LearnKey Training

Windows 2000 Directory Services Design
W2K DSD


Windows 2000 Directory Services Design

4 Sessions –
12 Hours of Interactive Training
LearnKey’s Windows 2000 Directory Services Design course will give you the essential knowledge and skills to design a directory services infrastructure for Windows 2000. At the conclusion of this course, you will understand how to evaluate an organization’s information technology needs, and then design an active directory infrastructure to accommodate those needs.

Benefits
  • You’ll gain technical mastery of directory design environments and increase your IT credibility.
  • Your IT knowledge and proficiency will open doors and maximize earning potential.
  • LearnKey courses meet or exceed the requirements to pass MCP exam 70-219.
    • Also Available:
    · Study Guide
    · Test Prep
    About The Author
    Aaron Spurlock is an MCSE+I, MCT, CNE and CNI. He has consulted and trained on networks and computing for the past 15 years with Lucent Technologies, Mastering Computers, Scientific-Atlanta and the Florida Marlins, among others. He currently owns Technovation Design in Ogden, Utah, specializing in Windows 2000 and NetWare 5 consulting as well as home and corporate automation technologies.
    Session 1

    Section A: Introduction
    · What is Active Directory?
    · Domain Structure
    · Active Directory Benefits
    · Active Directory Components
    · Operations Master

    Section B: Active Directory Design Strategy
    · Why Design?
    · Active Directory Architect
    · Design Process

    Section C: Business Analysis
    · Analyze Organization
    · Security Needs

    Section D: Technical Analysis
    · IT Management
    · Evaluate Environment
    · Desktop Management
    · Analyze Impact

    Section E: Data Gathering
    · United Space Systems
    · USS IT Functions
    · USS Interviews
    · USS Network Map
    · USS Network Servers

    Section F: Planning Active Directory Names
    · Strategy
    · Namespace Options
    · Other Names


    Session 2

    Section A: DNS Server Strategy
    · Plan DNS
    · DNS in Active Directory
    · DNS Servers
    · Other Services

    Section B: Directory Services Architecture
    · Directory Design
    · Single Domain
    · Using a Tree
    · Building a Tree
    · Active Directory Tree
    · Using a Forest
    · Active Directory Forest

    Section C: Active Directory Resource Access
    · Forest Resources
    · Trusts
    · Kerberos
    · Authorization
    · Shortcut Trusts

    Section D: Active Directory Delegation
    · Delegation Options
    · Business Factors
    · Design Structure
    · Location Design
    · Organizational Design
    · Decentralization
    · OU Structure
    · Admins Group
    · Delegate Control

    Section E: Active Directory Permissions
    · Ownership
    · Specific Permissions
    · Wizard vs. Manual
    · Scope of Permissions
    · Site Level
    · Best Practices

    Section F: Group Policy
    · Business Factors
    · Creating Group Policy
    · Configuration Options
    · Change Policy
    · Linking Policy


    Session 3

    Section A: Applying Group Policy
    · GPO Types
    · Site Level GPO
    · Domain Level GPO
    · OU Level GPO
    · Design Guidelines
    · Group Policy Performance
    · Optimizing Performance

    Section B: Group Policy Delegation
    · GPO Control
    · Group Policy MMC
    · Blocking & Filtering
    · Delegating Control

    Section C: Organizational Units
    · OU Strategy
    · Upper Level OUs
    · Lower Level OUs
    · OUs with a Purpose
    · Designing Security Groups

    Section D: Directory Services Coexistence
    · NetWare Interoperability

    Section E: Site Topology
    · Design Site Structure
    · Site Links
    · USS Network
    · Creating a New Site
    · Creating Subnets
    · Inter-Site Transports
    · Default Sites

    Section F: Active Directory Replication
    · Inter-Site Replication
    · Bridgeheads
    · Between Domains


    Session 4

    Section A: Active Directory Schema
    · Defining Schema
    · Schema Modification
    · Classes
    · Modification Issues
    · Schema Policy

    Section B: Flexible Single Master Operations
    · FSMO Roles
    · Placement & Operations Grouping
    · Moving Roles

    Section C: Designing Service Locations
    · Domain Controllers
    · Global Catalog Servers
    · Sites & Servers
    · DNS Servers

    Section D: Active Directory Implementation Plan
    · NT Upgrade

    Section E: Migration to Active Directory
    · Plan Migration
    · Clone Principle
    · Account Domains
    · Migrating Accounts & Resources