Windows Server 2003 Designing and Implementing Active Directory

This 5-day course provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to plan, design and implement Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Directory Services in an enterprise environment.

This course prepares students for Microsoft Certified Professional exam: 70-294.

Course content

Module 1 - 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 • Forward Recursive and Iterative Queries • Reverse 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 • DNS Delegation • Planning DNS • Integration with the Internet • Best Practice

Module 2 - Active Directory Design What is a Directory? • Domains • Multiple Domains • Organizational Units (OUs) • Sites • Active Directory Standards • Active Directory Naming Conventions • Global Catalog Servers • Operations Masters • Best Practice

Module 3 - Upgrading to Windows Server 2003 NT 4 Directory Services Overview • Four Domain Models • Upgrade Paths • Suitability • The Directory Services Client • Forest and Domain Functional Level • Upgrading Domain Controllers • Upgrading Domains • Upgrading from Windows 2000

Module 4 - Implementing Active Directory Creating your Tree • Testing DNS • External Trusts

Module 5 - Directory Replication Directory Replication • Conflict Resolution • Intra-Site Directory Replication • Inter-Site Replication • Sites • Site Links • Site Link Bridges • Subnets • Monitoring Replication

Module 6 - Special Server Operations Creating Global Catalog Servers • Transferring Special Operations Roles • Managing the Schema • Planning the Schema • Best Practice

Module 7 - 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 • Best Practice

Module 8 - Maintaining Active Directory The Database and Shared System Volume • Active Directory Database Sizing • Database Maintenance • Backup and Restore • Renaming Domains and Domain Controllers

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