In this course, you will learn to manage group and user accounts, share and secure file and print resources, secure Active Directory® objects, implement and manage Group Policy, implement basic security measures, and perform auditing on servers and workstations.

In this course, you will gain the skills and knowledge that are needed to effectively maintain server resources, monitor server performance, and safeguard data on a computer running one of the operating systems in the Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 family.

You will also be provided with the skills and knowledge necessary to configure a Windows-based computer to operate in a Microsoft Windows.

At the end of the course, students will have a comprehensive understanding of management and maintenance strategy for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and a thorough understanding of Domain Name System (DNS), Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS), Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) and the knowledge and skills necessary to allow, manage and monitor remote access users.

In this online collection composed of eleven courses, you will be able to plan the Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 network infrastructure; optimize a TCP/IP physical and logical network; troubleshoot routing and switching; and plan, optimize, and troubleshoot DHCP. You will be able to plan a Domain Name System (DNS) implementation, optimize and troubleshoot your DNS server, and plan and optimize Microsoft® Windows® Internet Name Service (WINS). You will also be able to troubleshoot IPSec and network access, and you will be able to examine the correct methods of planning network access and Windows Server 2003 network infrastructure.

After completing this course, you will describe common elements of security policies and procedures, and create a security design framework and design team by using the Microsoft® Operations Framework process model. You will also explain common network vulnerabilities, how to predict threats to security by using the STRIDE threat model, and explain the purpose and operation of and understand how to create a risk management plan. You will also be able to create security designs for physical resources, computers, accounts, authentication, data, data transmission, and network parameters after analyzing the threats and risks associated with each. Lastly, you will learn how to design audit policies and incident response procedures for the prevention of and reaction to an attack.

In this online collection composed of ten courses, you are provided with the knowledge and skills to successfully plan, implement, and troubleshoot a Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 Active Directory® directory service infrastructure. The collection focuses on a Windows Server 2003 directory service environment, including forest and domain structure, Domain Name System (DNS), site topology and replication, organizational unit structure and delegation of administration, Group Policy, and user, group, and computer account strategies.

Design a network infrastructure and infrastructures for a Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 Active Directory®.

This 18-hour collection provides you with an overview of Active Directory services in Windows Server 2008

Topics covered in the courses within the collection include: AD DS and DNS integration, Group policy object configuration, Security implementation by using group policies, AD DS monitoring and maintenance plan implementation.

provides you with the knowledge and skills required for configuring and managing IDA solutions in Windows Server 2008 by using various Active Directory server roles and IDA management tools.

Introduction to implementing TCP/IPv4 and IPv6; Creating IPv4 address spaces; Introduction to administering Windows Server 2008; Introduction to implementing security; Configuration of remote access and routing; Introduction to implementing network load balancing and virtualization; Implementation of printing.

Implement and configure secure network access and to implement fault tolerant storage technologies with FSRM2 and DFS.

Installing, configuring and deploying Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0; Tuning and troubleshooting Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0; Administering and securing Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0; Migration to Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0; Configuring FTP on Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0; Integrating SMTP and UDDI with Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0.

Network infrastructure connectivity design in Windows Server 2008; Design of Name resolution and NAP; Network access design; Operating system deployment; Design of Shared resources and High availability solution.

AD DS forest infrastructure design; AD DS domain infrastructure and administrative structures design; AD DS Group Policy and security design; AD DS availability, disaster recovery, and migrations design; Design of identity and access management; Public key infrastructure design.

Designing Web Farms; Virtualization; Debugging & Diagnostics; Terminal services; Security & maintenance; Media services.

Learn to monitor and troubleshoot several aspects of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. These include client performance and connectivity issues, messaging flow, mailbox servers, and external and additional services. You also identify the operational trends to determine an appropriate troubleshooting or upgrading solution for your organization.

Install Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, examine Active Directory integration, and configure mailbox servers, Outlook and mobile clients, recipient objects, and unified messaging.

You will learn to manage Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. You will learn about e-mail addresses, address lists, message transport, messaging policies, anti-spam, management shell, mailbox recovery, and edge transport servers.

Explore the factors involved in designing a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 infrastructure. This includes server and message routing, security, and coexistence and upgrade scenarios.

Examine the planning requirements for the deployment of a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 infrastructure. This includes planning for a messaging solution, for maintaining operational procedures and guidelines for managing the messaging environment, and for implementing a messaging security and compliance solution. You also examine various scenarios for upgrading to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 from an existing messaging solution and the considerations involved in planning a highly available implementation.

