This course is specifically for participants to gain the knowledge and skills for making the appropriate job role decisions around configuring advanced Windows Server 2012 R2 services. 

This course is designed for Information Technology (IT) professionals, who have Windows Server 2012 operating system knowledge and experience and want to validate the skills and knowledge necessary to configure advanced services in a Windows Server 2012 infrastructure. This course is part three of a series of courses which validate the advanced configuring tasks necessary to deploy, manage and maintain a Windows Server 2012 infrastructure, such as fault tolerance, certificate services, and identity federation. This course, along with the others in this series, will validate the skills and knowledge necessary for implementing, managing, maintaining and provisioning services and infrastructure in a Windows Server 2012 environment.

This training course on installing and configuring advanced Windows Server 2012 services prepares participants for the Microsoft Exam 70-412.

This course will provide all the skills and knowledge for the following areas:

• Configuring Network Load Balancing (NLB)
• Configuring failover clustering
• Managing failover clustering roles
• Managing Virtual Machine (VM) movement
• Configuring advanced file services
• Implementing Dynamic Access Control (DAC)
• Configuring and optimizing storage
• Configuring and managing backups
• Recovering servers
• Configuring site-level fault tolerance
• Implementing advanced Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) solutions
• Implementing advanced DNS solutions
• Deploying and managing IPAM
• Configuring a forest or a domain
• Configuring trusts
• Configuring sites
• Managing Active Directory and SYSVOL replication
• Implementing Active Directory Federation Services 2.1 (AD FSv2.1)
• Installing and configuring Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS)
• Managing certificates
• Installing and configuring Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS)