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Course 6437 |
Designing a Windows Server 2008 Applications
Infrastructure
Course Outline
Duration:
3 Days
Introduction: This three-day course will prepare
IT professionals for the role of Enterprise Administrator. Students will learn
how to design application infrastructure solutions based on Windows Server 2008
to meet varying business and technical requirements.
Objectives:
After
completing this course, students will be able to:
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Design
IIS 7 Web farms. |
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Optimize
IIS 7 for performance and stability. |
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Design
IIS 7 for security. |
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Design
IIS 7 for reliability, recovery, and monitoring. |
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Design
and prepare a Terminal Services infrastructure. |
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Design
a Terminal Services maintenance strategy. |
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Plan
and configure a Windows Media Services infrastructure for live and on-demand
delivery. |
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Implement
virtualization to consolidate servers, support legacy applications, and
create a test environment. |
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Determine
virtualization appropriateness and virtual server provisioning. |
Course Content:
Module 1: Designing IIS
Web Farms
The
students will learn the process of designing IIS Web Farms with Windows Server
2008 and IIS 7. They will learn how to select the appropriate hardware and
software platforms. They will learn techniques to leverage Web Farm Availability
and Scalability. They will also learn how to select the proper content storage.
Lessons
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Overview of Hardware and
Platform Options |
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Design Web Farm
Availability and Scalability |
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Design Content Storage |
After completing this
module, the students will be able to:
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Design an appropriate
platform. |
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Design Web farm
availability and scalability. |
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Design content storage. |
Module 2: Optimizing IIS
Performance and Stability
The students will learn
about optimizing IIS performance and stability.
Lessons
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Designing Application
Pools |
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Designing Script Mapping |
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Designing Bandwidth
Allocation |
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Design Web Site Logging |
After completing this
module, the students will be able to:
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Plan new application
pools. |
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Plan to deploy script
mapping. |
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Plan bandwidth
allocation per site or application. |
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Plan Web site logging. |
Module 3: Designing IIS
Security
In this module, the
students will learn to establish and maintain very tight security using
Microsoft IIS 7.
Lessons
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Design and Verify
Transport Security |
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Design Authentication
and Authorization |
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Design Delegation
Administration |
After completing this
module, the students will be able to:
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Design and verify
Transport Security (SSL). |
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Plan site authentication
and authorization. |
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Plan delegation
permissions and administrative access. |
Module
4: Design IIS Maintenance and UDDI
The
students will learn how to plan for an IIS installation, taking into account
these new features. They will also learn how to deploy UDDI services.
Lessons
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Designing Internet
Information Services Backup and Recovery |
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Specify Monitoring
Requirements |
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Deploying UDDI Services |
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Tuning and
Troubleshooting IIS 7 |
After completing this
module, the students will be able to:
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Design a Web server
backup and recovery plan. |
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Design for and utilize
the IIS management pack for System Center. |
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Design and test UDDI
services. |
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Troubleshoot IIS caching
behavior. |
Module
5: Designing a Terminal Services Infrastructure
The
students will learn how to design a terminal services infrastructure including
how to design a terminal services licensing strategy and how to design for
remote access with TS Gateways, TS Session Broker, RemoteApp
programs, and TS Web Access.
Lessons
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Design Terminal Services
Licensing |
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Specify Terminal
Services Connection Properties |
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Design Device
Redirection |
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Design Terminal Services
Gateways |
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Design Terminal Services
Broker |
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Design RemoteApp Programs |
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Design Web Access |
After completing this
module, the students will be able to:
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Design Terminal Services
(TS) Licensing. |
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Specify Terminal
Services Connection Properties. |
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Design Device
Redirection. |
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Design Terminal Services
Gateways. |
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Design Terminal Services
Broker. |
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Design RemoteApp Programs. |
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Design Web Access. |
Module 6: Designing a
Terminal Services Maintenance Strategy
The
students will be introduced to design and implementation planning using Windows
System Resource Manager (WSRM) policies for application resource and reporting.
The students will also learn about group policy settings for terminal servers
and how to design high availability for terminal services. Finally, the
students will learn to specify monitoring, maintenance, and recovery
requirements and procedures for terminal services.
Lessons
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Design Windows System
Resource Manager (WSRM) Policies for Application Resource and Reporting |
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Specify Group Policy
Settings for Terminal Servers |
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Design High Availability |
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Specify Monitoring
Requirements |
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Specify Maintenance and
Recovery |
After completing this
module, the students will be able to:
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Design Windows System
Resource Manager (WSRM) policies for application resource and reporting. |
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Specify Group Policy
settings for terminal servers. |
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Design high availability
(both terminal servers and session directory servers). |
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Specify monitoring
requirements. |
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Specify maintenance and
recovery. |
Module 7: Design Windows
Media Services Infrastructure Administration
The
students will learn about designing Windows Media Services in Windows Server
2008. They will become familiarized with live and on-demand content delivery.
Lessons
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Design Windows Media for
Live Streaming |
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Windows Media Services
for On-Demand Content |
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Improving Performance
for On-Demand Content |
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Monitoring Windows Media
Services |
After completing this
module, the students will be able to:
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Design Windows Media
Services infrastructure for live streaming. |
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Design Windows Media
Services infrastructure for on-demand content. |
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Troubleshoot poor
performance of on-demand content. |
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Plan for monitoring of
Windows Media Services. |
Module 8: Design
Virtualization Infrastructure
The
students will implement virtualization to consolidate servers, deploy branch
office infrastructure servers, support legacy applications, and create a test
environment.
Lessons
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Virtualization of a Test
Server Environment |
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Virtualization and
Migration of Legacy Applications |
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Design and Test a
Virtualized Development Environment |
After completing this
module, the students will be able to:
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Create a design document
for server consolidation and virtualization. |
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Create a design document
for legacy server hosting. |
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Identify and document
key business and technical requirements for creating an isolated development
environment. |
Module 9: Designing
Virtualization Provisioning
The
students will learn how to determine virtualization appropriateness and virtual
server provisioning. The students will also learn the importance of customizing
virtual servers to standard configurations and also learn about virtual server
deployment.
Lessons
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Design Virtual Server
Provisioning Workflow Model |
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Evaluate Appropriateness
for Virtualization |
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Evaluate Customization
to Standard Configuration |
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Design Deployment for
Virtualization |
After completing this
module, the students will be able to:
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Design virtual server
provisioning workflow model. |
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Evaluate appropriateness
for virtualization. |
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Evaluate customization
to standard configuration. |
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Design Windows
Deployment Services. |