This is a collection of courses that teaches IT Professionals working in enterprise environments to implement Exchange Server 2003. This includes installing, securing, and configuring Exchange servers.

Managing recipients, public folders, address lists, Microsoft Outlook® Web Access, client configuration and connectivity, and mobile devices.

Introduction to MOSS 2007; Administration; Content Management; Infopath Forms; Business Intelligence Solutions.

You will learn how to develop customized Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 solutions. Topics covered within the collection include Enterprise Content Management, Single-Sign On, and InfoPath and Excel services. Additionally, the courses will cover the Business Data Catalog, and Search and Audience Targetting features.

Enterprise Instant Messaging; On-Premise Conferencing and Telephony.

Systematic database design; Logical/Physical database design; Designing for performance; Database access strategy; Database dependencies.

Database Services Strategy; Security Strategy; Data Model Strategy; Transaction Strategy; Notification Services; Service Broker; Source Control, Unit Testing and Deployment; Advanced Query Techniques.

Data Access Technologies; Exception handling strategy; Query and Cursor strategy; Caching and Scalability.

Measuring database performance; Optimization through physical design; Query optimization; Refactoring cursors in queries; Index optimization; Managing concurrency and locking.

Course focuses on the knowledge and skills to design a Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 database infrastructure. It is intended for database administrators working in enterprise environments who would like to design their database infrastructure.

Design SQL Server security to integrate with systems infrastructure; Design security policies for databases; Integrate data encryption into a design; Design a SQL Server security exceptions policy; Design a response strategy for threats and attacks.

Gain the knowledge and skills to design high availability database solutions using Microsoft SQL Server 2005. The collection focuses on teaching experienced database administrators working in enterprise environments to design database solutions that meet the availability needs of their organization. It emphasizes that you should think broadly about high availability, which includes thinking about the database itself and about your entire environment, including business needs; regulatory requirements; and network, systems, and database considerations during design. You also learn how to document and test the high availability database solution.

Design SQL Server security to integrate with systems infrastructure; Design security policies for databases; Integrate data encryption into a design; Design a SQL Server security exceptions policy; Design a response strategy for threats and attacks.

Manage and automate databases and servers; Manage supporting services.

This workshop is part of a collection of workshops that teaches IT Professionals working in enterprise environments to troubleshoot and optimize database servers. This includes monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing databases and database servers.

In this course, you will install, administer, and configure Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional Service Pack 2.

Examine how to use troubleshooting guidelines and tools to support users; Identify and resolve installation issues; Identify and resolve desktop management issues; Identify and resolve file and folder issues; Identify and resolve hardware issues; Identify and resolve print issues; Identify and resolve network connectivity issues.

Examine how to use troubleshooting guidelines and tools to support users; Identify and resolve installation issues; Identify and resolve desktop management issues; Identify and resolve file and folder issues; Identify and resolve hardware issues; Identify and resolve print issues; Identify and resolve network connectivity issues.

Gain the knowledge and skills to install and configure Windows Vista. You also get in-depth information about the Windows Vista startup process and file systems.

gain the knowledge and skills to configure Windows Vista Networking and Security with in-depth coverage of the Windows Vista TCP/IP stack, network services, and security implementation.

Gain the knowledge and skills to configure and troubleshoot Windows Vista applications and devices including Internet Explorer, Media Center, and Mobile devices. In addition, there is in-depth coverage of printing, scanning, and faxing.

Gain the knowledge and skills to troubleshoot Windows Vista. This includes hardware, authentication, Office applications, and the use of Sysinternals tools.

You will create and deploy Windows Vista desktop images and applications using Windows Imaging Format, ImageX, Windows PE, and USMT. In addition, you troubleshoot applications and enterprise support issues.

Gain the knowledge and skills to support Windows Vista in a home environment. This includes troubleshooting consumer related issues such as user data migration, applications, networking, security attacks, and viruses.

Windows® Imaging Format and ImageX; Planning and Customizing Client Deployment; Deploying in multinlingual environments.

Server and Site Objects; Security; Lists and List Events; Documents and Libraries; List Metadata and Content Types; Navigation and Layout.

Creating Custom Web Parts in WSS 3.0; Working with Features and Site Definitions in WSS 3.0; Using Events and Event Receivers in WSS 3.0; Implementing Business Processes with WSS 3.0 Workflows; Working with Site Services in WSS 3.0; Deploying WSS 3.0 Solutions.

Introduction to WSS 3.0; Administration; Deployment; Customizing WSS 3.0 and Security; Site Maintenance and Optimization.

