
Explore how to manage your Windows Server infrastructure with Active Directory, focusing on Windows Server 2012 R2 and its umbrella directory-based identity services for domain networks.
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Install and configure Windows Server 2012 R2, set up Active Directory Domain Services domain controllers, and manage AD DS with DNS integration.
Prepare for the course by accessing slides, resources, and source code on our website, downloading the activity guide for offline reference, signing up for services, and launching a virtual machine.
Develop in-depth skills to manage Windows domain infrastructure with Active Directory, using real-world scenarios and use cases. Explore Windows Server 2012 R2 installation and configuration in upcoming demonstrations.
Discover what's new in Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2, including installation options, server core mode, and key updates to Active Directory, Hyper-V, and storage spaces.
Install and configure Windows Server 2012 R2 in a virtual machine, covering hardware requirements, pre-install preparations, and downloading the ISO from Microsoft TechNet for VMware.
Guide students through installing Windows Server 2012 in a virtual machine using VMware workstation, including ISO setup, disk partition, and configuring administrator security with Server Manager ready.
Learn to change the Windows Server 2012 host name by following administrator-guided steps, ensuring the new name reflects your naming conventions and takes effect after restart.
Configure Windows Server 2012 storage by using Server Manager and Disk Management to bring disks online, initialize them, choose GPT or MBR, and create usable volumes.
Learn to create and format new volumes in windows server 2012, assign drive letters, set an ntfs volume label, and initialize new disks via server manager and disk management.
Create a storage pool by combining two 20 gigabytes disks into a 40 gigabytes pool named Tetris storage. Create a virtual disk with parity layout and assign a drive letter.
Learn how to install and configure file and print services on Windows Server 2012, set up a print server, manage drivers, ports, printers, and sharing permissions for network users.
Understand the Active Directory Domain Services infrastructure, including identity management, Kerberos authentication, ACL-based authorization, group policy driven administration, and replication with a global catalog.
Explore the core Active Directory components: data store, domain controllers, domain, forest, tree, functional levels, organizational units, and sites, and understand how they interact, replicate, and enforce policies.
Install and configure Active Directory domain services on Windows Server 2012 by adding the AD DS role, setting a fixed IP and hostname, promoting the server to a domain controller.
Promote a Windows Server to a domain controller using Server Manager and the Active Directory Domain Services installation wizard, configuring forest and domain functional levels, DNS, DSRM, and AD tools.
Manage Active Directory objects by creating and organizing organizational units (OUs), adding users, and moving objects between OUs using the ADUC console in a Windows Server environment.
Configure a dynamic host configuration protocol server on Windows Server 2012 R2 to automatically assign ipv4 addresses, subnet masks, default gateways, and dns settings to dhcp clients.
Configure a dhcp server on Windows Server 2012 R2 by setting the default lease duration, creating a scope, and adding gateway and dns options including domain controller, then activate scope.
Learn core administration tasks in Active Directory on Windows Server 2012 R2, including creating and moving users, groups, and organizational units within the domain.
Protects an OU from accidental deletion, demonstrates creating test OUs, then creates a user group, adds a user, and shows membership updates and automatic removal when users are deleted.
Discover Windows authentication methods, including Kerberos, TLM, TLS/SSL, and digest, stored by Active Directory. Explore interactive, local, network, and remote interactive logons and how credentials are protected.
Explore interactive and domain logon in Active Directory, granting access to local and network resources. Examine remote logon via the Remote Desktop Protocol and authentication with Kerberos, NTLM, and certificates.
Explore Kerberos authentication with TGT and service tickets, examine infrastructure master and global catalog replication, and learn to migrate FSMO roles between domain controllers on Windows Server 2012 R2.
Transfer all FSMO roles from the primary domain controller to an additional domain controller to enable fault tolerance, keeping the schema master and domain naming master on the same DC.
Learn how Active Directory acts as the central authentication system for domains, compare domain and workgroup environments, and explore DNS and client system integration in Windows Server 2012 R2.
Compare domain and workgroup environments on a Windows 7 client, showing domain login via active directory and local logins in a workgroup, plus ADUC user management.
Install and configure a DNS server on Windows Server 2012 R2, create forward and reverse lookup zones, and verify hostname resolution with ping.
Learn about primary, secondary, stub, and Active Directory integrated DNS zones; see how AD integrated zones enable faster replication, improved security, and automatic domain controller synchronization.
Integrate the dns server with the active directory domain by using an active directory integrated zone and secure dynamic updates, enabling automatic host records as clients join the domain.
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This Windows and administration course will teach you how to deploy and manage sophisticated Windows Active Directory Domain (ADDS) Infrastructure.
This course is designed to teach you the ins and outs of Windows Server and Active Directory and setting up the necessary services for your Windows network, even if you have little to no experience with it.
Master Windows Server, Active Directory, Various Windows Administrative Tools, Services and much more. Get familiar with Windows administration techniques and take your IT administration career to the next level.
While there are plenty of networking and IT related courses that focus on generic Active Directory concepts practices - it's hard to find a comprehensive course like this one, which focuses on teaching you Windows Server and Active Directory Domain Services from the ground up using some of the most useful services in the Windows Server ecosystem.
This course is designed for all levels of networking and IT practitioners who want to improve their skills, implement sophisticated and collaborative working environment in their organizations, and continue to be in great demand as networking and IT engineers.
Just a few of the things you'll learn:
Improve Your IT Skills, Become More Marketable, And Make More Money
Regardless of what your level of experience is; whether you work in a small startup or large corporation - this in-depth course is designed to provide you with everything you need to take your IT skills to the next level.
Windows Server is a tried enterprise operating system which powers a large portion of enterprises and small to mid-range companies. Active Directory is one of the core features which enables collaborative, secure and accessible network environment for every department of the organization.
Over the years Microsoft has put in a lot of effort and investment into making Windows Server a very robust and scalable system which can scale to global scale in a multi-user and multi-team environments.
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Contents and Overview
This course aims at teaching networking, IT, software and DevOps engineers what it takes to improve your skills, experience, and techniques to earn more money.
You will start with the basics and tackle how to install and configure Windows Server and AD. You will get familiar with the Windows Server ecosystem. You will get familiar with a bunch of very useful services and management tools in the Windows Server ecosystem. You'll then dive into the different hands-on exercises to implement a real world networked environment for a Windows domain.
You'll use these tools and frameworks to master how to properly design an end to end Windows domain environment, which:
By the end of this master course, your confidence as a networking and IT engineer will soar. You'll have a thorough understanding of Windows Server and Active Directory, and you can use them to their fullest potential to take small to large, simple to complex Windows domain environments and be a part of this IT revolution and take your career to the next level.