Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure Part 4: Advanced Administration

Course Code NGE72430

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 how to implement and troubleshoot group policy. How to manage and troubleshoot user environments using group policy, and how to manage and troubleshoot software deployment using group policy.

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

• Create a Group Policy object.
• Configure administrative template settings.
• Deploy software by using Group Policy.
• Redirect user folders by using Group Policy.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Group Policy Implementation

• Identify the types of Group Policy settings that can be configured.
• Identify the components of Group Policy objects.
• Create a Group Policy object.
• Link an existing Group Policy object to a domain, organizational unit, or site.
• Identify the times at which Group Policy settings are processed by Windows 2000.
• Identify the order in which Group Policy settings are inherited in Active Directory
• Identify the ways in which Group Policy settings are applied to individual computers.
• Modify Group Policy settings.
• Block the inheritance of Group Policy settings.
• Force the inheritance of Group Policy settings.
• Filter Group Policy settings.
• Delegate administrative control of a Group Policy object.

Unit 2: User Environment: Managing Group Policy

• Identify the tasks involved in managing user environments with Group Policy.
• Identify the features of administrative template settings.
• Identify the process involved in applying administrative template settings to the registry in Windows 2000.
• Identify the procedure for enabling Group Policy loopback.
• Identify the different types of administrative template settings.
• Configure administrative template settings.
• Lock down user environments by using administrative template settings.
• Set up Group Policy scripts.

Unit 3: Software Deployment and Group Policy

• Identify the ways in which Group Policy can be used to manage software deployment.
• Identify the role of Windows Installer in software installation and maintenance.
• Identify the tasks involved in using Group Policy to deploy new software.
• Identify the procedure for creating a software distribution point.
• Identify the features that apply to the assigning and publishing of software.
• Deploy software by using Group Policy.
• Identify the guidelines for troubleshooting common problems that occur during software deployment.
• Identify the procedure for modifying a software package.
• Create software categories.
• Set priorities for application file name extensions.
• Identify the guidelines for upgrading deployed software.
• Identify the procedures for deploying software packages.
• Remove deployed software packages.

Unit 4: Managing User Accounts and Security

• Identify the functions of account policies.
• Identify the procedure for configuring password settings in Group Policy.
• Identify the account lockout settings in Group Policy.
• Identify the advantages of redirecting user folders.
• Redirect user folders by using Group Policy.
• Identify the ways in which mobile users can work on files offline in Windows 2000.
• Identify how Group Policy can be used to enable computers for offline files.
• Identify the guidelines for configuring suitable Group Policy settings for offline files.
• Identify the security features available in Windows 2000.
• Identify the types of security policy that can be configured in Windows 2000.
• Identify the ways in which security settings can be implemented in Windows 2000.
• Identify the functions of a security template.
• Create a security template.
• Identify the functions of system configuration and analysis.
• Manage the security settings of a computer by using Security Configuration and Analysis.
• Identify the ways in which auditing is used to monitor user activity on a network.
• Identify the events that can be audited in Windows 2000.
• Identify the guidelines for planning an audit strategy.
• Set up an audit policy.
• Identify the procedure for auditing access to Active Directory, file system, and printer objects.

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