Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure Part 3: Physical Structure

Course Code NGE72429

Contents

1. Contents
2. Description
3. Audience
4. Prerequisites
5. Objectives
6. Topics Include
7. Duration
8. Minimum Requirements
9. Media

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Description

This course focuses on the physical structures involved in implementing and administering a Windows 2000 directory services infrastructure. It also covers how to backup and restore Active Directory. Managing Active Directory performance and troubleshooting Active Directory replication is also covered.

Audience

This course is intended for experienced technical users with responsibility for implementing and administering a Windows 2000 network.

Prerequisites

(Currently no course prerequisite information)

Objective

• Identify the features of the Physical Topology.
• Identify the features of Sites and Replication Traffic.
• Identify the features of Maintenance Recovery.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Physical Topology

• Identify the features of the replication process in Active Directory.
• Identify the features of Active Directory replication partitions.
• Identify the features of replication within and between sites.
• Identify the features of connection objects.
• Identify the features of the Knowledge Consistency Checker.
• Identify the considerations involved in modifying the replication topology in Active Directory.
• Monitor replication performance.
• Configure the Network Monitor to analyze network traffic.
• Configure Replication Monitor to display replication traffic for a particular server.

Unit 2: Sites and Replication Traffic

• Identify the features of Active Directory sites.
• Identify the features of intra-site replication.
• Identify the features of intra-site replication topology.
• Identify the features of inter-site replication.
• Identify the features of inter-site replication topology.
• Identify the features of Active Directory Sites and Services.
• Create a site.
• Create a subnet.
• Identify the features of site links.
• Create a new site link.
• Move server objects between sites.
• Identify the features of site link bridges.
• Create a new site link bridge.
• Create a connection object.
• Identify the guidelines for the placement of domain controllers.
• Identify the guidelines for the placement of global catalog servers.
• Create a global catalog server.
• Identify the guidelines for the placement of the single master operations server.
• Monitor logon performance.
• Transfer an operations master role between domain controllers.

Unit 3: Maintenance Recovery

• Identify the way files are processed in the data store model.
• Identify the Active Directory store files.
• Identify the features of the Active Directory database files.
• Identify the characteristics of transaction log files.
• Identify the characteristics of checkpoint and reserved log files.
• Identify the characteristics of patch files.
• Identify the features of automatic database cleanup.
• Identify the features of manual database cleanup.
• Identify the features of the advanced startup options available in Windows 2000.
• Identify the features and installation procedure of the Recovery Console in Windows 2000.
• Identify the guidelines for restoring Active Directory.
• Sequence the steps in a non-authoritative restore of the Active Directory database.
• Sequence the steps in an authoritative restore of parts of the Active Directory database.

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).

• 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).

Media

CDROM
Web Based Training