Microsoft Windows 2000 Designing a Directory Services Infrastructure Part 1: Naming and Delegation Strategy

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Microsoft Windows 2000 Designing a Directory Services Infrastructure Part 1: Naming and Delegation Strategy is the first course in this series. Its focus is showing the learner how to analyze company's organizational requirements. It also covers how to design for the common architectural elements of Active Directory. It also covers the design considerations in relation to Naming strategy, Domain Name and DNS Naming. Finally, it covers the design principles behind the delegation of authority.

Learn To

Identify the features of the Active Directory logical structure.
Identify the design considerations for an organization's Active Directory.
Identify guidelines for designing the Active Directory structure.
Identify the business needs that influence the selection of Active Directory names.
Identify the key considerations involved in designing a DNS naming strategy.
Identify the key considerations involved in determining the scope of Active Directory.
Identify the business needs that influence the delegation plan.
Identify IT organizational structures.
Identify guidelines for choosing a simple administrative design hierarchy.

Audience
IT professionals who operate very large computing environments that use the Windows 2000 network operating system. They have a minimum of one year's experience implementing and administering network operating systems in environments that have the following characteristics: Supported users range from 200-26,000+ Physical locations range from 5-150+ Typical network services and applications include file and print, database, messaging, proxy server or firewall, dial-in server, desktop management, and Web hosting. Connectivity needs include connecting individual offices and users at remote locations to the corporate network and connecting corporate networks to the Internet.

Deployment Options
e-Learning

Accreditation
NASBA credits: 4 CPE Credits
CEU credits: 0.70 CEUs

Language Options
US English, German

Total Learning Time
6 to 8 hours

Objectives
Unit 1: Directory Structure Design Fundamentals 2 - 3 hours

Identify the features of the Active Directory logical structure.
Identify the design considerations for an organization's Active Directory.
Identify guidelines for designing the Active Directory structure.
Identify the design considerations that influence a naming strategy.
Identify the design considerations that influence the delegation of administrative authority.
Identify the key considerations involved in designing an Active Directory domain.
Identify the key considerations involved in designing multiple domains.
Identify the key considerations involved in designing a site topology.
Identify the design considerations that influence schema modification.
Identify the design considerations that are affected by Group Policy.

Unit 2: Naming Strategy 2 - 3 hours

Identify the business needs that influence the selection of Active Directory names.
Identify the key considerations involved in designing a DNS naming strategy.
Identify the key considerations involved in determining the scope of Active Directory.
Identify the guidelines for designing a naming hierarchy.
Identify guidelines for choosing domain names.
Identify key decision guidelines for designing a DNS naming strategy.
Identify the considerations for using an internal private naming strategy.
Identify the implications of using a delegated subdomain name for the internal network.
Identify the implications of retaining a single DNS domain name for both the private and public networks.
Identify the implications of creating a separate DNS naming strategy.
Identify strategies for integrating BIND with Microsoft DNS.
Identify the guidelines for locating a DNS server.
Evaluate an optimal DNS naming strategy.

Unit 3: Delegation Strategy: Designing 2 hours

Identify the business needs that influence the delegation plan.
Identify IT organizational structures.
Identify guidelines for choosing a simple administrative design hierarchy.
Evaluate optimal administrative hierarchies.
Identify guidelines for choosing a hybrid administrative design hierarchy.
Evaluate different administrative strategy designs.
Identify considerations that affect the selection of delegation methods in Active Directory.
Identify the issues that affect object ownership.
Identify the guidelines for choosing a delegation strategy.
Identify the design guidelines to consider when planning the delegation of authority.
Evaluate different delegation strategies.