Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure

Audience	This course is intended for senior support professionals, architects, and consultants responsible for developing an Active Directory design based on the business needs of an organization. It is also appropriate for those who are on the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Windows 2000 track and wish to acquire the skills necessary to design an Active Directory services infrastructure.
Duration	3 Days
Course Abstract	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.
Objectives	Upon conclusion, each participant will have acquired these skills: 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 secure 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 Plan for the design of an Active Directory structure that combines administrative, replication, and naming requirements of an organization
Class Format	Lecture and Lab
Prerequisites	Updating Support Skills from Microsoft Windows NT® 4.0 to Microsoft Windows 2000, or equivalent knowledge and skills.