Windows® Server 2003 Active Directory® Planning and Migration

Learning Tree International
London,Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online | On-site | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' you will learn how to

Plan and design a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory (AD) enterprise
Build a precise and well-adapted Organisational Unit (OU) structure
Integrate your existing DNS with Windows Server 2003 DNS
Construct an optimal replication topology for your network and site layout
Define delegation of administration and design Group Policy deployment
Migrate from NT/2000 to Windows Server 2003 without interrupting your business flow

course content:
Windows Server 2003 Overview

Benefits of the Active Directory
Analysing interoperability requirements
Planning and Designing the Active Directory
DESIGNING THE AD INFRASTRUCTURE

Defining an optimal naming strategy for forests, domains, OUs and sites
Building the forest root domain
Integrating the branch offices with the AD
Renaming domain controllers and domains
PLANNING THE ENTERPRISE ADMINISTRATION

Defining security for the delegation
Identifying constraints of Group Policies
Assembling Fundamental Components
DETERMINING DIRECTORY PARTITIONS

Identifying forest schema implications
Configuring application data partitions
Establishing Global Catalog fault-tolerance
LOCATING DOMAIN CONTROLLER SPECIFIC ROLES

Dispatching Flexible Single Master Operations (FSMO) roles effectively
Transferring and seizing roles
BUILDING AN EFFICIENT DNS STRUCTURE

Integrating Windows Server 2003 DNS into your existing namespace
Identifying NetBIOS requirements
Investigating DNS updates by DHCP
Implementing AD-integrated DNS
Constructing the Replication Topology
INVESTIGATING MULTIMASTER REPLICATION

Evaluating Update Sequence Numbers
Configuring sites, subnets, connection objects and bridgehead servers
Linking and bridging sites efficiently
REPLICATION TOPOLOGY MAXIMISATION

Taming and predicting the Knowledge Consistency Checker (KCC)
Determining site-link costs and periodicities
Comparing the transport protocols
Automating the Administration
SECURING AD OBJECTS

Leveraging multilevel inheritance
Making AD objects invisible to specific users or groups
DEVELOPING ADMINISTRATIVE CATEGORIES

Creating the administrative hierarchy
Enabling universal group caching
CONFIGURING WORKSTATIONS AND SERVERS WITH GROUP POLICIES

Fine tuning techniques: filtering, loopback control, overriding and blocking inheritance
Defining documentation templates
INSTALLING AND MAINTAINING APPLICATIONS/OS

Implementing application deployment
Comparing system installation techniques
Merging with Windows NT/9x/2000
INTEGRATING HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS

Native mode vs. mixed mode domains
Raising domain forest functionality levels
AD client extensions for Windows NT/9x
Exploiting Kerberos trust relationships
INTERACTING WITH OTHER ENVIRONMENTS

Connecting to UNIX and NetWare
Integrating with Exchange servers
Migrating to Windows Server 2003
STRATEGISING FOR A SUCCESSFUL MIGRATION

Comparing the different migration paths
Designing a solid recovery plan
Remaining in mixed mode temporarily
Ensuring application compatibility
ACHIEVING A SEAMLESS MIGRATION

Upgrading domain controllers reliably without interruption
Installing a password export server
Adapting accounts with SID-History
Leveraging the Active Directory Migration Tool V2 (ADMT)
Repairing a failed migration rapidly


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Phone:0800 282 353,020 7874 5000,0131 226 6243

School Address:

Learning Tree International Ltd.
Euston House
24 Eversholt Street
London, NW1 1AD
Telephone:0800 282 353

EIS Building
39 Palmerston Place
Edinburgh EH12 5AU
Telephone: 0131 226 6243
Fax: 0131 226 5967

United Kingdom

Jobs & Resumes: London, Edinburgh
Houses & Roommates: London, Edinburgh

Windows XP Professional Introduction
Windows Server 2003
Deploying and Managing a Windows Server 2003 Environment
Securing Windows Server 2003
Patch Management for Microsoft Environments
Windows Server 2003 OS Optimisation
Windows Active Directory Troubleshooting
Scripting Windows Administrative Tasks
TCP/IP for Windows Networks
Systems Management Server 2003
Windows 2000

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