This five-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to manage accounts and resources in a Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 environment. The course is intended for systems administrator and systems engineer candidates who are responsible for managing accounts and resources. These tasks include managing user, computer, and group accounts; managing access to network resources; managing printers; managing an organizational unit in a network based on Active Directory® directory service; and implementing Group Policy to manage users and computers.

This is the first course in the Systems Administrator and Systems Engineer tracks for Windows Server 2003 and serves as the entry point for other courses in the Windows Server 2003 curriculum.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Create and populate organizational units with user and computer accounts.
• Manage user and computer accounts.
• Create and manage groups.
• Manage access to resources.
• Implement printing.
• Manage printing.
• Manage access to objects in using organizational units.
• Implement Group Policy.
• Manage the user and computer environment by using Group Policy.
• Audit accounts and resources.

Before attending this course, students must have:

• A+ certification, or equivalent knowledge and skills.
• Network+ certification, or equivalent knowledge and skills.

Module 1: Introduction to Administering Accounts and Resources

This module explains how to administer accounts and resources on computers running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 software in a networked environment.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe features of the Windows 2003 Server Family.
• Log on to Windows Server 2003.
• Install and configure administrative tools.
• Create user accounts.
• Create computer accounts.
• Create an organizational unit.

Module 2: Managing User and Computer Accounts

This module explains how to modify user and computer accounts on computers running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 in a networked environment.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Modify user and computer account properties.
• Enable and unlock user and computer accounts.
• Create a user account template.
• Locate user and computer accounts in Active Directory.
• Save queries.
• Reset user and computer accounts.
• Move domain objects.

Module 3: Managing Groups

This module explains how to perform various administrative functions using groups.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Create groups.
• Manage group membership.
• Apply strategies for using groups.
• Modify groups.
• Manage default groups.

Module 4: Managing Access to Resources

This module explains how to enable resource access with permissions, manage access to files and folders using permissions, and manage permission inheritance.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Manage access to resources.
• Manage access to shared folders.
• Manage access to files and folders by using NTFS permissions.
• Determine effective permissions.
• Manage access to shared files by using offline caching.

Module 5: Implementing Printing

This module explains how to implement printing in a Windows Server 2003 environment.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Explain the printing process in the Windows Server 2003 family.
• Install and share printers.
• Manage access to printers by using shared printer permissions.
• Manage printer drivers.
• Implement printer locations.

Module 6: Managing Printing

This module explains how to set up a network-wide printing strategy to meet the needs of users and troubleshoot installation or configuration problems.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Change the location of the print spooler.
• Set printing priorities.
• Schedule printer availability.
• Configure a printing tool.

Module 7: Managing Access to Objects in Organizational Units

This module explains the permissions available for managing access to Active Directory objects, how to move objects between organizational units in the same domain, and how to delegate control of an organizational unit.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Identify the role of organizational units.
• Modify permissions for Active Directory objects.
• Delegate control of organizational units.

Module 8: Implementing Group Policy

This module explains the purpose and function of Group Policy in a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 environment. It also explains how to implement Group Policy objects (GPOs) and manage GPOs.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Implement a local GPO.
• Implement GPOs on a domain.
• Manage the deployment of Group Policy.

Module 9: Managing the User Environment by Using Group Policy

This module explains how to use Group Policy to configure Folder Redirection, Microsoft Internet Explorer connectivity, and the desktop.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Configure group policy settings.
• Assign scripts with group policy.
• Configure folder redirection.
• Determine applied GPOs.

Module 10: Implementing Administrative Templates and Audit Policy

This module explains how to manage security in an Active Directory domain and how to audit events to ensure the effectiveness of a security strategy.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Provide an overview of security in Windows Server 2003.
• Use security templates to secure computers.
• Test computer security policy.
• Configure auditing.
• Manage security logs.