Microsoft 70-741 – Networking with Windows Server 2016

Identify the three components to connect a system to a network—the network interface card, the TCP/IP protocol, and network clients—and how Ethernet or Wi‑Fi enable connectivity and resource sharing.

Learn how the default gateway enables off-subnet communication by routing packets to a router on the local subnet, and why gateway presence and accuracy matter.

Apply an IP addressing scheme to IPv4 hosts and assign valid addresses for each network segment using Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 tools.

Explore configuring IPv4 in Windows Server 2016 using GUI options and PowerShell, including static IP setup, DNS settings, and advanced IPv4 properties.

Explore how routers learn routes via dynamic protocols and configure static routes in Windows Server 2016 using route add, network ID and mask, gateway, and PowerShell net route.

Execute a structured IPv4 troubleshooting methodology to diagnose connectivity issues by identifying affected systems and scope, then determine what is not working and narrow the cause with targeted questions.

Learn to troubleshoot Windows Server 2016 with Windows PowerShell, using commands like Get-NetAdapter, Get-NetIPInterface, Test-Connection, Test-NetConnection, and Resolve-DnsName in hands-on demos.

Explain IPv4 limitations and how IPv6 addresses address space. Learn to implement IPv6 for network hosts on Windows Server 2016.

Identify how ipv6 provides public addresses and reduces nat dependence for direct internet access. Recognize hierarchical routing, built-in ipsec security, and improved quality of service.

This lecture compares IPv4 and IPv6, highlighting how IPv6 replaces broadcast with multicast, uses neighbor solicitation and router solicitation/advertisement, and updates DNS records and address space.

Explore IPv6 address types, focusing on unicast addresses for global, unique local, and link local scopes, while noting that multicast and anycast are auto-assigned; learn transitional technologies for IPv4–IPv6 coexistence.

Examine IPv6 auto configuration, including stateless configuration driven by router advertisements with the subnet prefix and default gateway, plus stateful DHCPv6 use and address states from tentative to invalid.

Configure IPv6 by manual addresses, stateful autoconfiguration with a DHCPv6 server, or stateless autoconfiguration from router advertisements; link-local addresses auto-configure, with global or unique local unicast addresses.

Explains how Windows Server 2016 supports IPv4 and IPv6 in a single protocol stack, enabling easier migration and dynamic DNS coexistence with A, AAAA, and PTR records.

Learn how Teredo tunnels IPv6 over IPv4 to provide connectivity behind NAT, using a Teredo server to coordinate two clients and allow direct communication after the initial connection.

Learn a multi-step plan to migrate from ipv4 to native ipv6, enabling extended coexistence by upgrading applications, routing, devices, dns infrastructure, and hosts to support ipv6.

Explore the DHCP server role, its core functionality, and the lease generation and renewal process, with a focus on how these concepts apply to Windows Server 2016.

Automates DHCP address assignment on local networks, reducing errors and ensuring clients receive accurate configuration information as they move between networks.

Learn the DHCP lease generation process from client discovery to acknowledgment, including broadcasts, MAC addressing, server offers, requests, and lease duration with gateways and DNS options.

Transition from overview to deploying dhcp on Windows Server 2016, outlining the components and processes involved. Learn practical steps to deploy dhcp within the Windows Server 2016 environment.

Create and manage DHCP scopes to define address ranges, including start and end addresses and a subnet mask; use exclusions and reservations with optional DCP options via console or PowerShell.

Enable, which is enabled by default, and monitor DHCP auditing to detect unauthorized IP assignments and rogue servers, and regularly review daily audit logs that are overwritten every seven days.

Configure dhcp security and auditing by enabling audit logging, dynamic dns updates, and mac filtering with allow lists; then monitor lease activity via audit logs and PowerShell.

Explore how Windows Server 2016 DHCP uses user and vendor classes and policy-based assignments to allocate IP addresses and options, with examples and configuration via management console or PowerShell.

Explore super scopes that group multiple scopes for administration, enabling multi netting, gradual migration to new subnets, and multicast scopes with madcap addressing for imaging.

Diagnose and resolve dhcp issues quickly by identifying address conflicts, such as duplicate leases, overlapping scopes, or incorrect exclusions, and use conflict detection to verify addresses before allocation.

Explore hostnames and netbios names in windows, where the hostname equals the computer name up to 255 chars and forms an fqdn with the domain, while netbios is deprecated.

Explore how internet name resolution uses a dns client resolver to perform a recursive query, then iterative udp queries to root and dot com name servers to return ip address.

Demonstrates installing the DNS server role on Windows Server 2016, using server manager and PowerShell, and verifying DNS configuration on a domain controller and remote FS1.

Learn how DNS resource records identify hosts and services, including A and AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, and SRV records, and how dynamic updates register and update records in domains.

