Managing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Environment Course -
Course Overview

This 5 day course is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to administer, support, and troubleshoot information systems that incorporate Microsoft Windows 2000 in an enterprise network.

Managing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Environment Course -
Testing and Certification 

Microsoft certification exam: 70-218. Core toward MCSA, elective towards MCSE

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Managing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Environment Course -
Course Prerequisites

Candidates must have attended the Windows 2000 Professional & Server Support course or have attained sufficient knowledge of Professional and Server by hands on experience

Managing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Environment Course -
Course Objectives and Content

Upon completion of the Managing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Environment Course course, the delegate will be able to:

• Understand both the logical and physical structure of Active Directory.
• Delegate administrative authority of domain and or OU.
• Publish shared resources in Active Directory including printers and shared folders. The maintenance of the shared resources.
• Install components of IIS, create web sites, virtual directories, ftp sites. Configure permissions and authentication for IIS clients.
• Install and configure DHCP server including, leases, authorizing, creating scopes and superscopes, client reservations, and relay agent, in both a routed and non-routed network.
• Understand name resolution mechanisms using lmhosts file, host file, NetBIOS, wins and dns.
• Troubleshoot name resolution problems using ipconfig, ping, tracert, nslookup, nbtstat and net commands.
• Installing and configuring DNS, including setting up zones of authority, zone files, zone transfers, subdomains, dynamic update service, integration with active directory, service records and troubleshooting.
• Setup RRAS to use VPN's, EAP, PPP, remote access, dial-up connections and data encryption (ipsec and pptp).
• Manage remote access using remote access policies.
• Understand active directory replication process both inter and intra site, latency, operation master roles and failures.
• Use group policy to delegate authority, gpo linking, inheritance, processing, permissions, control user desktops and apply software to user desktops.
• Trouble client and server startup and logon problems using advanced startup options, system configuration utility, last known good, recovery console and the netdiag utility

The course covers all the objectives within the following key topics:

• Overview of Windows 2000 Network Administration
• Shared Network Resource Administration
• Managing Web Services
• Managing DHCP
• Name Resolution Mechanisms
• DNS Management
• Supporting Remote Access
• Managing Remote Access Policies
• Active Directory Replication
• Delegating Administrative Authority
• Supporting Group Policy
• Controlling The User Desktop Using Group Policy
• Managing Network Security
• Troubleshooting Startup and Logon