WS001WV - Windows Server Essentials Courseware

Course Details

Course Duration: 5 Days

Module 1 Introducing Windows Server

Topics

• Introducing Windows Server
• Configuring Windows Server
• Configuring and Customizing the Start Menu, Desktop, Taskbar, and Notification Settings
• Using Windows Server Settings
• Using Control Panel
• Using Server Manager
• Using Computer Management
• Networking with Windows Server
• Exploring IPv4 and IPv6 Protocols
• Using the Default Gateway
• Understanding Name Resolution
• Configuring IP Settings and Name Resolution Settings
• Introducing Windows PowerShell

Module 2 Windows Server installation and initial configuration

Topics

• Selecting a suitable Windows Server edition
• Hardware requirements for Windows Server
• Overview of installation options
• What is Windows Server Core?
• Installing Server Core and Server with Desktop Experience
• Post-installation configuration settings
• Using sconfig tool to administer Server Core
• In-place upgrade vs. server migration
• In-place upgrade scenarios
• Windows Server licensing and activation
• Windows Server Servicing channels
• Overview of the least-privilege administration concept
• What is Windows Server Admin Center?
• Server Manager overview (topic in Lesson 7)
• Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) overview
• Managing Windows servers remotely

Lab 1 Installing and configuring Windows Server

• Exercise 1: Installing Windows Server with Desktop Experience
• Exercise 2: Completing post-installation tasks on Windows Server
• Exercise 3: Performing remote management

Module 3 Configuring drives and storage for Windows Server

Topics

• Windows Server storage options overview
• Selecting a partition table format
• Selecting a disk type
• Selecting a file system
• Resilient File System (ReFS) overview and scenarios of usage
• Using .vhd and .vhdx file types in Windows Server
• What are disk volumes?
• Options for managing volumes
• Extending and shrinking a volume
• What is RAID?
• RAID levels supported in Windows Server 

Lab 2 Configuring drives and storage

• Exercise 1: Creating and managing volumes
• Exercise 2: Resizing volumes
• Exercise 3: Managing virtual hard disks

Module 4 Configuring sharing and permissions in Windows Server

Topics

• What is SMB protocol?
• Configuring SMB shares in Windows Server
• NTFS vs Share Permissions
• Basic and advanced NTFS permissions overview
• Configuring security permissions and permission inheritance
• What is effective access?
• Configuring file and folder auditing
• NFS sharing overview
• Configuring printer sharing
• Best practices for configuring permissions and sharing

Lab 3 Configuring sharing and permissions in Windows Server

• Exercise 1: Configure shares
• Exercise 2: Configure basic and advanced permissions
• Exercise 3: Configuring auditing and reviewing effective access

Module 5 Hyper-V overview

Topics

• What is Hyper-V?
• What is a virtual machine?
• Supported host and guest operating systems for Hyper-V
• Prerequisites and requirements for installing Hyper-V
• Storage options and considerations in Hyper-V
• Options for storing virtual hard disks
• Hyper-V networking overview and configuration
• Virtual machines configuration and generation versions
• Virtual machine settings overview
• Creating and managing virtual machines
• Virtual machine checkpoints overview
• How to make Hyper-V highly available? 

Lab 4 Installing and configuring Hyper-V and virtual machines

• Exercise 1: Installing and verifying installation of the Hyper-V server role
• Exercise 2: Configuring Hyper-V networks
• Exercise 3: Creating and configuring virtual machines

Module 6 Implementing and managing DHCP in Windows Server

Topics

• What is IPv4 and how does it work?
• Configuring IPv4 settings on Windows computers
• Overview of IPv6
• What is DHCP and how does it work?
• How are addresses leased and renewed?
• Installing, authorizing, and configuring DHCP server
• Creating and configuring DHCP scope and scope options
• Options for DHCP high availability
• Troubleshooting DHCP and IP address assignment

Lab 5 Implementing IP addressing on IPv4

• Exercise 1: Configure Ipv4 and verify IPv4 communication
• Exercise 2: Troubleshoot IPv4
• Exercise 3: Implement the DHCP configuration

