70-412 Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services R2 / Edition 1

by Microsoft Official Academic Course

Overview

This 70-412 Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 R2 Services textbook covers the third of three exams required for Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA): Windows Server 2012 certification. This course will help validate the skills and knowledge necessary to administer a Windows Server 2012 Infrastructure in an enterprise environment. The three MCSA exams collectively validate the skills and knowledge necessary for implementing, managing, maintaining and provisioning services and infrastructure in a Windows Server 2012 environment. This Microsoft Official Academic Course is mapped to the 70-412 Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services exam skills, including the recent R2 objectives. This textbook focuses on real skills for real jobs and prepares students to prove mastery of Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services such as advanced configuring tasks necessary to deploy, manage, and maintain a Windows Server 2012 infrastructure. It covers such skills as fault tolerance, certificate services, and identity federation. In addition, this book also covers such valuable skills as:

• Implementing Advanced Network Services

• Implementing Advanced File Services

• Implementing Dynamic Access Control

• Implementing Network Load Balancing

• Implementing Failover Clustering

• Implementing Disaster Recovery

• Implementing Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS)

• Implementing Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781118882993
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	11/24/2014
Series:	Microsoft Official Academic Course Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.80(d)

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Table of Contents

Lesson 1: Configuring Network Load Balancing 1

Understanding Fault Tolerance 1

Configuring Network Load Balancing 3

Skill Summary 11

Knowledge Assessment 12

Business Case Scenarios 15

Lesson 2: Configuring Failover Clustering 16

Understanding Failover Clustering 17

Skill Summary 40

Knowledge Assessment 41

Business Case Scenarios 45

Lesson 3: Managing Failover Clustering Roles 46

Managing Failover Clustering Roles 46

Skill Summary 56

Knowledge Assessment 57

Business Case Scenarios 60

Lesson 4: Managing Virtual Machine Movement 61

Understanding Virtual Machine Movement 62

Understanding Live Migration 62

Performing Quick Migration 67

Performing Storage Migration 68

Configuring Virtual Machine Network Health Protection 70

Configuring Drain on Shutdown 72

Importing, Exporting, and Copying Virtual Machines 72

Migrating from Other Platforms – Understanding P2V and V2V 75

Converting a Virtual Machine to Virtual Machine (V2V) Using SCVMM 78

Skill Summary 80

Knowledge Assessment 81

Business Case Scenarios 84

Lesson 5: Configuring Advanced File Services 85

Configuring NFS Data Store 85

Configuring BranchCache 92

Configuring File Classification Infrastructure 97

Configuring File Access Auditing 101

Skill Summary 105

Knowledge Assessment 106

Business Case Scenarios 109

Lesson 6: Implementing Dynamic Access Control 110

Using Dynamic Access Control 111

Skill Summary 125

Knowledge Assessment 126

Business Case Scenarios 129

Lesson 7: Configuring and Optimizing Storage 130

Understanding Shared Storage 131

Using iSCSI 132

Configuring Tiered Storage 141

Implementing Thin Provisioning and Trim 143

Managing Server Free Space Using Features on Demand 145

Skill Summary 145

Knowledge Assessment 146

Business Case Scenarios 149

Lesson 8: Configuring and Managing Backups 150

Configuring and Managing Backups 150

Skill Summary 172

Knowledge Assessment 173

Business Case Scenarios 176

Lesson 9: Recovering Servers 177

Preparing For Windows Server 2012 R2 Restore 177

Skill Summary 198

Knowledge Assessment 199

Business Case Scenarios 203

Lesson 10: Configuring Site-Level Fault Tolerance 204

Configuring Hyper-V Replica 205

Configuring Multi-Site Clustering 209

Skill Summary 213

Knowledge Assessment 214

Business Case Scenarios 217

Lesson 11: Implementing an Advanced Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Solution 218

Implementing Advanced DHCP Solutions 219

Skill Summary 237

Knowledge Assessment 238

Business Case Scenarios 241

Lesson 12: Implementing an Advanced DNS Solution 242

Configuring Security for DNS 243

Configuring DNS Logging 246

Configuring Delegated Administration 248

Configuring Recursion 249

Configuring Netmask Ordering 250

Configuring A GlobalNames Zone 251

Skill Summary 253

Knowledge Assessment 254

Business Case Scenarios 256

Lesson 13: Deploying and Managing IPAM 257

Configuring IPAM 257

Creating and Managing IP Blocks and Ranges 265

Monitoring Utilization of IP Address Space 268

Skill Summary 270

Knowledge Assessment 271

Business Case Scenarios 274

Lesson 14: Configuring a Domain and Forest 275

Implementing Complex Active Directory Environments 276

Upgrading Existing Domains and Forests 281

Configuring Multiple UPN Suffixes 286

Skill Summary 287

Knowledge Assessment 288

Business Case Scenarios 291

Lesson 15: Configuring Trusts 292

Configuring Trusts 293

Understanding Trust Types 295

Creating External Trusts 297

Creating Forest Trusts 299

Creating Shortcut Trusts 301

Creating Realm Trusts 304

Validating Trusts 306

Configuring Trust Authentication 307

Configuring SID Filtering 310

Configuring Name Suffix Routing 311

Skill Summary 313

Knowledge Assessment 313

Business Case Scenarios 316

Lesson 16: Configuring Sites 318

Configuring Sites and Subnets 318

Skill Summary 334

Knowledge Assessment 335

Business Case Scenarios 338

Lesson 17: Managing Active Directory and SYSVOL Replication 339

Managing Active Directory Replication 340

Skill Summary 354

Knowledge Assessment 355

Business Case Scenarios 358

Lesson 18: Implementing Active Directory Federation Services 359

Understanding Active Directory Federation Services 360

Implementing AD FS 362

Skill Summary 379

Knowledge Assessment 380

Business Case Scenarios 384

Lesson 19: Installing and Configuring Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) 385

Skill Summary 403

Knowledge Assessment 404

Business Case Scenarios 407

Lesson 20: Managing Certificates 408

Managing Digital Certificates 409

Skill Summary 429

Knowledge Assessment 430

Business Case Scenarios 433

Lesson 21: Installing and Configuring Active Directory Rights Management Services 434

Understanding Active Directory Rights Management 435

Skill Summary 451

Knowledge Assessment 452

Business Case Scenarios 455

Appendix 456

Index 458