This five-day course will provide you with the knowledge and skills required to enhance the security of the IT infrastructure that you administer in Windows Server 2022, how to protect administrative credentials and rights to ensure that administrators can perform only the tasks that they need to.
This course also details how you can mitigate malware threats; identify security issues by using auditing and the Advanced Threat Analysis feature.
The course also explains how you can help secure file access by using encryption and dynamic access control, and how you can enhance your network’s security.
This course also provides students with the fundamental knowledge and skills to configure and manage Internet Information Services.
This course is intended to help provide pre-requisite skills supporting a broad range of Internet web applications, security, and knowledge to help support other products that use IIS. In keeping with that goal, this course will not focus on any particular web application or development practice.
Audience
This course is for IT professionals who need to administer Windows Server 2022 networks securely. These professionals typically work with networks that are configured as Windows Server domain-based environments, with managed access to the Internet and cloud services. No prior experience with any version of Internet Information Services is assumed
Candidates suitable for this course would be:
Before attending this course, students must have:
• Experience working in a Windows Sever infrastructure enterprise environment.
• Experience with Windows Server administration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• A solid, practical understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and Domain Name System (DNS).
• A solid, practical understanding of the principles of Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
• A solid, practical understanding of Microsoft Hyper-V virtualisation fundamentals.
• An understanding of Windows Server security principles.
Additionally, students would benefit from having some previous Windows Server operating system experience, such as experience as a Windows Server systems administrator. An understanding of Windows PowerShell would be advantageous.
Module 1: Protecting credentials and privileged access
Explains how you can configure user rights and security options, protect credentials by using Windows Defender Credential Guard, implement privileged-access workstations, and manage and deploy a local administrator-password solution that you can use to manage passwords for local administrator accounts
Module 2: Advanced auditing and log analytics
Explains how to use advanced auditing and Windows PowerShell transcripts.
Module 3: Securing workloads
Describes the Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics tool and explains the Security Compliance Toolkit (SCT), including how you can use it to configure, manage, and deploy baselines. Additionally, students will learn how to deploy and configure Hyper-V and Windows Server containers.
Module 4: Planning and protecting data
Explains how to configure Encrypting File System (EFS) and BitLocker drive encryption to protect data at rest. Students will also learn how to extend protection into the cloud by using Microsoft Azure Information Protection.
Module 5: Optimizing and securing file services
Explains how to optimise file services by configuring File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) and Distributed File System (DFS). Students will learn how to protect a device’s data by using encryption or BitLocker. Students also will learn how to manage access to shared files by configuring Dynamic Access Control (DAC).
Module 6: Just Enough Administration
Explains how to deploy and configure the Just Enough Administration (JEA) feature.
Module 7: Understanding and Installing Internet Information Services
Provides a basic overview about the network infrastructure planning and common concerns with implementing a web server. This module teaches students to perform an installation of IIS and verify the working web server by testing the default created website. The ability to install components and test functionality when needed will be continually reinforced throughout the course
Module 8: Configuring the Default Website
Describes how to plan and implement network requirements for a public website. Students will configure DNS records to support access to internal and public websites and create virtual directories and application folders for additional website content. These concepts will be built upon in future modules and students begin to work with different bindings for both internal and external websites and web applications.
Module 9: Configuring and Managing Application Pools
Provides students with the details and the benefits to the application pool architecture. Students will create and configure application pools to support additional applications and configure application pool recycle settings. This module teaches students to perform recycle events and examine the event logs for recycle events
Module 10: Creating Additional Websites
Introduces students to the process on how to examine existing website bindings to determine and resolve naming conflicts. This module teaches students to create new websites using unique bindings and avoiding naming conflicts.
Module 11: Securing Websites and Applications
Introduces students to secure internal and public websites for users and groups by using the built-in Anonymous, Windows and Basic authentication. This module also teaches students to configure file system permissions for specific users and groups and secure a website using URL Authorization Rules.
Module 12: Managing Certificates in the Centralised Store
Describes how to install and configure the Microsoft Internet Information Service feature Central Certificate Store to enable centralized and improved certificate management. This module will teach students to configure a website to use a secured binding with the Central Certificate Store and explore the benefits to centralized certificate management. Students will also learn to properly name certificates for the store
Module 13: Backing Up and Restoring IIS
Focuses on the concepts of recovering a website and web server from failure. This module teaches students how to manage, backup and recover the configuration files, along with requirements for recovering content and certificates.
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