Chapter 5. Monitoring and Maintaining Active Directory

MICROSOFT EXAM OBJECTIVES COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:

• Planning for Server Deployment

  • Plan Infrastructure Services Server Roles. May include but is not limited to: address assignment, name resolution, network access control, directory services, application services, certificate services.

• Planning for Server Management

  • Plan Server Management Strategies. May include but is not limited to: remote administration, remote desktop, server management technologies, Server Manager and ServerManagerCMD, delegation policies and procedures.

  • Plan for Delegated Administration. May include but is not limited to: delegate authority, delegate Active Directory objects, application management.

  • Plan and Implement Group Policy Strategy. May include but is not limited to: GPO management, GPO backup and recovery, group policy troubleshooting, group policy planning.

• Planning Application and Data Provisioning

  • Provision Applications. May include but is not limited to: presentation virtualization, terminal server infrastructure, resource allocation, application virtualization alternatives, application deployment, System Center Configuration Manager.

• Plan for Business Continuity and High Availability

  • Plan for Backup and Recovery. May include but is not limited to: data recovery strategy, server recovery strategy, directory service recovery strategy, object level recovery.