Installation & support for a Multi-user Server Operating

You will be able to plan thoroughly, design, install and configure servers and local storage using a multi-user operating system meeting organisational requirements.

We will teach you how to:

1. Critically evaluate organisational requirements and plan and design a multi-user operating system installation considering hardware and licensing implications for an organisation.
2. Analyse the configuration of server roles and features and demonstrate the steps to deploy functions on a local and remote server.
3. Explicit local storage configuration, design and manage disk volumes. Configure MBR and GPT disks, storage pools, disk pools and explain the differences between primary and dynamic disks.
4. Evaluate the implications of file and share access for an organisation. Illustrate the steps to configure an access-based enumeration (ABE), Dynamic Access Control (DAC), Distributed File System (DFS), NTFS permissions and quotas, share and share permissions.

You will be able to apply virtualisation concepts, requirements and operation of virtual machines.

We will teach you how to:

1. Demonstrate how to create and configure virtual machines using Hyper-V.
2. Design and configure virtual machine storage using VHDs and VHDX according to organisation requirements. Use differencing drives, modify VHDs and show booting operation from a VHD.
3. Create and configure virtual networks and virtual switches, optimise network performance and configure MAC addresses. Set up an internal, external and private virtual system.

You will be able to demonstrate practical knowledge for user/computer management using Active Directory Domain Services.

We will teach you how to:

1. Illustrate the installation procedure for a domain controller and deploy ADDS role. Investigate the implications of a read-only domain controller (RODC) and configure domain controller cloning.
2. Configure a forest or a domain and implement multi-domain and multi-forest Active Directory environments and analyse the impact of upgrade existing domains and forests, including environment preparation and functional levels.
3. Apply procedures to create and manage ADDS performing everyday tasks (create, copy, configure and delete) for users/computers management, show how to manage inactive and disabled accounts. Execute bulk operations for Active Directory and automate the creation of AD accounts.
4. Design ADDS groups and organisational units (OUs) and performs everyday tasks (create, copy, configure and delete) groups and OUs. Examine configuration features including security, distribution, universal, domain local and domain global.
5. Critically analyse maintenance procedures for ADDS: management of ADDS offline, optimisation an ADDS database, metadata clean-up, the configuration of snapshots, recovery for object and container level and restore objects using the ADDS Recycle Bin.

Learners will be able to demonstrate practical knowledge for user/computer management using Group Policy objects (GPOs) and policies.

We will teach you how to:

1. Design Group Policy objects (GPOs) and perform everyday tasks (create, configure, delete, backup, import, copy and restore). Examine GPOs processing order and precedence rules, configure inheritance blocking, force Group Policy Update and set loopback processing.
2. Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of starter GPOs and GPO links configuration and management of multiple local Group Policies. Illustrate how to configure Group Policy preferences and settings, various profiles and connection security rules.
3. Evaluate domain and local user password policy settings, delegation password settings and configuration account lockout policy settings. Execute user rights assignment procedures and configure security options settings. Prepare and create security templates and audit policies for users and groups, set User Account Control (UAC).

You will be able to deploy and configure core network services and access, compare and contrast IPv4 and IPv6 addressing for an organisation and explore DNS service implementation procedures and configuration of its features.

We will teach you how to:

1. Compare and contrast analytically IPv4 and IPv6 addressing schemes for an organisation.
2. Demonstrate configuration steps for IP address (IPv4 and IPv6) subnetting andsupernetting. Explicate the interoperability between IPv4 and IPv6 and how to implement Teredo tunnelling.
3. Deploy and configure Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) service scopes, IP reservation and DHCP options. Discuss configuration options for PXE boot for client and server.
4. Inspect the configuration features for superscopes and multicast and evaluate high availability options (DHCP failover and split scopes) for DHCP server.
5. Deploy and configure DNSservice role, set up DNS primary and secondary zones integration and forwarders. Illustrate DNS cache management options. Critically review zone delegation, zone transfer settings and notification settings.

You will be able to implement server imaging deployment and disaster recovery strategy to ensure business continuity.

We will teach you how to:

1. Deploy and manage server images using Windows Deployment Services (WDS). Demonstrate the steps to install, configure and manage image booting from servers.
2. Implement a plan for patch management for images, hotfixes and drivers illustrating the usage of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) role and establish group policies for software updates.
3. Propose a disaster recovery strategy using Windows Server backups and demonstrate the steps to set up backups using Windows Recovery Environment (Win RE) and safe mode.