Designing and Managing a Windows Public Key Infrastructure

Lab A: Identifying Trusted Root CAs

After completing this module students will be able to:

Module 2: Designing a Certification Authority Hierarchy

This module introduces students to designing a CA hierarchy. It explains the major tasks that are involved including identifying business and legal requirements and planning a Certification Authority (CA) hierarchy structure.

Lessons

Lab A: Designing a CA Hierarchy

After completing this module students will be able to:

Module 3: Creating a Certification Authority Hierarchy

This module explains how to create a CA hierarchy based on a CA hierarchy design. Students also learn how to install Certificate Services validate a certificate and publish a certificate revocation list (CRL) and an Authority Information Access (AIA).

Lessons

Lab A: Installing an Offline CA

Lab B: Publishing CRLs and AIAs

Lab C: Implementing a Subordinate Enterprise CA

After completing this module students will be able to:

Module 4: Managing a Public Key Infrastructure

This module explains how to manage a PKI by managing certificates and CAs. Students also learn how to recover a PKI in the event of a failure.

Lessons

Lab A: Enabling Role Separation

Lab B: Backing Up and Restoring a Certification Authority

After completing this module students will be able to:

Module 5: Configuring Certificate Templates

This module introduces students to certificate templates and how to design them. Students also learn about creating publishing and changing certificate templates.

Lessons

Lab A: Delegating Certificate Template Management

Lab B: Designing a Certificate Template

Lab C: Configuring Certificate Templates

After completing this module students will be able to:

Module 6: Configuring Certificate Enrollment

In this module students learn about the various methods of enrolling certificates. Students can either process the certificate requests manually or automatically depending upon the approval requirement from the certificate manager.

Lessons

Lab A: Enrolling Certificates

After completing this module students will be able to:

Module 7: Configuring Key Archival and Recovery

This module describes the importance of creating a strategy for data and key recovery and explains the key archival and recovery process. Students also learn how Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 enhance data protection and data recovery.

Lessons

Lab A: Configuring Key Recovery

After completing this module students will be able to:

Module 8: Configuring Trust Between Organizations

Students learn how to extend an organization s PKI trust hierarchy to other organizations. By extending the trust hierarchy an organization s certificates can be used and trusted across organizations for purposes like secure e-mail messages client authentication and server authentication.

Lessons

Lab A: Implementing a Bridge CA

After completing this module students will be able to:

Module 9: Deploying Smart Cards

In this module students learn how smart cards provide secure storage for data and also support authentication of users. Students also learn how to configure and deploy smart cards in a Windows Server 2003 PKI environment.

Lessons

Lab A: Deploying Smart Cards

After completing this module students will be able to:

Module 10: Securing Web Traffic by Using SSL

This module explains how to secure a Web environment by implementing SSL security and certificate-based authentication for Web applications.

Lessons

Lab A: Deploying SSL Encryption at a Web Server

After completing this module students will be able to:

Module 11: Configuring E-mail Security

In this module students learn how to implement secure e-mail messages in an Exchange 2003 environment.

Lessons

Lab A: Securing E-mail Messages in Exchange Server 2003

After completing this module students will be able to:

Related Exams

This course will help the student prepare for the following Microsoft Certified Professional exams:

Student Pre-Requisites

Before attending this course students must have:

Student Materials

The student kit includes a comprehensive workbook and other necessary materials for this class.

Program Goals

After completing this course students will be able to: