Weeks 4, 5, 6, & 7

Lesson 2 – Implementing Active Directory:
  Installing AD, understanding the default settings of Server 2003 when configuring AD, verifying AD installation, the theory of FSMOs master roles, compare and contrasting the roles of multi-master replication models versus single-master replication models, viewing master role operations, transferring roles to another server, implementing organizational units, understanding application data partitions, schema modifications.

Lesson 3 – Configuring Site Settings and Replication:

Developing a directory structure, configuring a subnet, creating site links, configuring site attributes, creating site link bridges, configuring AD connections, implementing a Bridgehead Server, designing a replication topology, managing server objects, designing a Global Catalog.

Week 8, 9, 10, & Spring Break

Lesson 4 – Integrating DNS with Active Directory:
   DNS fundamentals, defining DNS Zones and DNS Server roles, installing DNS Server roles, planning DNS Zones, creating LookUp Zones, delegating DNS Zones, configuring dynamic DNS, configuring Zone replication and Zone transfer, troubleshooting DNS problems.

Lesson 5 – Administering User Accounts:
   Planning strategies for creating User Accounts, creating a local user account, creating a domain user account, setting account properties, User profile fundamentals, creating a roaming user profile, creating home folders, maintaining user accounts, and managing users.
 
Lesson 6 – Implementing Groups in Active Directory:

Understanding Groups, planning group strategies, creating groups, setting group properties, modifying groups, creating local groups, introducing default groups, using the “Run as” command.

Week 12, 13, 14, 15

Lesson 7 – Performing AD Administrative Tasks:
   Searching for AD objects on a network, setting AD object permissions, publishing resources in AD, publishing Network-enabled services, moving objects within a domain, moving objects between domains, moving a domain controller, delegating AD permissions, troubleshooting AD.

Lesson 8 – BackUps and Restoration of Active Directory: 
   Using the BackUp Wizard, scheduling AD backups, examining a AD restore, executing a nonauthoritative restore, executing an authoritative restore.

Lesson 9 – Implementing Group Policy:
   Group Policy fundamentals, Types of Group Policy settings and the GPMC, identifying the role of Group Policy at Startup and Logon, planning Group Policy implementations, creating a Group Policy object, delegating control for objects.

Lesson 10 – Configuring Group Policy Settings:

Configuring settings for GPO, modifiying the order of GPOs, filtering the scope of GPOs, linking GPOs, examining the application of GPOs using RSoP, using the Group Policy Management Wizard.