2282: Designing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure

Course Specifications

Course Length:  5 days

Location: Entre Technology Services, LLC  1501 N. 14th St. West, Suite 1511

Registration: Call your Account Manager at 406.256.5700 or use our Registration Forms

Introduction

This five-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to design an Active Directory® directory service and network infrastructure for a Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 environment. The course is intended for systems engineers who are responsible for designing directory service and/or network infrastructures.

Audience

This course is intended for individuals who are employed as or seeking employment as a systems engineer in a Windows Server 2003-based environment.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Describe the process of designing an Active Directory infrastructure and a network infrastructure that supports Active Directory.
Design a forest and domain infrastructure that meets the needs of an organization.
Design a site infrastructure that meets the needs of an organization.
Design a Group Policy structure that meets the needs of an organization.
Design an administrative structure that meets the needs of an organization.
Design a physical network structure that supports Active Directory and meets the needs of an organization.
Create a design for network connectivity that supports Active Directory and meets the needs of an organization.
Design a name resolution strategy that supports Active Directory and meets the needs of an organization.
Design a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) structure that supports Active Directory and meets the needs of an organization.
Design a network access infrastructure that supports Active Directory and meets the needs of an organization.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have met at least one of the following prerequisites:

Course 2273: Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment or equivalent knowledge and skills.

Course 2277: Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure: Network Services, or have equivalent knowledge and skills.

Course 2278: Planning and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure, or have the equivalent knowledge and skills.

Course 2279: Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure.

Microsoft Certified Professional Exams

This workshop will help students prepare for these Microsoft Certified Professional exams:

Exam 70-297: Designing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to Designing an Active Directory and Network Infrastructure

Describe the role of Active Directory in an organization.
Describe the role of design in the Active Directory life cycle.
Describe the role of a network infrastructure and the elements crucial to the successful interaction between network components and Active Directory
Describe the network life cycle and how design tasks fit into that life cycle.
Describe basic design principles.

Module 2: Designing a Forest and Domain Infrastructure

Determine the information needed to design a forest and domain infrastructure.
Create a conceptual forest design.
Create a conceptual domain design.
Establish a Domain Name System (DNS) namespace strategy for the forests and domains.
Establish a trust strategy for the forests.
Determine a migration path for the existing infrastructure.
Design a schema management policy.

Module 3: Designing a Site Infrastructure

Determine the information needed to design a site infrastructure.
Create a site design.
Modify the site design for replication.
Determine the placement of domain controllers in the site design.
Determine the placement of Global Catalog servers in the site design.
Determine the placement of Single Operations Masters in the site design.

Module 4: Designing for Group Policy

Gather Group Policy requirements.
Design a Group Policy structure.
Create an organizational unit structure for Group Policy.
Create a Group Policy management design.

Module 5: Designing the Administrative Structure

Determine the information needed to design an administrative structure.
Design a network administration model.
Design an organizational unit structure.
Design an account strategy.

Module 6: Designing the Physical Network

Gather data about a physical network.
Design a connectivity infrastructure.
Design a connectivity infrastructure for Active Directory communications.
Evaluate connection types.
Design a change management structure for networking.

Module 7: Designing for Network Connectivity

Determine the information needed to design for network connectivity.
Design an IP addressing scheme.
Design a security strategy for connectivity.
Create an extranet design.
Create an intranet design.
Design a DHCP infrastructure.
Design a DHCP scope strategy.

Module 8: Designing a Name Resolution Strategy

Determine the information needed to design a name resolution strategy.
Design a strategy for interoperability with Active Directory, Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND), WINS, and DHCP.
Design a WINS replication strategy.
Design a name resolution strategy for clients.

Module 9: Designing the Network Access Infrastructure

Gather data for network access design.
Design network access security.
Choose remote access methods.
Design a remote access infrastructure.
Design a wireless access infrastructure