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• Installation and Configuration of Active Directory

• Planning for higher performance, and better utilization of current investment

• Overview of the design process for a Network Infrastructure supporting Active Directory

• Overview for a name resolution strategy that supports Active Directory

• Overview of the design process for an Active Directory Infrastructure

• Describe the logical and physical components of Active Directory

• Provide Logical organization of users, computers, printers and other resources, based on access needs, organizational needs and management structure with the goal of simplifying management burden and increasing productivity

• Describe the administrative structure that meets the needs of an organization

• Plan & Design for a domains, trees and forest in a logical structure

• Implement & Manage domains, trees and forest in a physical structure

• Plan & Design an organizational unit (OU) logical structure

• Implement & Manage an OU physical structure

• Plan & Design accounts for users, groups, and computers

• Allow users access to information they need, and keep them out of what they should not be looking at
  

• Implement & Manage accounts for users, groups and computers

• Plan & Design group policy strategies

• Control user activities to prevent misuse of time and resources

• Implement & Manage group policy strategies

• Plan & Design software deployment using group policy

• Automate software installation, removal and maintenance

• Implement & Manage software deployment using group policy

• Plan & Design sites and replications

• Optimize Communication between locations by making best use of hardware resources and by placing Domain controllers, Name servers, and Global Catalog Servers at strategic locations. Integrating Name servers with Active Directory provides more Uptime and assures no interruption from DNS server failure

• Implement & Manage sites and replications

• Plan and Design the placement systems (servers), i.e.;

• Domain Controllers

• Global Catalog servers

• DNS servers that are integrated with Active Directory

• Plan and Design a DNS structure supporting Active Directory

• Manage operations masters

• Maximize availability of information and network resources by tuning the Directory Service. Plan for prevention of information loss

• Managing Active Directory Performance

• Manage & Maintain Active Directory

• Backup

• Restore