Book description
Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services
Designed to help enterprise administrators develop real-world, job-role-specific skills—this Training Guide focuses on advanced configuration of services necessary to deploy, manage and maintain a Windows Server 2012 infrastructure. Build hands-on expertise through a series of lessons, exercises, and suggested practices—and help maximize your performance on the job.
This Microsoft Training Guide:
Provides in-depth, hands-on training you take at your own pace
Focuses on job-role-specific expertise for deploying and managing advanced infrastructure services in Windows Server 2012
Creates a foundation of skills which, along with on-the-job experience, can be measured by Microsoft Certification exams such as 70-412
Sharpen your skills. Increase your expertise.
Configure full forest and domain trust relationships
Configure Active Directory (AD) sites and manage AD replication
Implement advanced DNS and DHCP solutions
Install, configure, and manage AD Certificate Services
Manage backups and recover servers
Optimize storage and configure advanced file services
Manage failover clustering and Network Load Balancing
Move virtual machines from one Hyper-V server to another
Implement Dynamic Access Control and Active Directory RMS
Implement Active Directory Federation Services
Table of contents
- Introduction
-
1. Advanced Active Directory infrastructure
- Before you begin
- Lesson 1: Configuring domains and forests
- Lesson 2: Configuring trusts
-
Practice exercises
- Exercise 1: Prepare a domain controller to host a child domain with a contiguous namespace
- Exercise 2: Create a child domain with a noncontiguous namespace
- Exercise 3: Prepare domain controller to host the wingtiptoys.com tree in the contoso.com forest
- Exercise 4: Promote domain controller for new tree in contoso.com forest
- Exercise 5: Prepare a domain controller to host a new forest
- Exercise 6: Create new forest
- Exercise 7: Prepare to configure a forest trust relationship
- Exercise 8: Begin creating a forest trust relationship
- Exercise 9: Complete the creation of the forest trust relationship between contoso.com and margiestravel.com
- Exercise 10: Configure name suffix routing
- Exercise 11: Configure selective authentication
- Exercise 12: Configure additional UPN suffixes
- Exercise 13: Configure a shortcut trust
- Suggested practice exercises
- Answers
-
2. Active Directory sites and replication
- Before you begin
- Lesson 1: Configuring sites
- Lesson 2: Active Directory replication
-
Practice exercises
- Exercise 1: Create Active Directory sites
- Exercise 2: Create Active Directory subnets
- Exercise 3: Create site links
- Exercise 4: Modify site link cost and replication schedule
- Exercise 5: Configure MEL-DC as an additional domain controller
- Exercise 6: Verify site placement and trigger replication
- Exercise 7: Configure ADL-DC as an RODC
- Exercise 8: Configure RODC replication
- Exercise 9: View account passwords replicated to ADL-DC
- Exercise 10: Monitor replication with repadmin
- Exercise 11: Remove the RODC and reset accounts
- Suggested practice exercises
- Answers
-
3. Advanced DHCP and DNS
- Before you begin
- Lesson 1: Implement an advanced DNS solution
- Lesson 2: Implement an advanced DHCP solution
- Lesson 3: Deploy and manage IPAM
-
Practice exercises
- Exercise 1: Configure MEL-DC
- Exercise 2: Configure DNSSEC
- Exercise 3: Configure the name resolution policy
- Exercise 4: Increase the size of the DNS socket pool
- Exercise 5: Modify DNS Cache Locking
- Exercise 6: Create and manage a GlobalNames Zone
- Exercise 7: Configure and view the DNS Event Log
- Exercise 8: Verify netmask ordering and disable recursion
- Exercise 9: Install and activate the DHCP role
- Exercise 10: Create a DHCP superscope
- Exercise 11: Create a split scope
- Exercise 12: Configure DHCP Name Protection
- Exercise 13: Create new multicast scopes
- Exercise 14: Configure DHCP failover
- Exercise 15: Install the IPAM feature
- Exercise 16: Configure IPAM GPOs and server discovery
