Microsoft Certification Road Map

• Microsoft Certification NT 4 to till now
• Exam codes
• MCSA
• MCSE   Server Infra Structure
• Certification Renewal Method
• System and Servers
• Workstation & Server Physical Parts Identification
• Bios Types and Setting
• Design MCSE LAB Setup
• Physical Lab Requirement and design
• Virtual Lab Requirement and design

Networking Essentials                    

• Basic Networking concepts,
• OSI and TCP/IP Model
• IPV4  (classfull, classless, CIDR, VLSM, Subnetting and Superneting)
• IPV6 (Link Local, Global Unicast, Dual stack etc)
• Network Medium Types, Comparison and Lan Cable Standards
• Define PC, Hardware and Software
• Types of Softwares (OS,Application,Driver)
• Types of OS   Client / Server
• OS Different Editions and their comparison
• Server OS Editions  R1, R2, Standard edition, Data center etc
• Server OS Feature comparison 2003,2008,2012 to 2016
• OS Interfaces
•                  Core
•                   GUI
• OS Installation, configuration and customization
•  Basic Network setting on System

DISK MANAGEMENT Storage Technologies

• Storage Types  DAS | NAS |SAN |DFS
• Hard disk Types IDE |EIDE |SATA |SCSI |SSD
• BASIC & Dynamic Disk
• MBR & GPT
• Disk Partition Types  Primary | Extended |Logical
•                 File Systems  FAT16 | FAT32 | NTFS
•                 Hard Disk Geometry Sector | Track | Cylender | RPM | Buffer | letancy
•                 Disk Fragmentation & Defragmentation
•                 Partition VS RAID
• Configuring Simple Volume (RAID – 0)
•  Configuring Mirror Volume (RAID – 1)
•  Configuring Parity Volume (RAID – 5)  

Types of Network

• Workgroup base network

                Establish a simple Workgroup base Network with basic Local User and Group Management

                Apply and verify Local Security Policy

• Domain Base Network

Server OS

• Different Edition with Comparison Standard edition, datacent edition
• Roles of Server OS machine in network standalone |DC | Member Server
• Server OS Roles vs Features

 Virtualization

• What is Virtualization
• Why we use Virtualization
• Physical VS Virtual Resources
•  Hyper visor and Their types
• Hyper-v

Hyper-V

• Recommended system Requirement for Hyper-V
• Installation and configuration
• Installation of Hyper-V
•  Configuring Virtual Machine
•  Configuring Virtual Networks
•  Virtual Switch and Connection types (internal | Private | External)
• Virtual Disk Types Vhd | Vhdx
• Fixed and Dynamic Disk Size
• Generation 1 and Generation 2 Virtual machine
• Guest and Host OS
• Advance Hyper-V and Customize setting
• Vritual and Production Network integration
•  Hyper-V   VS   Vmware Workstation     
• Design Isolated Virtual Lab

 Active Directory Basics

• X.500 Recommendations
• Domain Naming System (DNS)‏
• LDAP
• Schema
• Replication
• Global catalog

Active Directory Administration

• Local Account
• Domain Accounts
• Built-in user Accounts
• Creating and Managing Users
• User Account Properties
• Group Accounts
• Group Types      (distribution | Security)
• Group Scopes    Global | Local | Universal
• Group nesting
• Working with Default Groups     Guests | Users | Domain Admins

Active Directory Components (Active Directory Partitions)

Logical Components

• Domain
• Tree
• Forest
• Organizational unit.  (container) we use it for group policy

Physical Components

• Site
• Domain Controller. T.

Active Directory – Domain Services   (Hands On)

• Introduction to Directory Services
•  Installing & Configuring Active Directory – Domain Services
• Verification before and after Active Directory domain Services

Local user & Groups

• Local Security Policy
• Active Directory User Management
• User Creation GUI
• Bulk User Creation

Profiles and File Server Resource Manager

• User Profile    Local and Roaming
• Z: Drive
•  Quota

Active Directory Users properties

• Log on Hours
• Log on from
• Groups Joining
• Active Directory Groups   Group Types | Group Scope | Group Nesting
• Basic DNS Verification Testing and Configuration
•  DNS Forward Lookup Zone
• DNS Reverse Lookup Zone Creation  
• Nslookup usage for DNS Testing and Trouble Shooting
• Group Nesting
• Group membership (Trouble shooting)

Domain Joining

• Join Domain using Windows 8 or 10 Pro edition
• Join Domain from Member Server
• Local and Active Directory user login practice on Client

 Permissions/Access Control Lists

•  Sharing and NTFS Permission
• Define and Understand the Difference
• Perform Lab to Understand differences

 Flexible Single Master Operations (FSMO) Roles

• Under stand the Roles features
• Verification of FSMO Roles
• Transfering of FSMO Roles
• Seizing of FSMO Roles (Domain Crash Recovery) 

Forest Functional Level

• What is Forest Functional Level
• How to upgrade and Roll back Forest Functional Level

Domain Functional Level

• What is Domain Functional Level
• How to upgrade and Rolle back Domain Functional Level

How To upgrade Domain 2012 into Domain 2016

• How to upgrade Schema
• Transfer FSMO Roles

Active Directory Optimization

• What is Fragmentation?
• Reason of Fragmentation
• Compact or Defrag NTDS
• Improve Active Directory Response Time

Active Directory Backup & Restore

• How to Take Backup
• How to Restore
• Problem with Normal Restore
• Authoritative Restore

