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Windows Server 2008 MCITP Server Administrator Training - DVD Video (70-640, 70-642, and 70-646 MCITP exams)
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With Train Signal's renowned Windows Server 2008 training package, instructors guide you with nearly 50 hours of step-by-step video training as you become a master Windows Server 2008 Server administrator and obtain your MCITP: Server Administrator certification! This package features Train Signal's Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Training, Network Infrastructure Training, and Server Administer Training courses.
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Ed Liberman, Benjamin "Coach" Culbertson
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Train Signal's video course is instructed by Ed Liberman, MCP, MCSA, MCSE, MCDST, MCT, MCTS, MCITP, A+, Network+, Server+. With over 18 years of experience, Ed's extensive knowledge has helped thousands of people to get started or advance their careers in the IT industry. Ed will get you ready to pass your exams while you develop the skills needed to succeed in the "real world".

Train Signal's video course is instructed by Benjamin "Coach" Culbertson, MCT, MCSA, MCDBA, CIW, A+, Net+, MOS. Culbertson has a passion for educating and motivating students. He has 10 years of training, Web, print and network consulting experience and uses a high-energy teaching style that keeps students engaged.

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With Train Signal's renowned Windows Server 2008 training package, instructors guide you with nearly 50 hours of step-by-step video training as you become a master Windows Server 2008 Server administrator.

For over 5 years, Train Signal's Windows Server courses have literally built their reputation as innovators in hands-on computer based training. Now, Train Signal has combined 3 of their best Server 2008 courses into one powerful MCITP: Server Administer training package. Include in this package are Train Signal's Windows Server 2008 Active DirectoryTraining, Network Infrastructure Training, and Server Administer Training.

Not only will you become a better network administrator in the real world, the core concepts you'll learn also prepare you to obtain your MCITP in Server Administration!

Windows Server 2008 MCITP Server Administrator Training

Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Training Video Summaries

Video 1 - Introduction to the Course
Get acquainted with the information in this course, and meet your instructor. Plus, you will be introduced to the Globomantics scenario used throughout the lessons. Are you ready to get started?

Video 2 - What is Active Directory?
What is Active Directory? Get a foundation of what Active Directory is, what it can do, and why you want to use it in your network to make your life easier!

Video 3 - Installing Server 2008 and Active Directory - The First Two Domain Controllers
Learn how to install Server 2008 from "bare metal", create a domain using Server 2008 by installing Active Directory Domain Services, and set up a second Domain Controller for redundancy. This lesson will also cover "Building the Brain of the Globomantics Network."

Video 4 - Setting up Remote Desktop on Your Personal Vista Client
Real administrators manage a network sitting down. It's so much easier to play World of Warcraft and Halo that way. Learn how to set up Remote Desktop shortcuts on a Vista client so you don't have to pause your game to trek into the server room every time somebody needs a password reset. Plus, work with our Globomantics scenario to join Vista client to the Globomantics domain.

Video 5 - Creating OU's, Users, Computers and Groups in Active Directory
Learn to create Organizational Units to keep your Active Directory organized, making your IT life easier in the long term. Also, learn the secrets of creating a lot of users quickly and easily using scripts. Plus, a simple batch script to create single users all day long!

Video 6 - Setting Up Share Folders and Printers, Mapping Drives, and Creating
PermissionsEasily get to stuff on your network by creating Shared Folders. Share Network printers. Learn the arcane secrets of NTFS and Share level Permissions, and Delegation Security Filtering! Become a wizard at giving only the people you want to have access to stuff! Rule your IT Kingdom with an iron fist and fear or with a soft heart and love--you decide! Setting up a member server, file server partition, and testing shared folders are just a few of the topics covered in this comprehensive lesson.

Video 7 - Group Policy Objects
Lock down your desktop machines with Group Policy. Keep users from screwing stuff up, and from stealing data by using USB drives! Group policy objects, configuring domain level policy, and much more are covered in this lesson.

