Designing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure Training in Boulder Colorado

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to design a Microsoft Windows 2000 directory services infrastructure in an enterprise network. Strategies are presented to assist the student in identifying the information technology needs of an organization and then designing an Active Directory™ structure that meets those needs.

Training Program Details

Program Outline

Day 1

Module 1: Introduction to Designing a Directory Services Infrastructure

Topics:

Role of Active Directory in an Enterprise Network
Conducting an Organizational Analysis
Architectural Elements of Active Directory

Skills:

Students will be able to:

Describe the function and business benefits of Active Directory in an enterprise network.

Describe the process of gathering and documenting information from an organization that will impact the design of an Active Directory structure.

Identify the architectural elements of Active Directory and describe how these elements are used to design an Active Directory structure.

Module 2: Designing an Active Directory Naming Strategy

Topics:

Identifying Business Needs
DNS and Active Directory
Planning Active Directory Domain Names
Designing a DNS Naming Strategy for Active Directory

Lab:

Designing an Active Directory Naming Strategy

Skills:

Students will be able to:

Determine the directory naming needs of an organization.

Plan for directory-integrated DNS to reduce overall network traffic.

Select appropriate domain names for Active Directory.

Design a DNS naming strategy for Active Directory.

Module 3: Designing Active Directory to Delegate Administrative Authority

Topics:

Identifying Business Needs
Characterizing the IT Organization
Developing a Strategy for Administrative Design
Developing a Strategy for Delegation

Labs:

Designing Delegated Administration

Skills:

Students will be able to:

Identify the administrative needs of an organization that impact an Active Directory design.

Characterize the type of Information Technology (IT) organizational support as it impacts the design of an Active Directory structure.

Plan for hierarchical design of Active Directory structure to support different IT organizational types.

Develop a strategy for delegating administrative authority.

Day 2

Module 4: Designing a Schema Policy

Topics:

Identifying Business Needs
Schema Fundamentals
Implications of Modifying the Schema
Planning for Schema Modification

Lab:

Modifying the Schema

Skills:

Students will be able to:

Identify organizational needs that require schema modification.

Describe schema components and fundamentals of schema modification.

Describe how schema modification impacts Active Directory and network performance.

Design policies for governing schema modifications.

Module 5: Designing Active Directory to Support Group Policy

Topics:

Identifying Business Needs
Applying Group Policy in Active Directory
Planning for Group Policy

Labs:

Designing Group Policy and a Supporting Active Directory Structure

Skills:

Students will be able to:

Identify administrative needs that can be addressed through Group Policy.

Determine the appropriate site domain or organizational unit level at which to apply Group Policy.

Design a Group Policy plan based on the administrative needs of an organization and design an Active Directory

Module 6: Designing an Active Directory Domain

Topics:

Identifying Business Needs
Designing the Initial Active Directory Domain
Planning for Security Groups
Planning for OUs

Labs:

Designing a Group and Organizational Unit Strategy

Skills:

Students will be able to:

Identify business needs that impact a domain design.

Design the initial Active Directory domain and explain the importance of the initial root domain.

Develop a security group strategy.

Develop a hierarchical OU structure within a domain.

Day 3

Module 7: Designing a Multiple Domain Structure

Topics:

Identifying Business Needs
Accessing Resources Between Domains
Planning for Multiple-Domain Trees
Planning for Multiple-Tree Forests
Planning for Multiple Forests

Lab:

Designing a Multiple-Domain Structure

Skills:

Students will be able to:

Identify criteria for determining whether a single or multiple domain structure is necessary to meet business needs.

Describe the trust relationships inherent in multiple domain structures.

Plan a multiple-domain tree.

Plan a multiple-tree forest.

Plan multiple forests.

Module 8: Designing an Active Directory Site Topology

Topics:

Using Sites in Active Directory
Assessing the Need for Active Directory Sites
Using Site Links in a Network
Planning the Inter-Site Replication Topology
Planning for Server Placement in Sites

Labs:

Planning Sites to Control Active Directory Replication

Skills:

Students will be able to:

Describe the purpose of sites and their role in Active Directory replication.

Assess the need for Active Directory sites.

Plan for the creation of site links and site link bridges.

Plan an inter-site replication topology.

Plan the placement of servers running Active Directory to manage replication traffic.

Module 9: Designing an Active Directory Infrastructure

Topics:

Conducting an Organizational Analysis
Designing an Active Directory Structure
Creating a Functional Specification

Labs:

Designing an Active Directory Infrastructure

Skills:

Students will be able to:

Form a team to conduct an organizational analysis to determine business and administrative needs that impact the design of an Active Directory structure.

Design an Active Directory structure that satisfies the business and administrative needs of an organization.

Complete the design process by creating a functional specification that establishes an agreement between the architect planning team and the organization.

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Student Pre-Requisites

Before attending this course students must meet the following requirements:

Course 1560 Updating Support Skills from Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 to Microsoft Windows 2000 or equivalent knowledge and skills. OR

Course 2154 Implementing and Administering Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services or equivalent knowledge and skills.

The course materials lectures and lab exercises are in English. To benefit fully from our instruction students need an understanding of the English language and completion of the prerequisites.

Student Materials

All course materials will be included in a self-extracting file that students will be able to download from the Microsoft Training and Certification Web site.

Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server

Program Goals

At the end of the course students will be able to:

Describe guidelines for gathering business and administrative information from an organization and explain how an architect uses that information to design an Active Directory structure for an enterprise.

Design an Active Directory naming strategy that accommodates the organizational structure of a business.

Develop a plan to help protect and delegate administrative authority over Active Directory objects based on the administrative model of an organization.

Identify business needs and scenarios that may require modification of the Active Directory schema and plan a policy to govern schema modification.

Create an Active Directory design based on administrative Group Policy requirements defined by business needs.

Design an Active Directory domain and the organizational unit hierarchy within the domain.

Identify situations where a multiple-domain Active Directory structure may be necessary to meet the administrative and security needs of an organization and then design a structure that meets those needs.

Design a site topology for managing Active Directory replication that fulfills the administrative needs of an organization and that optimizes the available bandwidth of the physical network.

Plan for the design of an Active Directory structure that combines administrative replication and naming requirements of an organization.

Designing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure

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