Catalogue Servers • Operations Masters

Upgrading to Windows 2000 NT 4 Directory Services Overview • Four Domain Models • Upgrade Paths • Suitability • The Directory Services Client • Mixed Versus Native Mode • Upgrading Domain Controllers • Upgrading Domains

Implementing Active Directory Creating your Tree • Testing DNS

Directory Replication Directory Replication • Conflict Resolution • Intra-Site Directory Replication • Inter-Site Replication • Sites • Site Links • Configuring Replication • Site Link Bridges • Subnets • Monitoring Replication

Special Server Operations Creating Global Catalogue Servers • Transferring Special Operations Roles • Managing the Schema • Planning the Schema

Administration in the Enterprise Universal Groups • Using Universal Groups • Managing Accounts in Active Directory • CSVDE Files • LDIFDE Files • Visual Basic Scripts • Publishing Printers in Active Directory • Printer Locations • Active Directory Permissions • Software Distribution • Functional Overview of Software Deployment • Maintaining Software • Software Categories • File Associations • Administrative Templates

Maintaining Active Directory The Database and Shared System Volume • Active Directory Database Sizing • Database Maintenance • Backup and Restore

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