CBT Nuggets Microsoft Windows Server 2012

Welcome to Microsoft Windows Server 2012/R2 70-410: Installing and Configuring Server 2012/R2. In this Nugget, James introduces you to all the new features of Windows Server 2012/R2 and provides a road map of the course.

In this Nugget, you will learn how to install and configure servers, including how to plan for a server installation; plan for server roles; plan for a server upgrade; install Server Core; and migrate roles from previous versions of Windows Server. You also will learn some basic PowerShell commands.

This Nugget covers how to optimize resource utilization by using Features on Demand. You'll also learn how to configure a Server Core; add and remove features in offline images; deploy roles on remote servers; convert Server Core to/from full GUI; and perform a minimal server install.

Learn how to configure a Server Core. Although much of the configuration will be addressed in separate Nuggets via PowerShell cmdlets throughout the course, here we will focus primarily on setting up basic items from the command line using Netsh to change IP address, DNS server address, default gateway, and firewall settings. We also will use the Net User and Net Group commands to add new users and add the users to groups. You also will see how to connect a remote core or computer to a local console such as Computer Management.

In this Nugget, you will learn how to configure WinRM; configure servers for day-to-day management tasks; configure multi-server management; configure Windows Firewall; and manage non-domain joined servers.

James teaches you basic concepts of Active Directory and many of its features and advantages in this Nugget. You'll learn the difference between a domain, tree, forest, federation, forest trust, and a manual trust. You also will learn how to install a domain controller, create single user accounts, organizational units, and join a computer to the domain.

In this Nugget, you will learn to create, copy, configure, and delete users and computers; configure templates; configure user rights; use offline domain join (djoin.exe); and manage inactive and disabled accounts. Several tasks will be accomplished using the new Active Directory Administrative Center (ADAM).

In this Nugget, you will learn how to deploy Active Directory infrastructure as a service (IaaS) in Windows Azure. This includes understanding the difference between Azure's existing Active Directory, password synchronization, and an actual installation of your own domain controller in an Azure virtual machine. You also will see an introduction to how to configure Azure network properties and virtual machines.

This Nugget continues the discussion of installing domain controllers, and adds methods such as using PowerShell to install new forests or additional domains. You also will learn how to create IFM (Install from Media) data to install a domain controller without depending on a slow WAN link. You will learn how to demote a domain controller from the UI or PowerShell. Upgrading a Windows Server 2008 domain controller is likely to be a common task and you will see how to do this successfully. You also will see where SRV records are kept and learn the importance of them, as well as how to automatically recreate them. Although we've discussed the global catalog, trusts, and federations previously, more detail is provided here. Finally, we'll look at some new features of Active Directory.

We'll learn to automate the creation of Active Directory accounts and perform bulk Active Directory operations using tools such as LDIFDE, CSVDE, DSADD, DSMOD, DSGET, DSQUERY, and DSRM. You also will learn a basic PowerShell script that you can use with a comma separated value file (CSV) to bulk import user accounts.

In this Nugget, we will create and manage Active Directory groups, configure group nesting; convert groups including security, distribution, universal, domain local, and domain global; and create, configure, and delete groups.

In this Nugget, we continue our discussion of security groups. You will learn to manage group membership using Group Policy; delegate the creation and management of Active Directory objects; manage default Active Directory containers; and create, copy, configure, and delete groups and OUs. In addition, you will learn how to use redirusr and redircmp to change default user and computer locations.

It's time to learn the basics of group policy. Then, we'll focus on local group policy and see a few demonstrations of how it works. In addition, you will see how multiple local group policy work to make exceptions for administrators, non-administrators, and specific accounts.

Learn more about how policies apply, including when user policy and computer policy refreshes; how to manually refresh using gpupdate; PowerShell cmdlet invoke-gpupdate; and refreshing an entire OU. You also will learn about the importance of the PolicyDefinitions folder and the Central Store.

In this Nugget, you will learn about the scope of management of a GPO (also known as order of inheritance). You also will learn the difference between policy and a preference. Finally, you will learn what a starter GPO is and how to use it.

