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Windows® 7: A Comprehensive Hands-On Introduction

 
Course: 2400   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Install, manage and support Windows 7
  • Configure and customize the OS for optimal performance
  • Establish and maintain user accounts and groups
  • Secure local and network-accessible resources
  • Ensure application compatibility and functionality
  • Troubleshoot Windows 7 operating systems

Course Benefits

Organizations are constantly looking for ways to lower costs and increase the return on their IT infrastructure investment. Windows 7 offers enhanced features in stability, security, performance and compatibility, which maximize productivity and reduce total cost of ownership. In this course, you gain the skills necessary to manage, maintain and support the most advanced features and capabilities of Windows 7.

Who Should Attend

IT and desktop support staff, systems administrators, power users and anyone wanting to gain hands-on experience with Windows 7. Familiarity with Microsoft Windows is assumed.

Hands-On Training

Throughout this course, extensive hands-on exercises provide practical experience configuring Windows 7. Exercises include:
  • Installing Windows 7
  • Monitoring and troubleshooting system performance with Action Center tools
  • Creating and managing users and groups
  • Adjusting User Account Control (UAC) strictness
  • Securing USB data with BitLocker To Go
  • Sharing and accessing network resources
  • Prohibiting applications with AppLocker
  • Troubleshooting application compatibility

Related Courses

 
Windows 7 is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. 		 

Training Dates

Live online classroom training.Participate in person or in live, online events (highlighted) via Learning Tree AnyWareTM.
Mar 13 - 16Toronto 
Mar 13 - 16Reston, VA
Mar 20 - 23Rockville, MD
Mar 27 - 30Ottawa 
Apr 2 - 5Chicago (Schaumburg)
Apr 17 - 20Alexandria, VA
Apr 24 - 27Dallas 
Apr 24 - 27Philadelphia 
May 1 - 4Reston, VA
May 8 - 11Los Angeles 
May 15 - 18Annapolis, MD 
May 15 - 18Atlanta 
May 22 - 25New York 
May 29 - Jun 1Houston 
Jun 5 - 8Alexandria, VA

For AnyWare enrollments, please register at least 10 days prior to the start of the course.


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Windows® 7: A Comprehensive Hands-On Introduction

 
Course: 2400   Duration: 4 Days
 
 
Course 2400 Content
 

Introduction to Windows 7

Discovering the new features

  • Evaluating performance improvements
  • Investigating usability enhancements

Installing Windows 7

  • Assessing hardware requirements
  • Licensing and activation
  • Selecting installation options

Navigating the system

  • Exploring the new user interface
  • Locating and launching new tools

Configuring and Maintaining the OS

Evaluating alternate installation options

  • Installing to Virtual Hard Disks (VHDs)
  • Installing to virtual machines

Ensuring optimal configurations

  • Performing post-setup customization
  • Modifying settings with PowerShell
  • Managing and interacting with hardware through Device Stage
  • Monitoring reliability and performance

Troubleshooting and restoring

  • Booting to the Windows Recovery Environment
  • Recovering functionality with System Restore
  • Repairing the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store
  • Creating a System Repair Disk
  • Leveraging Action Center tools

Managing User Accounts and Environments

Creating and modifying security boundaries

  • Comparing workgroups with domains
  • Establishing HomeGroups
  • Credential Manager

Operating within an Active Directory domain

  • Joining and participating in a Windows domain
  • Publishing and locating network resources

Configuring and controlling user environments

  • Selecting user profile types
  • Creating custom Libraries
  • Implementing Offline Caching and Folder Redirection

Customizing User Account Control (UAC)

  • Adjusting the UAC to allow routine tasks
  • Mandating UAC settings with Group Policies

Securing Local and Network Resources

Implementing Discretionary Access Control (DAC)

  • Setting permissions for files, folders and printers
  • Simplifying object access with inheritance

Securing and auditing the system

  • Tracking user rights and object access
  • Troubleshooting access problems
  • Action Center
  • Windows Defender
  • AppLocker

Encrypting drives and devices

  • Leveraging biometric devices for authentication and access
  • Protecting hard disks with BitLocker
  • Maintaining USB media privacy with BitLocker To Go

Networking with Windows 7

Configuring TCP/IP functionality

  • Selecting protocol and options
  • Investigating TCP/IP configurations

Network Location Awareness

  • Exploring the Network and Sharing Center
  • Merging cached networks

Connecting to wireless networks

  • Generating a network map
  • Managing Wi-Fi network lists
  • Simplifying wireless access with enhanced features

Sharing and accessing resources

  • Providing local resources to the network
  • Locating printers and folders with Network Explorer

Accessing the enterprise remotely

  • Working securely with Remote Desktop Services (RDS)
  • Direct Access
  • Branch Cache
  • VPN Reconnect

Managing Programs and Compatibility

Leveraging built-in technologies

  • Tracking crashes with Problem Steps Recorder
  • Customizing system security for legacy programs

Monitoring and analyzing applications

  • Preventing problems with the Program Compatibility troubleshooter
  • Inspecting file system and registry redirection

Ensuring application compatibility

  • Avoiding unwanted changes made by troubleshooters
  • Circumventing UAC problems
 
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Windows® 7: A Comprehensive Hands-On Introduction

 
Course: 2400   Duration: 4 Days
 
 
Course Tuition
$ 2,890Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,700Premium-Pass
$ 1,833Training Passport
$ 2,250Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,267Triple-Pack
$ 2,573Government Discount
$ 2,600Alumni Gold Discount

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

Tuition Savings Plans

Training Passport
  • 3 courses in 12 months
  • As little as $1,833 per course
  • Savings as much as 40%
  • Only $5,500
Premium Pass
  • 4 courses in 24 months
  • As little as $1,700 per course
  • Save as much as 45%
Training Vouchers
  • Save as much as $1,040 per course
  • Fully transferable
  • As low as $2,250 per course
Triple-Pack
  • 3 courses for anyone in your organization
  • As little as $2,266 per course
  • Only $6,799
Alumni Gold Discount Attend your first course and you'll receive a personalized Alumni Gold Discount card, entitling you to save as much as $320 on each course you take within the following 12 months. Take just one course each year and you'll be entitled to ongoing discounts...year after year!

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Unless you feel 100% satisfied that Learning Tree delivered even more than you expected, there is no fee for your course attendance. Our Guarantee of Quality lets you experience the value of the course—and then pay only if you feel the course was well worth the tuition.

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Enroll by phone or online. If your plans change, just let us know and, without a fee, you can transfer to another course or cancel your enrollment. Pay after you've taken the course, and then only if you are 100% satisfied.

 
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