Certificate Services, SANs, and High Availability in Windows Server 2008

Overview/Description
Active Directory Certificate Services is a built-in Certificate Authority that is included with Windows Server 2008. Certificate Authorities are responsible for issuing certificates that validate the identity of users and can be used to secure e-mail correspondence and for web-based authentication. This course discusses planning considerations for CA deployment as well as considerations for deploying storage area networks. High availability is another key consideration when implementing Windows Server 2008. This course covers planning for availability and scalability through the use of technologies such as Failover Clustering and Network Load Balancing. This course is one in a series that covers the objectives for Microsoft exam 70-646 PRO: Windows Server 2008, Server Administration. Passing this exam completes the requirements for the MCITPro: Server Administrator certification.

Target Audience
Windows Server administrators who are rolling out and supporting Windows Server 2008 in an enterprise organization; Windows Server administrators who manage infrastructure, web, and IT application servers for an enterprise organization; individuals seeking certification on Microsoft's new generation server platform.

Prerequisites
Any candidate should have taken and passed the following MCTS level exams: 70-640: TS: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring 70-642: TS: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuring

Expected Duration (hours)
2.0

Lesson Objectives

Certificate Services, SANs, and High Availability in Windows Server 2008

set CA administrator and certificate manager security permissions for a Certificate Authority

recognize the different types of Certificate Authorities

configure automatic certificate enrollment on a template

configure an autoenrollment policy for a domain

use Group Policy to enable credential roaming for a domain

recognize the requirements for creating a LUN

recognize how a LUN works in Fiber Channel and iSCSI environments

set CA administrator and certificate manager security permissions for a Certificate Authority

enable credential roaming and configure certificate enrollment

recognize considerations for failover clusters and NLB clusters

create a failover cluster

recognize the appropriate failover cluster quorum model to deploy

create an NLB cluster

recognize which port rules filtering mode to use, given a requirement

create a failover cluster and an NLB cluster