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Course Overview
This five-day
instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and
skills to design a Microsoft Active Directory directory service and
network infrastructure for a Microsoft Windows Server 2003
environment. The course is intended for systems engineers who are
responsible for designing directory service and/or network
infrastructures.
Audience
This course is intended for individuals who are employed as or
seeking employment as a systems engineer in a Windows Server
2003-based environment.
At Course Completion
After completing this course, students will be able to:
• Describe the process of designing an Active Directory
infrastructure and a network infrastructure that supports Active
Directory.
• Design a forest and domain infrastructure that meets the needs of
an organization.
• Design a site infrastructure that meets the needs of an
organization.
• Design a Group Policy structure that meets the needs of an
organization.
• Design an administrative structure that meets the needs of an
organization.
• Design a physical network structure that supports Active Directory
and meets the needs of an organization.
• Design a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) structure that
supports Active Directory and meets the needs of an organization.
• Create a design for network connectivity that supports Active
Directory and meets the needs of an organization.
• Design a name resolution strategy that supports Active Directory
and meets the needs of an organization.
• Design a network access infrastructure that supports Active
Directory and meets the needs of an organization.
Prerequisites
This course requires that students meet the following
prerequisites:
• They have taken Course 2278, Planning and Maintaining a Microsoft
Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure and Course 2279,
Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server
2003 Active Directory Infrastructure
—OR—
• They have equivalent knowledge and experience
Microsoft Certification exams
This workshop will help students prepare for this Microsoft
Certified Professional exam:
• Exam 70-297: Designing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active
Directory and Network Infrastructure
Course Materials
The student kit includes a comprehensive workbook and other
necessary materials for this class.
Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to Designing an Active Directory and
Network Infrastructure
This module introduces general design principles and the process
of designing a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory infrastructure. After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Explain basic design principles.
• Describe the process of and the tasks involved in designing an
Active Directory infrastructure.
Module 2: Designing a Forest and Domain Infrastructure
This module covers the first major design decisions when
creating an Active Directory and network infrastructure. The Active
Directory logical structure and the design of forests and domains.
Key elements of the forest and domain design are naming and, in the
case of a multiple-forest design, trusts. These decisions must take
into account any existing structure and provide a migration solution
from the existing structure to the new design.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Gather and analyze the information that you need to design a
forest and domain infrastructure.
• Create a logical forest design.
• Create a domain design.
• Design a DNS namespace strategy for forests and domains.
• Create a trust strategy for forests.
• Determine a migration plan for the existing infrastructure.
• Design a schema management policy.
Module 3: Designing a Site Infrastructure
This module explains how to design a site topology to organize
the Windows Server 2003 network in your organization and optimize
the exchange of data and directory information.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Determine the information needed to design a site infrastructure.
• Create a site design.
• Modify the site design for replication.
• Determine the placement of domain controllers in the site design.
• Determine the placement of global catalog servers in the site
design.
• Determine the placement of single operations masters in the site
design.
Module 4: Designing the Administrative Structure
This module explains how to design your administrative structure
to delegate authority and simplify administrative overhead and
design an organizational unit structure in a Windows Server 2003
environment.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Determine the information needed to design an administrative
structure.
• Design a network administration model.
• Design an organizational unit structure.
• Design an account strategy.
Module 5: Designing for Group Policy
This module describes how to gather and analyze business
requirements and other data and then use that data to design a Group
Policy structure and integrate the structure into an organizational
unit design. It describes the role of Group Policy in the Active
Directory infrastructure and factors in choosing particular
implementations, such as security, software deployment, and
administrative requirements. The module also covers why and how to
design a change management structure.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Determine the information needed to design for Group Policy.
• Design a Group Policy structure.
• Create an organization unit (OU) structure for Group Policy.
• Create a Group Policy management design.
Module 6: Designing the Physical Network
This module describes how to gather business requirements and
other data and then analyze and use that data to design the physical
network. It explains how to design a connectivity infrastructure,
with considerations for intrasite and intersite connectivity, router
placement, connection types, and virtual private networks (VPNs). It
also describes how to design a domain controller structure and how
to use the Active Directory Sizer tool.
The module also covers why and how to design a change management
structure for networking, including monitoring. Finally, the
students will create a physical network according to a scenario.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Explain the preparation necessary to design a network
infrastructure.
• Create an IP addressing scheme.
• Design a DHCP infrastructure.
• Design a change management structure for networking.
Module 7: Designing for Network Connectivity
This module describes how to design networking services for
connectivity and protocol requirements for organizations. Also, this
module describes networking solutions that establish a network
foundation, provide access to public networks, and support
network-based applications and authentication methods.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Determine the information that you need to design for network
connectivity.
• Evaluate connection types.
• Design a connectivity infrastructure.
• Create a design for Internet connectivity.
Module 8: Designing a Name Resolution Strategy
This module describes the relationship between Active Directory
and DNS domain names, Windows Internet Name Service (WINS), and
other name-resolution strategies.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Determine the information needed to design a name-resolution
strategy.
• Design a strategy for interoperability with Active Directory,
BIND, WINS, and DHCP.
• Design a WINS replication strategy.
• Design a name resolution strategy for clients.
Module 9: Designing the Network Access Infrastructure
This module describes how to design a network access
infrastructure by gathering relevant data, and then analyzing and
using that data to design for network access security, remote
access, and wireless access. The module includes strategies for
authentication, administration, access monitoring, interoperability,
and user education.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Gather data for network access design.
• Design network access security.
• Choose remote access methods.
• Design a remote access infrastructure.
• Design a wireless access infrastructure. |
