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A solid business plans

to avoidActiveDirectory Disasters.

The Active Directory: Backup and Disaster Recovery 4-day WorkshopPLUScourse

provides participants with the knowledge and skills required to prepare for, recover from,

or avoid specific Microsoft Active Directory disasters.Following a primer module, Preparing for and Avoiding Disasters, students will explore

several specific disaster scenarios, each addressed using this formula:

Technical Description and Drilldown

Business Continuity Impact

Causes

Prevention Strategies

Preparing to Recover

How to Recover

This workshop contains 300-level content. Please review the target-audience information

and contact your Microsoft Services representative to ensure that this workshop isappropriate to the students experience and technical expertise.

WorkshopPLUSBenefitsIncoming Assessment to baseline knowledge.It is important for students to get

feedback on how much they have learned during the WorkshopPLUScourse. To

accomplish that end, the Incoming Assessment measures what students know at the

beginning of the course. This 25-question assessment was developed by a team of

subject matter experts at Microsoft.

Outgoing Assessment to measure knowledge transfer.Students like to know howmuch they learned as a result of the training. At the end of the WorkshopPLUScourse,

students compare their Incoming and Outgoing results. In addition, the instructor reviews

the questions and discusses the answers in detail to ensure that students understand the

concepts. (Note: Individual results of the Incoming and Outgoing Assessment are not

provided to management.)

Action Planning Exercises to take workshop-acquired knowledge and apply them to

the workplace.Applying new knowledge to the real world is key to getting the most valueout of your training budget. The purpose of the Action Planning Exercises is to identify key

problems or proactive opportunities in your workplace and then to use the skills learned

in this course to develop real-world action plans.

DATA SHEET

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Technical Highlights

The Active Directory: Backup and Disaster Recovery workshop

provides students with the skills and techniques to help them:

Understand what it takes to prepare for and avoid Active

Directory disasters.

Learn, in-depth, about the following Active Directory

Disaster scenarios:

o Loss of critical services (e.g., DNS)

o Trusts with external domains fail

o FSMO disasters

o Active Directory object deletion or corruption

o Domain controller failures

o Loss of entire forest functionality

o SYSVOL data failures

o FRS component failures

o GPO disasters

o Massive clock adjustments

o USN rollback

o Lingering objects

Target Audience

To ensure the high-quality knowledge transfer students expect

from this 4-day workshop, class size is limited to a maximum of

16 students who meet the following criteria:

Senior or top-level IT staff possessing at a minimum

MCSE-level certification in Microsoft Windows 2003.

Operating-environment infrastructure architects with a

solid understanding of AD.

Windows 2000/2003 Server administrators with solid

understanding of AD.

Escalation support staff (top-tier only).

SyllabusThis workshop runs a FULL 4 days. Students should anticipate

consistent start and end times for each day. Early departure on

any day is not recommended.

Incoming Assessment. Students take a 25-question quiz that

measures their baseline knowledge.

Module 1: Preparing for and Avoiding Disasters.Qualify what

constitutes an outage of Active Directory,;identify ways to prevent

AD disasters; know what data should be collected in advance;

and identify what information to communicate to business units.

Module 2: Core Disaster Recovery Scenarios.Explore six core

disaster scenarios, ranging from Loss of Critical Services to

Loss of Entire Forest Functionality.

Module 3: SYSVOL Scenarios.Investigate SYSVOL data

failures, FRS component failures, and GPO disasters.

Module 4: Disasters Avoided Through Good Operational

Practices.Adjust operational practices to avoid disasters

associated with massive clock adjustments, USN rollback, and

lingering objects.

Module 5: Security Related Scenarios. Focus on prevention,

including: Physical DC compromise, hacked DCs, and sidHistory

elevation.

Module 6: Relevant Changes In Future Releases. Review

disaster recovery-related changes in Microsoft Windows

Server 2008.

Outgoing Assessment.Students complete the quiz again and

compare Incoming and Outgoing results to measure knowledge

transfer.

Action Planning Exercises.Students develop Action Plans to

improve real-world situations and/or implement proactive

measures.

This workshop is just one of

many available from Microsoft

Services.

For more information, contact

your Technical Account

Manager or Services

representative.

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