Implementing an Advanced Server Infrastructure

Course details

Students learn skills to plan and implement a highly available, secure infrastructure with focus on Active Directory® Federation Service (AD FS), public key infrastructure (PKI), and Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS).

Course Outline

• Overview of Management in an Enterprise Data Center
• Planning and Implementing a Server Virtualization Strategy
• Planning and Implementing Networks and Storage for Virtualization
• Planning and Deploying Virtual Machines
• Planning and Implementing a Virtualization Administration Solution
• Planning and Implementing a Server Monitoring Strategy
• Planning and Implementing High Availability for File Services and Applications
• Planning and Implementing a High Availability Infrastructure Using Failover Clustering
• Planning and Implementing Server Update Infrastructure
• Planning and Implementing an Public Key Infrastructure
• Planning and Implementing an Public Key Infrastructure
• Planning and Implementing Data Access for Users and Devices
• Planning and Implementing an Information Rights Management Infrastructure

Course Objectives: 

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Describe an enterprise data center.
• Plan and implement a server virtualization strategy using System Center 2012.
• Plan and implement the network and storage infrastructure required to deploy a virtualized server infrastructure.
• Plan and deploy virtual machines on Windows Hyper-V®.
• Plan and implement a virtualization administration solution by using System Center 2012.
• Plan and implement a server monitoring strategy using the Windows Server 2012 tools and using Microsoft System Center 2012 - Operations Manager.
• Plan and implement an application and a file services infrastructure that is highly available.
• Plan and implement a highly available server infrastructure by using the failover clustering features in Windows Server 2012.
• Plan and implement a business continuity strategy in a Windows Server 2012 environment.
• Plan and implement a PKI deployment, and plan and implement a certificate management solution.
• Plan and implement an AD FS server deployment and claims aware application access.
• Plan and implement Dynamic Access Control, Workplace Join and Work Folders. 
• Plan and implement an AD RMS deployment, plan and manage AD RMS templates and access, and plan and implement external access to AD RMS services.

Target Audience: 

This course is intended for Information Technology (IT) professionals who are responsible for planning, designing and deploying a physical and logical Windows Server 2012 enterprise and Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) infrastructures including the network services. Candidates would typically have experience of previous Windows Server operating systems and have Windows Server 2012 certification (MCSA) or equivalent skills. The secondary audience for this course will be candidates are IT professionals who are looking to take the exam 70-414: Implementing an Advanced Enterprise Server Infrastructure, as a stand-alone, or as part of the requirement for the MCSE certification.