You will learn the skills you need to better manage and protect data access and information, simplify deployment and management of your identity infrastructure, and provide more secure access to data. You will learn how to configure some of the key features in Active Directory such as Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), Group Policy, Dynamic Access Control (DAC), Work Folders, Work Place Join, Certificate Services, Rights Management Services (RMS), Federation Services, as well as integrating your on premise environment with cloud based technologies such as Windows Azure Active Directory. 

• Module 1: Overview of Access and Information Protection
• Module 2: Advanced Deployment and Administration of AD DS
• Module 3: Securing AD DS
• Module 4: Implementing and Administering AD DS Sites and Replication
• Module 5: Implementing Group Policy
• Module 6: Managing User Settings with Group Policy
• Module 7: Deploying and Managing AD CS
• Module 8: Deploying and Managing Certificates
• Module 9: Implementing and Administering AD RMS
• Module 10: Implementing and Administering AD FS
• Module 11: Implementing Secure Shared File Access
• Module 12: Monitoring, Managing, and Recovering AD DS
• Module 13: Implementing Windows Azure Active Directory
• Module 14: Implementing and Administering AD LDS

Before attending this course, students must have:

• Experience working with Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
• Experience working in a Windows Server Infrastructure enterprise environment
• Experience working with and troubleshooting core networking infrastructure technologies such as name resolution, IP Addressing, Domain Name System (DNS) and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
• Experience working with Hyper-V and Server Virtualization concepts
• An awareness and understanding of general security best practices
• Experience working hands on with Windows client operating systems such as Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8