Course Length:

3 Days

Course Description:

This three-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills that are needed to effectively maintain server resources, monitor server performance, and safeguard data on a computer running one of the operating systems in the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family.

Who Should Attend:

This course is intended for individuals who are employed as or seeking employment as a systems administrator or systems engineer.

Benefits of Attendance:

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Prepare to administer server resources
• Configure a server to monitor system performance
• Monitor system performance
• Manage device drivers by configuring device driver signing and restoring a device driver
• Manage hard disks
• Manage data storage
• Manage disaster recovery.
• Maintain software by using Microsoft Software Update Services
• Maintain Windows Server 2003 security.

Prerequisites:

Before attending this course, students must have completed a course in Managing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment, or have equivalent knowledge and skills.

Course Outline:

• Preparing to Administer a Server
  1. Introduction to Administering a Server
  2. Configuring Remote Desktop to Administer a Server
  3. Managing Remote Desktop Connections
  4. Lab A: Preparing to Administer a Server
  5. Enabling Remote Desktop
  6. Creating a Shared Folder on a Remote Computer
  7. Connecting to a Remote Console Session
  8. Creating runas Shortcuts to Administration Tools
• Preparing to Monitor Server Performance
  1. Introduction to Monitoring Server Performance
  2. Performing Real-Time and Logged Monitoring
  3. Configuring and Managing Counter Logs
  4. Configuring Alerts
  5. Lab A: Preparing to Monitor Server Performance
  6. Selecting the Appropriate Monitoring Technique
• Monitoring Server Performance
  1. Multimedia: The Primary Server Subsystems
  2. Monitoring Server Memory
  3. Monitoring Processor Usage
  4. Monitoring Disks
  5. Monitoring Network Usage
  6. Monitoring Best Practices
  7. Lab A: Monitoring Server Performance
  8. Create and Configure Alerts
  9. Configure the Messaging Service
  10. Finding a High CPU Usage Process
  11. Finding a High Memory Usage Process
• Maintaining Device Drivers
  1. Configuring Device Driver Signing Options
  2. Using Device Driver Rollback
• Managing Disks
  1. Preparing Disks
  2. Managing Disk Properties
  3. Managing Mounted Drives
  4. Converting Disks
  5. Creating Volumes
  6. Creating Fault-Tolerant Volumes
  7. Importing a Foreign Disk
  8. Lab A: Managing Disks
  9. Recovering from a Failed Mirrored Drive
• Managing Data Storage
  1. Managing File Compression
  2. Configuring File Encryption
  3. Configuring EFS Recovery Agents
  4. Implementing Disk Quotas
  5. Lab A: Managing Data Storage
  6. Troubleshooting Disk-Quota Entries
  7. Recovering an Encrypted File
• Managing Disaster Recovery
  1. Preparing for Disaster Recovery
  2. Backing Up Data
  3. Scheduling Backup Jobs
  4. Restoring Data
  5. Configuring Shadow Copies
  6. Recovering from Server Failure
  7. Lab A: Managing Disaster Recovery
  8. Backing Up the System State Data
  9. Recovering from a Corrupt Registry by Using Last Known Good Configuration
  10. Recovering from a Corrupt Registry by Restoring System State Data
• Software Maintenance Using Windows Server Update Services
  1. Introduction to Windows Server Update Services
  2. Installing and Configuring Windows Server Update Services
  3. Managing Windows Server Update Services
  4. Lab A: Software Maintenance Using Windows Server Update Services
  5. Create a Test Computer Group
  6. View the Status of Updates and Computers
  7. Back up WSUS
• Software Maintenance Using Windows Server Update Services
  1. Introduction to Securing Servers
  2. Implementing Core Server Security
  3. Hardening Servers
  4. Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
  5. Lab A: Software Maintenance Using Windows Server Update Services
  6. Using the Security Configuration Wizard
  7. Configuring a Group Policy Object for Member Servers
  8. Scanning a Range of Computers by Using MBSA