Windows Server Administration — Lesson 2: Active Directory, Networking, Storage, and File Services

Learning Objectives

• Administer users, groups, computers, organizational units, permissions, policies, and authentication
• Configure and troubleshoot IP, DNS, DHCP, routing, firewall, VPN, and network services
• Manage disks, volumes, Storage Spaces, shares, NTFS permissions, quotas, and file services

Detailed Topics

• Administer users: Administer users, groups, computers, organizational units, permissions, policies, and authentication
• Configure and troubleshoot IP: Configure and troubleshoot IP, DNS, DHCP, routing, firewall, VPN, and network services
• Manage disks: Manage disks, volumes, Storage Spaces, shares, NTFS permissions, quotas, and file services

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, environment, dependencies, roles, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, analysis, code, or administration workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, or test evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with the stated acceptance criteria.

Hands-On Activity

Build an identity, network, and file-service scenario and validate access and resolution.

• Document assumptions and the planned sequence before making changes.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal and exception behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, and reusable operational or development notes.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, permissions, data, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, support ownership, and user or business impact.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected configuration, design, query, code, or process is documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Active Directory, Networking, Storage, and File Services in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.