Overview
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Learn how to administer an Active Directory environment across multiple locations, and replicate across the domain.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Windows Server 2012 overview
- Introduction to Windows PowerShell
- Installing Windows Server 2012
- Post-installation configuration of Windows Server 2012
- Overview of AD DS
- Installing AD DS
- Operations masters
- Read-only domain controllers
- Virtualizing domain controllers
- DNS overview and installation
- Trusts overview
- Default trusts
- Trusts summary
- Active directory tools
- Creating and managing organizational units (OUs)
- Creating and managing user objects
- Creating and managing computer accounts
- Working with managed service accounts
- Maintaining the Active Directory (AD) database
- Using command-line tools
- Using PowerShell to create and manage AD DS objects
- Performing bulk operations
- Creating and managing groups
- AD sites
- Creating AD sites and site links
- Global catalog servers and universal group caching
- Replication
- Site link bridging
- Tools used to manage replication
- Group policies overview
- Exploring the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC)
