This 70-412 Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 R2 Services textbook covers the third of three exams required for Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA): Windows Server 2012 certification. This course will help validate the skills and knowledge necessary to administer a Windows Server 2012 Infrastructure in an enterprise environment. The three MCSA exams collectively validate the skills and knowledge necessary for implementing, managing, maintaining and provisioning services and infrastructure in a Windows Server 2012 environment. This Microsoft Official Academic Course is mapped to the 70-412 Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services exam skills, including the recent R2 objectives. This textbook focuses on real skills for real jobs and prepares students to prove mastery of Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services such as advanced configuring tasks necessary to deploy, manage, and maintain a Windows Server 2012 infrastructure. It covers such skills as fault tolerance, certificate services, and identity federation. In addition, this book also covers such valuable skills as:
• Implementing Advanced Network Services
• Implementing Advanced File Services
• Implementing Dynamic Access Control
• Implementing Network Load Balancing
• Implementing Failover Clustering
• Implementing Disaster Recovery
• Implementing Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS)
• Implementing Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)
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Table of Contents:
Lesson 1: Configuring Network Load Balancing 1
Understanding Fault Tolerance 1
Configuring Network Load Balancing 3
Skill Summary 11
Knowledge Assessment 12
Business Case Scenarios 15
Lesson 2: Configuring Failover Clustering 16
Understanding Failover Clustering 17
Skill Summary 40
Knowledge Assessment 41
Business Case Scenarios 45
Lesson 3: Managing Failover Clustering Roles 46
Managing Failover Clustering Roles 46
Skill Summary 56
Knowledge Assessment 57
Business Case Scenarios 60
Lesson 4: Managing Virtual Machine Movement 61
Understanding Virtual Machine Movement 62
Understanding Live Migration 62
Performing Quick Migration 67
Performing Storage Migration 68
Configuring Virtual Machine Network Health Protection 70
Configuring Drain on Shutdown 72
Importing, Exporting, and Copying Virtual Machines 72
Migrating from Other Platforms – Understanding P2V and V2V 75
Converting a Virtual Machine to Virtual Machine (V2V) Using SCVMM 78
Skill Summary 80
Knowledge Assessment 81
Business Case Scenarios 84
Lesson 5: Configuring Advanced File Services 85
Configuring NFS Data Store 85
Configuring BranchCache 92
Configuring File Classification Infrastructure 97
Configuring File Access Auditing 101
Skill Summary 105
Knowledge Assessment 106
Business Case Scenarios 109
Lesson 6: Implementing Dynamic Access Control 110
Using Dynamic Access Control 111
Skill Summary 125
Knowledge Assessment 126
Business Case Scenarios 129
Lesson 7: Configuring and Optimizing Storage 130
Understanding Shared Storage 131
Using iSCSI 132
Configuring Tiered Storage 141
Implementing Thin Provisioning and Trim 143
Managing Server Free Space Using Features on Demand 145
Skill Summary 145
Knowledge Assessment 146
Business Case Scenarios 149
Lesson 8: Configuring and Managing Backups 150
Configuring and Managing Backups 150
Skill Summary 172
Knowledge Assessment 173
Business Case Scenarios 176
Lesson 9: Recovering Servers 177
Preparing For Windows Server 2012 R2 Restore 177
Skill Summary 198
Knowledge Assessment 199
Business Case Scenarios 203
Lesson 10: Configuring Site-Level Fault Tolerance 204
Configuring Hyper-V Replica 205
Configuring Multi-Site Clustering 209
Skill Summary 213
Knowledge Assessment 214
Business Case Scenarios 217
Lesson 11: Implementing an Advanced Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Solution 218
Implementing Advanced DHCP Solutions 219
Skill Summary 237
Knowledge Assessment 238
Business Case Scenarios 241
Lesson 12: Implementing an Advanced DNS Solution 242
Configuring Security for DNS 243
Configuring DNS Logging 246
Configuring Delegated Administration 248
Configuring Recursion 249
Configuring Netmask Ordering 250
Configuring A GlobalNames Zone 251
Skill Summary 253
Knowledge Assessment 254
Business Case Scenarios 256
Lesson 13: Deploying and Managing IPAM 257
Configuring IPAM 257
Creating and Managing IP Blocks and Ranges 265
Monitoring Utilization of IP Address Space 268
Skill Summary 270
Knowledge Assessment 271
Business Case Scenarios 274
Lesson 14: Configuring a Domain and Forest 275
Implementing Complex Active Directory Environments 276
Upgrading Existing Domains and Forests 281
Configuring Multiple UPN Suffixes 286
Skill Summary 287
Knowledge Assessment 288
Business Case Scenarios 291
Lesson 15: Configuring Trusts 292
Configuring Trusts 293
Understanding Trust Types 295
Creating External Trusts 297
Creating Forest Trusts 299
Creating Shortcut Trusts 301
Creating Realm Trusts 304
Validating Trusts 306
Configuring Trust Authentication 307
Configuring SID Filtering 310
Configuring Name Suffix Routing 311
Skill Summary 313
Knowledge Assessment 313
Business Case Scenarios 316
Lesson 16: Configuring Sites 318
Configuring Sites and Subnets 318
Skill Summary 334
Knowledge Assessment 335
Business Case Scenarios 338
Lesson 17: Managing Active Directory and SYSVOL Replication 339
Managing Active Directory Replication 340
Skill Summary 354
Knowledge Assessment 355
Business Case Scenarios 358
Lesson 18: Implementing Active Directory Federation Services 359
Understanding Active Directory Federation Services 360
Implementing AD FS 362
Skill Summary 379
Knowledge Assessment 380
Business Case Scenarios 384
Lesson 19: Installing and Configuring Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) 385
Skill Summary 403
Knowledge Assessment 404
Business Case Scenarios 407
Lesson 20: Managing Certificates 408
Managing Digital Certificates 409
Skill Summary 429
Knowledge Assessment 430
Business Case Scenarios 433
Lesson 21: Installing and Configuring Active Directory Rights Management Services 434
Understanding Active Directory Rights Management 435
Skill Summary 451
Knowledge Assessment 452
Business Case Scenarios 455
Appendix 456
Index 458
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