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◊ WINDOWS SERVER 2003 NETWORK PLANNING MCSE 70-293 ONLINE TRAINING SERIES

Online Windows Server 2003 Network Planning MCSE 70-293 Training

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1. Using Planning Tools and Documentation

Time: 2 hours
This course shows learners how to plan an infrastructure for a Windows Server 2003-based network.

Objectives

  • Identify the fundamentals of network design
  • Analyze organizational needs
  • Explain legal and regulatory considerations
  • Develop, build and implement a test network

Topics

  • Network infrastructure planning
  • Generating a group policy modeling report
  • Analyzing organizational needs
  • Communication and collaboration
  • User services
  • Legal considerations and TCO
  • Developing a test network environment
  • Building a test lab
  • Implementing the test network
  • Documenting the test process


2. Server Roles and Security

Time: 6 hours
This course provides information on server roles and planning server security.

Objectives

  • Describe and configure server roles
  • Describe operating system security features and functional levels
  • Identify minimum security requirements for your organization
  • Use security templates and tools
  • Enforce default security settings
  • Create custom security templates and deploy security configurations

Topics

  • Understanding server roles
  • Domain controllers
  • File, print, and name servers
  • Web, database, and mail servers
  • Certificate Authorities
  • Application and terminal servers
  • Operating system security features
  • Operating system functional levels
  • Identifiying minimum security requirements
  • Security templates and tools
  • Planning baseline installation parameters
  • Enforcing default security settings
  • Security issues for all servers
  • Securing specific servers
  • Creating custom security templates
  • Deploying security configurations


3. TCP/IP Infrastructure

Time: 5 hours
This course gives an in-depth look at the protocols you can use with Windows Server 2003, especially the TCP/IP protocol suite. It shows how to subnet networks and how to use the utilities and tools included with Windows Server 2003.

Objectives

  • List the protocols supported by Windows Server 2003
  • Describe the OSI reference model and TCP/IP networking model
  • Design an effective subnetting scheme
  • Install IPv6 and use IPv6 utilities
  • Use Network Monitor and System Monitor to track network performance

Topics

  • Network protocols
  • Configuring TCP/IP manually
  • TCP/IP basics
  • New TCP/IP features
  • Creating a subnetting scheme
  • Understanding ANDing and binary numbering
  • Subnetting networks
  • Troubleshooting IP addressing
  • Transitioning to IPv6
  • IPv6 utilities
  • Planning the network topology
  • Planning network traffic management


4. Routing

Time: 5 hours
This course provides information on planning and implementing routing on a Windows Server 2003 network.

Objectives

  • Explain the basics of IP routing
  • Use the Netsh utility
  • Configure a Windows Server 2003 machine as a router
  • Troubleshoot routing issues

Topics

  • Routing basics
  • Routing tables
  • Static and dynamic routing and gateways
  • Routing protocols
  • Netsh commands
  • Routing devices
  • Switches and routers
  • Configuring Windows Server as a router
  • Configuring RIP and OSPF
  • Security
  • Router-to-router VPNs
  • Packet filtering, firewalls and logging
  • Troubleshooting IP routing


5. Internet Connectivity

Time: 4 hours
This course provides information that will help you develop the best strategy for connecting your company's Windows Server 2003 network to the Internet.

Objectives

  • Decide between routed or translated connections
  • Install NAT
  • Configure VPN access
  • Install and configure IAS and RADIUS
  • Create service profiles using CMAK

Topics

  • Connecting to the Internet
  • Internet Connection Sharing
  • Internet-based VPNs
  • Router-to-router VPNs
  • VPN protocols and security
  • Internet Authentication Service (IAS)
  • Activating and managing IAS
  • PPP-based protocols and EAP
  • Authorization methods
  • Installing the CMAK
  • Using the CMAK
  • Connection Manager profiles and security issues


6. DNS Name Resolution

Time: 6 hours
This course provides information that will help learners plan, develop, secure, and maintain a host name resolution strategy with the Domain Name System (DNS).

Objectives

  • Plan a DNS namespace design
  • Plan zone replication requirements
  • Plan a forwarding configuration
  • Consider the interoperability of DNS with other DNS solutions
  • Plan for DNS security
  • Troubleshoot host name resolution

Topics

  • Host naming
  • DNS
  • Lookup zones
  • DNS namespace
  • DNS and Active Directory
  • Multiple namespaces
  • Planning DNS server deployment
  • DNS server roles
  • Zone replication and forwarding
  • DNS/DHCP interaction
  • DNS and BIND
  • Split DNS configurations
  • DNS and WINS
  • DNS security
  • Monitoring DNS servers
  • Troubleshooting host name resolution


7. NetBIOS Name Resolution

Time: 3 hours
This course provides information on planning, implementing and maintaining NetBIOS name resolution on a Windows Server 2003 network.

