
Explore Windows Server 2012 features, installation, and core services such as DNS and DHCP. Learn to deploy operating systems with Windows deployment service and manage user accounts and permissions.
Introduction to Windows Server 2012 R2 covers edition differences and features. Compare foundation, essential, standard, and data center editions, licensing models, RAM and core limits, and virtualization options.
Master disk management in Windows Server by configuring basic disks, partitions, shrinking volumes into unallocated space, and mounting or hiding drives with NTFS and FAT file systems.
Create local users, configure password options, and assign file and folder permissions to manage access on Windows Server.
Learn to create local user accounts, set storage quotas, and manage file and folder permissions, shares, and basic network firewall settings in Windows Server 2012 R2.
Explore configuring remote desktop for Windows environments and securing data with BitLocker, including enabling remote connections, managing credentials, and using recovery keys to safeguard encrypted drives.
Explore how the domain name system translates hostnames to IP addresses and back, and manage primary and secondary DNS, zones, and resource records like A, NS, SOA, MX, and alias.
Learn to install and configure DNS server in Windows Server 2012 R2, set up primary and secondary DNS, lookup and reverse lookup zones, assign IP addresses, and manage load balancing.
Install and configure the primary dns server on windows server 2012 r2. Create forward and reverse lookup zones for tech dot com and test with nslookup.
Install Windows Server 2012 R2 using Hyper-V, create a virtual machine, configure installation settings, language, and administrator password, then manage with Local Server Manager and enable updates and features.
Learn to install and configure a DNS server on Windows Server 2012 R2, set up forward and reverse lookup zones, and manage primary and secondary DNS with zone transfers.
Understand how the dhcp server automatically assigns unique ip addresses, prevents conflicts, and supports network design with scopes, ranges, exclusions, and gateway/dns settings for small to large networks.
Discover how a DHCP client locates a server, receives an IP, subnet mask, gateway, and DNS via the DORA process, and how APIPA or renewal handles outages.
Install and configure a DHCP server, create and manage scopes, assign IP addresses to clients, block or reserve MAC addresses, configure DNS options, and back up or restore DHCP settings.
Discover active directory domain services, a centralized database for users, computers, and groups, managed by a domain controller with DNS, Kerberos, and LDAP authentication and authorization.
Explore active directory services by detailing the four AD DS partitions (domain, schema, application, configuration), and explain forest and tree structures, domain controllers, sites, global catalog, and SID/GUID concepts.
Learn to install and configure Active Directory Domain Services on Windows Server 2012 R2, including prerequisites, promoting a new forest domain controller, and configuring DNS integration and service records.
Create and manage user accounts, configure domain and domain controller policies, and enforce password and lockout policies using group policy management to secure logon across domain and computers.
Configure and manage user permissions across domain and client machines by assigning administrator and other group memberships, editing domain policies, and enabling logon rights, with hands-on DNS and domain-join steps.
Configure user logon hours and computer-specific permissions to restrict logon to designated clients, then monitor, restart, and manage these clients from the domain controller.
Configure organizational units, protect against accidental deletion, and enable the active directory recycle bin to recover deleted objects within 180 days, while setting home folders and user attributes.
Explore virtualization with hyper-v, creating virtual machines and configuring memory, storage, and licensing. Learn to set up virtual networks with internal and external switches to enable virtual machine communication.
Explore group policies (GPOs) and administrative templates to control user access, desktop settings, and security across domain, site, and organizational units, including logon scripts, folder redirection, and software deployment.
Configure admin templates and logon/logoff scripts to enforce desktop policies, including wallpaper, access restrictions, and policy deployment. Learn to link policies across domains and use logon scripts for welcome messages.
Configure folder redirection and software deployment with group policy and shared folders to manage user desktops, downloads, and applications on the server.
Sets up defense policy, including preference policy, blocks inheritance when needed, and demonstrates backup and restore of GPOs with RSOP verification and drive mappings.
Explore introduction to Active Directory PowerShell commands, including checking domain names, managing forests and domains, domain controllers, the global catalog, and user objects with practical AD tasks.
Windows deployment services and how a server stores a Windows operating system image and deploys it to known and unknown clients with dns and domain controller support.
Learn to install and configure Windows Deployment Services (WDS), add OS images, and remotely deploy Windows, with prerequisites including DNS, AD DS, an NTFS partition, and legacy network adapters.
Learn to install Windows deployment services (WDS) using a Windows 8 image, configure DHCP servers, and provision a client via BIOS network boot.
Learn how to install and configure an additional domain controller (adc) in an existing forest, promote it to a domain controller, and set up site replication with dns.
Configure a child domain controller for a branch office, enable DNS and site replication with the parent domain, and manage policies and admin roles in a multi-domain forest.
