MCSA/MCSE 70-294 Exam Cram

Table of Contents

Introduction

Self-Assessment

Chapter 1:

The Structure and Components of Active Directory

• DNS, Trees, and Forests–The Hierarchy of Active Directory
• DNS Namespace
• Domains
• Domain Trees
• Forests
• Sites
• Domain Controllers and Operations Masters
• Trust Relationships and Active Directory Federation Services
• Active Directory Components
• Active Directory Objects
• Active Directory Schema
• Directory Service Protocol
• Organizational Unit
• Global Catalog
• Active Directory Application Mode
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Chapter 2:

Planning and Implementing Forests and Domains

• The Windows Server 2003 Domain
• Requirements for AD
• The AD Installation Wizard
• Installing Your First Domain
• Deciding Which Type of DNS to Use
• The Lesser-Known Roles of the Wizard
• Fault-Tolerant Replicas
• Troubleshooting Your AD Installation
• Verifying Your AD Installation
• File Verification
• SYSVOL
• Final Checkpoints
• AD Removal
• What Removing AD Entails
• Troubleshooting AD Removal
• Unattended Installation of AD
• The GuiRunOnce Section
• The DCInstall Section
• Post-AD Installation Options
• Integrated Zones
• Domain Mode Options
• Application Data Partitions
• Creating an Application Data Partition
• Trust Relationships
• Transitive Trusts
• Forest Trusts
• External Trusts
• Realm Trusts
• Shortcut Trusts
• New Trust Wizard
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Chapter 3:

Planning and Implementing an OU Structure

• Implementing an Organizational Unit (OU) Structure
• Analyzing the Administrative Requirements for an OU
• Creating an OU
• Moving Objects Within an OU Hierarchy
• Delegating Permissions for an OU to a User or to a Security Group
• Planning an OU Structure Based on Delegation Requirements
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Chapter 4:

User and Group Administration

• Introducing Users and Groups
• Planning a User Authentication Strategy
• Types of Logon Names
• Rules for Logon Names
• UPN Suffixes
• Administering User Accounts
• Creating User Accounts
• The csvde Utility
• The ldifde Utility
• Directory Service Command Line Tools
• Common User Management Tasks
• Creating a Password Policy for Domain Users
• Planning a Smartcard Authentication Strategy
• From Passwords to Smartcards, and Back Again
• Smartcards and Remote Access
• Planning a Security Group Strategy
• Defining Group Types
• Planning a Security Group Hierarchy Based on Delegation Requirements
• User and Group Recommendations
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• Answers to Exam Cram Questions
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Chapter 5:

Planning a Group Policy Implementation

• Group Policy Overview
• Group Policy Objects
• Creating and Linking Group Policy Objects
• Linking a GPO
• Linking Multiple GPOs
• Cross-Domain GPO Links
• Delegating Administrative Control of Group Policy
• Managing Group Policy Links
• Creating GPOs
• Editing GPOs
• Specifying a Domain Controller for Managing Group Policy Objects
• Group Policy Inheritance
• Block Policy Inheritance
• No Override/Enforced
• Disabling a GPO
• Using Loopback Processing When Applying Group Policy
• Filtering Group Policy
• Configuring Group Policy Refresh Rates
• Controlling User Environments with Administrative Templates
• Common Administrative Templates Categories
• Policy Application Scenarios
• Policy Application Scenario #1
• Policy Application Scenario #2
• Managing Security Configurations
• Security Templates
• Assigning Script Policies to Users and Computers
• Assigning Scripts Through Group Policy
• Use of Folder Redirection
• Automatically Enrolling Certificates with Group Policy
• Implementing Autoenrollment
• Copying, Backing Up, and Restoring GPOs
• Copying GPOs
• Backing Up GPOs
• Restoring GPOs
• Troubleshooting Group Policy
• Resultant Set of Policy (RSo)/Group Policy Modeling Wizard
• Group Policy Results
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• Answers to Exam Cram Questions
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Chapter 6:

Software Distribution with Group Policy

• Intellimirror Concepts
• Software Installation and Maintenance Overview
• Requirements for Software Installation
• Deploying Software with Group Policy and Software Installation
• Software Deployment to Users and Computers
• Configuring Software Installation Properties
• Deploying a New Package
• Configuring Package Properties
• Assigned Versus Published Applications
• Phases of Software Deployment
• Troubleshooting Software Deployment Problems
• General Troubleshooting Guidelines
• Various Installation Error Messages
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• Answers to Exam Cram Questions
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Chapter 7:

Implementing and Managing Active Directory Sites

• Why Use Sites?
• Sites and Domain Controllers
• Creating a Site
• Moving Domain Controllers Between Sites
• Site Connections
• Creating and Configuring a Site Link
• Bridgehead Servers
• Configuring Preferred Bridgehead Servers
• Site Link Bridge
• Creating Site Link Bridges
• Connection Objects
• Optimizing Active Directory Replication with Sites
• Replication Within a Site and Between Sites
• Protocols That Support Replication
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Chapter 8:

Operations Masters and Global Catalog Servers

• Introducing Operations Masters
• Identifying Operations Master Role Dependencies
• Planning for Business Continuity of Operations Master Roles
• Determining and Transferring Operations Master Roles
• Permissions for Changing an Operations Master Server
• Seizing a Role
• Recommendations for Operations Masters
• Planning a Strategy for Placing Global Catalog Servers
• GC and Logon Validation
• Evaluating Network Traffic Considerations When Placing Global Catalog Servers
• Evaluating the Need to Enable Universal Group Membership Caching
• User Principal Names and Logon Validation
• Adding GC Servers
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Chapter 9:

Active Directory Maintenance

• Introducing AD Maintenance
• Active Directory Data Files
• Garbage Collection
• Performing Backups
• Recommendations for Backing Up Data
• Restoring AD
• Defragmenting the AD Database
• Recommendations for AD Database Maintenance
• Monitoring Active Directory
• Monitoring Active Directory Replication
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Chapter 10:

Practice Exam 1

Chapter 11:

Practice Exam 1 Answer Key

Chapter 12:

Practice Exam 2

Chapter 13:

Practice Exam 2 Answer Key

Appendix A

Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Resources

Appendix B

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