This discovery-based workshop consists primarily of labs that provide hands-on experience focused exclusively on the skills and objectives that align with Exam 70-292: Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment for an MCSA Certified on Windows 2000, and Exam 70-296: Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment for an MCSE Certified on Windows® 2000.

This workshop is intended for expert Windows 2000 systems engineers who plan, implement, and support Windows 2000-based networks running Microsoft Active Directory® directory service, and who need to quickly leverage their skills in a Windows Server 2003 environment. The workshop assumes extensive, day-to-day practical, hands-on experience using Windows 2000 and a preference for learning by doing and discovering in a non-prescriptive lab environment. For a more traditional learning experience, see Course 2297: Planning, Implementing, Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment for an MCSE on Windows 2000.

Before attending this course, students should have the following prerequisites:

• An MCSE on Windows 2000 certification, or equivalent knowledge and skills.
• Day-to-day experience planning, implementing, managing and maintaining Windows 2000-based networks.

On completion of this course, students should be able to:

• Identify the systems administration tasks in Windows Server 2003 that are new or different from the tasks performed in Windows 2000.
• Manage user, computer, and group accounts in a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory-based environment.
• Use the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) to manage Group Policy.
• Manage resources and security.
• Configure and manage DNS.
• Manage servers in remote locations.
• Manage Terminal Services.
• Manage IIS 6.0 Web Services.
• Maintain computers that run Windows operating systems by implementing and managing Software Update Services.
• Prepare for and implement disaster recovery solutions.
• Plan a Domain Name System (DNS) strategy for an enterprise organisation.
• Plan for an implementation of Active Directory and for Active Directory replication.
• Implement Active Directory and DNS.
• Troubleshoot Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), name resolution, and Group Policy.
• Plan and implement cross-forest trusts and new security options.
• Use Group Policy in Windows Server 2003 to deploy and restrict software.
• Use Group Policy in Windows Server 2003 to set advanced security settings.
• Plan and implement secure Routing and Remote Access.

This unit explains how to perform systems administration tasks in a Windows Server 2003 environment, and introduces the scenarios and tools that will be used throughout the workshop.

This unit explains how to manage users, computers, and groups in an Active Directory directory service environment, taking advantage of the new capabilities available in Windows Server 2003.

This unit gives a hands-on, fast paced opportunity to experienced users to orient themselves to Windows Server 2003 and learn how to use the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) to manage Group Policy.

This unit explains how to use enhancements to the tools available in Windows Server 2003 to manage resources and security by using Windows Explorer, Group Policy management tools, and the Security Configuration and Analysis tool.

This unit gives a hands-on, fast paced opportunity to experienced users to orient themselves to Windows Server 2003 and learn how to configure and manage DNS.

This unit explains how to manage servers remotely using secure best practices.

This unit explains how to configure and manage Terminal Services and take advantage of the new capabilities available with that service.

This unit explores the new skills needed to manage and maintain the IIS service on Windows Server 2003. This unit provides students with hands-on experience in configuring and managing the IIS service, and highlights the default state of the service when Windows Server 2003 is installed.

This unit explains how to use Software Update Services (SUS) to perform patch management for a networked environment.

This unit explains how to use the new capabilities available with Windows Server 2003 to restore a system to a previous state. The students will practice troubleshooting and repairing a system by using features such as ASR and driver rollback in a lab environment to restore a system to a predefined state.

This unit shows students the new features of DNS in Windows Server 2003, focusing on planning issues such as improving fault tolerance in DNS, ensuring DNS resolution across forests, planning for _MSDCS zone availability and security to DNS servers in a forest, and creating DNS zones securely and with the least administrative effort.

This unit shows students new features of Active Directory in Windows Server 2003, focusing on planning issues.

This unit gives students a hands-on opportunity to experience new features of Windows Server 2003 and learn how to use them to implement Active Directory and DNS.

This unit gives students a hands-on opportunity to experience new features of Windows Server 2003 and learn how to use them to troubleshoot TCP/IP, name resolution, and Group Policy.

This unit asks students to plan and implement multiple forests in Active Directory by using the model of adding a new organisation to an existing company. Students will implement cross-forest trust, manage user authentication, identify possible security concerns, and come to understand how to resolve naming conflicts between two forests.

This unit gives students a hands-on opportunity to experience new features of Windows Server 2003 pertaining to Group Policy and to learn how they can use it to deploy and restrict software.

This unit gives students a hands-on opportunity to experience new features of Windows Server 2003 and to learn how to use Group Policy to implement advanced security settings.

This unit gives students a hands-on opportunity to experience new features of Windows Server 2003 and to learn how to use them in implementing Routing and Remote Access.

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