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Windows Server 2008 Administration: Hands-On

 
Course: 961     Type: Hands-On Training     Duration: 4 Days

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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
Windows Server 2008 Administration
  • Developing an effective administrative strategy
  • Tools, techniques and best practices
Building Blocks of Server Management
Implementing role-based server administration
  • Analyzing available server roles
  • Remotely configuring features to maximize functionality
Leveraging fundamental tools and components
  • Controlling resources with Server Manager
  • Performing common administrative tasks with PowerShell
  • Microsoft System Center
Securing Windows Server 2008
Hardening your server
  • Reducing the attack surface
  • Baselining your server with Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA)
Implementing Group Policies for security
  • 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
Tracking internal access
  • Achieving your security goals with selective auditing
  • Centralizing the audit management process
Reducing vulnerabilities with Server Core
  • Managing Server Core from the command line
  • Minimizing exploitable components
Patch Management Implementation
Developing a strategy for patch management
  • Addressing the challenges of managing patches
  • Taking inventory and documenting the existing environment
  • Deploying service packs and hot fixes
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
  • Managing the WSUS catalog
  • Configuring WSUS components
  • Preparing the workstations with Group Policy
  • Authorizing and distributing patches to clients
Maintaining a High-Availability Environment
Building fault-tolerant servers
  • Maximizing resource utilization with Hyper-V
  • Enabling failover clustering to ensure business continuity
  • Analyzing cluster models for optimal architectures
Replicating with the Distributed File System (DFS)
  • Transferring data with the DFS Replication (DFSR) service
  • Optimizing and troubleshooting replication
Virtualizing servers to extend uptime
  • Selecting the appropriate virtualization model
  • Best practices for architecting your virtual environment
Disaster recovery methods and tools
  • Repairing the server with imaging technologies
  • Full server backup with scripts and scheduled tasks
Maximizing Performance and Increasing Responsiveness
Diagnosing system performance problems
  • Monitoring applications and processes with Reliability and Performance Monitor
  • Identifying the essential system counters
  • Optimizing servers with Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM)
Tuning network components
  • Locating and solving bottlenecks
  • Analyzing traffic with a network monitor
Troubleshooting Windows Server 2008
Resolving issues with diagnostic tools
  • Shutdown Event Tracker
  • Event Viewer subscriptions
  • BCDEDIT
  • Netdiag
Repairing the Registry
  • Rooting out Registry problems
  • Backing up and restoring the Registry
Coping with driver failures
  • Backing up and restoring drivers
  • Revealing and uninstalling phantom devices
  • Demystifying and recovering from common failures
Solving boot configuration problems
  • Identifying critical boot components
  • Fixing partition tables and the boot configuration data store

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Windows Server 2008 Administration: Hands-On
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Sep 16 - 19, 2008
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Windows Server 2008 Administration: Hands-On
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Course Tuition
$ 2,650 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,580 10-Day Pass
$ 1,665 Training Passport
$ 1,830 Flex-Pass
$ 2,095 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,385 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,360 Government Discount
 

 

Windows Server 2008 Administration: Hands-On
Windows Server 2008 Administration: Hands-On
Participants hardening the server with built-in security tools.


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