Group Police continues in this Nugget, where you will learn to configure Security Options settings; configure Security templates; configure Audit Policy; configure User Account Control (UAC); work with Security Configuration and Analysis; and Security Templates snap-ins.

In this Nugget, you will learn to configure rule enforcement; configure Applocker rules; and configure Software Restriction Policies.

This final Group Policy Nugget shows you how to configure rules for multiple profiles using Group Policy; configure connection security rules; configure Windows Firewall to allow or deny applications, scopes, ports, and users; configure authenticated firewall exceptions; and import and export settings.

In this Nugget, you will learn to configure IP address options, subnetting, and supernetting. You also will learn important IPv4 essentials such as Class A, Class B, and Class C address ranges and default subnet masks, private IP address ranges, and Automatic Private IP Addresses (APIPA).

We did IPv4 in the previous Nugget, so it must be time for IPv6! In this Nugget, you will learn the IPv6 addressing scheme, learn the various IPv6 address types, configure interoperability between IPv4 and IPv6, and configure ISATAP; configure Teredo.

This Nugget is chock-full of DHCP. We'll install a DHCP server; create and configure scopes; configure a DHCP reservation; configure DHCP options; configure client and server for PXE boot; configure DHCP relay agent; authorize DHCP server; backup and restore the DHCP database; reconcile the DHCP database, and configure both hot standby and load sharing mode failover methods.

In this Nugget, we configure Active Directory integration of primary zones; configure primary and secondary zones; perform zone transfers; configure additional DNS servers for a specific zone; configure forwarders; configure Root Hints; manage DNS cache; create A and PTR resource records; and work with the nslookup tool.

In this Nugget, you will learn how to use Desired State Configuration and leverage PowerShell and new cmdlets available in R2 and Windows 8.1. These cmdlets can be used to configure virtually every aspect of a Windows computer, including services, features, roles, files, registry settings, and much more. Also, problems with configuration drift in which a server's state changes can be quickly and regularly be brought back into line with Desired State Configuration.

In this virtualization-based Nugget, we'll look at the benefits of virtualization and the requirements for running Hyper-V. You will learn to: Create and configure virtual machine settings; configure dynamic memory; configure smart paging; configure Resource Metering; configure guest integration services; create and configure virtual machine storage; create VHDs and VHDX; configure differencing drives; modify VHDs; configure pass-through disks; manage snapshots; implement a virtual Fibre Channel adapter; create and configure virtual networks; implement Hyper-V network virtualization; configure Hyper-V virtual switches; optimize network performance; configure MAC addresses; configure network isolation; and configure synthetic and legacy virtual network adapters.

In this Nugget, you will learn how to Create and configure Generation 1 and 2 virtual machines; configure and use extended session mode; configure storage quality of service (QoS); and configure NIC teaming in virtual machines.

In this Nugget, you will learn: FAT, FAT32, NTFS, and Resilient file systems (ReFS); configure basic and dynamic disks; striped set; RAID-0, RAID-1 Mirroring, and RAID-5 Stripe set with Parity; configure MBR and GPT disks; manage volumes; create and mount virtual hard disks (VHDs); configure storage pools and disk pools; and design storage spaces.

In this Nugget, you will learn how to use Storage Spaces and enclosures. This enables you to use JBOD disks populated with HDD and SSD drives to configure two storage tiers for fast and slow storage.

In this Nugget, you will learn how to: Create and configure shares; configure share permissions; configure NTFS permissions; configure access-based enumeration (ABE); learn the order of inheritance; calculate effective permissions; and remove and apply inheritance permissions.

Offline files, quotas, and Volume Shadow Copy Service are vital additional storage features. In this Nugget, you will learn how to configure offline files; configure Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS); and configure NTFS quotas.

In this Nugget, you will learn how to use Work Folders to provide user files to the user regardless of what type of PC or device they use. Work Folders synchronizes and keeps the files up-to-date, even on non-domain joined devices.

We wrap up the course with a Nugget on configuring print services. We'll discuss the benefits of network printers, plus you will learn all about printer configuration, including the Easy Print print driver; Enterprise Print Management; drivers; printer pooling; print priorities; and printer permission. We'll also cover how to manage drivers and forms.