Exam Ref 70-417: Upgrading Your Skills to MCSA Windows Server® 2012

by Mackin, J.C.

• ISBN13: 9780735673045
• ISBN10: 0735673047
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-11-15
• Publisher: Microsoft Press

Summary

Prepare for Exam 70-417-and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of Windows Server 2012 core infrastructure services. Microsoft Exam 70-417 is an upgrade exam that is a composite of three standalone exams: 70-410, 70-411, and 70-412. Exam 70-417 validates skills related to the core technology features and functionality of Windows Server 2012, from the existing knowledge base of a Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) on Windows Server 2008. Exam Ref is organized by exam objectives and features challenging, what-if scenarios that focus on the critical skills and knowledge measured by the certification exam. When you pass Exam 70-417, you complete the requirements for the MCSA: Windows Server 2012 certification. It also counts as credit toward MCSE: Server Infrastructure and MCSE: Desktop Infrastructure (additional exams required). Objectives include: EXAM 70-410: Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 Install and Configure Servers Configure Server Roles and Features Configure Hyper-V Install and Administer Active Directory EXAM 70-411: Administering Windows Server 2012 Deploy, Manage, and Maintain Servers Configure Network Services and Access Configure a Network Policy Server Infrastructure Configure and Manage Active Directory Configure and Manage Group Policy EXAM 70-412: Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services Configure and Manage High Availability Configure File and Storage Solutions Implement Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Configure Network Services Configure Identity and Access Solutions

