Course 20414-C: Implementing an Advanced Server Infrastructure

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Course 20414-C: Implementing an Advanced Server Infrastructure

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Get hands-on instruction and practice planning, designing and deploying a physical and logical Windows Server® 2012 R2 enterprise infrastructure in this 5-day Microsoft Official course. This course is part two in a series of two courses that provides the skills and knowledge necessary to design and implement a Windows Server 2012 R2 infrastructure in an enterprise environment. The two courses collectively cover designing, planning, deploying, securing, monitoring, automating, and virtualizing an enterprise server infrastructure. This course covers the knowledge and skills to plan and implement a highly available, secure infrastructure with focus on Active Directory® Federation Service (AD FS), public key infrastructure (PKI), and Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS). You will also learn the skills needed to plan and deploy virtual machines including self-service and automation of virtual machine deployments as well as planning and implementing a monitoring strategy that includes Microsoft® System Center 2012 R2-Operations Manager. This course maps directly to and is the preferred choice for hands-on preparation for Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE): Exam 414: Implementing an Advanced Server Infrastructure, which is the fifth of five exams required for MCSE: Server Infrastructure certification.

Labs in this course are based on Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2. This course is designed for experienced IT professionals who support medium to large enterprises and have experience administering Windows Server 2012 R2 and have an MCSA: Windows Server 2012 certification or equivalent skills.

Audience Profile

This course is intended for Information Technology (IT) professionals who are responsible for planning, designing and deploying a physical and logical Windows Server 2012 enterprise and Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) infrastructures including the network services. Candidates would typically have experience of previous Windows Server operating systems and have Windows Server 2012 certification (MCSA) or equivalent skills. The secondary audience for this course will be candidates are IT professionals who are looking to take the exam 70-414: Implementing an Advanced Enterprise Server Infrastructure, as a stand-alone, or as part of the requirement for the MCSE certification.

Prerequisites

Course outline

Module 1: Overview of Management in an Enterprise Data Center

Module Overview

In this module, students will be able to describe the enterprise data center and how to use System Center 2012 to manage the enterprise data center.

Lessons

Overview of the Enterprise Data Center
Overview of the Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Components

Lab Sessions

Considerations for Implementing an Enterprise Data Center

Lab Lessons

Planning the Secure Implementation of Services Within an Enterprise Data Center

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe an enterprise data center.
Describe how System Center 2012 components can be used to manage an enterprise data center.

Module 2: Planning and Implementing a Server Virtualization Strategy

Module Overview

In this module, students will be able to plan and implement a server virtualization strategy using System Center 2012.

Lessons

Planning a VMM Deployment
Planning and Implementing a Server Virtualization Host Environment

Lab Sessions

Planning and Implementing a Server Virtualization Strategy

Lab Lessons

Planning the Hyper-V Host Deployment
Configuring Hyper-V Host Groups
Configuring VMM Libraries

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan a server virtualization environment based on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and System Center 2012- Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).
Implement a server virtualization environment based on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and VMM.

Module 3: Planning and Implementing Networks and Storage for Virtualization

Module Overview

In this module, students will be able to plan and implement the network and storage infrastructure required to deploy a virtualized server infrastructure.

Lessons

Planning a Storage Infrastructure for Virtualization
Implementing a Storage Infrastructure for Virtualization
Planning and Implementing a Network Infrastructure for Virtualization
Planning and Implementing Network Virtualization

Lab Sessions

Planning and Implementing Virtual Networks and Storage

Lab Lessons

Planning a Storage Infrastructure for Virtualization
Planning a Network Infrastructure for Virtualization
Implementing a Storage Infrastructure for Virtualization
Implementing a Network Infrastructure for Virtualization

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Explain storage options available for virtual machines.
Configure iSCSI storage in Windows Server 2012 and how to manage storage from VMM.
Plan and implement a network infrastructure for server virtualization.
Plan and implement network virtualization in Hyper-V and VMM.

Module 4: Planning and Deploying Virtual Machines

Module Overview

In this module, students will be able to plan and deploy virtual machines on Windows Hyper-V.

