1

Active Directory Architecture

• Active Directory roles and services.
• What's new in AD 2016 domain services.
• AD services and cloud orientation.

2

Installing Active Directory

• Deploying the directory.
• The DNS system and Active Directory.
• Integrated and secure DNS zones.
• DNS records linked to the AD.
• Hands-on work ¤Installing AD. Configuring the DNS. Record management.

3

Domain controller deployment

• Remote and PowerShell deployment.
• Domain controller cloning.
• Child domain implementation.
• Read-only DC deployment (RODC).
• Hands-on work ¤Deploying RODC, remote DC.

4

Object management

• Management interfaces.
• Managing objects in PowerShell.
• Administered service accounts.
• Privileged Access Management (PAM).
• Authentication silos and strategies.
• Hands-on work ¤Creating and modifying AD objects. Creating service accounts. Implementing authentication strategies.

5

Group strategies

• The operating principle.
• The Central Store. WMI filtering.
• Inheritances, blockages and filtering.
• Hands-on work ¤Creating the central store. Creating GPOs to secure workstations and servers.

6

Dynamic access control

• Overview of dynamic access control.
• Principles of claims.
• Principles of rules, centralized access strategies.
• FSRM resource manager, authorizations.
• Hands-on work ¤Implementing DAC to specify access to resources.

7

Sites, services and endorsement relationships

• The roles of an AD site.
• Management of sites and replications.
• Approval relationships: overview and configuration.
• Hands-on work ¤Creating sites and AD replications. Implementing trust relationships.

8

Maintenance and troubleshooting of services

• Backing up and restoring services.
• Procedures for maintaining an AD database.
• Replication troubleshooting.
• FSMO role management.
• Hands-on work ¤Maintenance, backing up the AD. Implementing monitoring tools.