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Overview

This five-day, instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and new skills that they need to plan and maintain a Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 networked environment.

This course consists of lecture content and labs that provide experience focused exclusively on the skills and objectives that align with MCP Exams 70-292 and 70-296.

This course is intended for Windows 2000 systems engineers with experience planning, implementing, and supporting a Windows 2000-based Microsoft Active Directory® directory service network, and who need to learn how to leverage those skills in a Windows Server 2003 environment.

Prerequisites

Before attending this workshop, students must have:

• An MCSE on Windows 2000 certification, or equivalent knowledge and skills

Delegates will learn how to

• Identify the systems administration tasks in Windows Server 2003 that are new or different from the tasks performed in Windows 2000.
• Manage servers in remote locations.
• Use Group Policy in Windows Server 2003 to deploy and restrict software.
• Plan and implement secure Routing and Remote Access.
• Manage user, computer, and group accounts in a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory-based environment.
• Use the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) to manage Group Policy.
• Manage resources and security.
• Configure and manage DNS.
• Maintain computers that run Windows operating systems by implementing and managing Software Update Services.
• Prepare for and implement disaster recovery solutions.
• Plan for an implementation of Active Directory and for Active Directory replication.
• Implement Active Directory and DNS.
• Troubleshoot Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), name resolution, and Group Policy.
• Plan and implement cross-forest trusts and new security options.
• Use Group Policy in Windows Server 2003 to set advanced security settings.
• Plan a Domain Name System (DNS) strategy for an enterprise organization.
• Manage Terminal Services.
• Manage IIS 6.0 Web Services.

Outline

Module 1: Managing Users, Groups, and Computers

Module 2: Managing Access to Resources

Module 3: Managing and Maintaining a Server Environment

Module 4: Managing an Application Server Environment

Module 5: Managing Disaster Recovery

Module 6: Maintaining Software by Using Software Update Services

Module 7: Planning, Implementing, Optimizing, and Troubleshooting Name Resolution

Module 8: Planning a PKI and an IPSec Deployment

Module 9: Planning and Troubleshooting Network Access

Module 10: Implementing Active Directory

Module 11: Planning the Placement of Domain Controllers

Module 12: Planning, Implementing, Managing, and Troubleshooting Group Policy

Leads to examination

• 70-292 – Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment for an MCSA Certified on Windows 2000

• 70-296 – Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment for an MCSE Certified on Windows 2000

Leads to certification

• MCSE - Upgrade MCSE on 2000 to Windows Server 2003

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