| Detailed Course Outlines: |
Level 1 |
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| 1.0 Introduction to Active Directory 1.1 Benefits & Features of a Network Directory Service 1.2 Active Directory Overview 1.3 Logical & Physical Organization of Active Directory 1.4 AD Requirements 1.5 The Importance of DNS 1.6 Domain Controllers & Multi-Master Replication 1.7 Operation Master Roles (FSMO's) for Domain Controllers 2.0 Active Directory Concept 2.1 The Active Directory Forest 2.2 Domains & Domain Trees 2.3 Organizational Units 2.4 The Global Catalog & GC Servers 2.5 Sites 2.6 The Schema |
3.0 Active Directory Design Phases 3.1 Analyzing Business Needs 3.2 Analyzing Technical Requirements 3.3 Turning Needs Assessments into Design Decisions 4.0 Planning an Active Directory Design 4.1 AD Design Stages 4.2 Planning the AD Forest 4.3 Planning for AD Domains 4.4 Designing DNS Support 4.5 Mapping out an OU Strategy 4.6 Creating a Site Topology Plan 4.7 Strategies for Implementing Multiple Domains |
Level 2 |
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| 1.0 DNS & Active directory naming Strategies 1.1 DNS Server Configurations 1.2 NetBIOS Name Resolution Issues 1.3 DNS Naming Issues 1.4 DNS Design Guidelines 1.5 Naming Strategies for Users and other Objects 2.0 Active Directory Architecture 2.1 The Single Domain Model 2.2 The Multiple Domain Model 2.3 Designing Multiple Domain Trees within a Forest 2.4 Resource Access 2.5 Creating an Empty Root Domain 2.6 Multi-Forest Issues 3.0 OUs and Delegating Authority 3.1 Mapping out an OU Hierarchy |
3.2 Strategies for Delegation of Authority 3.3 Creating OUs 3.4 The Delegating of Control Wizard 4.0 Group Policy Objects 4.1 Group Policy Strategies 4.2 Understanding GPO's 4.3 Where to apply Group Policy 4.4 Implementing Group Policy 4.5 Linking GPO's & Delegating Control for Linking GPO's 4.6 Group Policy Setting (in GPO, in properties of the GPO) 4.7 Custom GPO MMC's (adminpak.msi) 4.8 GPO Blocking and Filtering (changing ACL's on GPO's for certain groups) |
Level 3 |
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| 1.0 Security Permissions & Groups 1.1 Security Groups and their Scope 1.2 Active Directory Security Permissions 2.0 Active Directory Sties & Replication 2.1 Sites and Site Links 2.2 Planning for Replication Traffic 2.3 Replication Topology Issues 2.4 Intra-Site VS Inter-Site Replication 3.0 Operations Masters & Domain Controllers 3.1 FSMO Placement Strategies 3.2 Transferring & Sizing FSMO Roles 3.3 Domain Controller Placement 3.4 Global Catalog Servers 3.5 DNS Server Placement |
4.0 Understanding the Active Directory
Schema 4.1 Schema Overview 4.2 Schema Modification Issues 4.3 Modifying the Schema via the MMC 4.4 Recommended Guidelines 5.0 Implementation & Migration Issues 5.1 AD Implementation Planning 5.2 In-place Upgrades from Windows NT 4.0 Server 5.3 Migrating to Active Directory from NT 4.0 5.4 Co-existence with Novell NetWare 6.0 Case Study Example: Putting it all Together 6.1 Reading & Analyzing the Issues 6.2 Sample Company: Worldwide Production Services, Inc. 6.3 Physical Site Considerations 6.4 Business Assessments for Possible OU Design 6.5 Business Assessment for Possible Naming Strategies 6.6 Group Policy Decisions 6.7 Server and Domain Controller Placement 6.8 Putting Together a Viable Implementation Plan |