Getting Started with Microsoft Active Directory
Learn the foundational knowledge and skills needed to become an Active Directory administrator. Gain a basic understanding of authentication methods, replication topology, group policy, and more. This course is perfect for Windows Server experienced individuals looking to enhance their Active Directory skills or IT professionals wanting to become Active Directory administrators.
What you’ll learn
- Learn foundational knowledge and skills needed to become an Active Directory administrator
- Learn the main design features and architectural concepts of Active Directory
- How to successfully deploy your own Active Directory Forest
- Learn about the role of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) in Active Directory
- Gain a basic understanding of the authentication methods supported in Active Directory
- Learn to use the common Active Directory administration tools
- Learn about trust relationships
- Learn about Active Directory replication and replication topology
- Learn how to create and manage Group Policy
- User, Group and Computer management
- The importance and assignment of FSMO roles
- Learn the basics of using Powershell with Active Directory
- Essential backup and recovery of Active Directory
- Install and configure Certificate services
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The goal of the course is to teach the foundational knowledge and skills necessary to become an Active Directory administrator. This includes how to setup and configure an Active Directory environment as well as understanding and implementing the most important Active Directory administrative tasks and features. After completing this course, you will have enough knowledge to successfully build and manage your own Active Directory Forest. With the knowledge gained from this course combined with some additional hands-on practice and experience, you could rightfully consider yourself to be a novice yet capable Active Directory Administrator. And that is no small feat! The features and functionality of Active Directory are quite extensive and there will be so much more to learn. But this course will get you well on the way and positioned to expand and grow your skills. You will be on the path to becoming a great Active Directory Administrator!
After learning important Active Directory concepts, you will learn how to deploy an Active directory forest including a root and child domain. You will then move on to additional administrative tasks including, replication topology configuration, user and group management, group policy as well as some basic troubleshooting and backup/recovery options.
The course is structured with video screen sharing lectures to explain the various Active Directory topics along with walk-through demonstration videos intended to alleviate the need for you to setup complicated lab environments. If you have the resources to setup multiple Windows servers networked together for your own lab, it recommended that you do this and perform the tasks from the demonstration videos on your own in order to get the most out of this course. Hands-on experience always helps you to retain all that new knowledge!
Who this course is for:
- Students with Windows Sever experience who want to learn more about Active Directory
- Current or previous Active Directory admins looking for a refresher or potentially fill in some knowledge gaps
- IT professionals whose applications or services they manage interact with Active Directory
- IT professionals with a desire to become an Active Directory Administrator
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