Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

The student working at home will need the capability to setup a virtual environment running at least 3 virtual machines.

On completion of this course the student should be able to:

• Install and configure a current Microsoft server operating system
• Promote a Microsoft server operating system to an Active Directory Domain Controller
• Centrally manage Active Directory Users and components
• Trouble shoot Windows Server issues

This course is presented by means of lecture/discussion sessions, assignments, exams, and lab projects. 

Through exams and lab assignments students will be assessed to determine if they can:

• Install the current version of the Windows Workstation Operating System.
• Identify Active Directory Logical Components and Infrastructure
• Create and manage Organizational Units.
• Create and manage user accounts including user profiles.
• Create and use groups to manage access to resources.
• Implement and manage file system access security.
• Implement advanced file system management techniques.
• Implement and manage network printing resources.
• Implement resource access auditing.
• Monitor system performance.
• Manage and Implement Backups and Disaster Recovery

The course consists of lectures, group discussion, and lab assignments. Lab assignments include both individual lab assignments and group lab assignments.
Course Content
 

• Install the current version of the Windows Workstation Operating System.
• Identify Active Directory Logical Components and Infrastructure
  • Describe Active Directory Objects
  • Describe the Active Directory Schema
  • Describe Active Directory Access standards
  • Describe the Active Directory Physical Structure

• Create and manage Organizational Units
• Create and manage user accounts including profiles.
  • Set password requirements
  • Set properties for user accounts
  • Introduction to user profiles
  • Create user profiles
  • Create home folders for users
  • Resolve user access issues

• Create and use groups to manage access to resource

• Identify group types

• Identify group scopes

• Develop group strategy

• Use built-in groups

• Implement groups

• Resolve access issues

• Implement and manage file system access security
  • Create and manage shared folders
  • Create and manage shared folder permissions.
  • Develop NTFS file system security strategy.
  • Combine NTFS and shared folder permissions.
  • Resolve security issues.

• Implement Advanced File System Management Techniques
  • Compress data on an NTFS volume.
  • Configure disk quotas on an NTFS volume.
  • Compress files on an NTFS volume.
  • Secure data using Encrypting File System.
  • Design, implement and manage the distributed file system

• Implement and manage network printing resources
  • Implement Windows network printing
  • Configure and manage network printing
  • Trouble shoot network printing

• Implement Resource access auditing.

• Monitor System Performance

• Monitor System Performance using the Task Manager.

• Monitor System Performance using the System Performance Monitoring Console

• Monitor System Performance using the Event Viewer.

• Manage and Implement Backups and Disaster Recovery
  • Provide data redundancy with fault-tolerant volumes.
  • Use backup utilities.
  • Recover a file after using file recovering systems.
  • Identify disaster protection issues.