828 Deploying and Supporting Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0

This five-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills required to deploy and support Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) version 2.0, Service Pack 2. Students will learn how to design a site, including organizing a site hierarchy and planning for resource needs. Students will install different types of sites, establish a site hierarchy, configure site-to-site communications, and install clients in multiple sites. Students will learn how to troubleshoot problems in site installation, client installation, site-to-site communications, and each of the key features of SMS 2.0. They will trace a task from its initiation through to its completion, by following the various threads that take part in carrying out the task. Students will use Network Monitor to trace network traffic associated with SMS tasks.

This course supports the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer certification program.

• At the end of the course, students will be able to install a primary and secondary site server; use the appropriate diagnostic tool when troubleshooting problems in an SMS site; configure a site hierarchy; configure site-to-site communications; integrate Novell NetWare servers in an SMS site; configure SMS and simple network management protocol (SNMP) integration; configure site system roles; manage clients and site systems in multiple sites; diagnose and resolve problems with SMS functions; optimize and maintain Microsoft SQL Server for SMS; back up and restore an SMS site; define an SMS site; analyze resource requirements to implement a site; and help protect an SMS site.

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.