Video 8 - Security Filtering and Setting Up OUs for Better Group Policy
ImplementationWhen Group Policy Attacks! Does your boss insist on having absolute control over a personal laptop? Then buy our product and learn how to allow your boss absolute freedom over his/her personal machine so you can continually fix it, and keep your job forever! (Or until something higher-paying comes along!)

Video 9 - Computer Policies and Preferences
What does "hoteling" mean? What's the magic behind Loopback processing? These questions and more are answered as you learn how to lockdown machines no matter who's using them!

Video 10 - Using GPOs to Install Software
Do you want to be able to sit at your desk all day long and install software by just clicking your mouse? Then pick up this course and learn how to install, upgrade, and uninstall software and not even have to get your butt out of your nice cushy office chair! Plus, take a quick look at what we've built so far!

Video 11 - Domain and Fine-Grained Password Policies
Learn how to provide multiple password policies using Server 2008's brand new Fine Grained Password Policy Objects! That's right, you too can lessen the security of your network so your boss can use the name of his or her favorite horse as his/her password and not have to worry about all that security stuff!

Video 12 - Providing Permissions to an Account for Administrative Tasks
Let someone else do the busy work of resetting passwords and the like! Pass off some of your responsibility to some other unsuspecting IT staffer and make them take the calls from your users! This lesson will cover the basics of giving someone else the ability to reset passwords, as well as, RSAT for Vista.

Video 13 - Windows Server Backup, WBADMIN, and NTDSUTIL
If you don't know how to create basic backups, there's a chance your network will go down in flames and there will be nothing you'll be able to do about it. Learn the ins and outs of Windows Server Backup, WBADMIN, NTDSUTIL, and more!

Video 14 - Moving Operations Masters and Adding a DC with IFM
Give your network some flexibility by learning the secret of multiple Domain Controllers having different FSMO's! Key topics in this video: A little future planning to prevent major problems, operations master, and more! Plus, gain hands on experience with as you restructure Globomantics DCs a bit.

Video 15 - Monitoring, Auditing, and Maintaining Your AD Database
Active Directory is like a car: if you don't change the oil in your car every 3000 or so miles, it will eventually blow up. But if you do, you can get a long life out of it. Learning the monitoring, auditing and maintenance skills necessary to give your Active Directory a long happy life! Task manager, event viewer, performance monitor, and reliability monitor are just a few of the topics covered in this video.

Video 16 - Adding a Child Domain and Configuring Replication
Learn how to create a new Child Domain for a new location so you can eventually pass off the responsibility to another administrator! Get hands on experience in this scenario as you create a Chicago site in AS, create a subnet for Chicago office, and install domain controller for Chicago.

Video 17 - Creating Universal Groups and the AGUDLP Strategy
Users in Chicago need access to stuff in New York! What are we going to do? Using Universal Groups and a strategy called AGUDLP, we can provide access to stuff that's 790 miles away over the network!

Video 18 - Building a Read-Only Domain Controller
Using Windows Server Core and the Read-Only Domain Controller feature in Windows Server 2008, you can create a great experience for your remote users --while saving money and remaining secure! What is a Read-Only Domain Controller? How do you configure one? These questions and more will be answered in this lesson.

Video 19 - Restoring OUs and User Accounts
That new third shift IT guy we just hired deleted the entire New York Ops dept! What do we do? Since we were smart and created backups in Video 13, we can get back only the stuff we want using NTDSUTIL. There will be no need to recreate User Accounts! Learn about the two types of restorations, authoritative restore, and more in this scenario.

Video 20 - Strategies for Recreating a Domain Controller
Inevitably, you will eventually face a cataclysmic meltdown of a Domain Controller. If you've applied the principles in the previous videos, restoring and recreated DC's doesn't have to be tough. This video will show you how!

Video 21 - Upgrading a Server 2003 Machine to Server 2008
Learn a little secret to upgrading your DC's to Server 2008, and it won't take much time at all! The advantages of Server 2008 Domain Functional Level, the upgrade process, and more are covered in this scenario dealing with Tokyo this time!

