This course provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to design
a Microsoft Windows 2000 directory services infrastructure in an enterprise
network. Strategies are presented to assist the student in identifying the
information technology needs of an organization, and then designing an Active
Directory structure that meets those needs.
What you will learn
After completing this 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 help protect 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.
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.