Description
This is the first course in a seven-part series intended for network support professionals working in a Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 based enterprise environment. The series aims to enable these professionals to pass Microsoft's certification examination 70-68. This series enables participants to design, implement, and support the Windows NT Server network operating system in a multidomain enterprise environment.
Audience
This series is intended for IT professionals who will be responsible for supporting Windows NT Server 4.0 in an enterprise environment. In addition, this series aims to enable these professionals to pass Microsoft's certification examination 70-068. Participants should have taken Networking Essentials 2nd Edition (courses 71441-71444) and Supporting Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Core Technologies (courses 71410-71413).
Prerequisites
(Currently no course prerequisite information)
Objective
- Implement Directory Services using Windows NT Server 4.0.
- Establish and manage trust relationships between domains.
- Select the most suitable Directory Services structure for a given business situation.
- Identify the issues involved in planning an effective Directory Services structure for an organization running Windows NT Server 4.0.
Topics Include
Unit 1: Implementing Windows NT Directory Services - Identify the advantages of Windows NT Directory Services.
- Identify the functions of different Windows NT components which provide enterprise-wide communication:
Domains
Trusts
- Identify the functions of a single user account.
- Sequence the steps involved in the process of accessing a resource from any domain.
- Identify the functions of the utilities used by a network administrator to manage any account on the network:
User Manager
Server Manager
- Identify the advantages of the tools used by a network administrator to ensure smooth network operation automatically:
Database Synchronization
Database Partitioning
- Identify the functions of DSMN.
- Identify the functions of BackOffice applications.
Unit 2: Establishing Trust Relationships - Identify the features of the types of trust relationships:
One-way trust relationship
Two-way trust relationship
- Identify the function of different types of domains:
Trusted domains
Trusting domains
- Identify the guidelines for implementing trust relationships.
- Identify the functions of accounts in trust relationships:
Local accounts
Global accounts
- Identify the guidelines for establishing group strategies across trusts.
- Assign the required access rights for users in a given local group.
- Identify the functions of the NetLogon service.
- Sequence the steps involved in the trusted domain logon process.
- Identify the requirements for establishing a trust between two domains.
- Implement a one-way Trust Relationship between two given domains.
- Implement a two-way Trust Relationship between two given domains.
- Identify the problems that can complicate trust functions.
Unit 3: Selecting a Directory Services Structure - Match the domain models in Windows NT Directory Services with their features:
Single domain model
Single master domain model
Multiple master domain model
Complete trust domain model
- Identify the factors that influence planning of a Directory Services domain structure.
- Identify the means through which a client computer can interact with a domain:
Windows NT-based computer
Non-Windows NT computer
- Identify the situation best suited for the single domain model.
- Identify the situation best suited for the master domain model.
- Identify the situation best suited for the multiple master domain model.
- Identify the situation best suited for the complete trust domain model.
- Identify the features of groups in a single master domain model:
Local groups
Global groups
- Sequence the steps involved in providing a user access to resources in another domain in a multiple master domain environment.
- Sequence the steps involved in implementing groups to perform backups in a master domain model.
Unit 4: Planning Directory Services Structure - Identify the guidelines for achieving efficient network operations in Windows NT Directory Services.
- Identify the space considerations for managing accounts within the Directory Services database.
- Identify the recommended minimum hardware configuration for a domain controller, given the SAM file size and the number of user accounts.
- Identify the factors influencing the optimum number of master domains within a network.
- Identify the minimum number of backup domain controllers required to provide logon validation to a given number of user accounts in master domains.
- Identify the features of resource domains in a Windows NT Directory Services environment.
- Identify the factors influencing the determination of optimal server locations on the network.
- Identify the considerations that should be kept in mind while planning physical locations of BDCs across WAN links.
- Identify the effect of different Registry value entries on synchronization of account database replication:
ChangeLogSize
PulseConcurrency
- Identify the factors influencing the estimation of monthly replication time for a domain.
- Identify the ways to improve the performance of replication process over a slow WAN link.
Duration
8
Minimum Requirements
The CDROM version of this course requires:
- At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
- At least 8MB RAM.
- At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
- At least a double speed CDROM drive.
- An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently, only the CDROM version supports audio).
The network version of this course requires:
- At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
- At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
- At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
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