Microsoft Domain Controller

Course Description

This SkillDynamo course develops practical, role-relevant capability in deploying and administering Active Directory Domain Services, domain controllers, identities, DNS, Group Policy, replication, security, recovery, and troubleshooting. The learning path progresses from essential concepts and planning to implementation, validation, troubleshooting, and operational use.

Learners work through realistic scenarios, guided demonstrations, applied exercises, and evidence-based reviews. Every topic is connected to workplace responsibilities, common risks, quality controls, and measurable outcomes.

The course helps professionals make informed decisions, identify failure points, communicate results, and create an actionable improvement plan for future projects.

What You Will Learn

• Explain forests, domains, sites, partitions, schema, global catalog, FSMO roles, trusts, and authentication flow
• Install and configure domain controllers, DNS integration, time, sites, services, and administrative delegation
• Manage organizational units, users, groups, computers, service accounts, permissions, and lifecycle processes
• Design Group Policy objects, inheritance, filtering, preferences, scripts, baselines, and troubleshooting
• Configure and diagnose replication, sites, connections, DNS, trusts, certificates, and authentication dependencies
• Apply privileged access, auditing, hardening, Defender, least privilege, delegation, and hybrid identity readiness
• Plan system-state backup, authoritative and non-authoritative restore, recycle bin, FSMO recovery, and disaster procedures
• Use logs, diagnostic tools, commands, health checks, evidence, support, documentation, and improvement actions

SkillDynamo Training Approach

SkillDynamo delivers this course through demonstrations, hands-on exercises, scenario analysis, validation checklists, structured troubleshooting, solution reviews, and a final improvement plan. Learners repeatedly practice planning, implementation, evidence collection, testing, correction, and communication so the skills transfer confidently into real workplace situations.