Duration: 5 Days

This course combines five days of instructor-led training with additional e-Learning content, to provide students with the knowledge and skills required to manage accounts and resources, maintain server resources, monitor server performance, and safeguard data in a Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 environment. This is the first course in the Systems Administrator and Systems Engineer tracks for Windows Server 2003 and serves as the entry point for other courses in the Windows Server 2003 curriculum.

Audience
This course is intended for individuals who are employed as or seeking employment as a systems administrator or systems engineer.

Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students must have:

• CompTIA A+ certification, or equivalent knowledge and skills.
• CompTIA Network+ certification, or equivalent knowledge and skills.

Course Outline
Part 1: Managing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment
Module 1: Introduction to Administering Accounts and Resources
Module 2: Managing User and Computer Accounts
Module 3: Managing Groups
Module 4: Managing Access to Resources
Module 5: Implementing Printing
Module 6: Managing Printing
Module 7: Managing Access to Objects in Organizational Units
Module 8: Implementing Group Policy
Module 9: Managing the User Environment by Using Group Policy
Module 10: Introduction to Security in Windows Server 2003

Part 2: Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment
Module 1: Preparing to Administer a Server
Module 2: Preparing to Monitor Server Performance
Module 3: Monitoring Server Performance
Module 4: Maintaining Device Drivers
Module 5: Managing Disks
Module 6: Managing Data Storage
Module 7: Managing Disaster Recovery
Module 8: Maintaining Software by Using Software Update Services

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Create and populate organizational units with user and computer accounts
• Manage user and computer accounts
• Create and manage groups
• Manage access to resources
• Implement printing
• Manage printing
• Manage access to objects in organizational units
• Implement Group Policy
• Manage the user and computer environment by using Group Policy
• Audit accounts and resources
• Prepare to administer server resources
• Configure a server to monitor system performance
• Monitor system performance
• Manage device drivers by configuring device driver signing and restoring a device driver
• Manage hard disks
• Manage data storage
• Manage disaster recovery
• Maintain software by using Microsoft Software Update Services

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