Explore forward and reverse lookup zones, and compare primary, secondary, stub, and Active Directory integrated zones, including zone transfers and conditional forwarding in Windows environments.

Configure and optimize zone replication across master and secondary servers using full, incremental, and fast zone transfers, SOA settings, and DNS notify to keep zones synchronized.

Create and configure dns zones on Windows Server, including primary, secondary, and stub zones with dynamic updates, zone transfers, and conditional forwarders.

Explain dns name resolution flow from a client query to the local dns server, through dot com servers, to the abc dot com authoritative server, and back with cached results.

Configure and troubleshoot DNS caching on clients and servers, view and clear cache entries, and manage forwarders, including standard and conditional forwarders.

Discover how DNS zone information enhances active directory integration in a Windows environment. Follow the steps to configure it and learn the resulting benefits.

Active directory domain services centralizes authentication and management, enabling single sign-on and group policy. DNS integration uses SRV records and AD-stored DNS data for secure, reliable name resolution.

Explore advanced DNS settings, including high availability, load balancing, and security. Discuss the scenarios in which organizations would utilize these features.

Configure the global names zone to enable single-label resolution across domains. Learn to add records, enable global names, and create an Active Directory integrated primary zone.

Identify client groups and zone records, define subnets to tailor DNS policies, and use recursion scopes and zone scopes to deliver different records per client.

Discover how to troubleshoot DNS in Windows Server 2016 using the DNS management console, aging and scavenging, logging, PowerShell commands, DNS CMD, DNS Lookup, and ipconfig to verify records.

Learn to use Windows command line tools like ipconfig, display DNS, flush DNS, and register DNS to manage the local DNS cache and records.

Discover DNS services management, including delegating administrative control, reviewing logs, enabling debug logging, configuring aging and scavenging, and backing up DNS databases via system state backups or DNS CMD.

Troubleshoot DNS issues from improper server or zone configurations and missing resource records, using look up, DNS server diagnostics, recursive queries, and audit logging.

Configure and troubleshoot DNS on Windows Server 2016, covering DNS zones, resource records, Active Directory integration, security features, and advanced settings such as socket pool and cache locking.

Review chapter 03 concepts for Microsoft 70-741 networking with Windows Server 2016, reinforcing core networking fundamentals and exam-ready topics.

Explore IP address management (IPAM) for discovering, auditing, and allocating addresses across large networks, with four modules: discovery, address space management, multi-server management, and operational auditing.

Explore IPAM benefits for managing large IPv6 address spaces and subnets, including space planning, allocation, utilization, and DHCP/DNS records management.

Explore the new Windows Server 2016 IPAM features, including enhanced IP address management, DNS and DHCP integration, zone and record management, forest-wide scalability, and Windows PowerShell-based RBAC for IPAM objects.

Design ipam deployments by considering forest trust, discovery scopes, and distributed or hybrid models, including central management server options and IP address utilization.

IPAM administration uses role-based access control to manage EPAM across multiple domains, covering eight built-in administrator roles and custom roles, access scopes, and access policies in the management console.

Explore administering IP address management with role-based access control, creating custom roles and scopes, and applying access policies to manage DNS and server operations.

Manage DNS and DHCP servers centrally with EPAM IPAM, creating zones, resource records, conditional forwarders, and scopes, and configure Active Directory integration and failover options.

The EPAM feature manages IP address space with tracking, utilization, auditing, and reporting; it discovers spaces, imports CSV data, detects overlaps, finds ranges, and creates DHCP reservations and DNS records.

EPAM automatically registers IP address ranges by scope for managed servers; manually add or import ranges outside scopes or on non Microsoft DHP servers using a CSV with required fields.

Demonstrates how IP address management (IPAM) handles your DNS and DHCP servers and address space, including creating and importing IP blocks, monitoring utilization, and generating reports for large networks.

Explore IPAM in Windows Server 2016, covering its management of address space, DNS and DHCP servers, deployment prerequisites and provisioning, and note its suitability for large networks.

Define remote access as connecting from a remote location to a corporate network, distinguishing remote node from remote control, with remote node for general access and remote desktop for administration.

Configure remote access using the wizard-based console to set up direct access, VPN, or web application proxy, then monitor with the dashboard, operation status, remote client status, and reporting.

Centralize authentication, authorization, and accounting for remote access with the network policy and access services, using the radius server and radius proxy.

Explore how a public key infrastructure strengthens remote access authentication with digital certificates issued by trusted certificate authorities, including templates, Active Directory Certificate Services, and VPN trust.

Compare ETFs preauthorization with AD FS and pass-through pre authentication via the web application proxy. ETFs enables workplace join, single sign-on, multifactor authentication, and authorization claim rules to control access.

