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Windows Server 2008 Administration: Hands-On
Course: 961
Type: Hands-On Training
Duration: 4 Days
You Will Learn How To
- Maintain, troubleshoot and secure Windows Server 2008
- Implement key security components to protect your server
- Develop and deploy a patch management strategy
- Leverage built-in components to create a highly available infrastructure
- Optimize and tune system performance for greater responsiveness
- Recover from system failures with troubleshooting tools and techniques
Course Benefits Organizations are facing a multitude of administrative challenges to their infrastructure. Windows Server 2008 provides administrators with powerful and flexible tools to overcome these challenges and manage complex server environments. In this course, you gain the practical experience to administer, troubleshoot and secure a Windows Server 2008 environment.Who Should Attend Those developing an administrative strategy within a Windows Server 2008 environment. Experience with Windows Server and the Active Directory at the level of Course 960, "Windows Server 2008 Comprehensive Introduction," or Course 595, "Windows Server 2003 Comprehensive Introduction," is assumed.Hands-On Training Practical exercises provide experience administering Windows Server 2008. Exercises include:
- Managing remotely with PowerShell and Server Manager
- Creating baselines with MBSA
- Reducing the attack surface with Server Core
- Automating deployment of patches through WSUS
- Creating a fault-tolerant environment with clusters, DFS and Hyper-V
- Troubleshooting a slow system
- Recovering from driver failures
- Solving boot configuration problems
Course 961 Content
- Developing an effective administrative strategy
- Tools, techniques and best practices
- Analyzing available server roles
- Remotely configuring features to maximize functionality
- Controlling resources with Server Manager
- Performing common administrative tasks with PowerShell
- Microsoft System Center
- Reducing the attack surface
- Baselining your server with Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA)
- Generating custom templates with Security Configuration Wizard (SCW)
- Creating effective security policies
- Building security templates with the Security Configuration and Analysis tool
- Integrating local and AD policies
- Achieving your security goals with selective auditing
- Centralizing the audit management process
- Managing Server Core from the command line
- Minimizing exploitable components
- Addressing the challenges of managing patches
- Taking inventory and documenting the existing environment
- Deploying service packs and hot fixes
- Managing the WSUS catalog
- Configuring WSUS components
- Preparing the workstations with Group Policy
- Authorizing and distributing patches to clients
- Maximizing resource utilization with Hyper-V
- Enabling failover clustering to ensure business continuity
- Analyzing cluster models for optimal architectures
- Transferring data with the DFS Replication (DFSR) service
- Optimizing and troubleshooting replication
- Selecting the appropriate virtualization model
- Best practices for architecting your virtual environment
- Repairing the server with imaging technologies
- Full server backup with scripts and scheduled tasks
- Monitoring applications and processes with Reliability and Performance Monitor
- Identifying the essential system counters
- Optimizing servers with Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM)
- Locating and solving bottlenecks
- Monitoring server network activity
- Shutdown Event Tracker
- BCDEDIT
- Rooting out Registry problems
- Backing up and restoring the Registry
- Backing up and restoring drivers
- Revealing and uninstalling phantom devices
- Demystifying and recovering from common failures
- Identifying critical boot components
- Fixing partition tables and the boot configuration data store
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