Author Biography

J.C. Mackin, MCSA, MCSE, is a writer, editor, and Microsoft Certified Trainer who has focused on Windows networking technologies since Windows NT 4.0. He has written or coauthored more than 10 books about Windows administration and certification, including the Microsoft Training Kits for Exams 70-642, 70-643, and 70-685.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xiii
Microsoft certifications	p. xiv
Acknowledgments	p. xiv
Errata & book support	p. xiv
We want to hear from you	p. xv
Stay in touch	p. xv
Preparing for the Exam	p. xvi
Install and configure servers	p. 1
Install servers	p. 1
Minimum hardware requirements	p. 1
Migrating server roles by using the Windows Server Migration Tool	p. 2
Features on Demand	p. 3
Objective summary	p. 5
Objective review	p. 6
Configure servers	p. 7
Installing roles and features	p. 7
Deploying features and roles on remote servers through Windows PowerShell	p. 7
Deployment Image Servicing and Management	p. 11
Converting a server with a GUI to or from Server Core	p. 14
Configuring NIC teaming	p. 18
Objective summary	p. 22
Objective review	p. 22
Configure local storage	p. 23
Introducing Storage Spaces	p. 24
Objective summary	p. 30
Objective review	p. 31
Answers	p. 33
Review	p. 33
Review	p. 34
Review	p. 35
Thought experiment	p. 35
Configure server roles and features	p. 37
Configure servers for remote management	p. 37
Managing multiple servers by using Server Manager	p. 38
Configuring remote management of earlier versions of Windows Server	p. 46
Using Group Policy to enable remote management	p. 47
Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 8	p. 49
Objective summary	p. 50
Objective review	p. 51
Answers	p. 53
Review	p. 53
Thought experiment	p. 54
Configure Hyper-V	p. 55
Create and configure virtual machine settings	p. 55
Hyper-V Module in Windows PowerShell	p. 56
Dynamic Memory	p. 57
Resource Metering	p. 60
Non-uniform memory access (NUMA) topology	p. 61
Objective summary	p. 62
Objective review	p. 62
Create and configure virtual machine storage	p. 64
New VHDX disk format	p. 64
Virtual Fibre Channel adapter	p. 68
Objective summary	p. 70
Objective review	p. 70
Create and configure virtual networks	p. 71
Virtual switch extensions	p. 72
Network virtualization	p. 74
Port ACLs (network isolation)	p. 75
Single-root I/O virtualization	p. 77
Bandwidth management	p. 79
Advanced features for virtual network adapters	p. 81
Objective summary	p. 82
Objective review	p. 83
Answers	p. 85
Review	p. 85
Review	p. 86
Review	p. 87
Thought experiment	p. 88
Install and administer Active Directory	p. 89
Install domain controllers	p. 89
Installing domain controllers by using the GUI	p. 90
Installing domain controllers by using Windows PowerShell	p. 94
Ntdsutil.exe Install from Media changes	p. 99
Objective summary	p. 101
Objective review	p. 101
Answers	p. 104
Review	p. 104
Thought experiment	p. 105
Deploy, manage, and maintain servers	p. 107
Monitor servers	p. 107
Virtual machine resource pools	p. 108
Server monitoring through Windows PowerShell	p. 109
Reviewing older monitoring topics	p. 111
Objective summary	p. 112
Objective review	p. 113
Answers	p. 115
Review	p. 115
Thought experiment	p. 116
Configure network services and access	p. 117
Configure DirectAccess	p. 117
What is DirectAccess?	p. 118
IPv6 and DirectAccess	p. 118
DirectAccess connection process	p. 120
DirectAccess infrastructure options	p. 121
Installing and configuring DirectAccess	p. 126
Objective summary	p. 143
Objective review	p. 143
Answers	p. 146
Review	p. 146
Thought experiment	p. 147
Configure a network policy server infrastructure	p. 149
Configure Network Access Protection	p. 149
How NAP works	p. 150
SHV Multi-configuration	p. 153
Objective summary	p. 158
Objective review	p. 159
Answers	p. 161
Review	p. 161
Thought experiment	p. 162
Configure and manage Active Directory	p. 163
Configure domain controllers	p. 163
Cloning domain controllers	p. 163
Objective summary	p. 170
Objective review	p. 170
Maintain Active Directory	p. 171
Restoring deleted objects in Active Directory	p. 172
Objective review	p. 178
Answers	p. 181
Review	p. 181
Review	p. 182
Thought experiment	p. 183
Configure and manage Group Policy	p. 185
Configure Group Policy processing	p. 185
Remote Group Policy update	p. 186
Objective summary	p. 194
Objective review	p. 194
Answers	p. 197
Review	p. 197
Thought experiment	p. 198
Configure and manage high availability	p. 199
Configure failover clustering	p. 199
Cluster storage pools	p. 200
Cluster shared volumes	p. 201
Dynamic quorum	p. 205
Node drain	p. 205
Cluster-aware updating	p. 206
Objective summary	p. 210
Objective review	p. 211
Manage failover clustering roles	p. 212
Create a Scale-Out File Server	p. 212
Assign role startup priority	p. 214
Virtual machine application monitoring	p. 215
Objective summary	p. 220
Objective review	p. 220
Manage virtual machine (VM) movement	p. 222
Live migration	p. 222
Storage migration	p. 235
Objective summary	p. 237
Objective review	p. 238
Answers	p. 241
Review	p. 241
Review	p. 242
Review	p. 243
Thought experiment	p. 244
File and storage solutions	p. 245
Implement Dynamic Access Control	p. 245
Introduction to DAC	p. 245
Configuring claims-based authentication	p. 247
Configuring file classification	p. 250
Configuring access policies	p. 259
Objective summary	p. 264
Objective review	p. 265
Answers	p. 268
Review	p. 268
Thought experiment	p. 269
Implement business continuity and disaster recovery	p. 271
Configure and manage backups	p. 271
Configure online backups	p. 272
Objective summary	p. 280
Objective review	p. 280
Configure site-level fault tolerance	p. 282
Configuring Hyper-V physical host servers	p. 283
Configuring VMs	p. 286
Performing Hyper-V Replica failover	p. 294
Using Hyper-V Replica in a failover cluster	p. 298
Objective summary	p. 301
Objective review	p. 302
Answers	p. 305
Review	p. 305
Review	p. 306
Thought experiment	p. 307
Configure network services	p. 309
Deploy and manage IPAM	p. 309
What is IPAM?	p. 310
Installing and configuring IPAM	p. 311
Managing address space	p. 320
Objective summary	p. 329
Objective review	p. 329
Answers	p. 332
Review	p. 332
Thought experiment	p. 333
Configure identity and access solutions	p. 335
Implement Active Directory Federation Services 2.1 ...	p. 335
The new AD FS console in AD FS 2.1	p. 336
Windows PowerShell cmdlets for AD FS 2.1	p. 340
Objective summary	p. 340
Objective review	p. 341
Answers	p. 343
Review	p. 343
Thought experiment	p. 344
Index	p. 345
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