Trainingsbeschreibung
Deploying and Managing Windows 7: Hands-On LT2401E
Zielgruppe
- Helpdesk technicians, desktop administrators and anyone responsible for deploying and managing Windows
- 7. Knowledge of Windows client administration is assumed.
Kursziel
- Centralised administration and streamlined deployment have become attainable goals with Windows 7.
- New and improved Windows technologies, when properly implemented and managed, can help offset
- implementation costs and optimise daily administrative tasks. This course provides the knowledge and
- skills to leverage these technologies to deploy, maintain and administer client operating systems.
- You Will Learn How To
- Effectively implement and administer Windows 7 in an enterprise environment
- Create and deploy custom Windows 7 installation and Windows PE boot images
- Streamline deployments with Windows Deployment Services (WDS)
- Develop a plan for managing initial and ongoing client activation
- Centralise administration through the GUI, shell commands, WinRS and PowerShell
- Locate and remediate issues with Microsoft monitoring, analysis and recovery tools
Voraussetzungen
- Knowledge of Windows client administration is assumed.
- Experience with Windows 7 at the level of Course 2400, "Windows 7®: A Comprehensive Hands-On
- Introduction ", is helpful but not required.
Kursinhalt
- Introduction to Windows 7 Management
- Planning an enterprise implementation
- Contrasting editions and features
- Justifying roll-out costs
- Building Windows PE
- Evaluating use cases for deployment and administration
- Exploring the filesystem and memory architecture
- Creating basic Windows PE boot media
- Customising PE with DISM
- Creating and Managing Custom Images
- Configuring reference computers
- Selecting an imaging technology
- Automating installation with answer files
- Authoring Windows Image (WIM) format files
- Generalising the OS with Sysprep
- Capturing and deploying images with ImageX
- Preparing the filesystem with DisKPart
- Maintaining image files
- Supplementing the driver cache via answer files
- Injecting updates and language packs with DISM
- Automating Deployment Tasks
- Migrating data to new workstations
- Relocating settings and files with Windows Easy Transfer
- Scripting user state transfers with USMT
- Implementing BitLocker
- Partitioning the drives
- Recovering from lost and damaged encryption keys
- Optimising deployments of other Windows editions
- Coping with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 imaging limitations
- Scripting Windows Server 2008 roles
- Customising the Windows Imaging Process
- Performing network installations with Windows Deployment Services (WDS)
- Adding custom boot and install images
- Optimising roll-outs through multicasting
- Exploiting the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
- Configuring images with drivers and applications
- Building Lite Touch deployments
- Managing Windows Activation
- Controlling volume license activation
- Maintaining Multiple Activation Keys (MAK)
- Implementing a Key Management Services (KMS) infrastructure
- Dealing with activation issues
- Rearming Windows
- Assessing activation status with the Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT)
- Streamlining Windows 7 Administration
- Unifying system configuration with group policies
- Contrasting user and computer-based settings
- Targeting GPO application with Scopes of Management (SOM)
- Automating maintenance with Task Scheduler
- Creating tasks manually and via export/import
- Scheduling remote tasks
- Controlling client desktops remotely
- Shadowing users through Remote Assistance
- Connecting to systems for administration with Remote Desktop
- Working with command line tools
- Identifying the scope of shell commands
- Executing remote commands with WinRM/WinRS
- Extending command line functionality through PowerShell
- MS Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP)
- Application virtualisation
- Desktop virtualisation
- AGPM
- Asset Inventory Services
- Optimisation and Troubleshooting
- Establishing effective recovery strategies
- Protecting data with Windows backup
- Simplifying recovery with previous versions and restore points
- Improving system functionality
- Analysing issues with the event viewer
- Monitoring performance trends
- Configuring Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) Native Boot
- Resolving network problems
- Isolating problematic traffic
- Invoking GUI and command line troubleshooting tools
- Extending troubleshooting techniques
- Documenting application failures with Problem Recorder
- Diagnosing system errors with the MDOP toolset
Hinweise
- Hands-On Training
- Throughout this course, extensive hands-on exercises provide practical experience deploying and managing
- Windows 7. Exercises include:
- Building custom Windows PE boot media
- Creating and rolling out custom WIM files
- Installing Windows across the network with WDS
- Centralising management with scheduled tasks and group policies
- Administering systems from the command line and with PowerShell
- Recovering modified and deleted files
- Analysing and monitoring system performance
Dauer
4 Tage
