Upgrading Your Skills to MCSA: Windows Server 2016 - MOC 20743

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This five-day, instructor-led course explains how to implement and configure new Windows Server 2016 features and functionality. This course is for information technology (IT) professionals who want to upgrade their technical skills from Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2016. This course presumes a high level of knowledge about previous Windows Server technologies and skills equivalent to the Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA): Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2012 credential.

This course is not a product-upgrade course, detailing considerations for migrating and upgrading students’ specific environment to Windows Server 2016. Rather, this course provides updates to students' existing Windows Server knowledge and skills, as they pertain to Windows Server 2016.


Course Pre-requisites

This course is for IT professionals who are experienced Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2008 system administrators, with real-world experience working in a Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2008 enterprise environment. Additionally, students should have obtained the MCSA credential for Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2012, or they should have equivalent knowledge.

Additionally, IT professionals who plan to take the Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) exams might be interested in this course, as preparation for the MCSA exams, which are a prerequisite for the MCSE specialties.


Course Outline

Module 1:

  • Introducing Windows Server 2016
  • Installing Windows Server 2016
  • Configuring Windows Server 2016
  • Preparing for upgrades and migrations
  • Migrating server roles and workloads
  • Windows Server activation models
  • Installing Server Core
  • Completing post-installation tasks on Windows Server 2016 Core
  • Performing remote management

Module 2:

  • Overview of storage in Windows Server 2016
  • Implementing Data Deduplication
  • Configuring iSCSI storage
  • Configuring the Storage Spaces feature in Windows Server 2016
  • Implementing File Server Resource Manager (FSRM)
  • Implementing Data Deduplication
  • Configuring iSCSI storage

Module 3:

  • Deploying Active Directory domain controllers
  • Implementing service accounts
  • Azure AD
  • Cloning a domain controller
  • Implementing service accounts

Module 4:

  • Overview of AD FS
  • Deploying AD FS
  • Implementing AD FS for a single organization
  • Implementing Web Application Proxy
  • Implementing SSO with Microsoft online services
  • Installing and configuring AD FS
  • Configuring an internal application for AD FS
  • Implementing Web Application Proxy

Module 5:

  • Overview of networking enhancements
  • Implementing IPAM
  • Managing IP address spaces with IPAM
  • Configuring DNS policies
  • Configuring DHCP failover
  • Configuring IPAM

Module 6:

  • Configuring the Hyper-V role in Windows Server 2016
  • Configuring Hyper-V storage
  • Configuring Hyper-V networking
  • Configuring Hyper-V virtual machines
  • Installing the Hyper-V server role
  • Configuring virtual networking
  • Creating and configuring a virtual machine

Module 7:

  • Overview of high-performance networking features
  • Configuring advanced Hyper-V networking features
  • Creating and using Hyper-V virtual switches
  • Configuring and using the advanced features of a virtual switch

Module 8:

  • Overview of SDN
  • Implementing network virtualization
  • Implementing Network Controller
  • Preparing to deploy Network Controller
  • Deploying Network Controller

Module 9:

  • Remote access overview
  • Implementing DirectAccess
  • Implementing VPN
  • Configuring DirectAccess using the Getting Started Wizard
  • Testing DirectAccess

Module 10:

  • Overview of containers in Windows Server 2016
  • Preparing for containers
  • Installing, configuring, and managing containers by using Docker
  • Installing Docker Enterprise Edition for Windows Server 2016
  • Installing and configuring an IIS container

Module 11:

  • Overview of failover clustering
  • Implementing a failover cluster
  • Configuring highly available applications and services on a failover cluster
  • Maintaining a failover cluster
  • Implementing a stretch cluster
  • Configuring iSCSI storage
  • Configuring a failover cluster
  • Deploying and configuring a highly available file server
  • Validating the deployment of a highly available file server
  • Configuring CAU on the failover cluster

Module 12:

  • Overview of the integration of Hyper-V Server 2016 with failover clustering
  • Implementing Hyper-V virtual machines on failover clusters
  • Implementing Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V virtual machine migration
  • Implementing Hyper-V Replica
  • The Hyper-V Failover clustering testing environment
  • Configuring Hyper-V Replica
  • Configuring a failover cluster for Hyper-V
  • Configuring a highly available virtual machine

 

*Please enquire about a price for this course.  Please note that we can offer the course as the full 5 day course, or a shorter, bespoke course teaching a selection of the available modules as required