Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Bootcamp (BC2398)

Module 1: Getting started with Windows Server

• Types of computer networks
• Understanding computer network components
• Understanding computer network architectures
• Understanding IP addressing and subnetting
• Understanding servers
• Understanding server hardware and software
• Understanding server sizes, form factors, and shapes
• Understanding a Network Operating System
• Understanding Windows Server
• Windows Server timeline
• Downloading Windows Server 2019

Module 2: Introducing Windows Server 2019

• Windows Server 2019 versus Windows Server 2016
• Minimum and recommended system requirements
• What's new in Windows Server 2019?
• Understanding the System Insights feature
• Understanding hybrid cloud support
• Understanding Storage Migration Service
• Understanding the Storage Replica feature
• Understanding Microsoft Defender ATP
• Support for Kubernetes
• Support for Docker containers
• What is Windows Admin Center?
• Downloading Windows Admin Center

Module 3: Installing Windows Server 2019

• Understanding the installation of Windows Server 2019
• Understanding partition schemes
• Understanding boot options
• Accessing the advanced startup options
• Performing various Windows Server 2019 installation methods
• Choosing Desktop Experience, Server Core, or Nano Server installation
• Performing a clean installation
• Performing an installation over a network
• Performing an unattended installation using Windows ADK and MDT
• Performing an in-place upgrade
• Performing migration using WSMT
• Installing WDS
• Setting up WDS

Module 4: Post-Installation Tasks in Windows Server 2019

• Getting to know computer devices and device drivers
• Working with devices and device drivers
• Getting to know PnP, IRQ, DMA, and driver signing
• Understanding the registry and services
• Getting to know service startup types
• Working with the registry and services
• Explaining registry entries, service accounts, and dependencies
• Understanding Windows Server initial configuration
• Getting to know the Windows Server initial configuration
• Performing Windows Server initial configuration using Server Manager
• Performing Windows Server initial configuration using Server Configuration

Module 5: Core infrastructure services

• Active Directory Users and Computers
• Active Directory Domains and Trusts
• Active Directory Sites and Services
• Active Directory Administrative Center
• Read-Only Domain Controllers (RODC)
• The power of Group Policy
• The Default Domain Policy
• Creating and linking a new GPO
• Filtering GPOs to particular devices
• Domain Name System (DNS)
• Different kinds of DNS records
• DHCP versus static addressing
• The DHCP scope
• DHCP reservations
• Back up and restore
• Schedule regular backups
• Restoring from Windows
• Restoring from the installer disc
• MMC and MSC shortcuts

Module 6: Adding Roles to Windows Server 2019

• Understanding server roles
• Understanding role services
• Understanding server features
• Understanding Server Manager
• Understanding application servers
• Understanding mail servers
• Understanding database servers
• Understanding collaboration servers
• Understanding monitoring servers
• Understanding threat management servers
• Understanding web services
• What is IIS?
• What is WWW?
• What is FTP?
• Understanding separate worker processes
• Adding components to the IIS
• Understanding sites
• Understanding ports
• Understanding SSL
• Understanding certificates
• Understanding Remote Access
• Understanding Remote Assistance
• Understanding RSAT
• Understanding RDS
• Understanding RDS Licensing
• Understanding RDG
• Understanding VPN
• Understanding App-V
• Understanding multiple ports
• Understanding file and print services
• Understanding user rights, NTFS permissions, and share permissions
• Understanding the auditing of file servers
• Installing the web server (IIS) role
• Installing a PDS role

Module 7: Group Policy in Windows Server 2019

• GPO configuration values
• Processing GPOs
• Types of GP editors
• Local Group Policy Editor
• Updating local GPOs
• Configuration policies
• Renaming the administrator account
• Renaming the guest account
• Blocking the Microsoft accounts
• Prohibiting access to the Control Panel and PC settings
• Denying access to all removable storage classes

