I. General Information

1. Course Title:
Windows Server Administration III

2. Course Prefix & Number:
COMP 2152

3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:

Credits: 5

Lecture Hours: 5

4. Course Description:

This course is one of a series of Server System Administration and Engineering courses that help prepare students for the skills and knowledge necessary to implement a Server Infrastructure into an existing enterprise environment. This course focuses and prepares a student on real skills for real jobs and prepares students to prove mastery of Advanced Server Services such as advanced configuring tasks necessary to deploy, manage, and maintain a Server infrastructure. It covers such skills as fault tolerance, certificate services, and identity federation. In addition, this course also covers such valuable skills as Implementing Advanced Network Services, Implementing Advanced File Services, Implementing Dynamic Access Control, Implementing Network Load Balancing, Implementing Failover Clustering, Implementing Disaster Recovery, Implementing Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS), Implementing Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS). Career Preparation: The studies in this course will help students prepare for careers in Networking such as Network Administrator, Network Engineer, Systems Analyst, LAN Administrator, WAN Administrator, and Systems Engineer.

5. Placement Tests Required:

Accuplacer (specify test):

No placement tests required

Score:

6. Prerequisite Courses:

9. Co-requisite Courses:

There are no corequisites for this course.

II. Transfer and Articulation

3. Prior Learning - the following prior learning methods are acceptable for this course:

• Written
• Oral
• Demonstration
• Portfolio

III. Course Purpose

1. Program-Applicable Courses – This course is required for the following program(s):

Computer Network Administration, AAS Degree  

IV. Learning Outcomes

1. College-Wide Outcomes

College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies	Students will be able to:
Analyze and follow a sequence of operations	Deploy and Maintain a Windows Server.
Utilize appropriate technology	Manage a Windows Server.

2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of the course:

• Configure Network Load Balancing (NLB);
• Configure failover clustering;
• Manage failover clustering roles;
• Manage Virtual Machine (VM) movement;
• Configure advanced file services;
• Implement Dynamic Access Control (DAC);
• Configure and optimize storage;
• Configure and Manage backups;
• Recover servers;
• Configure site-level fault tolerance;
• Implement an advanced Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) solution;
• Configure advanced file services;
• Deploy and manage IPAM;
• Configure a domain and forest;
• Configure trusts;
• Configure sites;
• Manage Active Directory and SYSVOL replication;
• Implement Active Directory Federation Services;
• Install and configure Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS);
• Manage certificates;
• Install and configure Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS).

V. Topical Outline

Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.

