Designing a Windows Server ® 2008 Active Directory ® Infrastructure and Services

Course details

In this course, students will learn how to design Active Directory forests, domain infrastructure, sites and replication, administrative structures, Group Policy, and Public Key Infrastructures (PKIs). Students will also learn how to design for security.

Course Outline

1 - Overview of Active Directory Design

• Preparing For Active Directory Design
• Designing the Internal AD DS Infrastructure
• Extending the Active Directory Design
• Lab : Exploring the Lab Scenario

2 - Designing an AD DS Forest Infrastructure

• Designing an AD DS Forest
• Designing AD DS Forest Trusts
• Planning for AD DS Schema Changes
• Designing a Windows Time Service Deployment
• Lab : Designing an AD DS Forest Infrastructure

3 - Designing an AD DS Domain Infrastructure

• Designing AD DS Domains
• Designing DNS Namespaces in an AD DS Environment
• Designing AD DS Domain Trusts
• Lab : Designing an AD DS Domain Infrastructure

4 - Designing AD DS Sites and Replication

• Designing AD DS Sites
• Designing AD DS Replication
• Lab : Designing AD DS Sites and Replication

5 - Designing AD DS Domain Controllers

• Designing Domain Controllers and Domain Controller Placement
• Designing RODC Deployments
• Designing Domain Controllers As Virtual Machines
• Designing Domain Controller Availability
• Lab : Designing AD DS Domain Controllers

6 - Designing AD DS Domain Administration

• Planning the Delegation of AD DS Administration
• Designing the Structure of OUs
• Designing an AD DS Group Strategy
• Planning to Manage User and Computer Accounts
• Lab : Designing AD DS Domain Administration

7 - Designing AD DS Group Policy

• Preparing for Group Policy Design
• Designing Group Policy Objects
• Designing Group Policy Processing
• Planning for Group Policy Management
• Lab : Designing AD DS Group Policy

8 - Designing AD DS Security

• Preparing to Design AD DS Security
• Designing AD DS Account and Password Policies
• Designing AD DS Domain Controller Security
• Designing AD DS Administrator Security
• Lab : Designing and Implementing AD DS Security

9 - Designing a Public Key Infrastructure

• Overview of PKI and AD CS
• Designing a Certification Authority Deployment
• Designing Certificate Templates
• Designing Certificate Distribution and Revocation
• Lab : Designing and Implementing a PKI Deployment

10 - Designing and Deploying AD RMS

• AD RMS Overview
• Designing an AD RMS Deployment
• Extending the AD RMS Deployment Outside an Organization
• Lab : Designing and Deploying AD RMS

11 - Designing an AD LDS Infrastructure

• AD LDS Deployment Scenarios
• Designing an AD LDS Server Deployment
• Designing AD LDS Replication
• Integrating AD LDS with AD DS
• Lab : Designing and Implementing an AD LDS Infrastructure

12 - Designing an AD FS Infrastructure

• Overview of an AD FS Design
• Designing an AD FS Deployment
• Designing AD FS Claims and Applications
• Lab : Integrating AD FS and AD RMS

13 - Designing AD DS Transitions

• Choosing an AD DS Transition Strategy
• Designing a Domain-Upgrade Strategy
• Designing a Domain-Restructure Strategy
• Designing AD DS Domain Renaming
• Lab : Designing and Implementing an AD DS Domain Restructure

Target Audience: This course is intended for IT professionals who want to gain professional job role skills to help them design the infrastructure for Active Directoryfor Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 as an Enterprise Administrator. This course is also intended for IT professionals who have been working as Enterprise Administrators on previous versions of Windows Server and who want to update their skills to Windows Server 2008. Students might already be, or have been, Server Administrators who make planning and design decisions at a server level and who want to gain the skills and knowledge they need to transition to enterprise-level design decisions.

Related Certifications:

• MCITP: Enterprise Administrator on Windows Server 2008