Windows Server 2016 Active Directory DNS DHCP File Server

Explore Windows Server 2016 licensing, a core-based model with a minimum of 16 cores per server, and edition differences that unlock virtualization rights and essential features.

Learn to perform a Windows Server 2016 installation in a two-server lab, configure static IP and DNS, enable remote desktop, and set up Active Directory DNS and file server roles.

Explore Active Directory fundamentals, including domain creation, domain controllers and DNS, group policy, trust relationships, forests and trees, and replication for redundancy and quick authentication.

Demonstrates installing Active Directory domain services on Windows Server 2016, configuring DNS, and promoting the first domain controller, with domain name, forest, and functional level setup.

Perform the initial Active Directory configuration by organizing objects into organizational units, and creating users, groups, and computers, then grant permissions at the group level via GPOs.

Demonstrates active directory initial configuration tasks by creating organizational units, users, and groups, assigning memberships, and configuring user accounts in Active Directory Users and Computers and Active Directory Administrative Center.

Learn how to join a computer to an active directory domain, apply group policy objects, and join a file server to set permissions for AD users and groups.

Join a Windows 10 computer to an Active Directory domain, configure static IP and DNS, then log on with domain credentials and manage computer in Active Directory Users and Computers.

Explore how Active Directory GPO distributes computer and user settings to targets such as computers and servers, distinguishing computer configuration from user configuration and their application to client devices.

Learn to create and configure a GPO in an Active Directory domain, link it to an OU, and apply computer and user policies such as wallpaper and proxy.

Explain how the domain name system translates hostnames to IP addresses and enables cross-network name resolution via root, ISP, Microsoft, and internal DNS servers, including domain controllers.

Configure a two-server dns lab by enabling automatic host registration, setting the primary dns suffix, and forwarding internet names to root or public dns servers.

Install the DHCP role on Windows Server 2016, authorize it in Active Directory, create a scope, and configure options such as IP range, subnet mask, lease duration, gateway, and DNS.

demonstrates installing and configuring the DHCP server role on Windows Server 2016, creating an IPv4 scope, defining an IP range, exclusions, and scope options, with client devices obtaining addresses automatically.

Configure a Windows Server 2016 file server by managing NTFS and shared folder permissions, combining them to determine effective permissions for users and groups.

Demonstrates configuring a Windows Server 2016 file server, creating shares and NTFS permissions, and mapping network drives with Group Policy, then testing access for Active Directory groups across departments.

Configure home folders on the file server and map them to users, then copy a user to create new accounts with predefined attributes in Active Directory.