1. Lecture Sessions

1. Understanding Fault Tolerance
2. Configuring Network Load Balancing
3. Configuring NLB Prerequisites
4. Installing NLB Nodes
5. Configuring Port Rules
6. Configuring Filtering Mode and Affinity
7. Configuring Cluster Operation Mode
8. Controlling Hosts in NLB
9. Upgrading an NLB Cluster
10. Understanding Failover Clustering
11. Installing and Configuring Failover Clustering
12. Configuring Quorum
13. Managing the Cluster
14. Implementing Cluster-Aware Updating
15. Upgrading a Cluster
16. Troubleshooting Problems with Failover Clusters
17. Backing Up and Restoring Failover Cluster Configuration
18. Managing Failover Clustering Roles
19. Configuring Roles
20. Configuring Role-Specific Settings
21. Configuring Failover and Preferences Settings
22. Configuring VM Monitoring
23. Performing Live Migration
24. Performing Quick Migration
25. Performing Storage Migration
26. Importing, Exporting, and Copying VMs
27. Migrating from Other Platforms
28. Configuring NFS Data Store
29. Obtaining User and Group Information
30. Creating an NFS Share
31. Installing and Configuring the NFS Data Store
32. Configuring BranchCache
33. Configuring File Classification Infrastructure
34. Configuring File Access Auditing
35. Using Dynamic Access Control
36. Configuring User and Device Claim Types
37. Configuring File Classification
38. Implementing a Central Access Policy
39. Implementing Policy Changes and Staging
40. Creating expression-based Audit Policies
41. Performing Access-Denied Remediation
42. Understanding Shared Storage
43. Using iSCSI
44. Configuring iSCSI Target
45. Configuring iSCSI Initiator
46. Configuring iSCSI for High Availability
47. Configuring Internet Storage Name Server
48. Implementing Thin Provisioning and Trim
49. Managing Server Free Space Using Features on Demand
50. Configuring and Managing Backups
51. Installing the Windows Server Backup Feature
52. Configuring Windows Server Backups
53. Configuring Windows Online Backups
54. Configuring Role-Specific Backups
55. Managing VSS Settings Using VSSAdmin
56. Creating System Restore Points
57. Preparing for Windows Server Restores
58. Restoring Files and Folders
59. Restoring Volumes
60. Restoring the System State
61. Performing a Bare Metal Restore
62. Recovering Servers Using WinRE and Safe Mode
63. Applying System Restore Snapshots
64. Configuring the Boot Configuration Data Store
65. Configuring Hyper-V Replica
66. Configuring Multi-Site Clustering
67. Configuring Multi-Site Storage and Network
68. Configuring Quorum and Failover Settings
69. Configuring Multi-Site Failure Cluster
70. Implementing Advanced DHCP Solutions
71. Understanding DHCP Basics
72. Creating and Configuring DHCP Policies
73. Creating and Configuring Superscopes
74. Creating and Configuring Multicast Scopes
75. Implementing DHCPv6 Scopes
76. Configuring High Availability for DHCP
77. Configuring DHCP Name Protection
78. Configuring Security for DNS
79. Configuring DNSSEC
80. Configuring DNS Socket Pool
81. Configuring Cache Logging
82. Configuring DNS Logging
83. Configuring Delegated Administration
84. Configuring Recursion
85. Configuring Netmask Ordering
86. Configuring a GlobalNames Zone
87. Configuring IPAM
88. Configuring an IPAM Server
89. Configuring Server Discovery
90. Creating and Managing IP Blocks and Ranges
91. Monitoring Utilization of IP Address Space
92. Migrating to IPAM
93. Delegating IPAM Administration
94. Managing IPAM Collections
95. Implementing Complex Active Directory Environments
96. Implementing Multi-Domain Active Directory Environments
97. Implementing Multi-Forest Active Directory Environments
98. Upgrading Existing Domains and Forests
99. Understanding Functional Levels
100. Upgrading Windows to Current Version Domain Controllers
101. Configuring Multiple UPN Suffixes
102. Configuring Trusts
• Understanding Trusts
• Trust Types
• Trust Direction
• Transitivity
• Configuring DNS for Trusts
103. Creating External Trusts
104. Creating Forest Trusts
105. Creating Shortcut Trusts
106. Creating Realm Trusts
107. Validating Trusts
108. Configuring Trust Authentication
• Selective Authentication
• Domain-Wide Authentication
• Forest-Wide Authentication
109. Configuring SID Filtering
110. Configuring Name Suffix Routing
111. Configuring Sites and Subnets
112. Configuring Sites
113. Configuring Subnets
114. Creating and Configuring Site Links
115. Managing Site Coverage
116. Managing Registration of SRV Records
117. Moving Domain Controllers between Sites
118. Managing Active Directory Replication
119. Understanding Intrasite Replication
120. Understanding Intersite Replication
121. Controlling Active Directory Replication
122. Configuring Read-Only Domain Controllers
123. Monitoring Replication
124. Upgrading SYSVOL Replication to Distributed File System Replication (DFSR)
125. Understanding Active Directory Federation Services
126. Implementing AD FS
127. Managing AD FS Certificates
128. Implementing Claims-Based Authentication
129. Implementing Relying Party Trusts
130. Configuring Claims Provider Trust Rules
131. Configuring Attribute Stores
132. Configure AD FS Proxy
133. Integrating with Cloud Services
134. Testing Active Directory Federation
135. Understanding the Active Directory Certificate Services
136. Installing an Enterprise Certificate Authority
137. Configuring AIA and CRL Distribution Points
138. Installing and Configuring Online Responder
139. Implementing Administrative Role Separation
140. Configuring CA Backup and Recovery
141. Managing Digital Certificates
142. Managing Certificate Templates
143. Implementing and Managing Certificate Deployment, Validation, and Revocation
144. Managing Certificate Renewal
145. Managing Certificate Enrollment and Renewal Using Group Policies
146. Configuring and Managing Key Archival and Recovery
147. Understanding Active Directory Rights Management
148. Understanding the Rights Management Processes
149. Installing a Licensing or Certificate AD RMS Server
150. Managing AD RMS Service Connection Point
151. Managing AD RMS Client Deployment
152. Managing Trusted User Domains
153. Managing Trusted Publishing Domains
154. Managing Federated Identity Support
155. Supporting Mobile Devices
156. Managing RMS Templates
157. Configuring Exclusion  Policies