Windows 2000 Directory Design - Online Course

This series prepares users for the implementation of Windows 2000 and Active Directory, focusing on matching business requirements with Windows 2000 features. Some of the features examined include security, DNS, group policies, and workstation management. Users also learn to design the Active Directory's domains, Organizational Units, sites, and service locations.

This online course contains 13 lessons and should take approximately 35 hours to complete.

Lesson 1: Analyzing Business Requirements (4.0) hours

Analyzing Business Requirements teaches you how to analyze business requirements, examine a company's model and geographical scope, identify key company processes, and determine strategy influences. This course explains how to conduct a business assessment by identifying key company processes and strategy influences and by defining problems and objectives. Topics include Conducting a Business Assessment, Problems and Objectives, Company Organization, Geographical Scope, Key Processes, and Strategy Influences.

Lesson 2: Analyzing the Technical Environment (3.0) hours

Analyzing the Technical Environment teaches you how to analyze the structure of IT management, analyze a company's funding and outsourcing practices, assess the available users and connectivity between locations, assess a company's equipment inventory, and analyze the network's name resolution services. This course explains how to determine how a company's IT management structure will affect the Active Directory design project. The course also reviews how to examine the company's technical environment. Topics include Analyzing the IT Management Structure, Funding and Outsourcing, Examining Users and Connections, Inventorying Equipment, and Name Resolution Services.

Lesson 3: Analyzing Performance and Access (3.0) hours

Analyzing Performance and Access teaches you how to analyze network performance and performance requirements, analyze data and system access patterns, analyze network roles and responsibilities, plan for data collection, create a performance baseline, log System Monitor data, determine and solve common bottlenecks, determine a feasible response time, and implement a performance and trending standard. This course explains how to examine the network's current performance and the procedures to access the network. Topics include Planning for Data Collection, Logging System Monitor Data, Common Bottlenecks, Network Bottlenecks, Completing the Performance Analysis, and Performance Roles and Enhancements.

Lesson 4: Analyzing Security Considerations (3.0) hours

Analyzing Security Considerations teaches you how to analyze security considerations, and implement security features in the Active Directory design. This course explains how to use the features of Windows 2000 and Active Directory to fulfill a company's network security requirements. Topics include Windows 2000 Authentication, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Active Directory and Security, Securing Data Transmissions, and Security in the Enterprise.

Lesson 5: Analyzing the Impact of Active Directory (3.0) hours

Analyzing the Impact of Active Directory teaches you how to assess existing systems and applications, identify existing and planned upgrades and rollouts, analyze the technical support structure, and analyze existing and planned network and systems management. This course shows the user how to assess how an Active Directory design will change the performance and design of a network. Topics include Performing an Application Inventory, Problem Applications and Solutions, Removing NetBIOS, Technical Support Structure, and Network and Systems Management.

Lesson 6: Analyzing Client Management Requirements (2.0) hours

Analyzing Client Management Requirements teaches you how to analyze end-user work needs, identify technical support needs for end-users, establish the required client computer environment, analyze the business requirements for client computer desktop management, identify the characteristics and requirements for Remote OS installation, describe the requirements for RIS, use Server Management System to remotely manage desktops, and implement folder redirection. This course explains how to identify end-user needs, install and manage software remotely, and manage desktops. Topics include End-User Needs and Desktop Management, Software Installation and Maintenance, Remote OS Installation, and Remote Desktop Management.

Lesson 7: Directory Naming and DNS Placement (4.0) hours

Directory Naming and DNS Placement teaches you how to design an Active Directory naming strategy, establish the scope of the Active Directory, design the namespace, and plan a DNS strategy. This course shows users how to design an Active Directory naming strategy and to place DNS servers in the design. Topics include DNS Design Concepts, DNS Components, DNS and Active Directory, Namespace Planning, and Complex Namespace Considerations.

Lesson 8: Designing Directory Service Architecture (3.0) hours

Designing Directory Service Architecture teaches you how to design an Active Directory forest and schema structure, design a domain structure, and analyze and optimize trust relationships. This course examines how to plan and implement domain architecture. Topics include Domain Design Concepts, Beginning the Design Process, Rules of Domain Creation, Planning the Active Directory Root, and Parent/Child and Trust Relationships.

Lesson 9: Designing a Site Topology and Service Locations (2.0) hours

Designing a Site Topology and Service Locations teaches you how to use sites, place operations masters in the Active Directory design, determine the optimal location for global catalog servers, and analyze the use of domain controllers. This course shows users how to plan service locations, such as operations masters, global catalog servers, and DNS servers. Topics include Creating a Site Plan, Planning a Site Structure, Operations Masters, and Using Operations Masters.

Lesson 10: Designing an OU Management Structure (2.0) hours

Designing an OU Management Structure teaches you how to design and plan the structure of organizational units (OUs), examine considerations that affect organizational unit structures, identify the various OU structure types, identify the Active Directory security components, and develop an OU delegation policy. This course explains how to organize and manage organizational units in the Active Directory design. Topics include Organizational Units, Designing an OU Structure, Using OU Security, and Developing an OU Delegation Plan.

Lesson 11: Designing a Group Policy Management Structure (2.0) hours

Designing a Group Policy Management Structure teaches you how to plan Group Policy management, and plan policy management for client computers. This course explains how to use group policies to organize and manage elements in the Active Directory design. Topics include How GPOs Work, Using Group Policies, and Creating a Group Policy Management Plan.

Lesson 12: Planning for Coexistence with Other Directories (2.0) hours

Planning for Coexistence with Other Directories teaches you how to recognize ways to integrate Active Directory with UNIX or NetWare's NDS, and plan for using Exchange 5.5 with Active Directory. This course reviews how to plan for using Active Directory in an environment that also includes NetWare NDS or UNIX. The course also examines how to plan for using Active Directory with Exchange 5.5. Topics include Coexisting with NetWare NDS, Planning Coexistence with UNIX, Account Administration for UNIX, and Synchronizing Exchange 5.5 and AD.

Lesson 13: Schema Modification Policy and Implementation Plan (2.0) hours

Schema Modification Policy and Implementation Plan teaches you how to design a schema modification policy, and design an Active Directory implementation plan. This course shows users how to develop a policy for modifying the Active Directory schema and to develop a plan for implementing Active Directory in a network. Topics include Active Directory Schema, Preparing to Modify the Schema, Designing a Schema Modification Policy, and Designing an Implementation Plan.