Networking Series Course:

Designing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure (MS2282)

This 48-hour instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to design an Active Directory® directory service and network infrastructure for a Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 environment. The course is intended for systems engineers who are responsible for designing directory service and/or network infrastructures.

Target Audience This course is intended for individuals who are employed as or seeking employment as a systems engineer in a Windows Server 2003-based environment.

Prerequisites Before attending this course, students must have completed: · Have taken Course 2279: Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure. OR · Have equivalent knowledge and experience.

Examinations

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

· Exam 70-297: Designing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure Topics

Topics

Module 1: Introduction to Designing an Active Directory and Network Infrastructure This module describes the components of Active Directory, its role in an organization, and the phases in an Active Directory life cycle. The module describes each element of an Active Directory design and a network infrastructure design, stressing the relationship between the network infrastructure and the Active Directory infrastructure. Finally, it outlines the basic principles and tasks that are part of creating an overall design. Module 2: Designing a Forest and Domain Infrastructure This module covers the first major design decisions when creating an Active Directory and network infrastructure. The Active Directory logical structure and the design of forests and domains. Key elements of the forest and domain design are naming and, in the case of a multiple-forest design, trusts. These decisions must take into account any existing structure and provide a migration solution from the existing structure to the new design. Module 3: Designing a Site Infrastructure This module explains how to design a site topology to organize the Windows Server 2003 network in your organization and optimize the exchange of data and directory information.

Module 4: Designing for Group Policy This module describes how to gather and analyze business requirements and other data and then use that data to design a Group Policy structure and integrate the structure into an organizational unit design. It describes the role of Group Policy in the Active Directory infrastructure and factors in choosing particular implementations, such as security, software deployment, and administrative requirements. The module also covers why and how to design a change management structure. Module 5: Designing the Administrative Structure This module explains how to design your administrative structure to delegate authority and simplify administrative overhead and design an organizational unit structure in a Windows Server 2003 environment. Module 6: Designing the Physical Network This module describes how to gather business requirements and other data and then analyze and use that data to design the physical network. It explains how to design a connectivity infrastructure, with considerations for intrasite and intersite connectivity, router placement, connection types, and virtual private networks (VPNs). It also describes how to design a domain controller structure and how to use the Active Directory Sizer tool.

Module 7: Designing for Network Connectivity This module describes how to design networking services for connectivity and protocol requirements for organizations. Also, this module describes networking solutions that establish a network foundation, provide access to public networks, and support network-based applications and authentication methods. Module 8: Designing a Name Resolution Strategy This module describes the relationship between Active Directory and DNS domain names, Windows Internet Name Service (WINS), and other name resolution strategies. Module 9: Designing the Network Access Infrastructure This module describes how to design a network access infrastructure by gathering relevant data and analyzing and using that data to design for network access security, remote access, and wireless access. The module includes strategies for authentication, administration, access monitoring, interoperability, and user education. Finally, students will design a network access infrastructure according to a scenario.