This week I have another couple of days out of the office (or our clients office) for yet more Microsoft Partner training – 2 days of updating your Technology Specialist skills Windows Server 2008 R2.
This course is so hot off the press that the materials were only delivered last Thursday… e.g. buggy labs – fun to fix! ;-), no course DVD cut as yet, and a speaker that doesn’t know the materials, and fortunately doesn’t need too… as it’s being delivered by Andy Mallone (www.quality-training.co.uk/blog/ & http://www.divedeeperevents.com/)
Andy is an MVP in Windows Server, has been an MCT for 15 years (had a 4-digit MCP id), is a speaker at various events inc. just back from TechEd delivering , and will be in Redmond in 2 months time as an external member of the Windows 8 product team… likely to be the first x64 only client OS from Microsoft.
Global Knowledge use the strap line ‘Experts teaching Experts’ – they have nailed it on this one. 🙂
Anyway, on to the course (Top tips as usual at the end..):
Activity name: 44CO149 – Updating Your Windows Server 2008 Technology Specialist Skills to R2
Facility: Global Knowledge, London, 83 Baker Street, W1U 6AG
Who: Andy Mallone (www.quality-training.co.uk/blog/)
MVP Windows Server, MCT for 15 years, speaker at various events inc. just back from TechEd, and will be in Redmond in 2 months time as an external member of the Windows 8 product team!
Andy Malone has a deep and broad understanding so far beyond the subject (and that your average instructor) that allowed him to easily fill in the gaps in the somewhat lacking and already outdated course materials. The result was ‘quality training’ that has made a real difference to our long term understanding and ability to work with Windows 7 and the supporting technologies.
Activity description: 44CO149 – Updating Your Windows Server 2008 Technology Specialist Skills to R2
Summary:
This two day intensive course is aimed at fast tracking Windows Server Technical Specialists and IT professionals onto the new technology of Windows Server 2008 R2. This course will also provide enough knowledge and skills for Partners to pass the new WS08R2 exam, due out later this year.
Prerequisites:
Students who attend this 2-day ILT should have the following prerequisite knowledge:
• Possess core Windows Server 2008 Technology Specialist skills.
• Familiarity and experience with batch scripting or another scripting language.
• Experience with Windows deployment technologies and implementation.
• Experience with Windows networking technologies and implementation.
• Experience with Active Directory technologies and implementation.
• Experience with Windows Server 2008 server virtualization technologies and implementation.
• Experience with Windows Server 2008 Web application server technologies and implementation.
Objectives:
Students who attend this 2-day ILT should have the following prerequisite knowledge:
• Possess core Windows Server 2008 Technology Specialist skills.
• Familiarity and experience with batch scripting or another scripting language.
• Experience with Windows deployment technologies and implementation.
• Experience with Windows networking technologies and implementation.
• Experience with Active Directory technologies and implementation.
• Experience with Windows Server 2008 server virtualization technologies and implementation.
• Experience with Windows Server 2008 Web application server technologies and implementation.
Top tips & links picked up during the course…
– Using VHD’s created in disk management for storage whatever you need, whereever you need it, appearing as local storage (disk, volume, etc.) – helping towards the goal of ‘elastic enterprise solutions’ & cloud computing
Demo on how to use a VHD to support native OS boot for Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 – more at Keith Combes excellent blahg at http://blogs.technet.com/keithcombs/archive/2009/05/22/dual-boot-from-vhd-using-windows-7-and-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx
– AD Administration Center… the shape of AD admin to come..?
(an R2 RSAT feature..)
– Technologies you need to embrace to succeed in this industry in the next few years… Virtualisation, Cloud, IPv6
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinWin
– http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730985.aspx
– Encryption types, data at rest (e.g. encrypting on the disk with bitlocker) vs. data in transit (e.g. encryption on the network with IPsec)
– MSAT (Microsoft Security Assessment Toolkit) – is gold!
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