Upgrading Windows Server 2003 Skills to Windows Server 2008

HH9408 : 5 Day Instructor-Led Course

Learn in the real world: update your skills to Microsoft Server 2008. Includes Microsoft Curriculum 6416 and 6417.

Audience

This course is intended for IT Professional experienced on the technologies included in Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003, and who hold and MCSE or MCSA certificate and/or equivalent knowledge.

Prerequisites:

Course Outline:

Module 1: Introduction to Interface TT 

Module 2: Documentation and Standards

  • Documentation and Project Management
    • MSF
    • MOF
    • ITIL
    • In-house (Home Grown)
  • Requirements document
    • Business requirements
    • Identifying business requirements
  • Functional Requirements
    • Business requirements
    • Functional
    • Use-Case
  • Identifying addition requirements/constraints
    • Service Level Agreements
    • Project Constraints
    • Rick Analysis
    • Technology requirements
    • IT requirements
    • Security requirements
    • User requirements
  • Analyzing current environment
    • Physical Network
    • Name resolution
    • AD infrastructure
    • Application infrastructure
    • System usage
    • Models and processes
    • Change Control
  • Formal requirements documents
  • Project tools
  • Project Planning
  • Lab

Module 3: Installing and Configuring Server 2008

  • Installing Windows Server 2008
  • Managing Server Roles and Features
  • Overview of the Server Core Installation Option
  • Overview of Windows Deployment Services
  • Lab: Installing and Configuring Servers and Server Roles

Module 4: Networking Server 2008

  • Networking in 2008
  • New Network Features
  • DNS and 2008
  • DHCP
  • Lab A: Configuring Server 2008 DHCP and DNS

Module 5: Active Directory Domain Services

  • Active Directory Improvements – What’s new
  • Active Directory Federation Services
  • Active Directory Lightweight Services
  • Active Directory Rights Management
  • Active Directory Certificate Services
  • Promoting a Server Core to a Domain Controller
  • Read Only Domain Controller (RODC) 
  • Planning AD DS Deployments
  • Lab: Deploying Active Directory Domain Services

Module 6: Maintaining Active Directory

  • Auditing
  • Backup
  • Lab: Auditing, Backup and Restoring Active Directory Domain Services

Module 7: Configuring Network Access

  • Network Access Policies (NAP)
  • Routing and Remote Access Services
  • Lab: Installing and configuring Network Access

Module 8: Terminal Services

  • Installation and configuration
  • Device Redirection
  • Remote Experience Improvements
  • TS Gateway
  • Lab: Installing and configuring Terminal Services

Module 9: IIS 7.0

  • Overview of Technical Differences
  • Configuration Concepts
  • IIS 7.0 Administrative Interface
  • Controlling Delegation
  • IIS 7.0 Configuration File Schema
  • Lab: Deploying IIS 7.0

Module 10: Upgrading and Migrating from Server 2000 and Server 2003

  • Overview of Upgrade Process
  • Preparing the Forest schema
  • Preparing the Domain Partition
  • ADMT
  • Lab: Migrating Server 2003 Active Directory to Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services

Module 11: Network Load Balancing

  • Overview of Network Load Balancing
  • Configuring Network Load Balancing
  • Lab: Configuring a Network Load Balanced Web Farm

Module 12: Failover Clustering

  • Overview of Failover Clustering
  • Configuring Failover Clustering
  • Lab: Configuring a High Available Data Source