70–412 Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services R2

This 70–412 Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 R2 Services textbook covers the third of three exams required for Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA): Windows Server 2012 certification. This course will help validate the skills and knowledge necessary to administer a Windows Server 2012 Infrastructure in an enterprise environment. The three MCSA exams collectively validate the skills and knowledge necessary for implementing, managing, maintaining and provisioning services and infrastructure in a Windows Server 2012 environment. This Microsoft Official Academic Course is mapped to the 70–412 Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services exam skills, including the recent R2 objectives. This textbook focuses on real skills for real jobs and prepares students to prove mastery of Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services such as advanced configuring tasks necessary to deploy, manage, and maintain a Windows Server 2012 infrastructure. It covers such skills as fault tolerance, certificate services, and identity federation. In addition, this book also covers such valuable skills as:

Implementing Advanced Network Services

Implementing Advanced File Services

Implementing Dynamic Access Control

Implementing Network Load Balancing

Implementing Failover Clustering

Implementing Disaster Recovery

Implementing Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS)

Implementing Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)

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1 Configuring Network Load Balancing 1

2 Configuring Failover Clustering 16

3 Managing Failover Clustering Roles 46

4 Managing Virtual Machine Movement 61

5 Configuring Advanced File Services 85

6 Implementing Dynamic Access Control 110

7 Configuring and Optimizing Storage 130

8 Configuring and Managing Backups 150

9 Recovering Servers 177

10 Configuring Site–Level Fault Tolerance 204

11 Implementing an Advanced Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Solution 218

12 Implementing an Advanced DNS Solution 242

13 Deploying and Managing IPAM 257

14 Configuring a Domain and Forest 275

15 Configuring Trusts 292

16 Configuring Sites 318

17 Managing Active Directory and SYSVOL Replication 339

18 Implementing Active Directory Federation Services 359

19 Installing and Configuring Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) 385

20 Managing Certificates 408

21 Installing and Configuring Active Directory Rights Management Services 434

Appendix 456

Index 458

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