Course: Windows Server 2008, Server Administrator section 2
September 21, 2013 | By Boyd |
Course Outline
Day 1: Server 2008 Deployment
- Installations and upgrades: planning and best practices.
- Migrating from Server 2003.
- Server Core and automated installs.
- Automated deployment.
- Networking: IPv4 vs. IPv6
- Transitioning to IPv6.
- Server roles and services with multiple servers
Day 2: Active Directory, Forests, and Domains
- Planning your infrastructure.
- Forest and Domain functional levels.
- Trusts: Types and directions.
- Group policy best practices.
- Application Servers.
Day 3: Terminal Services and Virtualization
- Terminal Server infrastructure and licensing.
- Configuring and monitoring Terminal Server.
- Hyper-V: Why virtualize?
- Configuring Hyper-V.
- Application Virtualization.
- Hyper-V vs. VMWARE.
- Deploying RemoteAPP.
- Application Servers.
Day 4: Server 2008 Maintenance and Monitoring
- WSUS and Windows Updates for servers and clients.
- Server performance and optimization.
- Security best practices and delegating administrative tasks.
- Event Logs, Remote Administration, and other useful tools.
- Maintaining File and Print Servers.
- Provisioning data, DFS Namespace, and Offline data access.
- Remote Access and Network Access Protection.
Day 5: Certificate Services, High Availability, and Backups
- Configuring AD CS.
- Storage Area Networks.
- DNS Round Robin and Network Load Balancing.
- Storage and high availability best practices.
- Backup and recovery.
- Crisis management and setting priorities.