Windows Server Administration- Advanced

Module 1: Installing, upgrading, and migrating servers and workloads

1. Introducing Windows Server
2. Preparing and installing Server Core
3. Preparing for upgrades and migrations
4. Migrating server roles and workloads
5. Windows Server activation models
6. Configuring Active directory domain services,
7. certificate services and rights management services

Module 2: Configuring local storage

1. Managing disks in Windows Server
2. Managing volumes in Windows Server

Module 3: Implementing enterprise storage solutions

1. Overview of DAS, NAS, and SANs
2. Comparing Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet
3. Understanding iSNS, DCB, and MPIO
4. Configuring sharing in Windows Server 2016

Module 4: Implementing Storage Spaces and Data DE duplication

1. Implementing Storage Spaces
2. Managing Storage Spaces
3. Implementing Data Deduplication

Module 5: Installing and configuring Hyper-V and virtual machines

1. Overview of Hyper-V
2. Installing Hyper-V
3. Configuring storage on Hyper-V host servers
4. Configuring networking on Hyper-V host servers
5. Configuring Hyper-V virtual machines
6. Managing virtual machines

Module 6: Deploying and managing Windows and Hyper-V containers

1. • Overview of containers in Windows Server
2. Deploying Windows Server and Hyper-V containers
3. Installing, configuring, and managing containers by using Docker

Module 7: Overview of high availability and disaster recovery

1. Defining levels of availability
2. Planning high availability and disaster recovery solutions with Hyper-V virtual machines
3. Backing up and restoring by using Windows Server Backup
4. High availability with failover clustering in Windows Server 2016

Module 8: Implementing failover clustering

1. Planning a failover cluster
2. Creating and configuring a new failover cluster
3. Maintaining a failover cluster
4. Troubleshooting a failover cluster
5. Implementing site high availability with stretch clustering

Module 9: Implementing failover clustering with Windows Server

1. Overview of the integration of Hyper-V Server 2016 with failover clustering
2. Implementing Hyper-V VMs on failover clusters•
3. Key features for VMs in a clustered environment

Module 10: Implementing Network Load Balancing

1. Overview of NLB
2. Configuring an NLB cluster
3. Planning an NLB implementation

Module 11: Creating and managing deployment images

1. Introduction to deployment images
2. Creating and managing deployment images by using MDT
3. Virtual machine environments for different workloads

Module 12: Managing, monitoring, and maintaining virtual machine installations

1. WSUS overview and deployment options
2. Update management process with WSUS
3. Overview of Windows PowerShell DSC
4. Overview of Windows Server 2016 monitoring tools
5. Deep Dive on Performance Monitor• Monitoring event logs

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