Video 22 - Connecting Two Active Directory Networks
In this video you'll learn how to connect two Active Directory Forests together. There are two options: Active Directory Federation Services or Trusts? Which option is easiest? These questions and more will be answered as this video covers the key topics via the Globomantics scenario.

Video 23 - Certification: It's Really Not That Scary
Are you thinking about taking the 70-640, Configuring Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Exam? Looking to become a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in Active Directory, Configuring? If so, you'll want to watch this video to know how to prepare for the big day. Learn the tips; upgrade paths and more in this lesson!

Video 24 - Domain Name Service
Without DNS, your Domain Controllers are really expensive paperweights. In this exam prep video, you'll pick up some additional vocabulary and core concepts of DNS including: forward and reverse lookup zones, conditional forwarders, global name zones, and more!

Video 25 - Active Directory Certificate Services 101
Now that Certificate Services has stronger integration with Active Directory, it's on the 70-640 exam. This exam prep video will give you a quick foundation and the important jargon for Certificate Services.

Video 26 - Lightweight Directory Services 101
In this exam prep video, you'll learn about the AD LDS Role, and why you might need it if you have network applications that require LDAP.

Video 27 - Rights Management Services 101
In our final exam prep video for this series, you'll learn about a new Role in Server 2008 that allows you to lock down the data in your network in an easy to implement fashion. Make the users do the work with Rights Management Services!

Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Training Video Summaries

Video 1 - Introduction to the Course
Get acquainted with the information in this course, and meet your instructor. Plus, you will be introduced to the Globomantics scenario used throughout the lessons. Are you ready to get started?

Video 2 - Configuring DHCP
Simplify the process of assigning IP addresses to the computers on your network. An introduction to DHCP, how DHCP work, and configuring DHCP are just a few of the topics covered in this lesson.

Video 3 - Managing DHCP
More about DHCP, only this time the focus is on management. Learn how to keep your DHCP infrastructure properly functioning as this lesson covers topics including: adding and removing bindings, location of database, statistics, scope reconciliation, and more!

Video 4 - Setting Up Routing
What is a router? This question and more will be answer as you learn how to make your networks talk to each other.

Video 5 - Configuring DNS
Set-up your network so users can access computers using common names, as you learn to configure and install DNS. How do Queries work? Watch this in-depth lesson to find out!

Video 6 - Managing DNS
Learn to keep your DNS infrastructure properly functioning! This lesson will cover topics including: TTL, aging and scavenging, testing DNS queries, performance monitor, and much more.

Video 7 - Name Resolution
This video takes Name Resolution beyond what you learned in Video 5 and gives a complete understanding of how to convert names that are easily recognizable to humans into IP addresses. What are Host and NetBIOS Names? How are Names resolved? These are just a couple of the questions this lesson will answer and explain.

Video 8 - Securing Data
Control access to your data and keep it safe! Learn the ins and outs of securing data as this video covers everything from NTSF permissions to enabling EFS.

Video 9 - Sharing Data
File sharing, disk quotas, offline files--all of these are components to making files and folders accessible to users across your network. Learn about these topics and more in this video.

Video 10- Configuring Print Services
Everything you need to know to make printers easily available to your users, except where to buy one! Printer installation, sharing, permissions, and more are discussed in this lesson.

Video 11 - Windows Server Update Services
What is WSUS? Why use WSUS? These questions and more will be answered as you learn how to simplify the process of keeping all of your computers up to date.

Video 12 - Backup and Recovery
Protect important data from being lost by human error or computer malfunction! Configuring the Shadow Copy services, creating backup volume, scheduling backups, and complete system recovery are covered in this lesson.

Video 13 - Monitoring Windows Server 2008
Understand the common tools (task manager, event viewer, performance monitor, etc.) used to monitor your servers and keep them running efficiently.

Video 14 - Configuring Remote Access
Learn how to let users safely connect from outside your network! Topics covered include: installing and configuring the RRAS component, configuring a client to connect, creating network policy, and more.

Video 15 - Wireless Networks
Is Wireless good or bad? Learn how to let users safely connect without using cables, and useful information about wireless security.

