AZ-1008 Administer Active Directory Domain Services

AZ-1008 Course: Administer Active Directory Domain Services

This course helps you prepare for the modern APL-1008 Administer Active Directory Domain Services credentials. You will learn how to create, deploy, and maintain an Active Directory Domain Services environment. 

Intermediate - Administrator - Active Directory

Course aimed at

This course is designed for system administrators and IT professionals who manage Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) environments. The ideal candidate will have prior experience with Windows Server and networking technologies. The objective is to learn how to implement, administer, and maintain AD DS, as well as manage security, group policies, and domain controllers.

Course content AZ-1008

Module 1 Implementation and administration of Active Directory Domain Services domain controllers

• Define Active Directory Domain Services
• Definition of forests and domains in Active Directory Domain Services
• Implementation of Active Directory Domain Services domain controllers

Module 2: Creating and managing Active Directory objects

• Definition of users, groups, and teams
• Definition of organizational units
• Managing objects and their properties in Active Directory
• Creating objects in Active Directory
• Configuring objects in Active Directory
• Perform bulk administration tasks for user accounts
• Maintenance of Active Directory Domain Services domain controllers
• Migrating a domain controller to a new site
• Managing Active Directory Domain Services operational patterns

Module 3: Creating and Configuring Group Policy Objects in Active Directory

• Definition of group policy objects
• Implementing the scope and inheritance of the group policy object
• Definition of domain-based group policy objects
• Creating and configuring a domain-based group policy object
• Configure the domain password policy
• Setting up and applying a defined specific password policy

Module 4: Managing Security in Active Directory

• User account rights settings
• Configure user account rights to restrict access
• Delegating permissions in Active Directory
• Protecting user accounts with the Protected Users group
• Description of Windows Defender Credential Guard
• Block Windows NTLM Authentication
• Locating problematic accounts

Module 5 Guided Project: Active Directory Domain Services Administration
Preparation

• Exercise: Configuring domain controller operations
• Exercise: Configuring user administration operations
• Exercise: Managing Password Policies
• Exercise: Configuring security options

Prerequisites

Knowledge and experience working with:

• Windows Server

• Main network technologies

Language

• Course: English / Spanish
  
• Labs: English / Spanish

Microsoft Applied Skills

This course is part of the Microsoft Applied Skills Credentials.

To earn this Microsoft applied skills credential, students must demonstrate the ability to protect resources using Azure virtual network solutions.

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