Please call (888) 690-8103 to arrange for a special delivery of this course. Most classes required a minimum of 2 to 3 students to be taught. Group discounts are available for larger groups at client’s request. On-site or private classes are also available at clients request in California or throughout the entire US. Clients may also qualify for free training thru our state funded programs.

If you do not see a class listed in our schedules, please contact IDT with your request.

At the end of the course, students will be able to:

• Describe guidelines for gathering business and administrative information from an organization, and explain how an architect uses that information to design an Active Directory structure for an enterprise.
• Design an Active Directory naming strategy that accommodates the organizational structure of a business.
• Develop a plan to secure and delegate administrative authority over Active Directory objects based on the administrative model of an organization.
• Identify business needs and scenarios that may require modification of the Active Directory schema, and plan a policy to govern schema modification.
• Create an Active Directory design based on administrative Group Policy requirements defined by business needs.
• Design an Active Directory domain and the organizational unit hierarchy within the domain.
• Identify situations where a multiple-domain Active Directory structure may be necessary to meet the administrative and security needs of an organization, and then design a structure that meets those needs.
• Design a site topology for managing Active Directory replication that fulfills the administrative needs of an organization, and that optimizes the available bandwidth of the physical network.
• Plan for the design of an Active Directory structure that combines administrative, replication, and naming requirements of an organization.

This course will help the student prepare for the following Microsoft Certified Professional exam:

• Exam 70-219, Designing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure

Before attending this course, students must meet the following requirements:

• Course 1560, Updating Support Skills from Microsoft Windows NT® 4.0 to Microsoft Windows 2000, or equivalent knowledge and skills.
  OR
• Course 2154, Implementing and Administering Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services, or equivalent knowledge and skills.

The course materials, lectures, and lab exercises are in English. To benefit fully from our instruction, students need an understanding of the English language and completion of the prerequisites.

All course materials will be included in a self-extracting file that students will be able to download from the Microsoft Training and Certification Web site.

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server

Day 1

Module 1: Introduction to Designing a Directory Services Infrastructure

Topics:

Role of Active Directory in an Enterprise Network
Conducting an Organizational Analysis
Architectural Elements of Active Directory

Skills:

Students will be able to:

• Describe the function and business benefits of Active Directory in an enterprise network.
• Describe the process of gathering and documenting information from an organization that will impact the design of an Active Directory structure.
• Identify the architectural elements of Active Directory and describe how these elements are used to design an Active Directory structure.