Designing a Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure

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Course Number: 1561B


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Designing a Microsoft
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Windows
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Services Infrastructure

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Part Number: X05-39393
Released: 2/00
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Course Materials......................................................................................................2

Prerequisites.............................................................................................................3

Course Outline.........................................................................................................4

Microsoft Official Curriculum.................................................................................6

Microsoft Certified Professional Program...............................................................7

Facilities...................................................................................................................9

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Overview..................................................................................................................1

Role of Active Directory in an Enterprise................................................................2

Conducting an Organizational Analysis ..................................................................3

Architectural Elements of Active Directory ............................................................7

Review...................................................................................................................15

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Overview..................................................................................................................1

Identifying Business Needs......................................................................................2

DNS and Active Directory.......................................................................................3

Planning Active Directory Domain Names .............................................................7

Designing a DNS Naming Strategy for Active Directory......................................11

Lab A: Designing an Active Directory Naming Strategy ......................................22

Review...................................................................................................................31

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Overview..................................................................................................................1

Identifying Business Needs......................................................................................2

Characterizing the IT Organization..........................................................................4

Developing a Strategy for Administrative Design...................................................5

Developing a Strategy for Delegation....................................................................15

Lab A: Designing Delegated Administration.........................................................24

Review...................................................................................................................35

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Overview..................................................................................................................1

Identifying Business Needs......................................................................................2

Schema Fundamentals .............................................................................................3

Implications of Modifying the Schema....................................................................9

Planning for Schema Modification ........................................................................11

Lab A: Modifying the Schema...............................................................................20

Review...................................................................................................................27

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Overview................................................................................................................. 1

Identifying Business Needs..................................................................................... 2

Applying Group Policy in Active Directory........................................................... 4

Planning for Group Policy .................................................................................... 10

Lab A: Designing Group Policy and a Supporting Active Directory Structure.... 21

Review .................................................................................................................. 32

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Overview................................................................................................................. 1

Identifying Business Needs..................................................................................... 2

Designing the Initial Active Directory Domain...................................................... 3

Planning for Security Groups.................................................................................. 4

Discussion: Designing Security Groups.................................................................. 9

Planning for OUs .................................................................................................. 11

Lab A: Designing a Group and Organizational Unit Strategy .............................. 15

Review .................................................................................................................. 22

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Overview................................................................................................................. 1

Identifying Business Needs..................................................................................... 2

Accessing Resources Between Domains ................................................................ 5

Planning for Multiple-Domain Trees...................................................................... 9

Planning for Multiple-Tree Forests....................................................................... 13

Planning for Multiple Forests ............................................................................... 16

Lab A: Designing a Multiple-Domain Structure................................................... 19

Review .................................................................................................................. 23

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Overview................................................................................................................. 1

Using Sites in Active Directory.............................................................................. 2

Assessing the Need for Active Directory Sites....................................................... 5

Using Site Links in a Network................................................................................ 9

Planning the Inter-Site Replication Topology....................................................... 14

Planning for Server Placement in Sites................................................................. 19

Demonstration: Active Directory Sizer................................................................. 23

Lab A: Planning Sites to Control Active Directory Replication........................... 24

Review .................................................................................................................. 35

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Overview................................................................................................................. 1

Conducting an Organizational Analysis.................................................................. 2

Designing an Active Directory Structure.............................................................. 11

Creating a Functional Specification...................................................................... 20

Lab A: Designing an Active Directory Infrastructure........................................... 21

Review .................................................................................................................. 31

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This section provides you with a brief description of the course, audience,
suggested prerequisites, and course objectives.
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This course provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to design
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environment. After completion of this course, a student will be able to identify
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key decision points for naming, delegation of authority, domain design, and site
topology design. The student will then be able to translate the business needs of
an organization into an Active Directory design that meets those needs.
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This course is intended for senior support professionals, architects, and
consultants responsible for developing an Active Directory design based on the
business needs of an organization. This course is also appropriate for those who
are on the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Windows 2000 track and wish
to acquire the skills necessary to design an Active Directory services
infrastructure.
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This course requires that students meet the following prerequisites:
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Course 1560, Updating Support Skills from Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 to
Microsoft Windows 2000, or equivalent knowledge and skills.

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Course 2154, Implementing and Administering Microsoft Windows 2000
Directory Services, or equivalent knowledge and skills.

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At the end of this course, the student will be able to:
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Describe guidelines for gathering business and administrative information
from an organization and explain how an architect uses that information to
design an Active Directory for an enterprise.
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Design an Active Directory naming strategy that accommodates the
organizational structure of a business.
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Develop a plan to secure and delegate administrative authority over Active
Directory objects based on the administrative model of an organization.
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Identify business needs and scenarios that may require modification of the
Active Directory schema, and plan a policy to govern schema modification.
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Create an Active Directory design based on administrative Group Policy
requirements defined by business needs.
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Design an Active Directory domain and the organizational unit hierarchy
within the domain.
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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.
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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.
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Design an Active Directory structure that combines administrative,
replication, and naming requirements.

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The following schedule is an estimate of the course timing. Your timing may
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Start End Module
9:00 9:30 Introduction
9:30 10:00 Module 1: Introduction to Designing a Directory Services
Infrastructure
10:00 10:15 Break
10:15 11:15 Module 2: Designing an Active Directory Naming Strategy
11:15 12:15 Lab A: Designing an Active Directory Naming Strategy
12:15 1:15 Lunch
1:15 2:30 Module 3: Designing Active Directory to Delegate Administrative
Authority
2:30 3:00 Lab A: Designing Delegated Administration
3:00 3:15 Break

3:15 3:45 Lab A: Designing Delegated Administration (continued)

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Start End Module
9:00 9:15 Day 1 review
9:15 10:15 Module 4: Designing a Schema Policy
10:15 10:30 Break
10:30 11:00 Lab A: Modifying the Schema
11:00 11:45 Module 5: Designing Active Directory to Support Group Policy
11:45 12:45 Lunch
12:45 2:30 Lab A: Designing Group Policy and a Supporting Active
Directory Structure
2:30 2:45 Break
2:45 3:30 Module 6: Designing an Active Directory Domain
3:30 4:45 Lab A: Designing a Group and Organizational Unit Strategy

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Start End Module
9:00 9:15 Day 2 review
9:15 10:00 Module 7: Designing a Multiple-Domain Structure
10:00 10:30 Lab A: Designing a Multiple-Domain Structure
10:30 10:45 Break
10:45 11:45 Module 8: Designing an Active Directory Site Topology
11:45 12:30 Lab A: Planning Sites to Control Active Directory Replication
12:30 1:30 Lunch
1:30 2:00 Module 9: Designing an Active Directory Infrastructure
2:00 3:30 Lab A: Designing an Active Directory Infrastructure

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Module 1, “Introduction to Designing a Directory Services Infrastructure,”
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enterprise.
Module 2, “Designing an Active Directory Naming Strategy,” explains the
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administrative model of an organization, you will develop a plan to secure and
delegate administrative authority over Active Directory objects.
Module 4, “Designing a Schema Policy,” introduces the Active Directory
schema and its components and explains how schema modifications affect
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Module 5, “Designing Active Directory to Support Group Policy,” covers
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Policy. At the end of this module, you will be able to create an Active Directory
design based on administrative Group Policy requirements defined by business
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Microsoft Certified Systems
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