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Administering Windows 2000
Class #1556

Table of Contents

Introduction
At Course Completion
Microsoft Certified Professional Exams
Prerequisites
Course Materials and Software
Course Outline

Introduction

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to perform administration tasks in a single-domain Microsoft Windows® 2000-based network. It also provides students with prerequisite knowledge and skills required for course 1557, Installing and Configuring Microsoft Windows 2000.

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At Course Completion

At the end of the course, students will be able to:
  • Apply an administrative strategy of adding user accounts and assigning access permissions to groups.
  • Administer users and groups.
  • Administer file resources.
  • Administer printer resources.
  • Manage data storage.
  • Monitor access to resources.
  • Audit access to resources.
  • Back up and restore files and folders.

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Microsoft Certified Professional Exams

This course will help the student prepare for the following Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) exam(s):
  • To be determined.
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Prerequisites

  • Proficiency using the Windows interface to locate, create, and manipulate folders and files, and to configure the desktop environment
  • Knowledge of basic computer hardware components, including computer memory, hard disks, central processing units, communication and printer ports, display adapters, and pointing devices
  • Knowledge of basic networking concepts, including client, server, local area, and wide area networks, network adapter card, driver, protocol, and network operating system
The course materials, lectures, and lab exercises are in English. To benefit fully from our instruction, students need an understanding of the English language and completion of the prerequisites.

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Course Materials and Software

The course workbook and lab book are yours to keep.

You will be provided with the following software for use in the classroom:

  • To be determined.

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Course Outline

Day 1

Module 1: Introduction to Administration of Windows 2000

Topics

Providing users with access to resources
Logging on
Controlling user access
Using groups to manage users
Using groups to provide access to resources
Using Windows 2000-based networks
Introduction to Windows 2000 Active Directory

Skills

Students will be able to:
  • Describe user access to network resources.
  • Describe the Windows 2000 logon process.
  • Describe using groups to manage users.
  • Describe using groups to provide access to resources.
  • Describe Windows 2000-based networks.
  • Describe the Windows Directory Service.

Module 2: Setting up User Accounts

Topics

Introduction to user accounts
Creating user accounts
Creating domain user accounts and setting password requirements
Setting properties for user accounts
Creating local user accounts
Troubleshooting problems associated with setting up user accounts.
Best practices

Lab

Setting up user accounts

Skills

Students will be able to:
  • Describe the purposes of user accounts.
  • Create user accounts.
  • Create domain user accounts and set password requirements.
  • Set properties for user accounts.
  • Create local user accounts.
  • Troubleshoot problems associated with setting up user accounts.

Module 3: Administering Groups

Topics

Using group strategies to manage user accounts
Defining groups
Implementing groups
Implementing built-in groups
Best practices

Lab

Setting up groups

Skills

Students will be able to:
  • Describe group strategies for managing user accounts.
  • Describe the key features of groups.
  • Implement strategies for creating groups and adding users to groups.
  • Create and delete groups.
  • Implement groups.
  • Implement built-in groups.

Day 2

Module 4: Administering File Resources

Topics

Using Microsoft Windows NT® File System (NTFS) permissions to control access to file resources
Assigning NTFS permissions
Managing shared folders to share file resources
Creating shared folders
Sharing a folder remotely
Copying and moving files and folders
Troubleshooting file and folder access problems
Best practices

Lab

Sharing and securing network resources

Skills

Students will be able to:
  • Describe when to use NTFS folder and file permissions.
  • Assign NTFS folder and file permissions to user accounts and groups.
  • Share resources by managing shared folders.
  • Create and modify shared folders.
  • Share a folder on a remote computer.
  • Combine shared folder permissions and NTFS permissions.
  • Troubleshoot resource access problems.

Module 5: Administering User Accounts

Topics

Introduction to administering user accounts
Modifying user accounts
Managing user profiles
Creating home directories
Troubleshooting user account problems
Best practices

Lab

Administering user accounts

Skills

Students will be able to:
  • Describe user account administration tasks.
  • Modify user accounts.
  • Manage user profiles.
  • Create home directories.
  • Troubleshoot user account problems.

Module 6: Administering Printer Resources

Topics

Managing printing
Using printer permissions
Managing printers
Managing documents
Administering printers by using a Web browser
Troubleshooting printing problems
Best practices

Lab

Administering a network printer

Skills

Students will be able to:
  • Manage access to printing resources.
  • Assign printer permissions.
  • Manage printers.
  • Manage documents for printing.
  • Administer printers by using a Web browser.
  • Troubleshoot printing problems.

Module 7: Managing Data Storage

Topics

Managing compression
Assigning and managing disk quotas
Troubleshooting data storage problems
Best practices

Lab

Managing data storage

Skills

Students will be able to:
  • Compress and uncompress data on NTFS volumes.
  • Assign disk quotas on NTFS volumes.
  • Troubleshoot data storage problems.

Day 3

Module 8: Monitoring Access to Resources

Topics

Monitoring access to network resources
Monitoring network users
Disconnecting users
Sending administrative messages to users
Troubleshooting problems of access to resources

Lab

Monitoring access to network resources

Skills

Students will be able to:
  • Monitor access to network resources.
  • Monitor network users.
  • Send administrative messages to users.
  • Troubleshoot problems of access to resources.

Module 9: Auditing Access to Resources

Topics

Auditing files and folders
Configuring security settings
Reviewing event logs
Managing event logs
Best practices

Lab

Auditing resources and events

Skills

Students will be able to:
  • Describe the purpose of auditing.
  • Configure security settings.
  • Review event logs.
  • Manage event logs

Module 10: Backing up and Restoring Data

Topics

Backing up and restoring data
User rights and permissions to back up and restore data
Preparing to back up data
Backing up data
Restoring data
Best practices

Lab

Backing up and restoring data

Skills

Students will be able to:
  • Describe the strategy of backing up and restoring data.
  • Prepare for backing up and restoring data.
  • Define user rights required to back up and restore data.
  • Prepare for backing up data.
  • Back up data at a computer and over a network.
  • Restore files and folders.

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