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Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Upgrade
A Firebrand Training
6
Day Course
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Upgrade - Overview
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 will help you to increase the flexibility of your server infrastructure while saving time and reducing costs. Powerful new management tools and security enhancements allow you to have more control over your servers while providing advanced protection so you can spend less time on everyday tasks and more time bringing greater value to your organisation.
This course is intended for those delegates who are currently MCSE 2003 and wish to upgrade their qualifications to Windows Server 2008. Professionals with a 2003 MCSE need to pass one exam to become MCTS on 2008. This one pass will provide the delegate with three distinct MCTS qualifications, i.e. Active Directory Configuration, Network Infrastructure Configuration and Application Platform Configuration.
Course Objectives
The primary objective is for delegates to achieve three Windows 2008 MCTS certifications. Upon completion of this course, the attendee will be able to :
- Take advantage of new features in Windows Server 2008
- Describe and configure server roles with ADS in Windows Server 2008
- Install, manage and configure the server core role as a domain controller
- Set up and manage read-only domain controllers
- Describe and manage windows deployment services
- Describe and use network policies and network access protection
- Use Windows Server 2008 with new server roles
- Use new features in IIS 7.0 application server
- Configure and manage Windows SharePoint services 3.0
Windows Server skills transition for MCSE
Become a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in Active Directory Configuration, Application Platform Configuration and Network Infrastructure Configuration
Windows Server skills transition for MCSA
Become a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in Active Directory Configuration and Network Infrastructure Configuration
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Upgrade - Benefits
For HR managers, certification is particularly important because it allows them to more easily identify the skills that an individual possesses. When a company has employees that possess certain skills, it can garner a competitive advantage when seeking to attract customers. Certification can also contribute to increased productivity.
Individuals
- Overwhelmingly, individuals with Microsoft certifications have an advanced level of knowledge, expertise and skill, and command more professional credibility
- Individual students may receive college credits to utilize tuition reimbursement programs for their IT training or to complete college coursework
Human Resources
- Employer-funded training and certification programs are a key to retaining skilled staff. Career development and advancement opportunities are shown to significantly reduce rates of employee turnover
- Certification Training Programs provide benchmarks for hiring and promotion decisions by accurately assessing technical skills
- For-certification training programs maximize educational investments through immediate validation of skills
Microsoft certification affords special membership benefits
- Technical information, product information and exclusive discounts on products and services through a secured section of the Microsoft website
- Microsoft logos and certificate for your personal promotion to clients or potential employers
- Invitations to Microsoft conferences and other educational opportunities
Other accelerated training providers rely heavily on lecture and independent self-testing and study.
Effective technical instruction must be highly varied and interactive to keep attention levels high, promote camaraderie and teamwork between the students and instructor, and solidify knowledge through hands-on learning.
Firebrand Training provides instruction to meet every learning need, including
- Intensive group instruction
- One-on-one instruction attention
- Hands-on labs
- Lab partner and group exercises
- Question and answer drills
- Independent study
This information has been provided as a helpful tool for candidates considering certification. Benefits of certification determined through studies do not guarantee any particular personal successes. Firebrand Training provides a guarantee of obtaining certification at the camp, but does not make any guarantees about personal successes or benefits of obtaining certification.
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Upgrade - Curriculum
- Active Directory Improvements
- Planning for ADDS deployment
- Upgrade considerations
- Server Core Domain Controllers
- What's new in AD DS
- Manageability and reliability
- AD Federation services
- AD Lightweight directory services
- AD Rights management services
- Read-only Domain Controllers
- Auditing Features
- AD Certificate services
- Server manager roles
- Networking with Server 2008
- DNS improvements
- Introduction to server core
- Configuring and managing server core
- Backup Infrastructure
- Restore utilities
- Network policies Access protection
- Enforcement options
- Network Access Protection scenarios
- Windows Deployment services
- WDS components
- Windows server virtualization
- Configuring virtualization
- Failover clustering
- Network Load balancing
- Windows reliability and performance monitor
- Windows system resource manager
- Application server roles
- Application server features
- IIS 7.0 configuration
- Improvements in IIS 7.0
- Managing IIS 7.0
- Using hierarchical configuration settings
- Delegating configuration
- 70-649 Exam
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Upgrade - Exam Track
This course prepares you for the Microsoft the 70-648 or the 70-649 exam depending on your background. Upgrading your MCSA or MCSE on Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008, Technology Specialist exam.
On the last day of the course students coming from an MCSA background can elect to take the 70-648 exam, whilst students coming from an MCSE background can elect to take the 70-649 exam.
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Upgrade - What's Included
Firebrand Training offers top-quality technical education and certification training in an all-inclusive course package specifically designed for the needs and ease of our students. We attend to every detail so our students can focus solely on their studies and certification goals.