- Exercise 17: Configure servers to be managed by IPAM
- Exercise 18: Manage servers using IPAM
- Exercise 19: Use IPAM to create a DHCP scope
- Exercise 20: Use IPAM to manage IP addresses
- Suggested practice exercises
- Answers
- Lesson 1
-
4. Active Directory Certificate Services
- Before you begin
- Lesson 1: Install and configure Active Directory Certificate Services
- Lesson 2: Manage certificates
-
Practice exercises
- Exercise 1: Deploy and configure an enterprise root CA
- Exercise 2: Deploy an enterprise subordinate CA
- Exercise 3: Install a standalone subordinate CA
- Exercise 4: Configure a standalone CA
- Exercise 5: Configure a CRL Distribution Point
- Exercise 6: Configure an online responder
- Exercise 7: Configure administrative role separation
- Exercise 8: Configure a key recovery agent certificate template
- Exercise 9: Request a key recovery agent certificate
- Exercise 10: Configure Key Recovery
- Exercise 11: Configure a certificate template for autoenrollment and key recovery
- Exercise 12: Configure group policy to support autoenrollment, credential roaming, and automatic renewal
- Exercise 13: Configure a certificate template to support private key archival and recovery and reenroll all certificate holders
- Exercise 14: Perform certificate revocation
- Exercise 15: Perform certificate recovery
- Suggested practice exercises
- Answers
-
5. Backup and recovery
- Before you begin
- Lesson 1: Configure and manage backups
- Lesson 2: Recover servers
-
Practice exercises
- Exercise 1: Prepare MEL-DC and CBR-DC for exercises
- Exercise 2: Install Windows Server Backup
- Exercise 3: Configure CBR-DC for local backup
- Exercise 4: Perform a backup to a local volume
- Exercise 5: Perform a backup over the network
- Exercise 6: Use Vssadmin
- Exercise 7: Perform a full volume recovery using Windows Server Backup
- Exercise 8: Prepare for Windows Recovery Environment
- Exercise 9: Perform full server recovery over the network
- Exercise 10: Boot into Safe Mode
- Exercise 11: Modify Boot Configuration Data store
- Exercise 12: Configure a standalone computer for use with Windows Azure Backup
- Exercise 13: Configure Windows Azure Backup
- Exercise 14: Backup data to Windows Azure Backup
- Exercise 15: Restore data from Windows Azure Backup
- Suggested practice exercises
- Answers
-
6. Advanced file services and storage
- Before you begin
- Lesson 1: Advanced file services
- Lesson 2: Configure and optimize storage
-
Practice exercises
- Exercise 1: Prepare MEL-DC and ADL-DC
- Exercise 2: Deploy FSRM
- Exercise 3 Configure quota templates and quotas
- Exercise 4: Create file groups, file screen templates, apply file screens, and apply file screen exceptions
- Exercise 5: Configure file classification
- Exercise 6: Verify the classification
- Exercise 7: Configure file access auditing
- Exercise 8: Create and assign an iSCSI target
- Exercise 9: Connect to an iSCSI target
- Exercise 10: Create a new storage pool and thin provisioned virtual disk
- Exercise 11: Install the iSNS server and register the initiator
- Exercise 12: Remove feature files
- Exercise 13: Configure BranchCache policies
- Exercise 14: Deploy BranchCache on Windows Server 2012
- Suggested practice exercises
- Answers
-
7. High availability
- Before you begin
- Lesson 1: Configure and manage failover clustering
- Lesson 2: Network Load Balancing
-
Practice exercises
- Exercise 1: Prepare ADL-DC, MEL-DC, and CBR-DC for exercises
- Exercise 2: Install the Network Load Balancing feature on ADL-DC, CBR-DC, and MEL-DC
- Exercise 3: Create a three-node NLB cluster
- Exercise 4: Configure port rules and affinity
- Exercise 5: Remove an NLB cluster
- Exercise 6: Create shared storage for failover clustering
- Exercise 7: Connect potential cluster nodes to shared storage
- Exercise 8: Install failover cluster features
- Exercise 9: Validate cluster configuration
- Exercise 10: Create a two-node failover cluster
- Exercise 11: Add a cluster node
- Exercise 12: Change the quorum configuration
- Exercise 13: Install and configure a highly available file server
