MS1561 - Designing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure
This course provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to design a Microsoft® Windows® 2000 directory services infrastructure in an enterprise network. Strategies are presented to assist the student in identifying the
information technology needs of an organization, and then designing an Active Directory™ structure that meets those needs.
At the end of the course, students will be able to describe guidelines for gathering business and administrative information from an organization, and explain how an architect uses that information to design an Active Directory structure for an enterprise; design an Active Directory naming strategy that accommodates the organizational structure of a business; develop a plan to help protect and delegate administrative authority over
Active Directory objects based on the administrative model of an organization; identify business needs and scenarios that may require modification of the Active
Directory schema, and plan a policy to govern schema modification; create an Active Directory design based on administrative Group Policy requirements defined by business needs; design an Active Directory domain and the organizational unit hierarchy within the domain; 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; 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 and plan for the design of an Active Directory structure that combines administrative, replication, and naming
requirements of an organization.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Designing a Directory Services Infrastructure
Role of Active Directory in an Enterprise Network
Conducting an Organizational Analysis
Architectural Elements of Active Directory
Lesson 2: Designing an Active Directory Naming Strategy
Identifying Business Needs
DNS and Active Directory
Planning Active Directory Domain Names
Designing a DNS Naming Strategy for Active Directory
Lesson 3: Designing Active Directory to Delegate Administrative Authority
Identifying Business Needs
Characterizing the IT Organization
Developing a Strategy for Administrative Design
Developing a Strategy for Delegation
Lesson 4: Designing a Schema Policy
Identifying Business Needs
Schema Fundamentals
Implications of Modifying the Schema
Planning for Schema Modification
Lesson 5: Designing Active Directory to Support Group Policy
Identifying Business Needs
Applying Group Policy in Active Directory
Planning for Group Policy
Lesson 6: Designing an Active Directory Domain
Identifying Business Needs
Designing the Initial Active Directory Domain
Planning for Security Groups
Planning for OUs
Lesson 7: Designing a Multiple Domain Structure
Identifying Business Needs
Accessing Resources Between Domains
Planning for Multiple-Domain Trees
Planning for Multiple-Tree Forests
Planning for Multiple Forests
Lesson 8: Designing an Active Directory Site Topology
Using Sites in Active Directory
Assessing the Need for Active Directory Sites
Using Site Links in a Network
Planning the Inter-Site Replication Topology
Planning for Server Placement in Sites
Lesson 9: Designing an Active Directory Infrastructure
Conducting an Organizational Analysis
Designing an Active Directory Structure
Creating a Functional Specification