Overview/Description Understanding the Active Directory forest structure; the mechanics of domain controllers, hosted services and strategic placement, along with Active Directory replication is fundamental to effective planning, appropriate design and efficient deployment of a Active Directory forest infrastructure. Forest and domain planning and design is a team effort, and should be a methodical, sequential, and cyclical process. The forest stakeholders and IT designers should support the forest and domain design process; functional outlines and defined security requirement specifications...

Overview/Description Planning and design of the Organization Unit structure within each forest domain is a primary task in support of a operationally optimized Active Directory infrastructure – this course discusses Organizational Unit design and some of the primary architectural components of an Active Directory-controlled environment. The Active Directory security model is designed to support focused, selective and targeted delegated administration of the system objects and resources. Being familiar with the Active Directory security model and developing a proactive maintenance approach is...

Overview/Description The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) service and its interoperation with other key services is important in the planning, strategic design, and implementation and maintenance of key Active Directory infrastructural services. In planning the design of the DHCP service deployment, the reliability and continuous availability of the service is key to successfully operation, while the integration of the DHCP service with other Windows 2012 services should also form the backdrop of the DHCP deployment mechanics and operation. In planning the design of a DHCP solution...

Overview/Description The planning, strategic design, and implementation and maintenance of key Active Directory infrastructural services include network services such as an IP address management solution and a virtual private network. This course outlines the design and planning considerations for the new Server 2012 IP Address Management feature known as IPAM. Areas covered include the IPAM feature, Group Policy based and manual provisioning of IPAM, IPAM deployment design such as distributed, centralized and hybrid topologies. The configuration of role-based access control, IPAM auditing,...