After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Provide an overview of the lab scenario.
• Create a design for the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) forest and forest trust deployment.
• Design an AD DS domain and Domain Name Service (DNS) integration design.
• Design AD DS sites and AD DS replication.
• Create an AD DS domain controller deployment plan.
• Create an AD DS domain administration design and partially implement the design.
• Create an AD DS Group Policy design and implement some components of that design.
• Design and implement AD DS security policies that meet security requirements.
• Design and implement a PKI deployment by using Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS).
• Design an Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) solution and deploy RMS for internal users.
• Create and implement an Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) design.
• Review and validate a Federated Web single sign-on (SSO) deployment.
• Design and implement a domain restructure.

Module 1: Overview of Active Directory Design

• Preparing For Active Directory Design
• Designing the Internal AD DS Infrastructure
• Extending the Active Directory Design
  

Module 2: Designing an AD DS Forest Infrastructure

• Designing an AD DS Forest
• Designing AD DS Forest Trusts
• Planning for AD DS Schema Changes
• Designing a Windows Time Service Deployment
  

Module 3: Designing an AD DS Domain Infrastructure

• Designing AD DS Domains
• Designing DNS Namespaces in an AD DS Environment
• Designing AD DS Domain Trusts
  

Module 4: Designing AD DS Sites and Replication

• Designing AD DS Sites
• Designing AD DS Replication
  

Module 5: Designing AD DS Domain Controllers

• Designing Domain Controllers and Domain Controller Placement
• Designing RODC Deployments
• Designing Domain Controllers As Virtual Machines
• Designing Domain Controller Availability

Module 6: Designing AD DS Domain Administration

• Planning the Delegation of AD DS Administration
• Designing the Structure of OUs
• Designing an AD DS Group Strategy
• Planning to Manage User and Computer Accounts

Module 7: Designing AD DS Group Policy

• Preparing for Group Policy Design
• Designing Group Policy Objects
• Designing Group Policy Processing
• Planning for Group Policy Management

Module 8: Designing AD DS Security

• Preparing to Design AD DS Security
• Designing AD DS Account and Password Policies
• Designing AD DS Domain Controller Security
• Designing AD DS Administrator Security

Module 9: Designing a Public Key Infrastructure

• Overview of PKI and AD CS
• Designing a Certification Authority Deployment
• Designing Certificate Templates
• Designing Certificate Distribution and Revocation
  

Module 10: Designing and Deploying AD RMS

• AD RMS Overview
• Designing an AD RMS Deployment
• Extending the AD RMS Deployment Outside an Organization

Module 11: Designing an AD LDS Infrastructure

• AD LDS Deployment Scenarios
• Designing an AD LDS Server Deployment
• Designing AD LDS Replication
• Integrating AD LDS with AD DS

Module 12: Designing an AD FS Infrastructure

• Overview of an AD FS Design
• Designing an AD FS Deployment
• Designing AD FS Claims and Applications
  

Module 13: Designing AD DS Transitions

• Choosing an AD DS Transition Strategy
• Designing a Domain-Upgrade Strategy
• Designing a Domain-Restructure Strategy
• Designing AD DS Domain Renaming