Module 8: Certificates in Windows Server 2019

• User certificates
• Computer certificates
• SSL certificates
• Planning your PKI
• Role services
• Enterprise versus Standalone
• Root versus Subordinate (issuing)
• Naming your CA server
• Can I install the CA role onto a domain controller?
• Creating a new certificate template
• Issuing your new certificates
• Publishing the template
• Requesting a cert from MMC
• Requesting a cert from the Web interface
• Creating an auto-enrollment policy
• Obtaining a public-authority SSL certificate
• Public/private key pair
• Creating a Certificate Signing Request
• Submitting the certificate request
• Downloading and installing your certificate
• Exporting and importing certificates
• Exporting from MMC
• Exporting from IIS
• Importing into a second server

Module 9: Networking with Windows Server 2019

• Understanding IPv6 IP addresses
• Your networking toolbox
• ping
• tracert
• pathping
• telnet
• Test-NetConnection
• Packet tracing with Wireshark or Message Analyzer
• TCPView
• Building a routing table
• Multi-homed servers
• Only one default gateway
• Building a route
• NIC Teaming
• Software-defined networking
• Hyper-V Network Virtualization
• Bridging the gap to Azure
• Azure Network Adapter

Module 10: Enabling Your Mobile Workforce

• Device Tunnel requirements
• AOVPN client requirements
• Rolling out the settings
• AOVPN server components
• The truth about DirectAccess and IPv62
• Prerequisites for DirectAccess
• Do not use the Getting Started Wizard (GSW)!
• Remote Access Management Console
• Configuration
• Dashboard
• Operations Status
• Remote Client Status
• Reporting
• Tasks
• DA, VPN, or AOVPN? Which is best?
• Domain-joined or not?
• Auto or manual launch
• Software versus built-in
• Password and login issues with traditional VPNs
• Port-restricted firewalls
• Manual disconnect
• Native load-balancing capabilities
• Distribution of client configurations
• Web Application Proxy
• WAP as AD FS Proxy
• Requirements for WAP
• Latest improvements to WAP
• Preauthentication for HTTP Basic
• HTTP to HTTPS redirection
• Client IP addresses forwarded to applications
• Publishing Remote Desktop Gateway
• Improved administrative console

Module 11: Hardening and Security

• Installing Windows Defender AV
• Exploring the user interface
• Disabling Windows Defender
• What is ATP, anyway?
• Windows Defender ATP Exploit Guard
• Windows Defender Firewall – no laughing matter
• Three Windows Firewall administrative consoles
• Three different firewall profiles
• Building a new inbound firewall rule
• Creating a rule to allow pings (ICMP)
• Managing WFAS with Group Policy
• Encryption technologies
• BitLocker and the virtual TPM
• Shielded VMs
• Encrypted virtual networks
• Encrypting File System
• IPsec
• Banned passwords
• Advanced Threat Analytics
• General security best practices
• Getting rid of perpetual administrators
• Using distinct accounts for administrative access
• Using a different computer to accomplish administrative tasks
• Never browse the internet from servers
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Just Enough Administration (JEA)

Module 12: Server Core

• PowerShell
• Remote PowerShell
• Server Manager
• Remote Server Administration Tools
• Accidentally closing Command Prompt
• Windows Admin Center for managing Server Core
• The Sconfig utility
• Roles available in Server Core
• What happened to Nano Server?

Module 13: Storing Data in Windows Server 2019

• Different storage types
• Understanding local storage
• Understanding network storage
• Differentiating between block-level storage and file-level storage
• Understanding adapter and controller types
• Understanding serial bus technologies
• Understanding storage protocols
• Understanding file sharing protocols
• Understanding FC, HBA, and FC switches
• What is iSCSI hardware?
• What is S2D?
• What is dedup?
• What is storage tiering?
• Managing storage with Server Manager and Windows PowerShell
• Understanding RAID
• Types of RAID
• Hardware versus software RAID
• Understanding SDS
• Understanding resiliency using S2D
• Understanding high availability (HA)
• Understanding disk types
• Understanding HDD
• Understanding SSD
• Understanding optical disk drives
• Understanding basic disks
• Understanding dynamic disks
• Understanding mount points
• Understanding filesystems
• Mounting a VHD
• Understanding DFS
• Enabling dedup on Windows Server 2019

