Administering Windows Server

Course Description

This five-day instructor-led course is designed primarily for IT professionals who have some experience with Windows Server. It is designed for professionals who will be responsible for managing identity, networking, storage and compute by using Windows Server, and who need to understand the scenarios, requirements, and options that are available and applicable to Windows Server. The course teaches IT professionals the fundamental administration skills required to deploy and support Windows Server in most organizations.
5 Days
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Audience Profile

This course is intended for Information Technology (IT) Professionals who have some experiencing working with Windows Server and are looking for a single five-day course that covers core administration components and technologies in Windows Server. This course also helps server administrators from previous Windows Server versions to update their knowledge and skills related to Windows Server. Additionally, this course can help individuals looking for preparation materials to pass exams related to Windows Server. The course is also to individuals from a service desk role who wish to transition into server maintenance.

Windows Server Administration Overview

Introducing Windows Server
Windows Server Core Overview
Windows Server administration principles and tools overview

Identity Services in Windows Server

AD DS Overview
Deploying Windows Server domain controllers
Azure AD overview
Implementing Group Policy
Active Directory Certificate Services overview

Network Infrastructure services in Windows Server

Deploying and managing DHCP
Deploying and managing DNS service
Deploying and managing IPAM
Remote Access Services in Windows Server

File Servers and Storage management in Windows Server

Volumes and File Systems in Windows Server
Implementing sharing in Windows Server
Implementing Storage Spaces in Windows Server
Implementing Data Deduplication
Implementing iSCSI
Deploying Distributed File System

Hyper-V virtualization and containers in Windows Server

Hyper-V in Windows Server
Configuring VMs
Securing virtualization in Windows Server
Containers in Windows Server
Overview of Kubernetes

High Availability in Windows Server

Planning for failover clustering implementation
Creating and configuring failover cluster
Overview of stretch clusters
High availability and disaster recovery solutions with Hyper-V VMs

Disaster recovery in Windows Server

Hyper-V Replica
Backup and restore infrastructure in Windows Server

Windows Server security

Credentials and privileged access protection
Hardening Windows Server
JEA in Windows Server
Securing and analyzing SMB traffic
Windows Server update management

RDS in Windows Server

Overview of RDS
Configuring a session-based desktop deployment
Overview of personal and pooled virtual desktops

Remote access and web services in Windows Server

Implementing VPNs
Implementing Always On VPN
Implementing NPS
Implementing Web Server in Windows Server

Server and performance monitoring in Windows Server

Overview of Windows Server monitoring tools
Using Performance Monitor
Monitoring event logs for troubleshooting

Upgrade and migration in Windows Server

AD DS migration
Storage Migration Service
Windows Server migration tools
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