Course Overview
A server administrator is responsible for the operations and day-to-day management of an infrastructure of servers for an enterprise organization. A server administrator's primary tasks include managing the server operating system, file and directory services, software distribution and updates, profiling and monitoring assigned servers, and troubleshooting. This course provides an introduction to these duties using the most current server operating system platform. The course has a focus on planning server deployment, planning server management, planning application and software deployment, along with monitoring and maintaining the server.
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Discuss the processes required to deploy servers and clients.
- Plan infrastructure services.
- Design a Group Policy strategy.
- Assign multiple roles to servers.
- Deploy file servers and services.
- Plan server storage.
- Plan for application resilience.
- Explain the use of offline files.
- Plan for data availability.
- Activate and use Remote Desktop features.
- Delegate administration tasks.
- Provide automated and manual updates to servers.
- Use the Reliability and Performance console.
- Configure and implement auditing.
- Backup and restore Group Policy objects.
- Plan and implement a backup strategy.
Effective as of Winter 2011
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