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Unit 1: Introduction to Systems Administration
in Windows Server 2003
This unit explains how to perform systems administration tasks in
a Windows Server 2003 environment, and introduces the scenarios
and tools that will be used throughout the workshop.
Unit Objectives
After completing this unit, students will be able to:
- Identify the products in the Windows Server 2003 family.
- Describe the tools and resources available to perform tasks
throughout the workshop.
Unit 2: Managing Users, Computers, and Groups
This unit explains how to manage users, computers, and groups in
an Active Directory directory service environment, taking advantage
of the new capabilities available in Windows Server 2003.
Unit Objectives
After completing this unit, students will be able to:
- Create user accounts by using CSVDE.
- Create user accounts by using the dsadd command.
- Modify the properties of multiple accounts.
- Create computer accounts by using the dsadd command.
- Create groups by using the dsadd command.
- Add members to a group by using the dsmod command.
- Copy the properties from an existing account when creating a
new account.
- Find Active Directory objects.
- Move an Active Directory object by using the drag and drop technique
of management in Active Directory Users and Computers.
- Reset computer accounts.
- Describe the effect of resetting passwords in Windows Server
2003.
- Determine the effective permissions on an Active Directory object.
Unit 3: Using the GPMC to Manage Group Policy
This unit gives a hands-on, fast paced opportunity to experienced
users to orient themselves to Windows Server 2003 and learn how
to use the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) to manage Group
Policy.
Unit Objectives
After completing this unit, students will be able to:
- Implement Group Policy by using the GPMC.
- Manage GPOs by using the GPMC, which includes:
- Backing up a GPO.
- Copying a GPO.
- Importing a GPO.
- Use Group Policy Results to troubleshoot Group Policy-related
issues.
- Use Group Policy Modeling to experiment with possible Group
Policy configurations.
Unit 4: Managing Resources and Security
This unit explains how to use enhancements to the tools available
in Windows Server 2003 to manage resources and security by using
Windows Explorer, Group Policy management tools, and the Security
Configuration and Analysis tool.
Unit Objectives
After completing this unit, students will be able to:
- Determine the effective NTFS permissions for files and folders.
- Change the owner for an existing file or folder.
- Create custom security templates.
- Apply security templates by using Group Policy.
- Configure NTFS permissions by using security templates.
- Audit security settings by using Security Configuration and
Analysis.
Unit 5: Managing DNS
This unit gives a hands-on, fast paced opportunity to experienced
users to orient themselves to Windows Server 2003 and learn how
to configure and manage DNS.
Unit Objectives
After completing this unit, students will be able to:
- Install DNS by using the Manage Your Server tool.
- Create forward lookup zones.
- Create reverse lookup zones.
- Configure DNS conditional forwarding.
- Configure DNS zones, which includes:
- Configuring zone options.
- Configuring zones for secure dynamic update.
- Configuring Active Directory integrated zones.
- Create DNS stub zones.
Unit 6: Managing Servers
This unit explains how to manage servers remotely using secure best
practices.
Unit Objectives
After completing this unit, students will be able to:
- Create desktop shortcuts that run the Run as command.
- Connect to a remote server by using MMC snap-in tools.
- Connect to a remote server by using the Remote Desktop Connection
utility.
- Determine the best tool to use for remote administration in
specific situation.
- Configure client connection speed for the Remote Desktop Connection
utility.
- Configure auto reconnect for the Remote Desktop Connection utility.
Unit 7: Managing Terminal Services
This unit explains how to configure and manage Terminal Services
and take advantage of the new capabilities available with that service.
Unit Objectives
After completing this unit, students will be able to:
- Install Terminal Services.
- Install a Terminal Services Licensing server.
- Configure Terminal Services, which includes:
- Setting the level of encryption for terminal server user sessions.
- Controlling terminal server user connection access.
- Configuring time-out settings from remote connections.
- Monitoring remote desktop connection sessions.
- Manage user sessions by using Terminal Services Manager.
- Diagnose and resolve issues related to Terminal Services security.
Unit 8: Managing IIS 6.0 Web Services
This unit explores the new skills needed to manage and maintain
the IIS service on Windows Server 2003. This unit provides students
with hands-on experience in configuring and managing the IIS service,
and highlights the default state of the service when Windows Server
2003 is installed.
Unit Objectives
After completing this unit, students will be able to:
- Install IIS 6.0
- Configure authentication
- Install ASP.NET
- Allow ASP.NET in Web service extensions
- Manage ASP.NET configuration files
- Implement Web applications
- Implement application pooling
- Manage the IIS 6.0 metabase
- Manage an IIS server in a remote location
- Monitor and optimize IIS 6.0
Unit 9: Maintaining Software by Using Software Update Services
This unit explains how to use Software Update Services (SUS) to
perform patch management for a networked environment.
Unit Objectives
After completing this unit, students will be able to:
- Install and configure SUS on a server.
- Configure automatic updates.
