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Windows Server 2008 Administration: Hands-On

 
Course: 961   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Maintain, troubleshoot and secure Windows Server 2008
  • Implement key security components to protect your server
  • Develop and deploy a patch management strategy
  • Leverage built-in components to create a highly available infrastructure
  • Optimize and tune system performance for greater responsiveness
  • Recover from system failures with troubleshooting tools and techniques

Course Benefits

Organizations are facing a multitude of administrative challenges to their infrastructure. Windows Server 2008 provides administrators with powerful and flexible tools to overcome these challenges and manage complex server environments. In this course, you gain the practical experience to administer, troubleshoot and secure a Windows Server 2008 environment.

Who Should Attend

Those developing an administrative strategy within a Windows Server 2008 environment. Experience with Windows Server and the Active Directory at the level of Course 960, "Windows Server 2008 Comprehensive Introduction," or Course 595, "Windows Server 2003 Comprehensive Introduction," is assumed.

Hands-On Training

Practical exercises provide experience administering Windows Server 2008. Exercises include:
  • Managing remotely with PowerShell and Server Manager
  • Creating baselines with MBSA
  • Reducing the attack surface with Server Core
  • Automating deployment of patches through WSUS
  • Creating a fault tolerant environment with clusters, DFS and Hyper-V
  • Troubleshooting a slow system
  • Recovering from driver failures
  • Solving boot configuration problems

Related Courses

 
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Upcoming Dates

Dec 16 - 19, 2008
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Jan 6 - 9, 2009
 New York
Jan 13 - 16, 2009
 Philadelphia
Jan 20 - 23, 2009
 Toronto
Feb 3 - 6, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Feb 10 - 13, 2009
 Los Angeles
Feb 10 - 13, 2009
 Ottawa
Feb 17 - 20, 2009
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)
Feb 24 - 27, 2009
 Atlanta
Feb 24 - 27, 2009
 Chicago (Schaumburg)
Mar 3 - 6, 2009
 Dallas
Mar 10 - 13, 2009
 N. New Jersey
Mar 17 - 20, 2009
 Boston (Waltham)
Apr 21 - 24, 2009
 Philadelphia
Apr 28 - May 1, 2009
 New York

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Windows Server 2008 Administration: Hands-On

 
Course: 961   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 4 Days
 
 
Course 961 Content
 

Windows Server 2008 Administration

  • Developing an effective administrative strategy
  • Tools, techniques and best practices

Building Blocks of Server Management

Implementing role-based server administration

  • Analyzing available server roles
  • Remotely configuring features to maximize functionality

Leveraging fundamental tools and components

  • Controlling resources with Server Manager
  • Performing common administrative tasks with PowerShell
  • Microsoft System Center

Securing Windows Server 2008

Hardening your server

  • Reducing the attack surface
  • Baselining your server with Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA)

Implementing Group Policies for security

  • Generating custom templates with Security Configuration Wizard (SCW)
  • Creating effective security policies
  • Building security templates with the Security Configuration and Analysis tool
  • Integrating local and AD policies

Tracking internal access

  • Achieving your security goals with selective auditing
  • Centralizing the audit management process

Reducing vulnerabilities with Server Core

  • Managing Server Core from the command line
  • Minimizing exploitable components

Patch Management Implementation

Developing a strategy for patch management

  • Addressing the challenges of managing patches
  • Taking inventory and documenting the existing environment
  • Deploying service packs and hot fixes

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)

  • Managing the WSUS catalog
  • Configuring WSUS components
  • Preparing the workstations with Group Policy
  • Authorizing and distributing patches to clients

Maintaining a High-Availability Environment

Building fault-tolerant servers

  • Maximizing resource utilization with Hyper-V
  • Enabling failover clustering to ensure business continuity
  • Analyzing cluster models for optimal architectures

Replicating with the Distributed File System (DFS)

  • Transferring data with the DFS Replication (DFSR) service
  • Optimizing and troubleshooting replication

Virtualizing servers to extend uptime

  • Selecting the appropriate virtualization model
  • Best practices for architecting your virtual environment

Disaster recovery methods and tools

  • Repairing the server with imaging technologies
  • Full server backup with scripts and scheduled tasks

Maximizing Performance and Increasing Responsiveness

Diagnosing system performance problems

  • Monitoring applications and processes with Reliability and Performance Monitor
  • Identifying the essential system counters
  • Optimizing servers with Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM)

Tuning network components

  • Locating and solving bottlenecks
  • Analyzing traffic with a network monitor

Troubleshooting Windows Server 2008

Resolving issues with diagnostic tools

  • Shutdown Event Tracker
  • Event Viewer subscriptions
  • BCDEDIT
  • Netdiag

Repairing the Registry

  • Rooting out Registry problems
  • Backing up and restoring the Registry

Coping with driver failures

  • Backing up and restoring drivers
  • Revealing and uninstalling phantom devices
  • Demystifying and recovering from common failures

Solving boot configuration problems

  • Identifying critical boot components
  • Fixing partition tables and the boot configuration data store
 
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Windows Server 2008 Administration: Hands-On Tuition

 
Course: 961   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
$ 2,790 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,800 10-Day Pass
$ 1,670 Training Passport
$ 1,700 Premium-Pass
$ 2,200 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,515 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,484 Government 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)
  
 

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  • 4 courses in 24 months
  • As little as $1,700 per course
  • Save as much as 45%
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  • 10 days of training for one person
  • Save as much as $990 per course
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  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Fully transferable
  • As low as $2,200 per course
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