Study Guide and Resources List for 70-647 MCITP: Enterprise Administrator
This is still a work in progress. I've just started studying for the exam myself and I need to clean up some of these links as well as update some of the areas to reflect the addition of R2.
Thanks in advance.
earweed
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Skills Being Measured
Pro: Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Administrator
Planning network and application services (23%)
*Plan for name resolution and IP addressing - may include but is not limited to: internal and external naming strategy, naming resolution support for legacy clients, naming resolution for directory services, IP addressing scheme, TCP/IP version coexistence
IPv6 for Microsoft Windows: Frequently Asked Questions
How to configure Server 2008 IP Routing
Request for Comments: 3007
Request for Comments: 2136
*Design for network access - may include but is not limited to: network access policies, remote access strategy, perimeter networks, server and domain isolation
Active Directory Domain Services in the Perimeter Network (Windows Server 200
Network Policy and Access Services Role
Server and Domain Isolation
Creating a Remote Access Policy Strategy (pertains to Server 2003)
*Plan for application delivery - may include but is not limited to: application virtualization, presentation virtualization, locally installed software, Web-based applications
Application Virtualization Server-Based Scenario Overview
Presentation Virtualization with Enhanced Terminal Services
TechNet Webcast: Using Presentation Virtualization
*Plan for terminal services - may include but is not limited to: Terminal Services licensing, Terminal Services infrastructure
Terminal Services Overview
Download the Terminal Services Guide
Terminal Services Licensing (TS Licensing)
Designing core identity and access management components (25%)
*Design active directory forests and domains - may include but is not limited to: forest structure, forest and domain functional levels, intra-organizational authorization and authentication, schema modifications.
*Design the Active Directory physical topology - may include but is not limited to: placement of servers, site and replication topology, printer location policies.
Designing the Site Topology for Windows Server 2008 AD DS
*Design the Active Directory administrative model - may include but is not limited to: delegation, group strategy, compliance auditing, group administrating, organizational structure.
*Design the enterprise-level group policy strategy - may include but is not limited to: group policy hierarchy and scope filtering, control device installation, authentication and authorization.
Group Policy Planning and Deployment Guide
Designing Support identity and access management components (29%)
*Plan for domain or forest migration, upgrade, and restructuring - may include but not limited to: cross-forest authentication, backward compatibility, object migration, migration planning, implementation planning, environment preparation.
AD FS Design Guide
Best Practices for Active Directory Migration
*Design the branch office deployment - may include but not limited to: authentication strategy, server security.
Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC) Branch Office Guide
Read-Only Domain Controller Planning and Deployment Guide
Branch Office TechCenter
Secure Windows Server
*Design and implement public key infrastructure - may include but not limited to: certificate services, PKI operations and maintenance, certificate life cycle management.
AD CS: Enterprise PKI (PKIView)
Infrastructure Planning and Design
Active Directory Certificate Services
*Plan for interoperability - may include but not limited to: inter-organizational authorization and authentication, application authentication interoperability, cross-platform interoperability.
Designing for business continuity and data availability (23%)
*Plan for business continuity- may include but not limited to: service availability, directory service recovery
Failover Cluster Design Guide
Failover Cluster Deployment Guide
Network Load Balancing
Backup and Recovery Overview
*Design for software updates and compliance management - may include but not limited to: patch management and patch management compliance, Microsoft update and Windows update, security baselines, system health models
Windows Server Update Services
System Center Essentials
Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.1
*Design the operating system virtualization strategy - may include but not limited to: server consolidation, application compatibility, virtualization management, placement of servers
Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides for Virtualization
*Design for data management and data access - may include but not limited to: data accessibility and redundancy, data collaboration
AD RMS Architecture Design and Secure Collaboration Scenarios
AD RMS Performance and Logging Best Practices ( Read the articles listed below this in the left pane)
Virtual Labs
Windows Server 2008 Virtual Labs (MSDN)
TechNet Virtual Labs: Windows Server 2008
Just a bunch of good articles related to several of the above areas
Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides for Windows Server 2008
ADMT Guide: Migrating and Restructuring Active Directory Domains
AD DS Design Guide
Changes in Functionality from Windows Server 2003 with SP1 to Windows Server 2008 (For those who are upgrading to 2K8 )
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