Module 1
Introduction

• Welcome
• Course Overview
• Pre-requisites
• Course Materials
• Facility
• Lab: Getting Started Scenario

Module 2
Documentation and Standards

• Documentation and Project Management
• MSF, MOF, ITIL
• Requirements document
• Business requirements
• Identifying business requirements
• Functional Requirements
• Business requirements
• Functional
• Use-Case
• Identifying addition requirements/constraints
• Service Level Agreements
• Project Constraints
• Rick Analysis
• Technology requirements
• IT requirements
• Security requirements
• User requirements
• Analyzing current environment
• Physical Network
• Name resolution
• AD infrastructure
• Application infrastructure
• System usage
• Models and processes
• Change Control
• Formal requirements documents
• Project tools
• Project Planning
• Lab

Module 3
Installing and Configuring Server 2008

• Installing Windows Server 2008
• Managing Server Roles and Features
• Overview of the Server Core Installation Option
• Overview of Windows Deployment Services
• Lab: Installing and Configuring Servers and Server Roles

Module 4
Networking Server 2008

• Networking in 2008
• New Network Features
• DNS and 2008
• DHCP
• Lab: Configuring Server 2008 DHCP and DNS

Module 5
Active Directory Domain Services

• Active Directory Improvements – What’s new
• Active Directory Federation Services
• Active Directory Lightweight Services
• Active Directory Rights Management
• Active Directory Certificate Services
• Promoting a Server Core to a Domain Controller
• Read Only Domain Controller (RODC) 
• Planning AD DS Deployments
• Lab: Deploying Active Directory Domain Services

Module 6
Maintaining Active Directory

• Auditing
• Backup
• Lab: Auditing, Backup and Restoring Active Directory Domain Services

Module 7
Configuring Network Access

• Network Access Policies (NAP)
• Routing and Remote Access Services
• Lab: Installing and configuring Network Access

Module 8
Terminal Services

• Installation and configuration
• Device Redirection
• Remote Experience Improvements
• TS Gateway
• Lab: Installing and configuring Terminal Services

Module 9
IIS 7.0

• Overview of Technical Differences
• Configuration Concepts
• IIS 7.0 Administrative Interface
• Controlling Delegation
• IIS 7.0 Configuration File Schema
• Lab: Deploying IIS 7.0

Module 9
IIS 7.0

• Overview of Technical Differences
• Configuration Concepts
• IIS 7.0 Administrative Interface
• Controlling Delegation
• IIS 7.0 Configuration File Schema
• Lab: Deploying IIS 7.0

Module 10
Upgrading and Migrating from Server 2000 and Server 2003

• Overview of Upgrade Process
• Preparing the Forest schema
• Preparing the Domain Partition
• ADMT
• Lab: Migrating Server 2003 Active Directory to Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services

Module 11
Network Load Balancing

• Overview of Network Load Balancing
• Configuring Network Load Balancing
• Lab: Configuring a Network Load Balanced Web Farm

Module 12
Failover Clustering

• Overview of Failover Clustering
• Configuring Failover Clustering
• Lab: Configuring a High Available Data Source