Training Guide: Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 R2 Services

Book description

Fully updated for Windows Server 2012 R2! Designed to help enterprise administrators develop real-world, job-role-specific skills - this Training Guide focuses on configuration of advanced services in Windows Server 2012 R2. Build hands-on expertise through a series of lessons, exercises, and suggested practices - and help maximize your performance on the job.

This Microsoft Training Guide:

  • Focuses on job-role-specific expertise for advanced configuration tasks

  • Fully updated for Windows Server 2012 R2, including new practices

  • Provides in-depth, hands-on training you take at your own pace

  • Creates a foundation of skills which, along with on-the-job experience, can be measured by Microsoft Certification exams such as 70-412

  • Topics include:

  • Advanced Active Directory Infrastructure

  • Active Directory Sites and Replication

  • Advanced DHCP and DNS

  • Active Directory Certificate Services

  • Backup and Recovery

  • Advanced File Services and Storage

  • High Availability

  • Site Resilience

  • Dynamic Access Control and Active Directory Rights Management Services

  • Active Directory Federation Services

  • Table of contents

    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright Page
    3. Contents at a glance
    4. Contents
    5. Introduction
      1. System requirements
      2. Virtual machine setup instructions
      3. Acknowledgments
      4. Errata, updates, and book support
      5. We want to hear from you
      6. Stay in touch
    6. Chapter 1. Advanced Active Directory infrastructure
      1. Before you begin
      2. Lesson 1: Configuring domains and forests
      3. Lesson 2: Configuring trusts
      4. Practice exercises
      5. Suggested practice exercises
      6. Answers
    7. Chapter 2. Active Directory sites and replication
      1. Before you begin
      2. Lesson 1: Configuring sites
      3. Lesson 2: Active Directory replication
      4. Suggested practice exercises
      5. Answers
    8. Chapter 3. Advanced DHCP and DNS
      1. Before you begin
      2. Lesson 1: Implementing an advanced DNS solution
      3. Lesson 2: Implementing an advanced DHCP solution
      4. Lesson 3: Deploying and managing IPAM
      5. Practice exercises
      6. Suggested practice exercises
      7. Answers
    9. Chapter 4. Active Directory Certificate Services
      1. Before you begin
      2. Lesson 1: Installing and configuring Active Directory Certificate Services
      3. Lesson 2: Manage certificates
      4. Practice exercises
      5. Suggested practice exercises
      6. Answers
    10. Chapter 5. Backup and recovery
      1. Before you begin
      2. Lesson 1: Configuring and managing backups
      3. Lesson 2: Recovering servers
      4. Practice exercises
      5. Suggested practice exercises
      6. Answers
    11. Chapter 6. Advanced file services and storage
      1. Before you begin
      2. Lesson 1: Configuring advanced file services
      3. Lesson 2: Configuring and optimizing storage
      4. Practice exercises
      5. Suggested practice exercises
      6. Answers
    12. Chapter 7. High availability
      1. Before you begin
      2. Lesson 1: Configuring and managing failover clustering
      3. Lesson 2: Understanding Network Load Balancing
      4. Practice exercises
      5. Suggested practice exercises
      6. Answers
    13. Chapter 8. Virtual machine and site resilience
      1. Before you begin
      2. Lesson 1: Virtual machine movement
      3. Lesson 2: Site-level fault tolerance
      4. Practice exercises
      5. Suggested practice exercises
      6. Answers
    14. Chapter 9. DAC and AD RMS
      1. Before you begin
      2. Lesson 1: Implementing Dynamic Access Control (DAC)
      3. Lesson 2: Installing and configuring Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS)
      4. Practice exercises
      5. Suggested practice exercises
      6. Answers
    15. Chapter 10. Active Directory Federation Services
      1. Before you begin
      2. Lesson 1: Implementing Active Directory Federation Services
      3. Practice exercises
      4. Suggested practice exercises
      5. Answers
    16. Index
    17. About the author
    18. Training Guide: Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 R2 Services and Exam 70-412
    19. Inside Back Cover

    Product information

    • Title: Training Guide: Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 R2 Services
    • Author(s): Orin Thomas
    • Release date: April 2014
    • Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
    • ISBN: 9780133967081