- Exercise 14: Configure a highly available file share
- Exercise 15: Configure failover settings, failback settings, and move node
- Exercise 16: Simulate unplanned failure
- Exercise 17: Cluster-Aware Updating
- Suggested practice exercises
- Answers
-
8. Virtual machine and site resilience
- Before you begin
- Lesson 1: Virtual machine movement
- Lesson 2: Site-level fault tolerance
-
Practice exercises
- Exercise 1: Install the Hyper-V role on MEL-HV-1 and MEL-HV-2
- Exercise 2: Configure identical virtual switches on MEL-HV-1 and MEL-HV-2
- Exercise 3: Prepare servers for live migration
- Exercise 4: Prepare servers for replication
- Exercise 5: Create two virtual machines on MEL-HV-1
- Exercise 6: Configure TEST-ONE for replication
- Exercise 7: View replication health and perform planned failover of TEST-ONE to MEL-HV-2
- Exercise 8: Configure Hyper-V to support live migration
- Exercise 9: Perform live migration of TEST-TWO
- Exercise 10: vPerform storage migration
- Exercise 11: Perform a virtual machine export
- Exercise 12: Import a copy of a virtual machine
- Exercise 13: Perform an unplanned failover
- Exercise 14: Enable reverse replication
- Suggested practice exercises
- Answers
-
9. DAC and AD RMS
- Before you begin
- Lesson 1: Implement Dynamic Access Control (DAC)
- Lesson 2: Install and configure Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS)
-
Practice exercises
- Exercise 1: Prepare MEL-DC and ADL-DC
- Exercise 2: Enable group policy support for DAC
- Exercise 3: Create users and groups
- Exercise 4: Configure user and device claims
- Exercise 5: Configure Resource Properties
- Exercise 6: Prepare server for file classification
- Exercise 7: Create a file classification rule
- Exercise 8: Run and verify the file classification
- Exercise 9: Create central access rules
- Exercise 10: Create a central access policy
- Exercise 11: Configure Access Denied Assistance
- Exercise 12: Configure staging
- Exercise 13: Prepare infrastructure for an AD RMS deployment
- Exercise 14: Install and configure the AD RMS server role
- Exercise 15: Create the AD RMS Super Users group
- Exercise 16: Create AD RMS templates
- Exercise 17: Configure template distribution
- Exercise 18: Configure application exclusions
- Exercise 19: Apply RMS templates using file classification
- Suggested practice exercises
- Answers
-
10. Active Directory Federation Services
- Before you begin
- Lesson 1: Implement Active Directory Federation Services
-
Practice exercises
- Exercise 1: Prepare separate forests
- Exercise 2: Configure DNS forwarding
- Exercise 3: Deploy AD CS in each forest
- Exercise 4: Prepare SYD-DC for certificate publication
- Exercise 5: Prepare MEL-DC for certificate publication
- Exercise 6: Configure CA trust in each forest
- Exercise 7: Acquire certificates for each server.
- Exercise 8: Deploy AD FS in each forest
- Exercise 9: Configure relying party trust
- Exercise 10: Configure Claims Provider Trust
- Exercise 11: Prepare claim data
- Exercise 12: Configure Claim Rules
- Suggested practice exercises
- Answers
- A. About the author
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Training Guide: Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2013
- Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
- ISBN: 9780735674240
You might also like
book
Training Guide: Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 R2 Services
Fully updated for Windows Server 2012 R2! Designed to help enterprise administrators develop real-world, job-role-specific skills …
book
Exam Ref 70-412: Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 R2 Services
Fully updated for Windows Server 2012 R2, and designed for experienced IT professionals ready to advance …
book
Windows Server 2012 R2 Administrator Cookbook
Over 80 hands-on recipes to effectively administer and manage your Windows Server 2012 R2 infrastructure in …
book
MCSA 70-740 Cert Guide: Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016
This is the eBook version of the print title. Note that the eBook does not provide …