Lessons

Planning a Virtual Machine Configuration
Preparing for Virtual Machine Deployments with VMM
Deploying Virtual Machines
Planning and Implementing Hyper-V Replica

Lab Sessions

Planning and Implementing a Virtual Machine Deployment and Management Strategy

Lab Lessons

Planning Virtual Machine and Service Templates
Configuring VMM Profiles and Templates
Implementing Hyper-V Replica

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan a virtual machine configuration.
Plan and configure the VMM profiles and templates that can be used to implement a VMM deployment.
Plan and implement Hyper-V Replica.

Module 5: Planning and Implementing a Virtualization Administration Solution

Module Overview

In this module, students will be able to plan and implement a virtualization administration solution by using System Center 2012.

Lessons

Planning and Implementing Automation with System Center 2012
Planning and Implementing System Center 2012 Administration
Planning and Implementing Self-Service Options in System Center 2012
Planning and Implementing Updates in a Server Virtualization Infrastructure

Lab Sessions

Planning and Implementing an Administration Solution for Virtualization

Lab Lessons

Configuring Process Automation in System Center
Planning Administrative Delegation and Self-Service in System Center 2012
Configuring Delegated Administration and Self-Service in VMM
Implementing Host Updating in VMM

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan automation of a virtual machine environment using System Center 2012.
Plan a delegated administration model in System Center 2012.
Plan the self-service and automation of a virtual machine environment using the System Center 2012.
Plan and implement updates for Hyper-V hosts using VMM.

Module 6: Planning and Implementing a Server Monitoring Strategy

Module Overview

In this module, students will be able to plan and implement a server monitoring strategy using the Windows Server 2012 tools and using Operations Manager.

Lessons

Planning Monitoring in Windows Server 2012
Overview of Operations Manager
Planning and Configuring Monitoring Components
Configuring Integration with VMM

Lab Sessions

Implementing a Server Monitoring Strategy

Lab Lessons

Configuring Server Monitoring Using Windows Server 2012
Implementing Operations Manager Monitoring
Configuring the Operations Manager Monitoring Components

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan a monitoring strategy using the Windows Server 2012 tools.
Describe the Operations Manager components and describe how Operations Manager can be used to monitor physical and virtual servers.
Plan and configure management packs, notifications and reporting.
Configure the integration of Operations Manager and VMM.

Module 7: Planning and Implementing High Availability for File Services and Applications

Module Overview

In this module, students will be able to plan and implement an application and file services infrastructure that is highly available.

Lessons

Planning and Implementing Storage Spaces
Planning and Implementing a DFS
Planning and Implementing NLB

Lab Sessions

Planning and Implementing High Availability for File Services and Applications

Lab Lessons

Planning a High Availability Strategy for File Services
Planning a High Availability Strategy for Web Applications
Implementing a High Availability Solution for File Storage
Implementing a High Availability Solution by Using NLB

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan and implement a highly available storage infrastructure using Storage Spaces.
Plan and implement a highly available file services deployment using DFS.
Plan and implement high availability for applications using NLB.

Module 8: Planning and Implementing a High Availability Infrastructure Using Failover Clustering

Module Overview

In this module, students will be able to plan and implement a high availability server infrastructure by using the failover clustering features in Windows Server 2012.

Lessons

Planning an Infrastructure for Failover Clustering
Implementing Failover Clustering
Planning and Implementing Updates for Failover Clusters
Integrating Failover Clustering with Server Virtualization
Planning a Multisite Failover Cluster

Lab Sessions

Planning and Implementing a Highly Available Infrastructure Using Failover Clustering

Lab Lessons

Designing Highly Available Server Roles
Deploying a Failover Cluster
Implementing a Scale-Out File Server
Configuring CAU
Implementing Highly Available Virtual Machines
Implementing Operations Manager and VMM Integration

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan failover clustering.
Implement failover clustering.
Plan and implement updates by using Cluster-Aware Updating (CAU).
Plan and implement failover clustering for Hyper-V virtual machines.

Module 9: Planning and Implementing a Business Continuity Strategy

Module Overview

In this module, students will be able to plan and implement a business continuity strategy in a Windows Server 2012 environment.

