MS 2273 - Managing/Maintaining a Microsoft Windows 2003 Environment
Course ID: HLT 2273
Course Length: 5 days
Course Description:
This course combines five days of instructor-led training with additional e-Learning content to provide students with the knowledge and skills that are required to manage accounts and resources, maintain server resources, monitor server performance, and safeguard data in a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 environment.
This is the first course in the Systems Administrator and Systems Engineer tracks for Windows Server 2003 and serves as the entry point for other courses in the Windows Server 2003 curriculum.
Target Student:
This course is intended for individuals who are employed as or seeking employment as a systems administrator or systems engineer.
Prerequisites:
To ensure your success, we recommend you first have equivalent knowledge:
- A+ certification, or equivalent knowledge and skills.
- Network+ certification, or equivalent knowledge and skills.
Delivery Method:
Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
Performance-Based Objectives :
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Create and populate organizational units with user, group and computer accounts.
- Manage and audit user, group and computer accounts and implement group policy.
- Manage access to resources and objects in using organizaational units.
- Implement and manage printing.
- Manage the user and computer environment by using Group Policy.
- Audit accounts and resources.
- Prepare to administer server resources.
- Configure a server to monitor system performance and monitor performance.
- Manage device drivers by configuring device driver signing and restoring a device driver.
- Manage hard disks, data storage, and disaster recovery.
- Maintain software by using Microsoft Windows Server Update Services.
- Maintain Windows Server 2003 security.
Course Content
Lesson 1: Introduction to Administering Accounts and Resources
Topic 1A: Multimedia: Introduction to Administering Accounts and Resources
Topic 1B: The Windows Server 2003 Environment
Topic 1C: Logging on to Windows Server 2003
Topic 1D: Using the Run As Feature for Administration
Topic 1E: Installing and Configuring Administrative Tools
Topic 1F: Creating an Organizational Unit
Lesson 2: Managing User and Computer Accounts
Topic 2A: Creating User Accounts
Topic 2B: Creating Computer Accounts
Topic 2C: Modifying User and Computer Account Properties
Topic 2D: Creating a User Account Template
Topic 2E: Managing User and Computer Accounts
Topic 2F: Using Queries to Locate User and Computer Accounts in Active Directory
Lesson 3: Managing Groups
Topic 3A: Creating groups
Topic 3B: Managing group membership
Topic 3C: Strategies for using groups
Topic 3D: Using default groups
Lesson 4: Managing Access to Resources
Topic 4A: Overview of Managing Access to Resources
Topic 4B: Managing Access to Shared Folders
Topic 4C: Managing Access to Files and Folders Using NTFS Permissions
Topic 4D: Determining Effective Permissions
Topic 4E: Managing Access to Shared Files Using Offline Caching
Lesson 5: Managing Access to Objects in Organizational Units
Topic 5A: Modifying Permissions for Active Directory Objects
Topic 5B: Delegating Control of Organizational Units
Lesson 6: Implementing Group Policy
Topic 6A: Implementing Group Policy Objects
Topic 6B: Implementing GPOs on a Domain
Topic 6C: Managing the Deployment of Group Policy
Lesson 7: Manage the deployment of Group Policy
Topic 7A: Configuring Group Policy Settings
Topic 7B: Assigning Scripts with Group Policy
Topic 7C: Restricting Group Membership and Access to Software
Topic 7D: Configuring Folder Redirection
Topic 7E: Determining Applied GPOs
Lesson 8: Implementing Administrative Templates and Audit Policy
Topic 8A: Overview of Security in Windows Server 2003
Topic 8B: Using Security Templates to Secure Computers
Topic 8C: Testing Computer Security Policy
Topic 8D: Configuring Auditing
Topic 8E: Managing Security Logs
Lesson 9: Preparing to Administer a Server
Topic 9A: Enabling Remote Desktop
Topic 9B: Configuring Remote Desktop to Administer a Server
Topic 9C: Managing Remote Desktop Connections
Lesson 10: Preparing to Monitor Server Performance
Topic 10A: Introduction to Monitoring Server Performance
Topic 10B: Performing Real-Time and Logged Monitoring
Topic 10C: Configuring and Managing Counter Logs
Topic 10D: Configuring Alerts
Lesson 11: Managing Data Storage
Topic 11A: Managing File Compression
Topic 11B: Configuring File Encryption
Topic 11C: Configuring EFS Recovery Agents
Topic 11D: Implementing Disk Quotas
Lesson 12: Managing Disaster Recovery
Topic 12A: Preparing for Disaster Recovery
Topic 12B: Backing Up Data
Topic 12C: Scheduling Backup Jobs
Topic 12D: Restoring Data
Topic 12E: Configuring Shadow Copies
Topic 12F: Recovering from Server Failure
Lesson 13: Software Maintenance Using Windows Server Update Services
Topic 13A: Introduction to Windows Server Update Services
Topic 13B: Installing and Configuring Windows Server Update Services
Topic 13C: Managing Windows Server Update Services
Lesson 14: Securing Windows Server 2003
Topic 14A: Introduction to Securing Servers
Topic 14B: Implementing Core Server Security
Topic 14C: Hardening Servers
Topic 14D: Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
Lesson 15: Self-Study: Implementing Printing
Topic 15A: Multimedia: Introduction to Printing in the Windows Server 2003 Family
Topic 15B: Installing and Managing Access to Printers
Topic 15C: Managing Printer Drivers
Topic 15D: Implementing Printer Locations
Lesson 16: Self-Study: Managing Printing
Topic 16A: Changing the Location of the Print Spooler
Topic 16B: Setting Printer Priorities and Scheduling Printer Availability
Topic 16C: Configuring a Printing Pool and Redirecting Print Queues
Lesson 17: Self-Study: Monitoring Server Performance
Topic 17A: Multimedia: The Primary Server Subsystems
Topic 17B: Monitoring Server Memory
Topic 17C: Monitoring Processor Usage
Topic 17D: Monitoring Disks
Topic 17E: Monitoring Network Usage
Topic 17F: Monitoring Best Practices
Lesson 18: Self-Study: Maintaining Device Drivers
Topic 18A: Configuring Device Driver Signing Options
Topic 18B: Using Device Driver Rollback
Lesson 19: Self-Study: Managing Disks
Topic 19A: Preparing Disks
Topic 19B: Managing Disk Properties
Topic 19C: Managing Mounted Drives
Topic 19D: Converting Disks
Topic 19E: Creating Volumes
Topic 19F: Creating Fault-Tolerant Volumes
Topic 19G: Importing a Foreign Disk