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Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Services Management Expert Encore

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number

Overview/Description
This course provides students with the skills required to configure and troubleshoot TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP and WINS as well as other components in a Windows 2003 network infrastructure.This course will prepare students for Microsoft Certified Professional Exam 70-291, a core credit for becoming a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

Target Audience
This course is intended for entry-level IT professionals, new to hands-on Windows server and network administration.

Prerequisites
To fully benefit from this course, students should have a broad base of knowledge and competency in core hardware and operating system technologies including installation, configuration, diagnosing, preventive maintenance and basic networking. Additionally, students should be able to describe the features and functions of networking components, and possesses the knowledge and skills needed to install, configure and troubleshoot basic networking hardware, protocols and services. Completion of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment Management and Maintenance, or equivalent knowledge and skills, is highly recommended.

Certification
MCSA 2003, MCSE 2003

Exams
70-291

Included Labs

Network Monitor
Alternate Configuration and APIPA
Name Resolution
Resolving Network Connectivity Issues
Managing Routing and Remote Access
Creating a DHCP Scope
Monitoring the DHCP Server
Viewing Names on a Client Machine
Setting a DNS server as a Forwarder
Configuring DNS and DHCP for Dynamic Updates
Configuring DNS Aging and Scavenging
Using Nslookup and DNSCmd to verify resource records
Assigning an IPSec Policy
Configuring a Remote Access Server for a VPN Connection
Configuring WINS Replication
Configuring a Remote Access Policy
Configuring Authentication and Accounting Logging

Outline
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Services Management

Module 1: Introducing the TCP/IP Protocol Suite

Overview
Overview of the OSI Model
Overview of the TCP/IP Protocol Suite
Viewing Frames Using Network Monitor
Review

Module 2: Assigning IP Addresses in a Multiple Subnet Network

Overview
Assigning IP Addresses
Creating a Subnet
Using IP Routing Tables
Overcoming Limitations of the IP Addressing Scheme
Review

Module 3: Configuring a Client IP Address

Overview
Configuring a Client to Use a Static IP Address
Configuring a Client to Obtain an IP Address Automatically
Using Alternate Configuration
Review

Module 4: Configuring a Client for Name Resolution

Overview
Resolving Client Names
Managing the ARP Cache
Overview of NetBIOS
Using Static Name Resolution
Using Dynamic Name Resolution
Summarizing the Name Resolution Processes
Review

Module 5: Isolating Common Connectivity Issues

Overview
Determining the Causes of Connectivity Issues
Network Utilities That You Can Use to Isolate Connectivity Issues
Review

Module 6: Using Routing and Remote Access to Configure Routing

Overview
Lesson: Enabling and Configuring the Routing and Remote Access Service
Lesson: Configuring Packet Filters

Module 7: Using Dynamic Host configuration Protocol to Allocate IP Addresses

Overview
Lesson: Adding and Authorizing a DHCP Server Service
Lesson: Configuring a DHCP Scope
Lesson: Configuring a DHCP Reservation
Lesson: Configuring DHCP Options
Lesson: Configuring a DHCP Relay Agent

Module 8: Managing and Monitoring Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

Overview
Lesson: Managing a DHCP Database
Lesson: Monitoring DHCP
Lesson: Applying Security Guidelines for DHCP

Module 9: Name Resolution

Overview
Lesson: Viewing Names on a Client
Lesson: Configuring Host Name Resolution
Lesson: Configuring NetBIOS Name Resolution

Module 10: Host Name Resolution Using Domain Name System (DNS)

Overview
Lesson: Installing the DNS Server Service
Lesson: Configuring the Properties for the DNS Server Service
Lesson: Configuring DNS Zones
Lesson: Configuring DNS Zone Transfers
Lesson: Configuring DNS Dynamic Updates
Lesson: Configuring a DNS Client
Lesson: Delegating Authority for Zones

Module 11: Domain Name System (DNS) Management and Monitoring

Overview
Lesson: Configuring the Time-to-Live Value
Lesson: Configuring Aging and Scavenging
Lesson: Integrating DNS with WINS
Lesson: Testing the DNS Server Configuration
Lesson: Verifying that a Resource Record Exists by Using Nslookup, DNSCmd, and DNSLint
Lesson: Monitoring DNS Server Performance

Module 12: NetBIOS Name Resolution Using Windows Internet Name Service (WINS)

Overview
Lesson: Installing and Configuring a WINS Server
Lesson: Managing Records in WINS
Lesson: Configuring WINS Replication
Lesson: Managing the WINS Database

Module 13: Using IPSec and Certificates to Secure Network Traffic

Overview
Lesson: Implementing IPSec
Lesson: Implementing IPSec with Certificates
Lesson: Monitoring IPSec

Module 14: Network Access Configuration

Overview
Lesson: Introduction to a Network Access Infrastructure
Lesson: Configuring a VPN Connection
Lesson: Configuring a Dial-up Connection
Lesson: Configuring a Wireless Connection
Lesson: Controlling User Access to a Network
Lesson: Centralizing Network Access Authentication and Policy Management by Using IAS

Module 15: Network Access Management and Monitoring

Overview
Lesson: Managing the Network Access Services
Lesson: Configuring Logging on a Network Access Server
Lesson: Collecting and Monitoring Network Access Data

Expected Duration (hours)
30.0

Lesson Objectives

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Services Management Expert Encore

Describe the design of the TCP/IP protocol stack

Convert Internet Protocol (IP) addresses from dotted-decimal notation to binary

Determine the correct subnet mask when given the required number of subnets and hosts

Design Variable Length Subnet masks (VLSM)

Design Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR) address structures

Configure static IP addresses and determine when static addressing is appropriate

Identify the proper IP address strategy for networks containing multiple subnets

Describe how IP packets are routed

Configure a host to use DHCP to automatically obtain an IP address

Disable Automatic Private IP Address configuration is disabled

Configure clients to use DNS and WINS servers for name resolution

Troubleshoot connectivity problems in a TC

Decimal to Binary conversion

Classful IP addresses and Private IP address ranges

How and why we use Subnetworks

Calculating the number of Subnets and Hosts available using a custom Subnet mask

Calculating the Network number, broadcast address, and valid range of host addresses when given an IP address and custom Subnet mask

Course Number:
LLMS0014