Explore the four tunneling protocols in Windows Server 2016, including PPTP, L2TP/IPsec, SSTP, and IKEv2. Learn encapsulation, encryption options, port requirements, and firewall considerations for secure, compatible VPN deployment.

Automatically reestablishes vpn connections when connectivity returns on windows server 2016, delivering seamless, transparent connectivity within a 60-minute default window for the icv to protocol.

Learn about Direct Access in Windows Server 2016 as a VPN alternative that enables flexible remote connectivity for users and admins, creating secure behind-the-scenes tunnels to the corporate network.

Join an active directory domain, avoid domain controller deployment, and ensure at least one network adapter with a one- or two-adapter topology behind a Windows firewall enabled for all profiles.

Explore tunneling protocol options for direct access in Windows Server 2016, including ISATAP for intranets, six to four for public addresses, and IPv6 packets tunneled inside SSL via IP HTTPS.

Explain how external DirectAccess clients use the name resolution policy table to route internal DNS and domain authentication through an IPsec infrastructure tunnel to the DirectAccess server, with split tunneling.

The getting started wizard configures direct access server and client settings, defines roles, and sets IPv6 prefixes and Kerberos authentication for trusted connections.

Establish high availability by adding redundancy for direct access and web servers, using network load balancing or hardware load balancers, with identical configurations to avoid single points of failure.

Configure a public key infrastructure for direct access by deploying an internal certificate authority, creating customized templates, publishing the CRL, and distributing client certificates for IP encryption.

Configure client certificates for IP authentication via a gpo linked to direct access computer accounts, monitor issuance, and enable a one-time password with a one-time password request signing certificate template.

Configure internal network topologies for direct access with edge or perimeter deployment, dual network adapters, plan IPv6/IPv4 addressing, including two consecutive public IPv4 addresses for Tirado tunneling and firewall ports.

Compare leased lines and internet-based vpn links for branch connectivity, balancing bandwidth, latency, and reliability, while using quality of service and the remote access role for secure connections.

Install a read-only domain controller in a branch office using the promotion wizard, then configure password replication, read-only dns, and a read-only global catalog for cached passwords.

Remote desktop services on Windows Server 2016 enable access to remote desktops or applications via a session host, supporting Hyper-V based VDI and session virtualization with centralized app delivery.

Branch office direct printing uses Windows Server 2016 as a print server to send jobs directly to nearby printers, reducing traffic and enabling centralized driver management and offline printing.

Compare domain-based and standalone distributed file system namespaces, showing how domain-based offers high availability and access-based enumeration, while standalone lacks built-in high availability and can use a failover cluster.

Discover how DFS replication keeps folders synchronized across servers using remote differential compression and cross-file remote differential compression, with a staging folder and version vector exchange to resolve conflicts.

Explore how to configure DFS replication by adding multiple folder targets across servers, creating a replication group, and setting topology, schedule, and bandwidth throttling for reliable access.

Scale branch cache in Windows Server 2016 by supporting hosted cache servers in location, using the extensible storage engine and a single gpu to enable host and distributed mode switching.

Explore BranchCache modes based on server presence: hosted cache centralizes the cache on a server for high availability, while distributed cache stores the cache on clients for small offices.

Learn how data retrieval uses branch cache to authorize access and fetch files by using hashes, local or host caches, and multicast or host cache servers, reducing network usage.

Explore NIC teaming in Windows Server 2016 to combine multiple network adapters into a single virtual interface, boosting redundancy and aggregated bandwidth for host and virtual machines.

Demonstrates configuring NIC teaming in Windows Server 2016 to increase throughput and provide failover, with nicknaming, VLANs, dynamic/static IPs, and options for active or standby adapters.

Adds AES-GCM encryption and SHA-512 pre-auth integrity to SMB 3.1.1, enabling secure, high-performance communication; supports VM data on SMB 3.0+ shares and requires Windows Server 2012+ with 1 Gbps.

Explore virtual switch improvements in Windows Server 2016, including external, internal, and private switch types, extended port ACLs, load balancing, coexistence with non-Microsoft extensions, network function virtualization, and Network Controller.

Explore the extensible Hyper-V switch that connects virtual machines to the physical network, enabling vendor extensions, standard filtering APIs, and policy-driven management for secure, traceable networking.

Learn advanced network adapter features in Windows Server 2016, including software defined networking, VM switches via System Center or the VM switch command, NIC teaming, and NFV enhancements.

Explore software-defined networking and learn how it bypasses physical device limitations to enable dynamic, centralized network management.

Software defined networking addresses finite resources, bottlenecks, and security risks by shifting traffic to cloud-based infrastructure. It abstracts hardware into software, enabling flexible, scalable, on-demand growth.

Discover how network virtualization creates multiple logically isolated virtual networks on a physical infrastructure, enabling software defined networking and using two addresses per VM to separate logical from physical topology.