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!

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

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!

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

Lesson
Login scripts

Roaming profiles

Folder redirection

Case tasks

Completion

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

Net use command

Assign logon script to Active Directory user

Assign user logon scripts using group policy

Roaming user profiles/folder redirection