Level: Intermediate

Bruce Rougeau

MCSE, MCT, MCP+Internet, CCMA

Planning for a successful server deployment requires more planning than most people want to allow.  The key to a successful implementations is to think of everything and make sure to ask plenty of questions.  A mastery knowledge of a complete Server infrastructure is required to begin this task.  We will cover the following items:

• Plan server installations and upgrades:  Windows Server 2008 edition selection, rollback planning, Bitlocker implementation requirements
• Plan for automated server deployment:  standard server image, automation and scheduling of server deployments
• Plan infrastructure services server roles:  address assignment, name resolution, network access control, directory services, application services, certificate services
• Plan application servers and services: virtualization server planning, availability, resilience, and accessibility
• Plan file and print server roles: access permissions, storage quotas, replication, indexing, file storage policy, availability, printer publishing