Designing a Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure

About this class

This three day course will prepare IT professionals 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.

This training may be available onsite; please contact us if you are interested.

Who will the lesson benefit?

The primary audience for this course is IT professionals (including Windows 2000/2003 enterprise administrators) interested in becoming a Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Administrator with a focus on application infrastructure such as web and terminal services.

The secondary audience for this course is Application Architects who want to know more about how to integrate Windows Server 2008 technologies into enterprise applications.

What delegates will learn

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Design 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.
• Design a Windows Media Services installation 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.

Examination details

This course will prepare you for the following exams and certification tracks shown. Please note that the exam may not be included in the price shown: please contact us to check.

Microsoft® Certification Tracks  »
    Microsoft® Exams  »
       Exam 70-647: PRO: Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Administrator
       Elective (MCBMSP : Installation and Deployment for Microsoft® Dynamics CRM 4.0)
       Elective (MCBMSP : Installation and Deployment for Microsoft® Dynamics CRM 4.0)
       Elective (MCBMSP - Installation and Deployment for Microsoft® Dynamics CRM 4.0)  »
          Exam 70-647: PRO: Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Administrator

What prerequisites are required

Before attending this course, students must have one or more of the following:

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

Contents of this class

Module 1: Designing IIS Web Farms

Students will learn the process of designing IIS Web Farms with Windows 2008 and IIS 7. They will learn how to select the appropriate hardware and software platforms. You will learn techniques to leverage Web Farm Availability and Scalability. They will also learn how to select the proper storage.

Module 2: Optimizing IIS Performance and Stability

The students will learn about Optimizing IIS Performance and Stability.

Module 3: Designing IIS Security

In this module students will learn to establish and maintain very tight security using Microsoft IIS 7.0.

Module 4: Design IIS Maintenance and UDDI

The students will learn how to plan for an IIS installation, taking into account these new features. They will also learn how to deploy UDDI services.

Module 5: Designing a Terminal Services Infrastructure

The Students will learn how to design a terminal services infrastructure including how to design a terminal services licensing strategy and how to design for remote access with TS Gateways, TS Session Broker, RemoteApp programs, and TS Web Access.

Module 6: Designing a Terminal Services Maintenance Strategy

The students will be introduced to design and implementation planning using WSRM policies for application resource and reporting. We will also discuss group policy settings for terminal servers and how to design high availability for terminal services. Finally, we will specify monitoring, maintenance, and recovery requirements and procedures for terminal services.

Module 7: Design Windows Media Services Infrastructure Administration

The students will learn about designing Windows Media Services in Windows Server 2008. They will become familiarized with live and on-demand content delivery.

Module 8: Design Virtualization Infrastructure

The students will implement virtualization to consolidate servers, deploy branch office infrastructure servers, support legacy applications, and create a test environment.

Module 9: Designing Virtualization Provisioning

The students will learn how to determine virtualization appropriateness and virtual server provisioning. Students will also learn the importance of customizing virtual servers to standard configurations and also learn about virtual server deployment.