Module 7 Implementing and managing DNS in Windows Server

Topics

• Overview of the DNS name-resolution process
• Recursive and iterative queries overview
• DNS components
• DNS zones and records overview
• Configuring DNS options on clients
• Creating DNS zones and records in Windows Server DNS
• DNS caching, forwarding and root hints
• How DNS integrates with AD DS?
• DNS zone replication overview
• How to secure DNS service and name resolution process?
• Troubleshooting and testing DNS and name resolution basics

Lab 6 Implementing name resolution based on DNS in Windows Server

• Exercise 1: Implementing DNS
• Exercise 2: Configuring DNS settings
• Exercise 3: Configuring integration between DNS and AD DS

Module 8 Implementing VPN in Windows Server

Topics

• What is VPN and when do you need to use it?
• What are point-to-site and site-to-site VPNs?
• Tunneling options in VPNs on Windows Server
• Authentication protocols for VPN on Windows Server
• Configuring VPN Server on Windows Server RAS
• Configuring VPN Profiles
• What is Always on VPN?

Lab 7 Implementing VPN on Windows Server   

• Exercise 1: Implementing VPN Server
• Exercise 2: Establishing VPN connection from client

Module 9 Deploying AD DS on Windows Server

Topics

• Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Overview
• What is an AD DS forest?
• What is an AD DS domain?
• What are OUs?
• What is the AD DS schema?
• Overview of AD DS administration tools in Windows Server
• What is a domain controller?
• What are global catalog servers?
• Overview of SRV records for AD DS
• How does the AD DS sign-in process work?
• Overview of operations masters in AD DS
• Installing a domain controller from Server Manager
• Upgrading a domain controller
• Installing a domain controller from media
• Cloning domain controllers
• Best practices for domain-controller virtualization

Lab 8 Deploying and administering AD DS

• Exercise 1: Deploying AD DS
• Exercise 2: Administering AD DS

Module 10 Managing AD DS objects

Topics

• What are AD DS objects?
• Creating and managing user accounts and their attributes
• Disable and delete user accounts
• Perform bulk operations on user objects
• Using PowerShell to manage AD DS objects
• User account templates overview
• Security and distribution groups overview
• Group scopes
• Implementing group management
• Delegate management of groups in AD DS
• Restricted groups overview
• Default groups overview
• Special identities overview
• Creating and managing computer objects in AD DS
• Joining a computer to a domain and establishing a secure channel with AD DS
• Creating and managing OU objects in AD DS
• Delegating control over OUs in AD DS

Lab 9 Managing objects in AD DS

• Exercise 1: Creating and managing user accounts by using GUI tools
• Exercise 2: Creating and managing groups
• Exercise 3: Managing computer accounts
• Exercise 4: Using Windows PowerShell to manage AD DS objects
• Exercise 5: Delegate administration for OUs

Module 11 Advanced AD DS infrastructure management

Topics

• Overview of domain and forest boundaries
• Implementation of multiple domains and multiple forests
• Manage objects in complex AD DS deployments
• AD DS domain and forest functional levels
• Deploying new AD DS domains
• Considerations for implementing complex AD DS environments
• Overview of AD DS trust types
• How do trusts work in a forest?
• How do trusts work between forests?
• Configuring advanced AD DS trust settings

Lab 10 Configuring AD DS infrastructure

• Exercise 1: Configuring forest trust in AD DS
• Exercise 2: Managing domain and forest trust relationships in AD DS

Module 12 AD DS sites and replication

Topics

• What are AD DS partitions?
• AD DS replication overview
• What are AD DS sites and why do we need sites?
• How AD DS replication works within a site?
• Resolving replication conflicts
• How is replication topology generated?
• How SYSVOL replication works?
• How replication works between sites?
• What is the intersite topology generator (ISTG)?
• How domain-joined computers locate domain controllers in a multi-site environment?
• What are AD DS site links?
• What is site link bridging?
• Managing and troubleshooting site link replication

Lab 11 Implementing AD DS sites and replication

• Exercise 1: Creating new AD DS sites
• Exercise 2: Configuring AD DS site and replication settings

