Free Microsoft Windows Server 2012 70-417 Certification Exam Course Outline

This training video of Windows Server with Time Warner covers Microsoft 70-417 exam. This course is aimed at professionals who have their MCSA: Windows Server 2008 MCITP vs who want to earn your MCSA or MCSE to Windows Server 2012.

Skills recommended:

• MCSA: Windows Server 2008
• Virtualization Manager Windows Server 2008 R2: MCITP
• MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator 2010
• MCITP: Director of Lync Server 2010
• MCITP: SharePoint 2010 Administrator
• MCITP: Enterprise Desktop Administrator Windows 7

Recommended equipment: 

• Windows Server 2012
• Associated Certifications:
• MCSA: Windows Server 2012
• MCSE: Server Infrastructure
• MCSE: Desktop Infrastructure

Employment-related functions:

• IT professionals

Having a Windows Server 2008 certification, but want to upgrade to Server 2012? Start with this course.

Microsoft 70-417 exam, improve your skills MCSA Windows Server 2012 is a prerequisite for Windows Server 2008 MCITP MCSA or who want to win, either the Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) and Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) on Windows Server titles 2012. the content of this course (and associated examination) covers three additional Microsoft IT Pro certs: revision 410 (Installation and configuration of Windows Server 2012); 411 exam (Administering Microsoft Windows Server 2012); and review 412 (Windows Server 2012 Advanced Configuration Services).

1. Course Introduction
Topics covered: Nutshell history of Microsoft certification; How to upgrade your current MCSE or MCITP; How best to approach this course; Tips for exam success.

2. Installing Windows Server 2012 Servers
Topics covered: Plan for server installation; Plan for server roles; Plan for a server upgrade; Install Server Core; Optimize resource utilization by using Features on Demand.

3. Configuring Windows Server 2012 Servers
Topics covered: Configure Server Core; Add and remove features in offline images; Deploy roles on remote servers; Configure services; Configure NIC teaming; Configure WinRM; Configure multi-server management; Configure Windows Firewall.

4. Installing Domain Controllers
Topics covered: Add or remove a domain controller from a domain; Upgrade a domain controller; Install Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) on a Server Core installation; Install a domain controller from install from media (IFM); Solve DNS SRV record registration issues; Configure a Global Catalog server

5. Configuring Domain Controllers
Topics covered: Configure Universal Group Membership Caching (UGMC); Transfer and seize operations masters; Install and configure a read-only domain controller (RODC); Configure Domain Controller cloning
 

6. Maintaining Active Directory
Topics covered: Back up Active Directory and SYSVOL; Manage Active Directory offline; Optimize an Active Directory database; Clean up metadata; Configure Active Directory snapshots; Perform object- and container-level recovery; Perform Active Directory restore (non-authoritative and authoritative)

7. Configuring Group Policy Processing
Topics covered: Configure processing order and precedence; Configure blocking of inheritance; Configure enforced policies; Configure security filtering and WMI filtering; Configure loopback processing; Configure and manage slow-link processing; Configure client-side extension (CSE) behavior

8. Configuring Local Storage
Topics covered: Design storage spaces; Configure basic and dynamic disks; Configure MBR and GPT disks; Manage volumes; Create and mount virtual hard disks (VHDs); Configure storage pools and disk pools

9. Configuring and Managing Backups
Topics covered: Configure Windows Server backups; Configure Windows Online backups; Configure role-specific backups; Manage VSS settings using VSSAdmin; Create System Restore snapshots

10. Monitoring Servers
Topics covered: Configure Data Collector Sets (DCS); Configure alerts; Monitor real-time performance; Monitor virtual machines (VMs); Monitor events; Configure event subscriptions; Configure network monitoring

11. Deploying and Managing IPAM
Topics covered: Understand IP Address Management (IPAM) in Windows Server 2012; Configure IPAM by using Group Policy; Configure server discovery; Create and manage IP address blocks; Delegate IPAM administration

12. Configuring DirectAccess
Topics covered: DirectAccess improvements in Windows Server 2012; Implement server requirements; Implement client configuration; Install, configure, and test DirectAccess

13. Configuring Network Access Protection (NAP)
Topics covered: What's new and what's changed with NAP in Windows Server 2012; Configure SHVs and healh policies; Configure NAP enforcement; Configure client-side components via Group Policy; Testing NAP

14. Implementing Dynamic Access Control (DAC)
Topics covered: Configure user and device claims; Implement policies; Perform access-denied remediation; Configure file classification (tagging) with resource properties

15. Implementing Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) v2.1
Topics covered: Implementing claims-based authentication; Configure claims provider trust rules; Configure attribute stores; Manage AD FS certificates; Configure AD FS proxy

16. Configuring Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2012
Topics covered: What does "high availability" mean? Basics of clustering technologies; Configuring cluster networking; Configuring cluster storage; Configuring the quorum; Upgrading a cluster; Configuring failover and preference settings; Restoring a single node or cluster configuration

17. Advanced Failover Clustering and Highly Available Hyper-V
Topics covered: Cluster-aware updating; Node drain; VM live migration; Cluster validation testing; Multi-site clustering

18. Managing Virtual Machine Settings and Storage
Topics covered: Creating and editing VHD and VHDX files; Understanding SMB 3.0; Using snapshots; Configuring dynamic memory and smart paging; Implementing resource metering; Installing guest integration services; Using differencing drives and shared storage (including Storage Spaces)

19. Creating and Configuring Virtual Networks
Topics covered: Hyper-V virtual switches; Synthetic network adapters; Network isolation; Network virtualization; Hyper-V network performance best practices

20. Managing Virtual Machine Movement Topics covered: Hyper-V replica; Shared Nothing Live Migration; Quick Migration; VM import and export; P2V and V2P scenarios