Video 16 - Windows Firewall
Keep control over what data enters and exits your network--by utilizing Windows Firewall. This lesson will teach you Firewall inside and out!

Video 17 - Securing Network Traffic with IPSec
Protect data from being compromised while travelling on a network--secure network traffic with IPSec. This lesson will explain IPsec, its protocols, configuration, and how to use it.

Video 18 - Network Access Protection
What is NAP? Get the answer and learn how to create rules and stipulations to maintain control over network communications in this video.

Video 19 - Certification
Are you thinking about taking the 70-642, Configuring Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Exam? If so, you'll want to watch this video to know how to prepare for the big day! Covered are such tips, the new generation of Server 2008 certifications, and much more.

TCP/ IP and Network Fundamentals Bonus Course Outline
The bonus course is full of the basic concepts you need to truly understand TCP/ IP -- an integral part of networking. We will help you gain a general comfort level for what TCP/ IP is and how to configure it on a basic network computer.

Video 1 - What is a protocol?
What is protocol? Learn the definition and more in this lesson.

Video 2 - Introduction to TCP/IP
Get an introduction to TCP/IP, plus, transport and internet layer protocols.

Video 3 - Configuring an IP Address
Learn how to configure an IP address, plus, more about transport and internet layer protocols.

Video 4 - IP Address Planning
Learn how to plan an IP addressing scheme, the rules for doing so, and about classful IP addressing.

Video 5 - Binary Numbers
Key Points covered in this video include: decimal vs. binary, converting binary to decimal, convert decimal to binary and more!

Video 6 - Internetworking
Key Points covered in this video include: IP address review, client configuration, subnetting, routers, and more!

Video 7 - Classless Interdomain Routing
Learn the problems with Classful IP addressing, as well as, subnetting with CIDR and VLSM, formulas, and more.

Video 8 - Fundamentals of IPv6
Learn the fundamentals of IPv6 in this video. Plus, the disadvantages of IPv4, IPv6 solutions and addressing, and more.

Windows Server 2008 Server Administrator Training Video Summaries

Video 1 - Introduction to the Course
Get a first look at the scenario we will be using throughout the course, and introduction to your instructor, plus, learn what you can expect in the course.

Video 2 - Windows Server 2008 Installation and Upgrade
Learn about the different versions of Windows Server 2008 and dive right into installing Windows Server 2008 from scratch with this step-by-step instruction! Plus, learn to install the Active Directory Domain Services role and perform an upgrade from Windows Server 2003 to Server 2008.

Video 3 - Simplifying Installations Using Windows Deployment Services (WDS)
Using Windows Deployment Services to automate installations of Windows Server 2008 and to implement unattended installations can save you time and money. This lesson will cover key topics including: installing DHCP and WDS role, configuring WDS, and AIK.

Video 4 - Installing Windows Server 2008 Server Core
What is Server Core? Not everyone has the system resources to implement a full installation of Windows Server 2008. In this video you will learn how to install and configure a command line version of the Server 2008 Operating System called Windows Server Core, which can be implemented on systems that have minimal resources.

Video 5 - Deploying Read Only Domain Controllers (RODC)
Learn how to deploy Read Only Domain Controllers to greatly improve upon these issues such as inadequate security, slow logon times, and inconsistent access to network resources. Key points covered in this lesson include: RODC benefits, testing replication between a DC and RODC, configuring a password replication policy, and more!

Video 6 - Virtualization
Why use several computers if you can use Virtualization to run multiple machines on one system? Learn how implementing Virtualization will help you better utilize hardware resources, save money, and resolve compatibility issues.

Video 7 - Using Group Policy to Simplify Network Administration
Learn to use Group Policy to have centralized control over your Server 2008 network and simplify network administration. Using the Globomantics scenario, you'll see how Group Policy allows you to give specific users the network access they need and easily restrict access to resources they don't need. Active Directory objects, creating GPO settings, and block inheritance are just a few of the topics covered in this course.

