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In this course, IT professionals will prepare for the role of Enterprise Administrator. Students will learn how to design application infrastructure solutions based on Windows Server 2008 to meet varying business and technical requirements.

The course incorporates material from the Official Microsoft Learning Product 6437: Designing a Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure.

What You'll Learn

• Design Internet Information Services (IIS) 7 web farms
• Optimize IIS 7 for performance and stability
• Design IIS 7 for security
• Design IIS 7 for reliability, recovery, and monitoring
• Design and prepare a Terminal Services infrastructure
• Design a Terminal Services maintenance strategy
• Plan and configure a Windows Media Services infrastructure for live and on-demand delivery
• Implement virtualization to consolidate servers, support legacy applications, and create a test environment
• Determine virtualization appropriateness and virtual server provisioning

Who Needs to Attend

IT professionals (including Windows 2000/2003 enterprise administrators) interested in becoming Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Administrators with a focus on application infrastructure such as Web and Terminal Services

Prerequisites

• Intermediate understanding of networking, including how TCP/IP functions, addressing (including DHCP), name resolution (DNS/WINS), connection methods (wired, wireless, VPN), and NET+ or equivalent knowledge
• Intermediate understanding of network operating systems such as Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, etc.
• Intermediate understanding of security best practices, including file system permissions, authentication methods, Kerberos, etc.
• Intermediate knowledge of server and network hardware
• Conceptual understanding of Active Directory (AD), including terminology and object types
• Hands-on experience with more than one application service such as:
  • IIS
  • Terminal Services
  • Windows Media Service
  • Virtual Server
  • Hyper-V
  • System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Follow-On Courses

There are no follow-ons for this course.

Certification Programs and Certificate Tracks

This course is part of the following programs or tracks:

• MCITP: Enterprise Administrator

Course Outline

1. Designing IIS Web Farms

• Overview of Hardware and Platform Options
• Design Web Farm Availability and Scalability
• Design Content Storage

2. Optimizing IIS Performance and Stability

• Designing Application Pools
• Designing Script Mapping
• Designing Bandwidth Allocation
• Design Web Site Logging

3. Designing IIS Security

• Design and Verify Transport Security
• Design Authentication and Authorization
• Design Delegation Administration

4. Design IIS Maintenance and UDDI

• Designing Internet Information Services Backup and Recovery
• Specify Monitoring Requirements
• Deploying UDDI Services
• Tuning and Troubleshooting IIS 7

5. Designing a Terminal Services Infrastructure

• Design Terminal Services Licensing
• Specify Terminal Services Connection Properties
• Design Device Redirection
• Design Terminal Services Gateways
• Design Terminal Services Broker
• Design RemoteApp Programs
• Design Web Access

6. Designing a Terminal Services Maintenance Strategy

• Design Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM) Policies for Application Resource and Reporting
• Specify Group Policy Settings for Terminal Servers
• Design High Availability
• Specify Monitoring Requirements
• Specify Maintenance and Recovery

7. Design Windows Media Services Infrastructure Administration

• Design Windows Media for Live Streaming
• Windows Media Services for On-Demand Content
• Improving Performance for On-Demand Content
• Monitoring Windows Media Services

8. Design Virtualization Infrastructure

• Virtualization of a Test Server Environment
• Virtualization and Migration of Legacy Applications
• Design and Test a Virtualized Development Environment

9. Designing Virtualization Provisioning

• Design Virtual Server Provisioning Workflow Model
• Evaluate Appropriateness for Virtualization
• Evaluate Customization to Standard Configuration
• Design Deployment for Virtualization

Labs

Lab 1: Designing IIS Web Farms

• Design Hardware Platform
• Design Web Farm Availability and Scalability
• Design Web Site Availability and Scalability
• Design Web Site Configuration, Deployment, and Consistency
• Design Web Site Content, Deployment, and Consistency

Lab 2: Optimizing IIS Performance and Stability

• Design and Test Application Pools
• Design and Test Script Maps
• Design and Test Bandwidth Allocation
• Design and Test Web Site Logging
• Configuring a Web Server to Host Multiple Applications with Separate Application Pools

Lab 3: Designing IIS 7 Security

• Design and Verify Transport Security
• Design and Verify Authentication and Authorization Methods
• Design and Verify Delegation Administration
• Configuring Authentication Types

Lab 4: Design IIS Maintenance and UDDI

• Design a Web Server Backup and Recovery Strategy
• Design and Test Web Server Monitoring
• Design UDDI Deployment
• Troubleshooting Application Pool Instability
• Enabling Shared Configurations
• Configuring Network Load Balancing

Lab 5: Designing a Terminal Services Infrastructure

• Design and Test Terminal Services RemoteApp Programs
• Design and Test Terminal Services Corporate Desktop
• Design and Test Terminal Services Gateway and Web Access
• Design and Test Terminal Services Gateway Policies, Connection Authorization Policies, and Resource Access Policies

Lab 6: Designing Terminal Services Maintenance

• Design and Test Highly Available Terminal Services
• Design and Test Group Policy for Terminal Services
• Design and Test Resource Management for Terminal Services
• Design and Test Monitoring for Terminal Services
• Optimize Terminal Services Performance

Lab 7: Design a Windows Media Services Infrastructure

• Design Windows Media Services for Live Streaming
• Design WMS Infrastructure for On-Demand Content
• Troubleshoot Poor Performance of On-Demand Content
• Design and Test Monitoring of Windows Media Services

Lab 8: Design Virtualization Infrastructure

• Design a Test Server Consolidation Strategy
• Design and Test Virtualization and Migration of Legacy Server
• Design and Test Development Environment Isolation Using Virtual Server

Lab 9: Design Virtualization Provisioning

• Design Virtual Server Host Configuration
• Design Virtual Server Provisioning using System Center