Our Certification Programs includes
- Intensive Hands-on Training Utilising our (Lecture | Lab | Review)TM Delivery
- Comprehensive Study Materials, Program Courseware and Self-Testing Software
- Fully instructor-led program with 24 hour lab access
- Examination vouchers *
- On site testing **
- All Meals; Unlimited Beverages, Snacks and Tea/Coffee
- Transportation to/from designated local railway stations
- Examination Passing Policy
Please note
- * Exam vouchers for our (ISC)2 certifications need to be purchased directly from (ISC)2
- ** On site testing is not included in our ISACA, or ITIL Managers and Revision Certifications
Our instructors teach to accommodate every student's learning needs through individualised instruction, hands-on labs, lab partner and group exercises, independent study, self-testing, and question/answer drills.
Firebrand Training has dedicated, well-equipped educational facilities where you will attend instruction and labs and have access to comfortable study and lounging rooms. Our students consistently say our facilities are second-to-none.
Examination Passing Policy
Should a student complete a Firebrand Training Program without having successfully passed all vendor examinations, the student may re-attend that program for a period of one year. Students will only be responsible for accommodations and vendor exam fees.
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Upgrade - Prerequisites
To successfully sit and pass this exam delegates must be experienced MCSA 2003 or MCSE 2003 certified professionals and an understanding of Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Share Point would be advantageous.
Firebrand Training staff interview all potential students regarding their technical background, degrees and certifications held, and personal fortitude. This screening process ensures a successful match between the customer and Firebrand Training toward accelerated training and certification.
Firebrand Training is an aggressive training environment. You must have an attitude aimed for success. The above prerequisites are guidelines, but many students with less experience have other background or traits that have enabled their success in accelerated training through Firebrand Training.
Windows Server 2008 Upgrade Testimonials
"Very hard going be prepared to work late hours. Very informative and a good overall course"
Christopher Jones, South Wales Police.
Microsoft MCTS SQL Server 2005 (5 Days) (9/6/2008 to 13/6/2008)
"I learned alot during the time I spent here. Thank you Firebrand."
Fahad Aljulaidan, Goverment.
CompTIA A+/Network+ Certification (7 Days) (28/7/2008 to 3/8/2008)
"All-round excellent. Hard work, but motivated instructor and good environment go together to help you through if you are willing to put the graft in!"
Adam Leach, Torfaen County Borough Council.
Cisco CCNP Certification (13 Days) (21/7/2008 to 2/8/2008)
"I was a little concerned when I enrolled with Firebrand. It appeared to be a very difficult week with the long days and thought I would struggle with the course.
How wrong could I be! The PMI course content and the instructor was fantastic. The grounds and the setting were perfect for my training experience.
The food was absolutely first rate too along with superb staff.
I will definitely use Firebrand again and will highly recommend the course to others
Thank you ever so much for a first rate job."
Paul White, Norgren.
PMI Project Management Professional (5 Days) (14/7/2008 to 18/7/2008)
"Action packed days! 14-16 hours a day + Self study. But worth the efforts. Instructor was great. Canteen staff were very helpful and the food was good throughout. You will see me again!"
NM, Associated Newspapers.
Cisco CCNA Certification (6 Days) (28/7/2008 to 2/8/2008)
"The instructor was well prepared and very helpful. The course itself was very interesting and full of brilliant information. The accommodation was top class and the food was amazing! A proper home from home except the food was better! (do not tell my other half though!)"
Michael Jones, Contractor.
EC-Council CEH (5 Days) (23/6/2008 to 27/6/2008)
"An away environment to learn and not be distracted. Allows you to focus."
Simon Cresdee, Cresdee Consulting.
(ISC)2 CISSP Boot Camp (7 Days) (14/7/2008 to 20/7/2008)
"We had problems with some of the exams on week two of the course which were Prometics fault (Not Firebrands), which meant I couldn't progress any further until they were fixed - which was not going to be during the remainder of my stay. However Firebrand have been excellent in allowing us to come back and re-do the parts of the course that were affected, even though this wasn't Firebrands fault - which I think is more than alot of companies would do - looking forward to going back now and finishing it all off!"
Mat Wase, not applicable - self funded ETC.
Microsoft MCSE Vista Security+ Certification (14 Days) (26/5/2008 to 8/6/2008)
"Exceptional environment to achieve objectives of any learner. What is surprising is that you comfortable achieve your objectives. Thoroughly recommend for any HR department to utilise Firebrand services for staff development."
Murad Sheikh, Targ8 Limited.
Microsoft SharePoint Professional (Dual MCTS) (5 Days) (16/6/2008 to 20/6/2008)
"Great tutor, who knew all his stuff and gave all his attention to us, full of good humour with spikey hair.."
Stewart Sayers, Menzolit Limited.
Microsoft SharePoint Professional (Dual MCTS) (5 Days) (16/6/2008 to 20/6/2008)
"An excellent location, facilities and staff to train in. One of the best."
Paul Key, Wincanton Group Plc.
(ISC)2 CISSP Boot Camp (7 Days) (14/7/2008 to 20/7/2008)
"Whilst the training was intense the atmosphere was condusive to learning."
Richard Hinchliffe, In2grate Business Solutions Ltd..
Microsoft MCTS .NET - Web Applications (7 Days) (4/8/2008 to 10/8/2008)
"Excellent end to end."
Chris Hurst, Cable and wireless.