Video 8 - Delegation of Control
As much as you may try as a network administrator, it's difficult to do everything on your own! Learn how to safely isolate various Server 2008 components to be able to grant users access to certain areas of the network--without giving everyone administrator privileges! Different types of permissions, configuring permission, and delegation of control wizard are just a few of the topics covered in this course.

Video 9 - Setting Up a File and Print Server
Learn how File Servers and Print Servers can be utilized to maintain centralized access and administration over stored data and printers in Server 2008. Key points in this lesson: installing file services role, NTFS file and folder permissions, inherited permissions, and much more!

Video 10 - Data Provisioning
Most businesses have employees that travel, work in branch offices, or even from home--learn how to implement a Data Provisioning strategy to make data easily available to any user in any location; even users working offline.

Video 11 - Setting Up a VPN Server
The inability for employees to access the local network while traveling, visiting clients, or working from home can hamper productivity and efficiency. Learn how to avoid this issue by implementing a VPN Server to allow users to access the local network from a remote location.

Video 12 - Network Policy Server
Establishing rules and accounting policy can be costly and time consuming if it's done on each individual server. To avoid this, learn how to create a Network Policy Server and use RADIUS to centralize control over remote connectivity to your network. Key points covered in this lesson include: RADIUS, installing NPS, creating network policy, and more!

Video 13 - Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
Learn how to use WSUS to control which updates were distributed to your users and when! Save your network's bandwidth and take control of updates. What is Windows Server Update Services? How do you prepare your server for WSUS installation? These questions and more will be answered in this lesson.

Video 14 - Using Active Directory Certificate Services
Certificate Services are used on your network to identify users and computers--learn the advantages and disadvantages of creating your own certificate, as opposed to having a third party company create it for you.

Video 15 - Backup and RecoveryAt some point, human error or a computer malfunction will threaten to wipe out some, if not all, of your important data--learn how to use Backup and Recovery tools to protect yourself from catastrophic data loss! Configuring Shadow Copy service, picking a storage location, and recovering individual files are just a few of the topics covered in this course.

Video 16 - Deploying Terminal Services
What is Terminal Services? When using Terminal Services, any number of users can access and use a resource located on a single computer. This video will show you how a Terminal Server can stretch your resources and make your current system configuration work for you. Other topics covered in this comprehensive lesson include: configuring session rules for terminal servers, configuring TS session broker, installing Microsoft Office on first terminal server, and much more!

Video 17 - Planning for High Availability
Insure your network never goes down again! Learn how to make sure that a certain service level is always available on your network through redundancy and fault tolerance that is transparent to your users.

Video 18 - ertification
Learn about the new generation of Microsoft Certifications for Windows Server 2008 and the secrets to passing the exams. What you need to take for each credential, upgrade paths, and more are covered in this lesson!

Bonus Video - Hyper-V Installation
You know that Virtualization is hot right now and it shows no signs of cooling off. In this video we will show you how to build your own Hyper-V Server!

TCP/ IP and Network Fundamentals Bonus Course Outline
The bonus course is full of the basic concepts you need to truly understand TCP/ IP -- an integral part of networking. We will help you gain a general comfort level for what TCP/ IP is and how to configure it on a basic network computer.

Video 1 - What is a protocol?
What is protocol? Learn the definition and more in this lesson.

Video 2 - Introduction to TCP/IP
Get an introduction to TCP/IP, plus, transport and internet layer protocols.

Video 3 - Configuring an IP Address
Learn how to configure an IP address, plus, more about transport and internet layer protocols.

Video 4 - IP Address Planning
Learn how to plan an IP addressing scheme, the rules for doing so, and about classful IP addressing.

Video 5 - Binary Numbers
Key Points covered in this video include: decimal vs. binary, converting binary to decimal, convert decimal to binary and more!

Video 6 - Internetworking
Key Points covered in this video include: IP address review, client configuration, subnetting, routers, and more!

Video 7 - Classless Interdomain Routing
Learn the problems with Classful IP addressing, as well as, subnetting with CIDR and VLSM, formulas, and more.

This course covers certification: Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP)
This course covers exam: 70-640, 70-642, and 70-646 MCITP exams



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