Windows Server 2012 Active Directory: Management and Implementation

Learn how to administer an Active Directory environment across multiple locations, and replicate across the domain.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. Windows Server 2012: Overview and Installation

• Windows Server 2012 overview
• Introduction to Windows PowerShell
• Installing Windows Server 2012
• Post-installation configuration of Windows Server 2012

2. Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Overview and Installation

• Overview of AD DS
• Installing AD DS
• Operations masters

3. Working with the Domain Name System (DNS) and Domain Controllers in Windows Server 2012

• Read-only domain controllers
• Virtualizing domain controllers

4. Providing Name Resolution Using DNS

• DNS overview and installation

5. Working with Trusts in Windows Server 2012

• Trusts overview
• Default trusts
• Trusts summary

6. Planning, Creating, and Maintaining AD DS Objects

• Active directory tools
• Creating and managing organizational units (OUs)
• Creating and managing user objects
• Creating and managing computer accounts

7. Active Directory and Group Policy

• Working with managed service accounts
• Maintaining the Active Directory (AD) database

8. Creating and Managing AD DS Objects Using the Command Line and PowerShell

• Using command-line tools
• Using PowerShell to create and manage AD DS objects
• Performing bulk operations

9. Groups

• Creating and managing groups

10. Advanced AD DS concepts

• AD sites
• Creating AD sites and site links
• Global catalog servers and universal group caching
• Replication
• Site link bridging
• Tools used to manage replication

11. Introduction to Group Policy

• Group policies overview
• Exploring the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC)