
Explore Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 core features, virtualization, and cloud-focused upgrades, and learn the on-premise to cloud service models from IaaS to SaaS.
Explore how Windows Server 2012 installation uses Windows imaging format to lay down a complete image from install.wim, comparing core and GUI editions.
Compare installation options for Windows Server 2012, booting from ISO, USB, or over the network. Automate deployments with Windows Deployment Services, Configuration Manager, task sequences, and VM templates.
Learn how to add and remove roles and features on Windows Server 2012 using server manager and PowerShell, including remote management, what-if testing, and features on demand.
Explore inplace upgrades and migrations to Windows Server 2012, including 64-bit requirements and edition compatibility. Evaluate server core versus GUI and cluster upgrade rules.
Master PowerShell basics for Windows Server management, using verb-noun commands, modules, and built-in help. Learn manual module loading, auto-load in v3, and navigating PS drives and environment variables.
Explore the PowerShell integrated scripting environment for writing, running, and debugging scripts with Intellisense, run selection, dot slash execution, and command discovery.
Create a PowerShell DSC script to configure design state across multiple servers using node blocks, resource blocks and providers like Windows feature and file, with IntelliSense in the ISE.
Apply a MOF from a source folder to a target host with DSC, monitor drift via the local configuration manager, and auto correct in push or pull modes.
Explore tcp/ip fundamentals as the de facto networking standard, covering ipv4 and ipv6, tcp and udp transport, and applications like http, ftp, smtp, and dns.
Explains how to troubleshoot tcp/ip connectivity using ipconfig, ping, tracert, route print, and netstat, and shows dns caching, dhcp renew, and testing with network monitor and telnet.
Install the DHCP server on Windows Server 2012, configure a static IP address, and authorize the server in Active Directory to prevent rogue DHCP.
Configure the DHCP server to assign IPs by creating scopes, managing exclusions, and applying server and scope options. Reserve addresses, monitor leases, and enable DNS integration for reliable name resolution.
Learn how dns resource records map host names to ip addresses within a zone, including a, ptr, alias records, and service records; test with nslookup.
Analyze client-side name resolution with DNS, flush caches, and observe server lookups, including IPv6 AAAA records. Use Server Manager and the best practice analyzer to troubleshoot DNS health.
Explore storage spaces in Windows Server 2012 to create thin provisioned mirrored or parity virtual disks from multiple disks, enabling direct attach storage management with PowerShell.
Explore Windows Server 2012 block-level data deduplication, reducing file server storage. Consolidate duplicates into a single instance store and configure runs, exclusions, and monitoring with PowerShell.
Explore Windows Server 2012 file server features, including storage pools, thin provisioning, parity and three-way mirroring, data deduplication, and SMB 3 with NFS and SCSI targets.
Enable and manage Windows Server print services by centralizing printers, drivers, and permissions, using the print management console, Active Directory, and Group Policy.
Create a clustered storage space using an external disk enclosure in a two-node Windows server environment, configure MPIO, and implement mirroring with storage tiers and cluster shared volumes.
Explore how work folders in Windows Server 2012 R2 let non-corporate devices access and sync a single enterprise folder offline, with SSL encryption and on-device policies.
Explore domain controller types, including normal and read-only options. Learn how multi-master replication with LVR updates only changed attributes and the five single master roles govern domain operations.
Explore Active Directory management tools—create users and computers, manage attributes and delegation of authority, organize organizational units, and configure sites, replication, and global catalogs.
Organizational units are core Active Directory blocks that contain objects, enable delegated authority through groups, and allow targeted Group Policy application to the OU.
Learn to manage users, groups, and computers in Active Directory using the users and computers tool, including containers, groups types, roaming profiles, and offline domain join with Djoin.
Deploy a read-write domain controller in Windows Azure with a virtual network; establish site-to-site connectivity, promote DC, enable global catalog, and treat Azure as an extension of your data center.
Explore how group policy centralizes configuration across domain machines and users through GPOs, local security policy, and auditing, stored in Active Directory and Sysvol with matching version numbers.
Discover how to create and link group policy objects across domain, OU, and site, manage enforced settings, block inheritance, no override, and understand policy precedence and filtering.
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