Module 14: Redundancy in Windows Server 2019

• What roles can use NLB?
• Virtual and dedicated IP addresses
• NLB modes
• Enabling NLB
• Configuring NLB
• Configuring IIS and DNS
• Testing it out
• Flushing the ARP cache
• Failover clustering
• Clustering Hyper-V hosts
• Clustering for file services
• Clustering tiers
• Application-layer clustering
• Host-layer clustering
• A combination of both
• How does failover work?
• Setting up a failover cluster
• Building the servers
• Installing the feature
• Running the failover cluster manager
• Running cluster validation
• Running the Create Cluster wizard
• Recent clustering improvements in Windows Server
• True two-node clusters with USB witnesses
• Higher security for clusters
• Multi-site clustering
• Cross-domain or workgroup clustering
• Cluster operating-system rolling upgrades
• Virtual machine resiliency
• Storage Replica (SR)
• Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)
• New in Server 2019

Module 15: Virtualizing Your Data Center with Hyper-V

• The external virtual switch
• The internal virtual switch
• The private virtual switch
• Creating a new virtual switch
• Implementing a new virtual server
• Starting and connecting to the VM
• Installing the operating system
• Managing a virtual server
• Hyper-V Manager
• The Settings menu
• Hyper-V Console, Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), or PowerShell
• Windows Admin Center (WAC)
• Shielded VMs
• Encrypting VHDs
• Infrastructure requirements for shielded VMs
• Host attestations
• Integrating with Linux
• ReFS deduplication
• ReFS
• Data deduplication
• Why is this important to Hyper-V?
• Hyper-V Server 2019

Module 16: Containers and Nano Server

• Isolation
• Scalability
• Windows Server containers versus Hyper-V containers
• Windows Server Containers
• Hyper-V Containers
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Linux containers
• Docker Hub
• Docker Trusted Registry
• Kubernetes
• Working with containers
• Installing the role and feature
• Installing Docker for Windows
• Downloading a container image
• Running a container

Module 17: PowerShell

• Why move to PowerShell?
• PowerShell is the backbone
• Scripting
• Server Core
• Working within PowerShell
• Launching PowerShell
• Using the Tab key
• Useful cmdlets for daily tasks
• Using Get-Help
• Formatting the output
• PS1 files
• PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment
• Remotely managing a server
• Preparing the remote server
• Connecting to the remote server
• Desired State Configuration

Module 18: Tuning and Maintaining Windows Server 2019

• Understanding the processor
• Understanding memory
• Understanding the disk
• Understanding the network interface
• Understanding 32-bit and 64-bit architectures
• Understanding removable drives
• Understanding graphics cards
• Understanding power usage
• Understanding performance monitoring
• Understanding the performance monitoring methodology
• Understanding performance monitoring procedures
• Understanding server baselines
• Understanding Performance Monitor
• Understanding Resource Monitor
• Understanding Task Manager
• Running Task Manager
• Understanding performance counters
• Understanding logs and alerts
• The purpose of performance logs and alerts
• Starting the performance logs and alerts service
• Accessing the Performance Monitor logs folder
• Creating performance data logs
• Setting up performance counter alerts

Module 19: Updating and Troubleshooting Windows Server 2019

• Understanding Windows Update
• Updating Windows Server 2019
• Updating Microsoft programs
• Updating non-Microsoft programs
• Updating the device drivers
• Understanding WSUS
• Understanding the troubleshooting methodology
• Best practices, guidelines, and procedures
• Understanding the troubleshooting process
• Systematic versus specific approach
• Understanding the troubleshooting procedures
• Understanding the ITIL
• Understanding Event Viewer
• Understanding the startup process
• Understanding BIOS
• Understanding UEFI
• Understanding TPM
• Understanding POST
• Understanding MBR
• Understanding BCD
• Understanding bootloader
• Understanding the boot sector
• Understanding the boot menu
• Understanding Safe Mode
• Understanding business continuity
• Understanding DRP
• Understanding data redundancy
• Understanding clustering
• Understanding folder redirection
• Understanding backup and restore
• Understanding Active Directory (AD) restore
• Understanding power redundancy
• Setting up centralized monitoring
• Filtering Event Viewer logs
• Changing the default logs location