 DHCP Server 

• Introduction and Configuration of DHCP Server
•  DHCP Client Configuration
• Understand DORA
• DHCP Scope
• DHCP Lease
• DHCP exclude How and Why
• DHCP Reservation
• DHCP Relay Agent
• DHCP Backup
• Configuring DHCP Failover

DNS Server

•    Flat Name
•  FQDN
• Static Name Resolving using HOSTS File
• DNS Zones & Records
• Forward Lookup Zone
•  Reverse Lookup Zone
• Resource Records    A , MX , SRV , NS  , SOA , CNAME , PTR
• Root Hints
• DNS Queries
• DNS Zone Types
• Primary Zone
• Secondary Zone
• Stub Zone
• DNS CACHING
• DNS Forwarder

Distributed File System

• DFS Namespace
•  DFS Folder
•  Overview of DFS Replica

Group Policy / System Policies

•  User and Computer Policies
•  Scope of Policies – OU, Domain, Sites
• Security Group Filtering
• Local | Domain and Starter GPO
•  Software Deployment using Group Policy
•  Folder Redirection
• Block USB Drive in your network
• Group Policy Preferences
• Group Policy Trouble Shooting 

 ADC (Additional Domain Controller)

Child Domain Controller

RODC and Physical Structure of AD-DS

•  Introduction and Configuration of ADC | RODC | Child Domain Controller
• Sites and Global Catalog
•  Replication between the Domain Controllers
•  AD-DS Partitions
•  Configuring ADC |  R.O.D.C using Install from Media [IFM]

Internet Information Services (IIS)   WEB SERVER

•  IIS 8.0 Configuration
• Host Multiple Sites using Different Name Space
• Host Multiple Sites using different IP address
• Host Multiple Sites using Different Port Numbers
•  Hosting Websites, Virtual Directories
•  Redirecting Web Sites
•  Backup and Restoring Sites
•  FTP sites

Routing and Remote Access

            Installation of Routing and Remote Access Role and Basic Configuration

• Configure Static Routing | Dynamic Routing on Server
• Define Private and Public IP and usage of NAT Feature
• Configure Server as a NAT Server
• Usage of DHCP Relay Agent
• Configure Server as a DHCP Relay Agent
• Define VPN
• VPN – PPTP
• Configure Server as A VPN Server
• Remote Access Server Configuration

Sites and Subnets

• Define Subnets
• Define Sites
• Configure Site and Subnets
• Customize and schedule  Replication process
• Configure manage and Optimize Replication

Network Load Balancing

• What is NLB?
• How to configure
• How to verify and testing its working

CORE

• Define Core and its usage
• Limitations of CORE
• Core Server Installation
• Working on Core Server using Commands
• Working on Core server using Utilities
• Join Core server to domain controller

Active Directory Optimization

• Active Directory fragmentation
• Online optimization
• Offline optimization
• Why we need defragmentation

Storage Area Network (SAN)

• Define Direct Attach Storage  (DAC)
• NAS (Network Attach Storage)
• SAN Storage Area Network
• ISCSI
• NFS
• Fiber channel

System Analyzing and Monitoring

• Even Viewer
• Task Manager
• System and Application Logs

WDS (Windows Deployment Service)

• Define the usage of WDS
• Deploy Client OS on multiple machines using single WDS (Server)

 Major MCSE Labs

1)      Ipv4

2)      Ipv6

3)      System parts identification

4)      BIOS Types and Basic BIOS Setup

5)      Identification of Server Machines

6)      Disk Partitions

7)      Hard disk preparation  file system     fat/fat32/ntfs

8)      Installation Different Server OS Versions 2003-2016

9)      Establish a simple Workgroup base network

10)   Local USER and GROUP Management

11)   Share and NTFS permissions deployment and Testing

12)   Establish a Domain base network

13)   How to Join a Domain using Administrator Account

14)   Active Directory User Management

15)   Active Directory Group Management

16)   Design , Configure and deploy Group Policy with Testing

17)   Cross cable

18)   Straight cable

19)   Configuration for stand Alone Server

20)   Installation of Active Directory Domain Services and DC   configuration

21)    DHCP,  dhcp client,   dhcp   server,  dhcp   relay agent

22)   DNS. Primary, secondary,   stub zone,   host record,  ptr,  alias

23)   Host multiple Sites on IIS using 3 Different methods

24)   FTP

25)   ADC   installation, configuration, comparison , testing and Trouble shooting

26)   RODC  installation, configuration and removing the RODC

27)   Child Domain installation, configuration and testing

28)   Active Directory  partitions

29)   Raise and Roll Back Forest   functional   level

30)   Raise and Roll back Domain Functional  level  (up and down)

31)   Active directory   backup and restore

32)   Active Directory Optimization

33)   Share  and  NTFS  permission   take   ownership

34)   User management (GUI and CLI)

35)   Group management and group  types   , global, local, universal

36)   Profile   local,  roaming profile

37)   Z:   drive

38)   Quota

39)   Home Folder

40)   Disk Type  basic,  dynamic  and Raids

41)   NAS

42)   SAN   NFS, ISCSI

43)   Sites and subnets

44)   RRAS  (routing, Nat)

45)   Group Policy

46)   Hyper –V

47)   Cluster

48)   FSMO  Roles   Transferring and Seizing

49)   Core   configuration

50)   DFS

51)   Deploy Clustering

52)   Deploy OS installation using WDS