Configuring Network Application Services in Windows Server 2008

Overview/Description
Windows Server 2008 includes new components to facilitate the processes of hosting, licensing, and delivering audio and video media. This course covers the new Digital Rights Management features that let you assign policies based on who is accessing your media, along with new SharePoint services that allow for the collaboration and content management of your business content, processes and goals. SharePoint e-mail features along with maintenance tasks, such as backups and restores, are also covered. This course is one in a series that covers the objectives for Microsoft exam 70-643: Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure, Configuring. Passing this exam completes the requirements for the MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure, Configuration certification, and counts as credit towards the following exams: Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP): Enterprise Administrator.

Target Audience
The audience for this path includes administrators who are rolling out and supporting Windows Server 2008 in the enterprise. The audience also includes individuals seeking certification on Microsoft's new generation server platform.

Prerequisites
As an exam prerequisite, any candidate should have a minimum of one year of experience implementing and administering a network operating system in an environment that has the following characteristics: • 250 to 5,000 or more users • three or more physical locations • three or more domain controllers • network services and resources such as messaging, a database, file and print, a proxy server, a firewall, the Internet, an intranet, remote access, and client computer management • connectivity requirements such as connecting branch offices and individual users in remote locations to the corporate network and connecting corporate networks to the Internet

Expected Duration (hours)
2.5

Lesson Objectives

Configuring Network Application Services in Windows Server 2008

install Windows Media Server

create a publishing point

configure a caching server

configure a reverse proxy server

install Active Directory Rights Management Service

create an AD RMS Rights Policy template

distribute a rights policy template

verify the AD RMS service

configure a Windows Media Reverse Proxy Server

install a stand-alone Windows SharePoint server

create a new web application

create a site collection

create a site from central administration

configure the SMTP service for incoming e-mail

delegate Active Directory permissions

configure incoming mail at server level

configure lists and libraries

back up and restore a SharePoint site collection

create a site from central administration

configure user permissions to a SharePoint site

back up a SharePoint web site