(3 days + 2 days for workshops)
Module 1: Getting started with Windows Server
- What is a computer network?
- Types of computer networks
- Understanding computer network components
- Understanding computer network architectures
- Understanding IP addressing and subnetting
- Understanding server sizes, form factors, and shapes
- Understanding a Network Operating System
- Understanding Windows Server
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Module 2: Introducing Windows Server 2019
- Windows Server 2019 overview
- Windows Server 2019 editions
- Windows Server 2019 versus Server 2016
- Minimum and recommended system requirements
- What's new in Windows Server 2019?
- Lab:
- Downloading Windows Admin Center
- Installing Windows Admin Center
- Exploring the new Windows Admin Center
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Module 3: Installing Windows Server 2019
- Understanding the installation
- Performing various Windows Server 2019 installation methods
- Lab:
- Installing Windows Deployment Services (WDS)
- Setting up WDS
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Module 4: Post-Installation Tasks in Windows Server 2019
- Understanding devices and device drivers
- Working with devices and device drivers
- Getting to know PnP, IRQ, DMA, and driver signing
- Understanding the registry and services
- Working with the registry and services
- Accessing and managing Windows services
- Explaining registry entries, service accounts, and
- Understanding Windows Server initial configuration
- Lab:
- Changing the Server Name
- Joining a Domain
- Enabling Remote Desktop
- Setting up the IP address
- Checking for updates
- Changing the time zone
- Turning off IE enhanced security
- Activating Windows Server
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Module 5: Directory Services in Windows Server 2019
- Understanding the AD infrastructure
- Understanding OUs and containers
- Understanding accounts and groups
- Lab:
- installing the AD DS and DNS roles and promoting the server to a DC
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Module 6: Adding Roles to Windows Server 2019
- Understanding server roles and features
- Understanding application servers
- Understanding web services
- Understanding Remote Access
- Understanding file and print services
- Understanding user rights, NTFS permissions, and share permissions
- Lab:
- Installing the web server (IIS) role
- Installing a PDS role
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Module 7: Group Policy in Windows Server 2019
- Understanding Group Policies
- Lab:
- Renaming the administrator account
- Renaming the guest account
- Blocking the Microsoft accounts
- Prohibiting access to the Control Panel and PC
- settings
- Denying access to all removable storage classes
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Module 8: Virtualization with Windows Server 2019
- Understanding server virtualization
- Getting to know Hyper-V Manager
- Lab:
- Installing the Hyper-V role on Windows Server 2019
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Module 9: Storing Data in Windows Server 2019
- Lab:
- Enabling dedup on Windows Server 2019
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Module 10: Tuning and Maintaining Windows Server 2019
- Server Hardware Components
- Lab:
- Starting the performance logs and alerts service
- Accessing the Performance Monitor logs folder
- Creating performance data logs
- Setting up performance counter alerts
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Module 11: Updating and Troubleshooting Windows Server 2019
- Troubleshooting Methodology
- Lab:
- Setting up centralized monitoring
- Filtering Event Viewer logs
- Changing the default logs location
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Workshops:
- Workshop 1: Testing System Insights on Server 2019
- In this Workshop, you will test functionality of System Insights. You are to install System Insights on multiple 2019 servers and configure another member server as both destination and orchestrator server.
- Workshop 2: Using Windows Admin Center with Server 2019
- In this Workshop, you will test how to use Windows Admin Center to configure a mix of 2019 servers in a domain environment.
- Workshop 3: Storage Spaces and Tiered Storage on Server 2019
- In this Workshop, you will test functionality of Storage Spaces and the creation of Tiered Storage in Windows Server 2019.By using a server 2019 with 5 SSD´s and 5 HDD you will also test disk failure scenario and how NOT to loose data when two disks fails at the same time. You will be using both PowerShell and the Server Manager for this workshop.
- Workshop 4: Dristributed File System on Server 2019
- In this workshop you will create a complete DFS system between two or three 2019 servers.