Introduction

This three-day course will prepare IT professionals for the role of Enterprise Administrator. Students will learn how to design application infrastructure solutions based on Windows Server 2008 to meet varying business and technical requirements.

Pre-Requisites

Before attending this course, students must have:

• Intermediate understanding of networking. For example, how TCP/IP functions, addressing (including DHCP), name resolution (DNS/WINS), and connection methods (wired, wireless, VPN), NET+ or equivalent knowledge
• Intermediate understanding of network operating systems. For example, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 etc.
• Intermediate understanding of security best practices. For example, file system permissions, authentication methods, Kerberos etc.
• Intermediate knowledge of server and network hardware.
• Conceptual understanding of Active Directory (AD). For example, AD terminology, AD object types
• Hands-on experience with more than one application service such as IIS, Terminal Services, Windows Media Services, Virtual Server, Hyper-V, System Center Virtual Machine Manager.

Outcomes

After completing this course, students will gain the skills to:

• Design IIS 7 Web farms.
• Optimize IIS 7 for performance and stability.
• Design IIS 7 for security, reliability, recovery, and monitoring.
• Design and prepare a Terminal Services infrastructure.
• Design a Terminal Services maintenance strategy.
• Plan and configure a Windows Media Services infrastructure for live and ondemand delivery.
• Implement virtualization to consolidate servers, support legacy applications, and create a test environment.
• Determine virtualization appropriateness and virtual server provisioning.