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6437A: Designing a Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure

Course Length: 3 Days

Overview:
This three day course will prepare IT professionals for the role of Enterprise Administrator. Students will learn how to design application infrastructure solutions based on Windows Server 2008 to meet varying business and technical requirements.

Prerequisites:
Course 6425 Configuring Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services
Course 6421 Configuring and Troubleshooting a Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure
Course 6427 Configuring and Troubleshooting Internet Information Services in Windows Server 2008
Course 6428 Configuring and Troubleshooting Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services

Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Design IIS 7 Web Farms
• Optimize IIS 7 for Performance and Stability
• Design IIS 7 for Security
• Design IIS 7 for reliability, recovery, and monitoring
• Design and prepare a Terminal Services infrastructure
• Design a terminal services maintenance strategy
• Design a Windows Media Services installation for live and on-demand delivery
• Implement virtualization to consolidate servers, support legacy applications, and create a test environment
• Determine virtualization appropriateness and virtual server provisioning

Course Content

Lesson 1: Designing IIS Web Farms

• Overview of Hardware and Platform Options
• Design Web Farm Availability and Scalability
• Design Content Storage
• Lab 1: Designing IIS Web Farms

Lesson 2: Optimizing IIS Performance and Stability

• Designing Application Pools
• Designing Script Mapping
• Designing Bandwidth Allocation
• Design Website Logging
• Lab 1: Optimizing IIS Performance and Stability

Lesson 3: Designing IIS Security

• Design and Verify Transport Security
• Design Authentication and Authorization
• Design Delegation Administration
• Lab 1: Configuring IIS 7.0 Application Settings

Lesson 4: Design IIS Maintenance and UDDI

• Designing Internet Information Services Backup and Recovery
• Specify Monitoring Requirements
• Deploying UDDI Services
• Tuning and Troubleshooting IIS 7.0
• Lab 1: Design IIS Maintenance and UDDI

Lesson 5: Designing a Terminal Services Infrastructure

• Design Terminal Services Licensing
• Specify Terminal Services Connection Properties
• Design Device Redirection
• Design Terminal Services Gateways
• Design Terminal Services Broker
• Design RemoteApp Programs
• Design Web Access
• Lab 1: Designing a Terminal Services Infrastructure

Lesson 6: Designing a Terminal Services Maintenance Strategy

• Design Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM) Policies for Application Resource and Reporting
• Specify Group Policy Settings for Terminal Servers
• Design High Availability
• Specify Monitoring Requirements
• Specify Maintenance and Recovery
• Lab 1: Designing a Terminal Services Infrastructure

Lesson 7: Design Windows Media Services Infrastructure Administration

• Design Windows Media for Live Streaming
• Windows Media Services for On-Demand Content
• Improving Performance for On-Demand Content
• Monitoring Windows Media Services
• Lab 1: Design a Windows Media Infrastructure

Lesson 8: Design Virtualization Infrastructure

• Virtualization of a Test Server Environment
• Virtualization and Migration of Legacy Applications
• Design and Test a Virtualized Development Environment
• Lab 1: Design Virtualization Infrastructure

Lesson 9: Designing Virtualization Provisioning

• Design Virtual Server Provisioning Workflow Model
• Evaluate Appropriateness for Virtualization
• Evaluate Customization to Standard Configuration
• Design Deployment for Virtualization
• Lab 1: Design Virtualization Provisioning

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