(ISC)2 CISSP Boot Camp (7 Days) (23/6/2008 to 29/6/2008)
"The days were hard, because there was so much to learn, but I enjoyed it. The staff, especially the instructor was very helpful, while I could be fully concentrated on the course. Coming from Germany, the language was no problem to do the training here in England. I have learnt more than a lot in this six days."
Martin Hachenberg, Bewotec GmbH, Germany.
Microsoft MCITP Database Developer (6 Days) (23/6/2008 to 28/6/2008)
"Great place to learn! Instructor was informative and interesting and made SharePoint interesting!! Prepare to put on the weight because the food is great and plentiful."
MB, Capgemini.
Microsoft SharePoint Professional (Dual MCTS) (5 Days) (16/6/2008 to 20/6/2008)
"Excellent end to end."
Chris Hurst, Cable and wireless.
(ISC)2 CISSP Boot Camp (7 Days) (23/6/2008 to 29/6/2008)
"This was the first time I have sat certificated exams. It was very hard work, but worth it for the experience."
SS, Capita.
Microsoft SharePoint Developer (Dual MCTS) Certification (5 Days) (23/6/2008 to 27/6/2008)
"This was a very intensive course on which I learned a lot and enjoyed. The food was excelent."
Matthew Edmundson, NDS.
Microsoft MCTS SQL Server 2005 (5 Days) (9/6/2008 to 13/6/2008)
"The food and evironment made this a great place to do the course. Also a great instructor meant that the long hours and hard work were easy to overcome."
MB, Dabs.com.
Microsoft Dynamics AX Foundation Developer (4 Days) (<--Please Select-->)
"The facilities were of a high standard and the staff very courteous."
DS, Kelvin kbb Ltd.
Microsoft MCTS .NET - Web Applications (7 Days) (14/7/2008 to 20/7/2008)
"Study hard and you will pass. "
Matthew Evenden, Kavanagh.
Cisco CCNP Certification (13 Days) (21/7/2008 to 2/8/2008)
"Excellent! Strong motivational support is provided in a focussed and nurturing Environment ensuring impact and development."
Mark Newbery, Myself... I am the MAN.
Microsoft MCPD Enterprise Applications Developer (13 Days) (14/7/2008 to 26/7/2008)
"A test of endurance at times, but well worth the effort."
Andrew Bewley, Anite.
Microsoft MCTS .NET - Web and Windows Applications (9 Days) (14/7/2008 to 22/7/2008)
"Results speak for themselves, I thought initailly that the pace and long days would cause me to fail through fatigue, but at some point it leveled out and all became clear. Total emmersion in the subject together with the commaradery of the other students made the whole experience a fulfilling and rewarding one."
Colin Smith, MOD.
CompTIA A+/Network+ Certification (7 Days) (30/6/2008 to 6/7/2008)
"Quality staff, quality training & great food. All to boot I passed :-)
"
G.L., Yarm Computers Limited.
Microsoft Exchange 2007 (7 Days) (19/5/2008 to 25/5/2008)
"I had a great time with Firebrand."
Fahad Aljulaidan, Capital Market Authority.
CompTIA A+/Network+ Certification (7 Days) (28/7/2008 to 3/8/2008)
"I came on this course to get a good grounding in networking but with the practical experience I badly needed and could not have possibly have got elsewhere. I certainly got that and more. The labs were excellent and worked! The instructor was extremely knowledgeable and approachable. I certainly got what would have taken me years to achieve done in one week. I had planned to spend the whole of next year just on the learning phase of the CCNA so to have the knowledge in one week is priceless. Many thanks."
SJ, Myself.
Cisco CCNA Certification (6 Days) (16/6/2008 to 21/6/2008)
"A good course with an excellent and highly capable trainer. Allow lots of time for the pre-reading. Spend some extra time reading up on network security, and also plenty on DNS, since the make up large and very important parts of the course that relate highly to ALL the modules. Dont be mislead into thinking that you will walk away from it just ticking all the boxes to get the MCSE, it is a lot of very hard work. It has provided me with a very good foundation upon which to complete my certification.
My Thanks go to all the staff and of course to the trainer, who went through plenty of hoops and midnight oil to give us the best possible chances of coming away with the most we could.
"
DO, The Medical Research Council Of Great Britain.
Microsoft MCSE Vista Security+ Certification (14 Days) (23/6/2008 to 6/7/2008)
"Excellent end to end."
Chris Hurst, Cable and wireless.
(ISC)2 CISSP Boot Camp (7 Days) (23/6/2008 to 29/6/2008)
"Intense, but learn loads. Not for the faint hearted. Get stuck in and learn well."
Mark Sole, Contracting.
Microsoft Vista/Server 2003 (MCTS/MCP) (5 Days) (21/7/2008 to 25/7/2008)
Windows Server 2008 Upgrade Course Dates
Start |
End |
Availability |
Register |
|---|---|---|---|
23/6/2008 |
28/6/2008 |
Finished |
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4/8/2008 |
9/8/2008 |
Finished |
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15/9/2008 |
20/9/2008 |
Limited availability |
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27/10/2008 |
1/11/2008 |
Seats open |
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