The goal of this five-day course is to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to plan and maintain a Windows^® Server 2003 network infrastructure.

This is the fifth course in the Windows Server 2003 Systems Engineer curriculum.

This course is appropriate for individuals employed as or seeking a position as a systems engineer. This course is also appropriate for individuals currently supporting a competitive platform who want to enhance their job skills on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 networking.

The entry criteria for this course include individuals who are:

• IT professionals and new to Windows Server 2003 network implementation.
• Preparing for the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) certification.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Plan a TCP/IP physical and logical network.
• Plan and troubleshoot a routing strategy.
• Plan a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) strategy.
• Optimize and troubleshoot DHCP.
• Plan a Domain Name System (DNS) strategy.
• Optimize and troubleshoot DNS.
• Plan and optimize Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS).
• Plan, optimize, and troubleshoot IPSec network access.
• Troubleshoot network access.

Before attending this course, students must have completed:

• Course 2277: Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure: Network Services, or have equivalent knowledge and skills.

Module 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure Planning, Tools, and Documentation

This module explains the process of planning a network, and the tools and documentation you need to do so.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Explain the concepts of a network design process.
• Explain the components of a network planning project.

Module 2: Planning and Optimizing a TCP/IP Physical and Logical Network

This module explains how to plan a TCP/IP physical and logical network.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Plan a TCP/IP addressing scheme.
• Optimize network performance.

Module 3: Planning and Troubleshooting Routing and Switching

This module explains how to plan a routing and switching strategy, and how to troubleshoot routing and switching.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Create a secure routing and switching plan.
• Identify TCP/IP routing troubleshooting tools.
• Troubleshoot TCP/IP routing and switching.

Module 4: Planning, Optimizing, and Troubleshooting DHCP

This module explains how to plan a DHCP strategy.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Plan a secure DHCP strategy.
• Optimize DHCP.
• Troubleshoot DHCP.

Module 5: Planning a DNS Strategy

This module explains how to plan a DNS strategy for your enterprise.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Plan a DNS server implementation.
• Plan a namespace strategy.
• Plan zones.
• Plan zone replication and deletion.
• Integrate DNS and WINS.

Module 6: Optimizing and Troubleshooting DNS

This module provides guidelines and strategies for optimizing a DNS server, and details steps for troubleshooting a DNS server.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Optimize a DNS server.
• Optimize DNS server-to-server communications.
• Optimize DNS client support traffic.
• Troubleshoot host name resolution.

Module 7: Planning and Optimizing WINS

This module covers planning and optimization of WINS, including information on optimizing servers and detailed explanations of optimization tasks.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Plan a WINS solution.
• Identify WINS optimization requirements.
• Optimize WINS traffic.

Module 8: Planning and Troubleshooting IPSec

This module explains how to plan an Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) deployment, and covers the necessary tools and skills for troubleshooting IPSec.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Discuss IPSec.
• Understand IPSec default policies, rules, and settings.
• Plan IPSec deployment.
• Troubleshoot IPSec.

Module 9: Planning Network Access

This module explains how to plan network access.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Explain the requirements and authentication protocols for a network access strategy.
• Apply the guidelines for selecting a network access connection strategy.
• Apply the guidelines for selecting a remote access policy strategy.
• Select a network access authentication method.
• Plan a network access strategy.

Module 10: Troubleshooting Network Access

This module explains how to troubleshoot network access.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Identify network access troubleshooting resources.
• Explain how to troubleshoot local area network (LAN) authentication.
• Explain how to troubleshoot remote access.

Module 11: Planning a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure

This module explains the course capstone lab. The capstone lab provides students with the opportunity to plan, implement, and troubleshoot the network infrastructure for a branch office.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Identify the components of the master project plan.
• Explain the process for preparing development and test environments.
• Explain how to manage and maintain the network infrastructure.