- Use Group Policy to configure SUS clients.
- Manage a software update infrastructure.
- Back up and restore an SUS configuration.
- Test an SUS implementation.
Unit 10: Managing Disaster Recovery
This unit explains how to use the new capabilities available with
Windows Server 2003 to restore a system to a previous state. The
students will practice troubleshooting and repairing a system by
using features such as ASR and driver rollback in a lab environment
to restore a system to a predefined state.
Unit Objectives
After completing this unit, students will be able to:
- Use Automatic System Recovery (ASR) to back up and restore a
server.
- Restore data from shadow copies.
- Roll back to a previous version of a device driver.
- Configure security for backup operations.
- Troubleshoot problems associated with restoring data.
Unit 11: Planning a DNS Namespace Design
This unit shows students the new features of DNS in Windows Server
2003, focusing on planning issues such as improving fault tolerance
in DNS, ensuring DNS resolution across forests, planning for _MSDCS
zone availability and security to DNS servers in a forest, and creating
DNS zones securely and with the least administrative effort.
Unit Objectives
After completing this unit, students will be able to:
- Evaluate existing DNS infrastructure and determine where new
Windows Server 2003 features can improve name resolution.
- Determine when to use stub zones versus conditional forwarding.
- Ensure availability of the _MSDCS zone.
- Plan Active Directory partitions to replicate zone data when
needed.
- Evaluate DNS zone security.
Unit 12: Planning Active Directory Deployment
This unit shows students new features of Active Directory in Windows
Server 2003, focusing on planning issues.
Unit Objectives
After completing this unit, students will be able to:
- Evaluate the placement of global catalog servers.
- Plan optimal replication by exploiting replication enhancements
such as:
- Linked value replication (LVR).
- Partial attribute set (PAS) replication.
- Inter-Site Topology Generator (ISTG) improvements.
- Evaluate forest and domain functionality (versioning) levels.
Unit 13: Implementing DNS with Active Directory
This unit gives students a hands-on opportunity to experience new
features of Windows Server 2003 and learn how to use them to implement
Active Directory and DNS.
Unit Objectives
After completing this unit, students will be able to:
- Install Active Directory by using the advanced features of the
Active Directory Installation Wizard.
- Install and configure DNS.
- Implement a conditional forwarder.
- Create stub zones.
- Ensure high availability on the _MSDCS subdomain.
- Create a DNS forward lookup zone.
- Raise domain and forest functionality.
- Create a new application directory partition.
- Set the replication scope of a new application directory partition.
Unit 14: Troubleshooting TCP/IP, Name Resolution, and Group
Policy
This unit gives students a hands-on opportunity to experience new
features of Windows Server 2003 and learn how to use them to troubleshoot
TCP/IP, name resolution, and Group Policy.
Unit Objectives
After completing this unit, students will be able to:
- Diagnose and resolve issues related to DNS services.
- Troubleshoot Group Policy.
- Diagnose and resolve issues related to client computer configuration.
- Troubleshoot network connectivity issues.
Unit 15: Planning and Implementing Multiple Forests in Active
Directory
This unit asks students to plan and implement multiple forests in
Active Directory by using the model of adding a new organization
to an existing company. Students will implement cross-forest trust,
manage user authentication, identify possible security concerns,
and come to understand how to resolve naming conflicts between two
forests.
Unit Objectives
After completing this unit, students will be able to:
- Evaluate the need for security identifier (SID) filtering, selective
authentication, resolving naming conflicts, and routing name suffixes
in a multi-forest
- environment.
- Establish forest trusts.
Unit 16: Using Group Policy in Windows Server 2003 to Deploy
and Restrict Software
This unit gives students a hands-on opportunity to experience new
features of Windows Server 2003 pertaining to Group Policy and to
learn how they can use it to deploy and restrict software.
Unit Objectives
After completing this unit, students will be able to:
- List reasons for controlling a computer user’s environment.
- Create a software restriction policy.
- Deploy software so that an application is completely installed
at user logon.
- Use Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) filters to restrict
the application of Group Policy objects (GPOs).
Unit 17: Using Group Policy in Windows Server 2003 to Set Advanced
Security Settings
This unit gives students a hands-on opportunity to experience new
features of Windows Server 2003 and to learn how to use Group Policy
to implement advanced security settings.
Unit Objectives
After completing this unit, students will be able to:
- Configure wireless network settings.
- Configure a user environment.
- Apply Encrypting File System (EFS) enhancements.
Unit 18: Planning and Implementing Secure Routing and Remote
Access
This unit gives students a hands-on opportunity to experience new
features of Windows Server 2003 and to learn how to use them in
implementing Routing and Remote Access.
Unit Objectives
After completing this unit, students will be able to:
- Plan, implement, and maintain Routing and Remote Access.
- Create and implement an Internet Protocol (IP) Security (IPSec)
policy.
- Configure IPSec by using Netsh.
- Set up IPSec policy monitoring.
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