Windows 2000 Active Directory Design: Active Directory Security/Replication Strategy

This course helps you plan your use of Active Directory in Windows 2000, through a discussion of Active Directory security and replication strategies. The course explains group policies, different types of group policy objects (GPOs), group policy inheritance and precedence, and how to administer and manage a group policy. Learn about operations masters, their relation to domain controllers, and how to decide on the appropriate placement of operations masters. Become familiar with Active Directory replication through a discussion of the difference between replication and synchronization, how to prevent unnecessary replication and resolve conflicts, replication between sites and within a site, connection objects, automatic topology generation, modification of replication topology, replication partitions, and how to measure replication traffic on the network. This course describes how to manage replication traffic using sites, with explanations of how to generate replication topology, and how to create and manage sites, subnets, site links, and site link bridges.

Active Directory Security/Replication Strategy training covers such topics as:

Planning for Security
Planning Operations Master and Servers
Explaining Active Directory Replication
Discussing the Active Directory Replication Model
Managing Replication Traffic using Sites

This course addresses the training needs of system administrators and network designers and IT consultants. The course also addresses the needs of IT professionals who want to be certified under the new MCSE track.

Completion of this course and the other Course titles from this curriculum prepares the learner for Microsoft Exam #70-219: Designing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure.

Description
This course helps you plan your use of Active Directory in Windows 2000, through a discussion of Active Directory security and replication strategies. First, the course explains group policies, different types of group policy objects (GPOs), group policy inheritance and precedence, and how to administer and manage a group policy. You will learn about operations masters, their relation to domain controllers, and how to decide on the appropriate placement of operations masters. Next, you will learn about Active Directory replication through a discussion of the difference between replication and synchronization, how to prevent unnecessary replication and resolve conflicts, replication between sites and within a site, connection objects, automatic topology generation, modification of replication topology, replication partitions, and how to measure replication traffic on the network. This course also covers how to manage replication traffic using sites, with explanations of how to generate replication topology, and how to create and manage sites, subnets, site links, and site link bridges. Related Exam: Microsoft Exam #070-219: Designing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure.
Audience
This course addresses the training needs of system administrators, network designers, and IT consultants. This course also addresses the needs of IT professionals who want to be certified under the new MCSE track.
Prerequisites
This course assumes the learners are experienced technical support personnel or network administrators, and have prior knowledge of creating and maintaining user accounts and computer accounts on Microsoft operating system platforms. They should know how to configure network services such as DHCP, DNS, and domains. The learners should also have a working knowledge of software installation over a network.
Course Duration
» 5 hours
Topics Include
Unit 1: Planning for Security
» Discussing Group Policy Objects
» Explaining Group Policy Precedence
» Controlling Group Policy
» Managing Group Policy
Everything Courseware
Windows 2000 Active Directory Design: Active Directory Security & Replication Strategies
Unit 2: Planning Operations Master and Servers
» Discussing the Types of Operations Master
» Planning Operations Master Roles
» Planning Server Locations
Unit 3: Explaining Active Directory Replication
» Introducing Active Directory Replication
» Resolving Replication Problems
» Identifying Replication Goals and Strategies
Unit 4: Discussing the Active Directory Replication Model
» Planning Replication Partitions
» Resolving Replication Concerns
» Explaining Replication Options
» Measuring Replication Traffic
Unit 5: Managing Replication Traffic using Sites
» Using Sites in Active Directory Replication
» Planning the Site Structure
» Configuring Sites
» Configuring Replication in Active Directory
» Planning Sites to Control Traffic

System Requirements CD-Based » Pentium class computer » 200 MHz processor (266 MHz recommended) » 32 MB RAM (64 MB recommended) » CD-ROM drive » Any one of Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 or Windows XP (both Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 require at least 64 MB RAM) » SVGA monitor capable of 16-bit color and 800 x 600 screen resolution » Sound card with speakers or headphones (optional)