Creating a WPF application; Building user interfaces; Customizing the appearance of a WPF application; Binding data to controls; Binding data to collections; Creating new controls; Managing documents; Adding 2-D graphics; Adding 3-D graphics and multimedia; Configuring and deploying WPF applications.

Introduction to Windows Communication Foundation; Configuring and Hosting WCF Services; Managing Endpoints and Behaviors by Using WCF; Debugging and Diagnostics in WCF Services; Designing and Defining Contracts by Using WCF; Handling Errors by Using WCF; Managing WCF Service Instances and Concurrency; Improving the Performance of WCF Services; Implementing Security for WCF; Implementing Transactions in WCF.

Creating and Hosting Workflows; Applying Conditions and Rules to Workflows by Using Windows Workflow Foundation; Communicating with Workflows by Using Windows Workflow Foundation; Creating and Configuring Custom Activities by Using Windows Workflow Foundation; Creating and Managing Runtime Services by Using Windows Workflow Foundation; Managing Faults, Cancellations, Transactions, and Compensations.

Database access by using ADO.NET 3.5 applications; Data access by using ADO.NET 3.5 applications; Data retrieval by using DataSets in ADO.NET 3.5 applications; Data updates in ADO.NET 3.5 applications; XML data access in ADO.NET 3.5 applications; Data synchronization in ADO.NET 3.5 applications; Language Integrated Query; Data access implementation by using Language Integrated Query to Microsoft SQL Designer; Implementation of the entity framework in ADO.NET 3.5 applications; Application implementation by using data services.

ASP.NET 3.5 application creation and deployment; Data binding; Security implementation; ASP.NET AJAX; State and caching management.

Data Retrieval and Storage; Disconnected data management; Transaction Management; Reading and Writing XML documents.

Handling database operation conflicts; Working with Large Binary Objects; Enhancing database performance; Creating managed code objects for SQL Server 2005; Querying XML by using Xpath; Transforming XML by using XSLT.

Building Forms; Adding controls and setting their properties; Localization and Globalization; Printing; Displaying Data; Using the BackgroundWorker control; Deployment using ClickOnce; Dialog boxes and Forms inheritance.

Building MDI Applications; Using the GDI to customize Windows applications; Creating Print Components; Performing Drag and Drop; Performing Asynchronous Windows tasks; Enhancing the Windows UI.

Data Retrieval and Storage; Disconnected data management; Transaction Management; Reading and Writing XML documents.

Handling database operation conflicts; Working with Large Binary Objects; Enhancing database performance; Creating managed code objects for SQL Server 2005; Querying XML by using Xpath; Transforming XML by using XSLT.

Creating and programming a Web application; Building Web pages using server controls and master pages; State management; Access Control; Deployment; Mobile development.

Building Dynamic Web Applications; Creating controls for Web applications; Optimizing Web Application performance; Implementing Personalization and Themes; Building Web Parts and Web Part Pages.

This collection is intended for .NET Developers who have experience working with ASP.NET 1.0 and would like to start taking advantage of the new features in ASP.NET 2.0. This course covers such new features as Master Pages, Configuration, Forms based security, the data source model, application services, state management, Web parts, and personalization.

Building and Consuming Web Services; Building Remoting Clients and Servers; Message Queuing; COM+ Serviced components.

Enhanced Message Queuing; Implementing security and policy with WSE 3.0; SOAP Headers, Extensions and Messaging; WSE 3.0 Routing and Large Data Transfer.

System Types; Collections and Generics; Configuration and Installation; Monitoring and Debugging; File IO; Globalization; Delegates and Events.

Serialization; GDI+; Code Access Security; Cryptography; Interoperability; Service Applications and Email; Type Metadata; Multithreading and AppDomains.

In this course, you will use Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Microsoft ASP.NET to build powerful Web sites. This will allow you to build sites that access databases and process data using dynamic, server-side programming.

This course teaches developers to build data-centric applications and Web services with Microsoft® ADO.NET, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, and the Microsoft .NET Framework.

In this course, you will learn the skills required to build Windows Forms applications by using the .NET Framework. You will create and deploy fully functional, accessible, and secure Windows Forms. This course is intended for the intermediate programmer who is responsible for designing and building Windows Forms applications by using the .NET Framework.

This course teaches developers to build data-centric applications and Web services with Microsoft® ADO.NET, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, and the Microsoft .NET Framework.

In this course, you will learn the skills required to build Windows Forms applications by using the .NET Framework. You will create and deploy fully functional, accessible, and secure Windows Forms. This course is intended for the intermediate programmer who is responsible for designing and building Windows Forms applications by using the .NET Framework.