Introduction

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.

Pre-Requisites

This course requires that the students meet the following pre-requisites:

• 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.

Outcomes

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.