Lessons

Overview of Business Continuity Planning
Planning and Implementing Backup Strategies
Planning and Implementing Recovery
Planning and Implementing Backup and Recovery of Virtual Machines

Lab Sessions

Implementing a Virtual Machine Backup Strategy with DPM

Lab Lessons

Configuring DPM
Implementing Backup and Restore for Virtual Machine Data
Implementing Virtual Machine Backup and Recovery by using DPM

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the high level requirements and strategies for implementing a business continuity strategy.
Plan backup strategies for a variety of Windows roles.
Plan and implement recovery of servers and data.
Plan and implement a virtual machine backup and recovery strategy.

Module 10: Planning and Implementing an Public Key Infrastructure

Module Overview

In this Module, students will be able to plan and implement a PKI deployment, and plan and implement a certificate management solution.

Lessons

Planning and Implementing Deployment of a Certification Authority
Planning and Implementing Certificate Templates
Planning and Implementing Certificate Distribution and Revocation
Planning and Implementing Key Archival and Recovery

Lab Sessions

Planning and Implementing an Active Directory Certificate Services Infrastructure

Lab Lessons

Planning an Active Directory Certificate Services Deployment
Deploying a CA Infrastructure
Implementing Certificate Templates
Implementing Certificate Revocation and Distribution

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan and implement a CA deployment hierarchy in AD CS.
Design and implement a strategy for configuring and maintaining certificate templates.
Design and implement a strategy for distributing and revoking certificates.
Plan and implement private key and certificate recovery.

Module 11: Planning and Implementing an Identity Federation Infrastructure

Module Overview

In this module, students will be able to plan and implement an AD FS server deployment and claims aware application access.

Lessons

Planning and Implementing an AD FS Server Infrastructure
Planning and Implementing AD FS Claim Providers and Relying Parties
Planning and Implementing AD FS Claims and Claim Rules
Planning and Implementing Web Application Proxy

Lab Sessions

Planning and Implementing an AD FS Infrastructure

Lab Lessons

Designing the AD FS Deployment
Configuring Prerequisite Components for AD FS
Deploying AD FS for Internal Users
Deploying AD FS for a Partner Organization
Deploy the Web Application Proxy

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan and implement an AD FS server infrastructure.
Plan and implement AD FS claim providers and relying parties.
Plan and implement AD FS claims and claim rules.
Plan and implement the Web Application Proxy with AD FS integration.

Module 12: Planning and Implementing Data Access for Users and Devices

Module Overview

In this module, students will be able to plan and implement Dynamic Access Control (DAC), Workplace Join and Work Folders.

Lessons

Planning and Implementing DAC
Planning Workplace Join
Planning Work Folders

Lab Sessions

Implementing DAC and Access Denied Assistance
Implementing Work Folders

Lab Lessons

Planning and Implementing DAC
Preparing DAC Deployment
Implementing DAC
Validating and Remediating DAC
Preparing and Implementing an Infrastructure for Work Folders
Configuring AD FS and Web Application Proxy for Work Folders Publishing
Validating Work Folders Functionality

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan and implement DAC.
Describe and implement Work Place Join.
Plan a Work Folders deployment.

Module 13: Planning and Implementing an Information Rights Management Infrastructure

Module Overview

In this module, students will be able to plan and implement an AD RMS deployment, plan and manage AD RMS templates and access, and plan and implement external access to AD RMS services.

Lessons

AD RMS Overview
Planning and Implementing an AD RMS Cluster
Planning and Implementing AD RMS Templates and Policies
Planning and Implementing External Access to AD RMS Services
Planning and Implementing AD RMS Integration with Dynamic Access Control

Lab Sessions

Planning and Implementing an AD RMS Infrastructure

Lab Lessons

Planning the AD RMS Deployment
Deploying an AD RMS Infrastructure for Internal Users
Implementing AD RMS Integration with Dynamic Access Control
Implementing AD RMS Integration for External Users

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe what AD RMS is and the business scenarios addressed by AD RMS.
Plan, implement, and manage an AD RMS cluster.
Plan and implement AD RMS templates and policies.
Plan and implement external access to AD RMS services.
Plan the integration of AD RMS and DAC.

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