Module 1: Introduction to Designing an Active Directory and Network
Infrastructure.
- Describe the role of Active Directory in an organization.
- Describe the role of design in the Active Directory life cycle.
- Describe the role of a network infrastructure and the elements crucial
to the successful interaction between network components and Active
Directory.
- Describe the network life cycle and how design tasks fit into that
life cycle
- Describe basic design principes
Module 2: Designing a Forest and Domain Infrastructure.
- Determine the information needed to design a forest and domain
infrasturcture.
- Create a conceptual forest design.
- Create a conceptual domain design.
- Establish a Domain Name System (DNS) namespace strategy for the
forests and domains.
- Establish a trust strategy for the forests.
- determine a migration path for the existing infrastructure.
- Design a schema management policy.
Module 3: Designing a Site Infrastructure.
- Determine the information needed to design a site infrastructure.
- Create a site design.
- Modify the site design for replication.
- Determine the placement of domain controllers in the site design.
- Determine the placement of Global Catalog servers in the site design.
- Determine the placement of Single Operations Masters in the site
design.
Modulo 4: Designing for Group Policy.
- Gather Group Policy requirements.
- Design a Group Policy structure.
- Create an organizational unit structure for Group Policy.
-Create a Group policy management design.
Module 5: Designing the Administrative Structure.
- Determine the information needed to design an administrative structure.
- Design a network administration model.
- Design an organizational unit structure.
- Design an account strategy.
Module 6: Designing the Physical Network.
- Gather data about a physical network.
- Design a connectivity infrastructure.
- Design a connectivity infrastructure for Active Directory
communicactions.
- Evaluate connection types.
- Design a change management structure for networking.
Module 7: Designing for network Connectivity.
- Determine the information needed to design for network connectivity.
- Design an IP addressing scheme.
- Design a security strategy for conectivity.
- Create an extranet design.
- Create an intranet design.
- Design a DHCP infrastructure.
- Design a DHCP scope strategy.
Module 8: Designing a Name Resolution Strategy.
- Determine the information needed to design a name resolution strategy.
- Design a strategy for interoperability with Active Directory, Berkeley
Internet Name Domain (BIND), WINS, and DHCP.
- Design a WINS replication strategy.
- Design a name resolution strategy for clients.
Module 9: Designing the Network Access Infrastructure.