Module 13 Securing AD DS

Topics

• What security risks can affect domain controllers and AD DS?
• Modify security settings of domain controllers
• Implement secure authentication in AD DS
• Secure physical access to domain controllers
• What are read-only domain controllers (RODCs) and when do you need to use them?
• Deploying and configuring an RODC
• Configuring RODC local administration
• Account security in Windows Server
• Understand password policies, account lockout policies, and Kerberos authentication policies
• Protecting critical groups in AD DS
• Fine-grained password and lockout policies overview
• Create and manage Password Settings Objects (PSOs)
• Enhance password authentication with Windows Hello
• Account logon and logon events
• Configuring audit policies in AD DS

Lab 12 Securing AD DS environment

• Exercise 1: Implementing security policies for accounts, passwords, and administrative groups
• Exercise 2: Deploying and configuring an RODC

Module 14 Monitor, manage and recover AD DS

Topics

• Understanding performance and bottlenecks
• Monitoring tools in Windows Server
• Use Performance Monitor to monitor AD DS
• Active Directory database overview
• Use Ntdsutil.exe to manage the Active Directory database
• Active Directory snapshots overview
• Understand object deletion and recovery
• Undelete objects without the recycle bin
• Enable the Active Directory recycle bin
• Configure the Active Directory recycle bin
• General backup and recovery tools and procedures for AD DS

Lab 13 Recovering objects in AD DS

• Exercise 1: Backing up and restoring AD DS
• Exercise 2: Recovering objects in AD DS

Module 15 Implement Group Policy

Topics

• What is Group Policy and what are the benefits of Group Policy?
• What are Group Policy Objects (GPOs)?
• Managing GPO scope and inheritance
• What are the Group Policy Client service and client-side extensions?
• Implementing domain-based GPOs
• GPO storage and replication overview
• Common GPO management tasks
• What is Group Policy delegation?
• Link GPOs to containers
• Understand Group Policy processing, inheritance, and precedence
• Implement security filtering and WMI filtering
• Enable and disable GPOs and GPO nodes
• What is the Resultant Set of Policy (RsoP)?

Lab 14 Implementing Group Policy infrastructure

• Exercise 1: Creating and configuring GPOs
• Exercise 2: Managing GPO scope
• Exercise 3: Verifying GPO application
• Exercise 4: Troubleshooting GPOs

Module 16 Manage User Settings with Group Policy  

Topics

• What are administrative templates for Group Policy?
• What are security templates?
• Managing user environment and settings with Group Policy
• What is Folder Redirection?
• Settings for configuring Folder Redirection and folder security
• Managing software deployments with Group Policy
• Group Policy settings for applying scripts
• What are Group Policy preferences?
• Compare Group Policy preferences with settings
• Troubleshooting Group Policy application

Lab 15 Managing user settings with Group Policy

• Exercise 1: Using administrative templates to manage user settings
• Exercise 2: Implementing settings by using Group Policy preferences
• Exercise 3: Configuring Folder Redirection

Module 17 Deploy and manage AD CS

Topics

• What is the Active Directory Certificate Services role?
• Options for implementing Certificate Authority (CA) hierarchies in Windows Server
• Standalone vs. enterprise CAs
• Considerations for deploying a root CA
• Considerations for deploying a subordinate CA
• Managing CAs and CA properties
• Configuring CA security and administration
• Security roles for CA administration
• Configuring CA policy and exit modules
• Configuring CDP and AIA locations
• Monitoring CA operations
• Troubleshooting CAs
• Renewing a CA certificate
• How to move a root CA to another computer

Lab 16 Deploying and managing AD CS infrastructure

• Exercise 1: Deploying an offline root CA
• Exercise 2: Deploying an enterprise subordinate CA

Module 18 Deploying and managing certificates in Windows Server

Topics

• What is the Active Directory Certificate Services role?
• Options for implementing Certificate Authority (CA) hierarchies in Windows Server
• Standalone vs. enterprise CAs
• Considerations for deploying a root CA
• Considerations for deploying a subordinate CA
• Managing CAs and CA properties
• Configuring CA security and administration
• Security roles for CA administration
• Configuring CA policy and exit modules
• Configuring CDP and AIA locations
• Monitoring CA operations
• Troubleshooting CAs
• Renewing a CA certificate
• How to move a root CA to another computer

Lab 17 Deploying and using certificates

• Exercise 1: Deploying an offline root CA
• Exercise 2: Deploying an enterprise subordinate CA