Configuring and Troubleshooting Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services (Exam 70-643)
Course ID: HLT 6428
Course Length: 2 days
Course Description:
This two-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to configure, manage, monitor, and troubleshoot a Terminal Services (TS) environment. The course focuses on configuring of TS core functionality, licensing, Gateway, and Web Access. This is the second course in the Windows Application Platform Services Technology Specialists Who Use Windows Server 2008 curriculum and will introduce the students to the Windows 2008 Terminal Services.
Target Student:
This course is intended for an individual whose primary role is a Technology Specialist in an enterprise environment. Also, individuals who are assuming a new role requiring skills to manage connections served by a terminal server session over the intranet, extranet, and Internet would be interested in this course.
Prerequisites:
To ensure your success, we recommend you first have equivalent knowledge:
- Course 6420 Foundational Series: Fundamentals of a Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure and Application Platform, OR
- Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server experience in an enterprise environment
- Minimum of one year of experience administering and supporting TS
- Minimum of one year of experience administering and supporting Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2003 R2
- Minimum of one year of administering certificate services
- Network + certification
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:
- Install and configure the TS role and settings.
- Identify the appropriate licensing scope and configure forest, domain, and workgroup licensing.
- Identify when to use the per-user and per-device licensing modes.
- Install the TS Licensing Role.
- Configure TS licensing for per-user and device licenses.
- Manage the licensing lifecycle.
- Configure TS connection properties using TS console and Group Policy.
- Troubleshoot TS connection properties for a single user and multiple users.
- Identify the considerations for the types of applications that can be installed in a TS environment.
- Install applications on TS.
- Configure TS Web Access to make TS RemoteApp programs available through a Web site.
- Configure TS Easy Print.
- Install and configure TS Web Access role service.
- Configure a TS session broker for a load-balanced TS farm.
- Configure TS Gateway properties
- Monitor active connections using TS Gateway console.
- Troubleshoot a TS Gateway connectivity issue.
- Manage TS connections to ensure availability of the TS.
- Resolve client connectivity issues by verifying end-user configuration using Remote Desktop Connection (RDC).
- Monitor TS connections to determine when to force client disconnect.
- Identify monitoring methods for TS services role.
- Configure resource allocation policies using WSRM based on the environment.
- Monitor WSRM performance using the WSRM Monitoring TS tool.
Course Content
Lesson 1: Configuring Terminal Services Core Functionality
Topic 1A: Configuring TS Role
Topic 1B: Configuring TS Settings
Lesson 2: Configuring and Managing Terminal Services Licensing
Topic 2A: Configuring TS Licensing
Topic 2B: Managing TS Licenses
Lesson 3: Configuring and Troubleshooting Terminal Services Connections
Topic 3A: Configuring TS Connection Properties
Topic 3B: Configuring TS Properties Using Group Policy
Topic 3C: Troubleshooting TS
Lesson 4: Configuring Terminal Services Resources
Topic 4A: Installing Applications
Topic 4B: Configuring Remote Applications
Topic 4C: Configuring Printers
Lesson 5: Configuring Terminal Services Web Access
Topic 5A: Installing the TS Web Access Role Service
Lesson 6: Configuring Session Broker
Topic 6A: Configuring a TS Session Broker for a Load-Balanced Farm
Lesson 7: Configuring and Troubleshooting Terminal Services Gateway
Topic 7A: Configuring TS Gateway
Topic 7B: Troubleshooting TS Gateway Connectivity Issues
Lesson 8: Managing and Monitoring Terminal Services
Topic 8A: Managing Current TS Connections
Topic 8B: Monitoring TS Connections
Topic 8C: Configuring WSRM for TS