70-411 Administering Windows Server 2012 R2 Lab Manual

This is the print lab manual adjacent to the 70–411 Administering Windows Server 2012 R2 textbook. 70–411 Administering Windows Server 2012 R2 covers the second of three exams required for Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA): Windows Server 2012 certification. This course validates 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 70–411 Administering Windows Server 2012 exam skills, including the recent R2 objectives. This textbook/lab manual focuses on real skills for real jobs and prepares students to prove mastery of core services such as user and group management, network access, and data security. In addition, this book also covers such valuable skills as:

• Implementing a Group Policy Infrastructure
• Managing User and Service Accounts
• Maintaining Active Directory Domain Services
• Configuring and Troubleshooting DNS
• Configuring and Troubleshooting Remote Access
• Installing, Configuring, and Troubleshooting the Network Policy Server Role
• Optimizing File Services
• Increasing File System Security
• Implementing Update Management

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Lab 1: Deploying and Managing Server Images

Lab 2: Implementing Patch Management

Lab 3: Monitoring Servers

Lab 4: Configuring Distributed File System (DFS)

Lab 5: Configuring File Server Resource Manager

Lab 6: Configuring File Services and Disk Encryption

Lab 7: Configuring Advanced Audit Policies

Lab 8: Configuring DNS Zones

Lab 9: Configuring DNS Records

Lab 10: Configuring VPN and Routing

Lab 11: Configuring DirectAccess

Lab 12: Configuring a Network Policy Server

Lab 13: Configuring NPS Policies

Lab 14: Configuring Network Access Protection (NAP)

Lab 15: Configuring Server Authentication

Lab 16: Configuring Domain Controllers

Lab 17: Maintaining Active Directory

Lab 18: Configuring Account Policies

Lab 19: Configuring Group Policy Processing

Lab 20: Configuring Group Policy Settings

Lab 21: Managing Group Policy Objects

Lab 22: Configuring Group Policy Preferences

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