Ascom/Windows Server 2012 R2 Generic

 Ascom Windows Server Program for Server 2012 R2 - Generic

One-week course

Agenda

Day	Content
Monday 29. February	Theme: Server2012 Installation & Virtualization Lessons PreTest to determine students starting point and how to create groups Repetition of TCP/IP networking with clients, servers, services and ressources Introduction to Microsoft Server 2012 R2, the editions and what's new! Introduction to VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.0 - ESXi (For virtualization of case tasks) Introduction to Server 2012 R2 installation and basic configurations Case tasks in workshop Build your own Server2012 R2 TestLab environment Clients, servers and network infrastructure!
Tuesday 1. March	Theme: Server2012 R2 roles and features - Build a 'company'! Lessons Introduction to Microsoft's Active Directory - Directory Services Best practices for structuring Organizational Units Introduction to Active Directory user –and computer accounts NTFS/Share walkthrough and demonstration Active Directory Groups and Access Management best practices DNS and NetBIOS in an Active Directory Environment Case tasks in workshop Installing and configuring AD DS and DNS services Configuring 'company' OU structure, users and computers Configuring security groups and assigning user rights Create 'company' file shares and configure share and NTFS permissions
Wednesday 2. March	Theme: Internet Information Services, IIS 8.5 - create a web-hosting center! Lessons Basic introduction to Internet Information Services 8.5 Introduction to terms like API, .NET, Services, logging, bindings ... How to manage websites How to manage application pools Troubleshooting tips: How to start, stop and restart web services etc. How to configure web server network adapters & bindings Best practices Case tasks Install IIS 8.5 and configure several websites Configure DNS records for your new sites Configure bindings for your sites Configure integrated authentication Configure host header redirction Add an extra network adapter - and make it work!
Thursday 3. March	Theme: Services, certificates and ... troubleshooting! Lessons Introduction to Windows Services Functionality of services regarding web servers & applications API running as a service? Introduction to Microsoft Certificate Services What's a certificate and what's the idea? Different types of certificates and their function Introduction to mmc.exe and certificates Instructions on handeling certificates Introduction to certificates role on IIS 8.5 Case tasks
Friday 4. March	Lesson Login scripts Roaming profiles Folder redirection Case tasks Completion

Materials

Books

• MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-643): Configuring Windows Server® 2008 Applications Infrastructure
• Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-640): Configuring Windows Server® 2008 Active Directory®, 2nd Edition

Reading plan

Day	Source	What
Monday 25. february	Microsoft Press book: Exam 70-640 2nd Edition (Active Directory)	Chapter 1, chapter 2 and chapter 3
Tuesday 26. february	Microsoft Press book: Exam 70-640 2nd Edition (Active Directory)	Chapter 4 and chapter 9
Wednesday 27. february	Microsoft Press book: Exam 70-643 2nd Edition (Applications)	Chapter 5 and chapter 6
Thursday 28. february	Microsoft website. Microsoft Press book: Exam 70-640 2nd Edition (Active Directory)	Windows services Windows service recovery options Windows service start configuration Create Windows service using sc.exe Chapter 6
Friday 1. march	Microsoft website	Net use command Assign logon script to Active Directory user Assign user logon scripts using group policy Roaming user profiles/folder redirection

Case tasks

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