Objectives

  • Describe the NetBIOS name resolution process
  • Describe the WINS name resolution process
  • Deploy and replicate WINS servers
  • Configure WINS clients
  • Plan for WINS database backup and restoration
  • Troubleshoot NetBIOS name resolution

Topics

  • NetBIOS naming
  • WINS
  • WINS server deployment
  • WINS replication
  • Replication models
  • WINS issues
  • WINS client configuration
  • WINS server performance issues
  • Security issues
  • WINS database backup and restoration
  • Troubleshooting NetBIOS name resolution


8. Remote Access

Time: 4 hours
This course provides an overview of the issues and procedures involved in devising a remote access strategy.

Objectives

  • Implement secure access between private networks.
  • Plan security
  • Plan Remote Access policies
  • Analyze protocol security requirements.
  • Plan authentication methods for remote access clients

Topics

  • Planning a Remote Access strategy
  • Enabling Remote Access
  • VPN design considerations
  • Wireless Remote Access Design considerations
  • Domain Functional Level
  • Selecting authentication methods
  • Authorizing Remote Access by user
  • Restricting Remote Access
  • Controlling remote connections
  • Configuring Remote Assistance
  • Requesting Remote Assistance
  • Establishing a Remote Assistance connection
  • Offering Remote Assistance
  • Planning for Remote Administration


9. High Availability

Time: 3 hours
This course provides guidelines that can help you ensure that network resources are available when users need them.

Objectives

  • Plan services for high availability
  • Identify bottlenecks in memory, processor, disk, and network
  • Plan a backup and recovery strategy
  • Plan for fault tolerance

Topics

  • Memory and processor bottlenecks
  • Disk and network bottlenecks
  • Using the System Monitor tool
  • Using Event Viewer
  • Planning a backup strategy
  • Determining what to back up
  • Using backup tools
  • Scheduling backups
  • Planning system recovery with ASR
  • Planning for fault tolerance


10. Windows Cluster Services and Network Load Balancing

Time: 3 hours
This course provides information on how to use two powerful tools to enhance fault tolerance and high availability: server clustering and Network Load Balancing.

Objectives

  • Differentiate between the server cluster models
  • Create a new server cluster
  • Differentiate between server clusters and network load balancing clusters
  • Use the NLB Manager or NLB.exe utility to monitor the NLB cluster
  • Create a network load balancing cluster

Topics

  • Server clustering
  • Server cluster deployment options
  • Server cluster administration
  • Server clustering best practices
  • Cluster network configuration
  • Creating a new cluster
  • Network load balancing (NLB)
  • Managing NLB clusters
  • NLB monitoring and best practices
  • Creating a NLB cluster


11. Internet Protocol

Time: 3 hours
This course provides guidelines for setting up IPSec on your Windows Server 2003 network.

Objectives

  • Identify the purpose and goals of IPSec
  • Identify the protocols used with IPSec
  • Deploy IPSec on your network
  • Manage IPSec

Topics

  • IPSecurity (IPSec)
  • IPSec protocols
  • IPSec components
  • Deploying IPSec
  • Managing IPSec
  • IPSec policies
  • IP Security Policy Wizard
  • Modifying IPSec policies
  • Applying policies
  • Monitoring and troubleshooting IPSec
  • Using Event Viewer and packet event logging
  • Using IKE detailed tracing and Network Monitor
  • Disabling hardware offload functions
  • IPSec security considerations
  • Using RSoP


12. Security Framework

Time: 4 hours
This course provides information on planning, implementing, and maintaining a security framework on a Windows Server 2003 network.

Objectives

  • Implement Active Directory security
  • Implement wireless security
  • Monitor and optimize security
  • Plan a security update infrastructure

Topics

  • Active Directory security
  • Permission types
  • Security relationships
  • Account security
  • Implementing wireless security
  • Wireless authentication
  • Authentication protocols
  • Wireless security issues
  • Wireless monitor and object-based access control
  • Setting auditing
  • Auditing objects
  • Security policies
  • Security update infrastructure
  • Microsoft Software Update Services (SUS)


13. Public Key Infrastructure

Time: 3 hours
This course provides information on planning, implementing and maintaining a Public Key Infrastructure on a Windows Server 2003 network.

Objectives

  • Explain the basics of a Public Key Infrastructure
  • Install and configure a Certification Authority
  • Plan the enrollment and distribution of certificates
  • Plan a Certification Authority hierarchy
  • Implement the use of smart card authentication

Topics

  • Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) basics
  • Certification authorities
  • Configuring a certification authority
  • Analyzing certificate needs
  • Certificate templates
  • Certificate requests
  • Smart card authentication
  • Implementing and using smart cards
  • Using smart cards for remote access VPNs



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