Windows 2000: Administration & Configuration

Course Overview

The course will provide a comprehensive introduction to Windows 2000. Hands-on exercises are used to develop skills required to implement and configure Windows 2000 Professional and Server.

Audience

This course is designed for those responsible for evaluating or supporting Windows 2000, including systems and network administrators and support professionals.

Skills Gained

On completion of the course delegates will be able to:

• Implement and configure Windows 2000.
• Create logical views using the Distributed File System.
• Use the Active Directory Service
• Manage the Windows 2000 enterprise.
• Organise users and groups.
• Organise administration hierarchically.
• Establish local and network resource security.
• Migrate to Windows 2000 from previous versions of NT.

Prerequisites

Prior experience with Windows NT 4 is not assumed, but would be useful.

Course Outline

FEATURES OF WINDOWS 2000

• Windows 2000 architecture
• Active Directory services
• Domains, Trusts, Trees and Forests
• Multimaster replication
• Kerberos security
• Microsoft Management Console

WINDOWS 2000 DISTRIBUTED SERVICES

• Publishing in Active Directory
• Browsing resources
• Maximizing data availability
• User authentication, access control

WINDOWS 2000 FILE SYSTEMS

FAT2 FAT32 and NTFSv5

• Extending file system properties
• Mounting volumes for logical
• views
• File system filters
• Reparse points

CONTROLLING ACCESS TO RESOURCES

• Discretionary Access Control
• Monitoring access through auditing
• Managing inheritance propagation
• Implementing files and folders
• Encrypting files and folders

CREATE AND ACCESS SHARED RESOURCES

• Shared folders &access permissions
• Maximizing data availability
• Fault-tolerant Dfs roots
• Installing and sharing printers

USING ACTIVE DIRECTORY

• Publishing volumes and printers
• Controlling visibility of objects
• Searching for published data

ACTIVE DIRECTORY ARCHITECTURE

• Domain names and directory objects
• Implementing Trees and Forests
• Organizational Units (OUs)
• Securing objects and properties
• Controlling directory replication

SECURITY OBJECTS ARID ACCOUNTS

• User, group and computer accounts
• Account properties
• Administering accounts
• Mixed vs. native mode grouping
• Automating account creation

DOMAIN SECURITY

• Domain security policy enforcement
• Controlling desktops
• Policies to assign user rights
• Administration delegation
• Using Kerberos

WINDOW 2000 CLIENT ADMINISTRATION

• Startup/shutdown, logon/off scripts
• Set profiles
• Roaming users profiles
• Group policies
• Apply policies to OUs

THE DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM (DNS)

• Dependence of DNS
• Namespace requirements
• Distributed authority
• Zones and DSN queries

INSTALLING A DNS SERVER

• Creating resource records
• Identifying domain controllers
• Testing configurations

WINDOWS 2000 INSTALLATION OPTIONS

• Hardware requirements
• Choose the correct file system
• Install Windows 2000 as a domain controller or member server
• Differences between Windows 2000 Professional and Server

INTEROPERABILITY AND MIGRATION

• Migrating Windows NT 4 domains
• Moving and organizing security
• Integrating with Microsoft clients

Windows 2000: Administration & Configuration / W2-AC