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Upgrading Your Support Skills from Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 to Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Prerequisites: Certified as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) on Windows NT 4.0 Attended Course 689, Supporting Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 - Enterprise Technologies Possess equivalent knowledge and skills.

Duration: 3 Days

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Windows Server 2003 Family

• Locate specific topics in the Help and Support System.
• Activate Windows Server 2003.
• List hardware requirements for Windows Server 2003.
• Install and configure Administrative Tools.

Chapter 2: Implementing the Domain Name System

• Describe the role of DNS in the network infrastructure.
• Install the DNS Server service.
• Configure the properties for the DNS Server service.
• Configure a DNS zone.
• Configure DNS zone transfers.
• Configure dynamic updates.
• Configure a DNS client.
• Delegate authority for zones.
• Describe how DNS dynamic updates work.
• Explain what resource records and record types are.
• Explain what dynamic updates are.
• Describe how DNS clients register and update their own resource records by using dynamic update.
• Describe how a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server registers and updates resource records by using dynamic update.
• Configure DNS manual and dynamic updates.
• Explain what an Active Directory-integrated DNS zone is.
• Configure Active Directory-integrated DNS zones to use secure dynamic updates.

Chapter 3: Managing and Monitoring the Domain Name System

• Manage DNS on a system running Windows Server 2003 and monitor DNS server performance on that system.
• Describe and configure the Time-to-Live value.
• Describe how aging and scavenging work.
• Configure aging and scavenging.
• Explain the purpose of verifying that a resource record exists.
• Explain what Nslookup is.
• Explain what DNSCmd is.
• Explain what DNSLint is.
• Verify that a resource record exists by using Nslookup, DNSCmd, and DNSLint.
• Describe how simple and recursive queries work.
• Test the DNS server configuration.
• Apply guidelines for monitoring DNS server performance by using the Performance console.
• Explain DNS event logging.
• Monitor DNS server performance by using logging.

Chapter 4: Installing Windows Server 2003 Active Directory

• Explain the basic concepts of Active Directory.
• Install Active Directory.
• Change the domain functional level.

Chapter 5: Creating and Managing Active Directory Objects

• Create organizational units, user accounts, and computer accounts.
• Create and modify groups.
• Apply the appropriate strategies when using groups.
• Use permissions to control access to Active Directory objects.
• Delegate control of Active Directory objects to support secure and decentralized administration.
• Move Active Directory objects.

Chapter 6: Implementing Group Policy to Centrally Manage a Windows Server 2003 Family Network

• Implement Group Policy objects on a domain.
• Modify Group Policy inheritance.

Chapter 7: Configuring and Managing User Environment by Using Group Policy

• Configure Group Policy settings.
• Use administrative templates in Group Policy to control a user environment.
• Use security templates to secure computers.
• Assign scripts to control user environments by using Group Policy.
• Determine applied Group Policy objects (GPOs).

Chapter 8: Self Study-Configuring and Supporting Network Access

• Describe a network access infrastructure.
• Configure a wireless connection.
• Control remote user access to a network.
• Centralize authentication and policy management for network access by using Internet Authentication Service (IAS).

Chapter 9: Self Study: Securing Network Traffic and Data Files

• Implement IPSec.
• Implement IPSec with certificates.
• Monitor IPSec
• Explain how to use EFS.
• Add authorized users.
• Decrypt a file or folder.
• Recover an encrypted file or folder

Chapter 10: Self Study: Implementing Basic Disaster Protection and Recovery Techniques in the Windows Server 2003 Family

• Use Safe Mode.
• Use advanced boot options.
• Use the Recovery Console.
• Describe the Recovery Console.
• Restore files and folders by using the Backup utility.
• Restore Active Directory.
• Describe Automated System Recovery (ASR).
• Recover from a system failure by using ASR.
• Restore system data.