Module 1: Installing Active Directory Domain Services
This module explains how to install and configure Active Directory Domain Services and install and configure a read-only domain controller.
Module 2: Configuring DNS for AD DS
This module explains how to configure Domain Name Services (DNS) for Active Directory Domain Services.
Module 3: Configuring Active Directory Objects and Trusts
This module explains how to configure Active Directory Objects and Trusts.
Module 4: Configuring Active Directory Sites and Replication
This module explains how to configure Active Directory Objects and Trusts.
Module 5: Creating and Configuring Group Policies
This module explains how to create and configure group policies.
Module 6: Configuring User Environments Using Group Policies
This module explains how to configure user environments using Group Policies.
Module 7: Manage Enterprise Security and Configuration with Group Policy Settings
This module explains how to manage security and software installation and how to audit files and folders.
Module 8: Secure Administration
This module explains how to administer Active Directory Domain Services Securely.
Module 9: Improve the Security of Authentication in an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Domain
This module explains the domain-side components of authentication, including the policies that specify password requirements and the auditing of authentication-related activities.
Module 10: Configure Domain Name System (DNS)
This module explains how to implement DNS to support name resolution both within your AD DS domain and outside your domain and your intranet.
Module 11: Administer Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Domain Controllers
This module explains how to add Windows Server 2008 domain controllers to a forest or domain, how to prepare a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 forest or domain for its first Windows Server 2008 DC, how to manage the roles performed by DCs, and how to migrate the replication of SYSVOL from the File Replication Service (FRS) used in previous versions of Windows to the Distributed File System Replication (DFS-R) mechanism that provides more robust and manageable replication.
Module 12: Manage Sites and Active Directory Replication
This module explains how to create a distributed directory service that supports domain controllers in portions of your network that are separated by expensive, slow, or unreliable links.
Module 13: Directory Service Continuity
This module explains about the technologies and tools that are available to help ensure the health and longevity of the directory service. You will explore tools that help you monitor performance in real time, and you will learn to log performance over time so that you can keep an eye on performance trends in order to spot potential problems.
Module 14: Manage Multiple Domains and Forests
This module explains how to raise the domain and forest functionality levels within your environment, how to design the optimal AD DS infrastructure for your enterprise, how to migrate objects between domains and forests, and how to enable authentication and resources access across multiple domains and forests.