• Understanding IP Addressing
• Subnetting a Network
• Understanding IPv6
• Summary

• Introducing DNS
• The Form of an IP Address
• Understanding Servers, Clients, and Resolvers
• Understanding the DNS Process
• Introducing DNS Database Zones
• Understanding Primary Zones
• Understanding Secondary Zones
• Understanding Active Directory Integrated DNS
• Understanding Stub Zones
• Global Name Zones
• Zone Transfers and Replication
• Advantages of DNS in Windows Server 2016
• Background Zone Loading
• Support for IPv6 Addresses
• Support for Read-Only Domain Controllers
• DNS Socket Pools
• DNS Cache Locking
• DNS Security Extensions
• Record Weighting
• Netmask Ordering
• Windows PowerShell Support
• Introducing DNS Record Types
• Start of Authority Records
• Name Server Records
• Host Record
• Alias Record
• Pointer Record
• Mail Exchanger Record
• Service (SRV) Record
• Configuring DNS
• Installing DNS
• Load Balancing with Round Robin
• Configuring a Caching-Only Server
• Setting Zone Properties
• Configuring Zones for Dynamic Updates
• Delegating Zones for DNS
• DNS Forwarding
• Manually Creating DNS Records
• DNS Aging and Scavenging
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting DNS
• Monitoring DNS with the DNS Snap-In
• Troubleshooting DNS

• Overview of DHCP
• Installing and Authorizing DHCP
• Creating and Managing DHCP Scopes
• Using Multiple DHCP Servers

• Understanding IPAM
• Provision IPAM
• Configure server discovery
• Create and manage IP blocks and ranges
• Monitor utilization of IP address space
• Migrating existing workloads to IPAM
• Configure IPAM database storage using SQL Server
• IPAM with System Center Virtual Machine Manager
• Managing DNS and DHCP using IPAM
• Manage DHCP using IPAM
• Configure DHCP scopes and options
• Configure DHCP policies and failover
• Manage DNS server properties using IPAM
• Manage DNS zones and records
• Manage DNS and DHCP servers in multiple Active Directory forests
• Delegate administration for DNS and DHCP using role-based access control
• Auditing IPAM
• Auditing DNS and DHCP servers
• Audit the IPAM address usage trail
• Audit DHCP lease events and user logon events

• Understanding Distributed File System
• Configuring DFS
• Configure DFS replication targets
• Understanding replication scheduling
• Configure Remote Differential Compression (RDC) settings
• Understanding staging
• Configure fault tolerance
• Clone a Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) database
• Recovering a DFSR database
• Optimize DFS Replication
• Install and configure BranchCache
• Implement distributed and hosted cache modes
• Configure BranchCache for web, file, and application servers
• Troubleshoot BranchCache

• Components of High Availability
• Configuring High Availability
• Implement NIC Teaming or Switch Embedded Teaming (SET)
• Enable and configure Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
• Enabling Quality of Service (QoS) with Data Center Bridging (DCB)
• Configuring SMB Direct on Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)
• Enable and configure SMB Multichannel
• Configuring virtual Receive Side Scaling (vRSS)
• Configure Virtual Machine Multi-Queue (VMMQ)
• Enable Single-Root I/O Virtualization
• Achieving High Availability with Failover Clustering

• Understanding Software Defined Networking
• Determine deployment scenarios and network requirements
• Configuring Hyper-V Network Virtualization (HNV)
• Using Network Virtualization
• Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) encapsulation
• Determine implementation of SLB for load balancing
• Configuring L3, GRE, and S2S
• Requirements for distributed firewall policies and network security groups

Skills Learned

After completing this online training course, students will be able to:

• Plan and implement an IPv4 network

• Implement Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

• Implement IPv6

• Implement Domain Name System (DNS)

• Implement and manage IP address management (IPAM)

• Plan for remote access

• Implement DirectAccess

• Implement virtual private networks (VPNs)

• Implement networking for branch offices

• Configure advanced networking features

• Implement software defined networking