Install and configure a child domain in a multi-domain forest, promote a DC to a child domain controller, and manage DNS, replication, and global catalog.
Install and configure a read-only domain controller across UK and India sites, with site replication and DNS. Create users, enforce the ROTC application policy, and understand its read-only limitations.
Learn to create and manage global, domain local, and universal groups, assign membership, delegate control, and apply group policy within a Windows Server 2012R2 domain.
Explore fine-grained password and lockout policies, universal group caching, and domain controller login resilience in Windows Server 2012 R2; configure group policy, sites, and services for secure, flexible administration.
Explore how the distributed file system (dfs) provides a unified namespace and links multiple shared folders across departments, enabling data access with permissions, and offering standalone or domain-based deployment.
Install and configure DFS including DFS namespace and DFS replication across multiple servers, ensuring DNS server availability, proper permissions, and linking shared folders across branch offices for synchronized data.
Learn how FSMO roles distribute across forest and domain, including domain naming master, schema master, infrastructure master, RID master, and PDC emulator, and how they are assigned to domain controllers.
Explore FSMO roles, including the schema master, domain naming master, and infrastructure master, and their impact on domain controllers, global catalog replication, and forest-wide policies.
Explore transferring and seizing FSMO roles across domain controllers in a multi-domain forest, including schema master, domain naming master, and PDC, with graceful and forceful methods.
Learn how to verify FSMO role ownership and transfer roles from a domain controller to an available adc, including registering the schema and performing command-line checks across the forest.
Learn how to host multiple websites on one IP using Internet information services, configure DNS and domain names like abc.com, and create alias and host records on Windows Server 2012.
Install and configure DNS and IIS on Windows Server 2012R2, create alias and host records, publish multiple websites with bindings, and block specific IP addresses for security.
Explore how network address translation enables multiple private clients to share a single public ip, translating private to public addresses and enhancing security, with Windows Server configuration guidance.
Install NAT with public and private adapters, assign IP addresses and DNS, enable routing and remote access, and evaluate VPN options to provide internet access.
this session introduces virtual private networks (vpn) for secure remote data access over the internet, explaining vpn servers, user permissions, and vpn protocols and tunneling.
Install and configure a VPN server and client, including setting up routing, IP addressing, and remote access protocols. Create shared folders with user permissions and verify client connectivity.
Learn how to implement remote desktop connections to domain controllers, assign remote access permissions, and enforce domain controller policies that govern local and remote logon for administrators and users.
Learn to configure remote desktop connection to a domain controller, set delegation control, assign permissions for users and groups, and apply domain controller policy to allow remote login.
Learn the basics of tree domain and forest structures, including parent and child domains within a forest. Explore domain controllers, multi-domain forests, domain names, and DNS configurations with practical examples.
Install and configure a forest and tree domain, set up DNS, manage domain controllers, and establish trusts and replication between ABC dot com and tech dot com.
Learn how a read-only domain controller (RODC) enables branch-office deployments by replicating data, applying password replication policies, and allowing logins even when a site is unavailable.
Install and configure a read-only domain controller (RODC) across UK and India sites on Windows Server, with replication. Learn password and application policies and read-only authentication for branch resilience.
Explore domain trusts and cross-forest authentication, illustrating one-way trusts and secure resource sharing between two domains across forests.
Configure cross-forest trust between two domains, create and manage trust passwords, and enable users in one forest to log in to resources in the other through proper authentication.
Explore AD backup and restore with system state backups, store backups safely on separate servers, and reset the domain controller password via command prompt, restoring via SRM.
Demonstrate configuring Windows Server Backup for AD backup and database backups, selecting server data, applications, and system state, and performing restoration.
Complete a backup across system state and local disks, then perform a restore to verify users and data. The lecture guides booting from backup, selecting restore options, and validating results.
Explore how to configure iSCSI storage by setting up a target server, connecting via an initiator over IP, allocating and extending storage, and comparing cost and practicality with Fibre Channel.
Install and configure the iSCSI target server on Windows, create storage targets, and connect initiators using IP addresses and authentication to manage shared storage.
Get hands-on instruction and practice configuring advanced Windows Server 2012, including Windows Server 2012 R2, services in this five-day Microsoft Official Course. This course is part three in a series of three courses that provides the skills and knowledge necessary to implement a core Windows Server 2012 infrastructure in an existing enterprise environment.
The three courses collectively cover implementing, managing, maintaining and provisioning services and infrastructure in a Windows Server 2012 environment. Although there is some cross-over of skills and tasks across these courses, this course focuses on advanced configuration of services necessary to deploy, manage and maintain a Windows Server 2012 infrastructure, such as advanced networking services, Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS),