Windows Server 2025 Administration

This course examines the services and features of Microsoft Windows Server versions from 2019 to 2025, including lessons and lab exercises about key attributes you might need on the job. It’s a comprehensive guide to key areas of administrating contemporary Windows Server editions, and it’s designed for IT professionals seeking one course in which they can learn all Windows Server knowledge and skills with respect to configuring, using, and maintaining it. 
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The course begins with an overview of administration techniques and continues with topics about identity services, networking, virtualization, high availability, and disaster recovery. This is a comprehensive course that has extensive content and labs, and you’ll find it helpful for exam preparation and as a guide for administering a Windows Server environment.

By completing this course, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

  • Describe Windows Server 2025, its versions, requirements, and deployment techniques.
  • Describe the concepts and main tools for administering Windows Server.
  • Deploy domain controllers (DCs) and use the Group Policy mechanism to manage the AD DS environment.
  • Describe the core networking services in Windows Server, including DHCP, DNS, and IP Address Management (IPAM).
  • Explain data deduplication, sharing, iSCSI, and Distributed File System (DFS) services.
  • Describe Hyper-V, options to help secure a virtualization environment, containers, and Kubernetes.
  • Explain the high availability in Windows Server and the Failover Clustering feature.
  • Describe the technologies to implement disaster recovery in a Windows Server environment.
  • Explain the security technologies that address various critical components in a Windows Server environment.
  • Describe RDS in Windows Server and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) implementations.
  • Describe remote-access technologies for Windows Server and Internet Information Services (IIS) deployment and usage.
  • List the monitoring tools and technologies available in Windows Server.
  • List the available tools in Windows Server for upgrading and migrating servers, and describe AD DS migration and the upgrade process.

This course is for IT professionals who have some experience working with Windows Server and want a course that details the administration of core Windows Server 2025 components and technologies. It also should help server administrators of previous Windows Server versions to update their knowledge and skills with respect to Windows Server 2025.

  • Some exposure to, and experience with, Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) concepts and technologies in Windows Server 2019 and newer.
  • Experience working with, and configuring, Windows Server 2019 and newer.
  • Experience with, and an understanding of, core networking technologies such as IP addressing, name resolution, and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP).
  • Experience working with, and an understanding of, Microsoft Hyper-V and basic server-virtualization concepts.
  • An awareness of basic security best practices.
  • Experience working directly with Windows client operating systems such as Windows 10 and newer.
  • Basic experience with Windows PowerShell.
  • Basic experience with Microsoft Azure platform.
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Course outline

Lab description

The labs in this course cover Windows Server 2025 administration, starting with the deployment and configuration of Windows Server, implementing identity services, network services, storage, and virtualization. You’ll also implement failover clustering, backup, and RDS, configure security and monitoring, and upgrade and migrate server workloads in Windows Server.

Module 1 Overview of Windows Server 2025

This module provides an overview of Windows Server 2025 and describes its versions and deployment techniques.

Lesson 1 Overview of Windows Server

Windows Server history and role in business environments

Overview of new Windows Server 2025 features

Deprecated and removed Windows Server features

Windows Server 2025 editions

Windows Server 2025 Datacenter: Azure Edition

Windows Server pay-as-you-go

Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server

Windows Server release and servicing channels

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe the Windows Server and its editions and servicing channels.

Lesson 2 Windows Server deployment

Hardware requirements for Windows Server 2025

Overview of deployment options

Deployment accelerators

Licensing and activation models for Windows Server

Overview of Windows Server Core and its usage scenarios

Server Core installation and post-installation tasks

Use the Sconfig tool in Server Core

On-demand installation features in Server Core

Demonstration: Configure Server Core

Lesson 3 Overview of Windows Server Core

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe Windows Server Core, including specific details about it and ways to administer it.

Lab: Deploy and configure Windows Server Core

Exercise 1: Deploying and configuring Server Core

Exercise 2: Provisioning an Azure trial subscription

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to deploy and configure Server Core.

Module 2 Windows Server administration

This module details administration tools for Windows Server. You’ll learn how to select the appropriate administration tool and use it effectively and securely.

Lesson 1 Overview of Windows Server administration principles and tools

What is Windows Admin Center?

Demonstration: Use Windows Admin Center

Deploy Windows Admin Center in Azure

Overview of Server Manager

Overview of remote server administration

Demonstration: Manage servers remotely

Use least-privilege administration

Demonstration: Delegate privileges

Privileged Access Workstations and jump servers, and when to use them

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe the concepts and main tools for administering Windows Server.

Lesson 2 Administer Windows Server with Azure Arc

What is Azure Arc?

What are Azure Arc-enabled servers?

Connect Windows Server to Azure Arc

Manage Windows Server from Azure Arc

Manage updates by using Azure Update Manager

Demonstration: Connect Windows Server to Azure Arc

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe Windows Server and techniques for its deployment, activation, and servicing.

Lab: Manage and configure Windows Server

Exercise 1: Perform remote server administration by using Server Manager

Exercise 2: Implement Windows Admin Center for remote server administration

Exercise 3: Use Remote PowerShell for remote server administration

Exercise 4: Configure Azure Arc to manage Windows Server

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Perform remote server administration by using Server Manager.

Implement Windows Admin Center for remote server administration.

Use Remote PowerShell for remote server administration.

Configure Azure Arc to manage Windows Server.

Module 3 Windows Server identity and management services

This module covers identity roles in Windows Server. It also discusses the main management mechanisms of Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), in addition to Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) and the cloud-based identity service Microsoft Entra ID (Entra ID). In this module, you’ll learn how to deploy domain controllers (DCs) and use the Group Policy mechanism to manage the AD DS environment.

Lesson 1 Overview of AD DS

What is AD DS?

What’s new in AD DS in Windows Server 2025?

AD DS objects

AD DS forests and domains

Overview of OUs in AD DS

What is the AD DS schema?

Overview of the AD DS replication process

How does the AD DS sign-in process work?

Overview of AD DS administration tools

Demonstration: Use tools to manage objects and properties in AD DS

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe and manage AD DS and AD DS objects and processes.

Lesson 2 Deploy Windows Server DCs

What is an AD DS DC?

What is the global catalog?

What are operations masters in AD DS?

Deploy AD DS DCs

Upgrade from a previous AD DS version

DC cloning

Overview of DC service SRV records

Demonstration: Explore DC SRV records in DNS

Transfer and seize roles in AD DS

Deploy a DC in Azure IaaS

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe and manage AD DS domain controllers and their roles and records.

Lesson 3 Overview of Entra ID

AD DS scope and limitations

What is Entra ID?

Manage Entra ID

Entra ID versions and capabilities

Authentication with Entra ID

Benefits of integrating Entra ID with AD DS

Connect AD DS with Entra ID by using Entra Connect

Connect AD DS with Entra ID by using Entra Cloud Sync

Microsoft Entra Connect Health

Microsoft Entra ID Domain Services

Deploy a managed domain with Microsoft Entra Domain Services

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe Entra ID, authentication with Entra ID and connect Entra ID with AD DS.

Lesson 4 Implement Group Policy

What are Group Policy and GPOs?

Overview of GPO scope and inheritance

Default domain GPOs

Demonstration: Create and configure a domain-based GPO

Overview of GPO storage and replication

What are Starter GPOs?

What are administrative templates?

Overview of the central store

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to implement and manage Group Policy objects.

Lab Implement identity services and Group Policy

Exercise 1: Deploy a new domain controller on Server Core

Exercise 2: Configure Group Policy

Exercise 3: Configure directory synchronization by using Microsoft Entra Connect

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Deploy a new domain controller on Server Core.

Configure Group Policy.

Configure directory synchronization by using Microsoft Entra Connect.

Module 4 Network infrastructure services in Windows Server

This module details the core networking services in Windows Server, including DHCP, DNS, and IP Address Management (IPAM).

Lesson 1 Deploy and manage DHCP

Overview of the DHCP server role

Install and configure the DHCP role

Configure DHCP options

Demonstration: Configure the DHCP server role

Configure DHCP scopes

Demonstration: Create and configure a DHCP scope

DHCP AD DS authorization

High-availability options for DHCP

How to achieve DHCP failover

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to install, configure and manage DHCP server role.

Lesson 2 Deploy and manage DNS services

DNS components

What are DNS zones?

What are DNS records?

Demonstration: Install and configure the DNS role

Manage DNS services

Records management in DNS

Configure DNS zones

What is DNS forwarding?

DNS for on-premises and Azure resources

DNS integration in AD DS

Overview of DNS policies

Overview of DNSSEC

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to install, configure and manage DNS server, DNS zones and DNS policies.

Lesson 3 Deploy and manage IPAM

What is IPAM and when should you use it?

IPAM deployment requirements

Process for deploying IPAM

Configure IPAM options

Demonstration: Install the IPAM role service (optional)

Administer the IPAM service

Manage DNS zones with IPAM

Configure DHCP servers with IPAM

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to deploy and administer IPAM service.

Lab Implement and configure network infrastructure services in Windows Server

Exercise 1: Deploy and configure DHCP

Exercise 2: Deploy and configure DNS

Exercise 3: Implement IPAM

Exercise 4: Manage IP address spaces by using IPAM

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Deploy and configure DHCP.

Deploy and configure DNS.

Implement IPAM.

Manage IP address spaces by using IPAM.

Module 5 File servers and storage management in Windows Server

This module details services that deal with file systems, volumes, and storage. Students will also learn about data deduplication, sharing, iSCSI, and Distributed File System (DFS) services.

Lesson 1 Volumes and file systems in Windows Server

Overview of file systems that Windows Server supports

Use ReFS in Windows Server

Overview of disk volumes

Demonstration: Manage volumes in Windows Server

Overview of File Server Resource Manager

Manage permissions on volumes

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe file systems in Windows Server, describe and manage volumes.

Lesson 2 Implement sharing in Windows Server

What is SMB?

Overview of SMB improvements

Overview of SMB over QUIC

Configure SMB shares

Demonstration: Configure SMB shares by using Server Manager and Windows PowerShell

Best practices for sharing resources

Overview of NFS

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to implement sharing and manage shared resources in Windows Server.

Lesson 3 Implement Storage Spaces in Windows Server

What is the Storage Spaces feature?

Components and features of Storage Spaces

Usage scenarios for Storage Spaces

Provision of a storage space

Demonstration: Configure Storage Spaces

Overview of Storage Spaces Direct

Demonstration: Configure Storage Spaces Direct

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe Storage Spaces, configure components of Storage spaces and configure storage spaces direct.

Lesson 4 Implement Data Deduplication

What is Data Deduplication?

Usage scenarios for Data Deduplication

Core components of Data Deduplication

Deploy Data Deduplication

Demonstration: Implement Data Deduplication

Backup and restore considerations with Data Deduplication

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to implement and manage Data Deduplication.

Lesson 5 Implement iSCSI

What is iSCSI?

iSCSI components

Considerations for implementing iSCSI

iSCSI usage scenarios

Demonstration: Configure and connect to an iSCSI target

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe, implement and manage iSCSI service in Windows Server.

Lesson 6 Implement DFS

Overview of DFS

Deploy the DFS service

Implement DFSR for files and AD DS

DFS namespaces and replication

Manage DFS databases

Overview of Azure Files and storage utilities for datacenters

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe DFS, manage DFS replication and describe Azure Files.

Lab A: Implement Data Deduplication

Exercise 1: Install the Data Deduplication role service

Exercise 2: Configure and verify data deduplication

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Install the Data Deduplication role service.

Configure and verify data deduplication.

Exercise 1: Install and configure the iSCSI Target Server role

Exercise 2: Configure and connect to iSCSI Targets

Lab B: Configure iSCSI storage

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Install and configure the iSCSI Target Server role.

Configure and connect to iSCSI Targets.

Exercise 1: Configure the redundant Storage Spaces feature

Lab C: Configure redundant storage spaces

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Configure the redundant Storage Spaces feature.

Exercise 1: Implement Storage Spaces Direct

Lab D: Implement Storage Spaces Direct

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Implement Storage Spaces Direct.

Exercise 1: Configure and issue a server certificate

Exercise 2: Configure SMB over QUIC

Lab E: Configure SMB over QUIC

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Configure and issue a server certificate.

Configure SMB over QUIC.

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Implement Data Deduplication.

Configure iSCSI storage.

Configure redundant storage spaces.

Implement Storage Spaces Direct.

Configure SMB over QUIC.

Module 6 Hyper-V virtualization and containers in Windows Server

In this module, students learn about virtualization services in Windows Server. The module details Hyper-V, options to help secure a virtualization environment, containers, and Kubernetes.

Lesson 1 Hyper-V in Windows Server

Overview of the Hyper-V virtualization platform

Hyper-V improvements in Windows Server 2025

Manage Hyper-V with Hyper-V Manager

Best practices and considerations for configuring Hyper-V hosts

Overview of nested virtualization

Integrate the Hyper-V platform with Azure IaaS

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe Hyper-V, new features in Windows Server 2025 and manage features of Hyper-V

Lesson 2 Configure VMs

VM configuration and generation versions

Operating systems in Hyper-V VMs

Overview of VM settings

Storage options in Hyper-V

VHD formats and types

Shared VHDX and VHD Set files

Overview of Hyper-V networking

Networking features for Hyper-V

Manage VM checkpoints

Import and export VMs

Demonstration: Create and manage a VM

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to configure and manage Hyper-V virtual machines and its main components.

Lesson 3 Secure virtualization in Windows Server

What is a guarded fabric?

Attestation modes for guarded fabric

Overview of the Host Guardian Service

Types of protected VMs in a guarded fabric

General process for creating shielded VMs

Process for powering-on shielded VMs

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe virtualization security features in Windows Server.

Lesson 4 Containers in Windows Server

What are containers?

Containers vs. VMs

Overview of container isolation modes

Manage containers using Docker

Pull and push container base images

Run a Windows container

Manage containers using Windows Admin Center

Demonstration: Deploy containers by using Docker and Windows Admin Center

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe containers in Windows Server, manage containers with Docker and Windows Admin Center.

Lab A: Implement and configure virtualization in Windows Server

Exercise 1: Create and configure VMs

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to use Hyper-V Manager and Windows Admin Center to create a virtual switch and VHD, and then create and manage a VM.

Lab B: Install and configure containers

Exercise 1: Install Docker and download an image

Exercise 2: Deploy and configure a container

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to install and configure containers.

Module 7 High availability in Windows Server

This module details high availability in Windows Server and primarily focuses on the Failover Clustering feature.

Lesson 1 Plan for implementation of failover clustering

What is failover clustering?

Achieve high availability with failover clustering

Clustering terminology and key components

Cluster quorum in Windows Server

Considerations for planning failover clustering

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe and plan failover clustering feature.

Lesson 2 Create and configure failover clusters

The Validate a Configuration Wizard and policy requirements for cluster support

Create a failover cluster

Demonstration: Create a failover cluster

Configure storage for failover clustering

Configure networking for failover clustering

Configure quorum options

Demonstration: Configure a quorum

Configure roles for high availability

Manage failover clusters

Configure cluster object properties

Configure failover and failback

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to create, configure and manage failover clusters in Windows Server.

Lesson 3 Overview of stretched clusters

What is a stretched cluster?

Overview of Storage Replica

Prerequisites for implementing a stretched cluster

Synchronous and asynchronous replication

Select a quorum and witness mode for a stretched cluster

Configure a stretched cluster

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe stretched cluster, storage replica and cluster replication.

Lesson 4 High availability and disaster-recovery solutions with Hyper-V VMs

High-availability options for Hyper-V VMs

Overview of live migration

Requirements for live migration

Provide high availability with Storage Migration

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe and plan High availability and disaster-recovery solutions for Hyper-V.

Lab Implement failover clustering

Exercise 1: Configure iSCSI storage

Exercise 2: Configure a failover cluster

Exercise 3: Deploy and configure a highly available file server

Exercise 4: Validate deployment of the highly available file server

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Configure iSCSI storage.

Configure a failover cluster.

Deploy and configure a highly available file server.

Validate deployment of a highly available file server.

Module 8 Disaster recovery in Windows Server

This module details technologies to implement disaster recovery in a Windows Server environment.

Lesson 1 Hyper-V Replica

Overview of Hyper-V Replica

Plan for Hyper-V Replica

Configure and implement Hyper-V Replica

Demonstration: Implement Hyper-V Replica

Overview of Azure Site Recovery

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe and configure Hyper-V replica in Windows Server.

Lesson 2 Back up and restore an infrastructure in Windows Server

Overview of Windows Server Backup

Implement backup and restore

Back up and restore Hyper-V VMs

Overview of Azure Backup

Implement backup and restore with Azure Backup

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe, implement and manage backup in Windows Server.

Lab A: Implement Hyper-V Replica and Windows Server Backup

Exercise 1: Configure and implement Hyper-V Replica

Exercise 2: Configure and implement backup with Windows Server Backup

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Configure and implement Hyper-V Replica.

Configure and implement backup with Windows Server Backup.

Exercise 1: Configure Azure Backup for On-Premises Servers

Lab B: Configure Azure Backup

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to configure Azure Backup for On-Premises Servers.

Module 9 Windows Server security

In this module, students learn about security technologies that address various critical components in a Windows Server environment.

Lesson 1 Credentials and privileged-access protection in Windows Server

Configure user rights in Windows Server

What is the Protected Users group?

Overview of authentication policies and authentication-policy silos

What is Windows Defender Credential Guard?

Windows Defender Credential Guard requirements

Configure Windows Defender Credential Guard

NTLM blocking overview

LDAP security

Locate problematic accounts in AD DS

Demonstration: Locate problematic accounts

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to configure security features in Windows Server to protect accounts.

Lesson 2 Harden Windows Server

What is a Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS)?

LAPS improvements in Windows Server 2025

How LAPS works

Configure and manage passwords by using LAPS

Demonstration: Configure and deploy LAPS

Limit administrative access to help secure hosts

How to help secure DCs

Overview of the Security Compliance Toolkit

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe, implement and manage LAPS.

Lesson 3 JEA in Windows Server

What is JEA?

Role capability files

Session-configuration files

JEA endpoints

Connect to a JEA endpoint

Demonstration: Connect to a JEA endpoint

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe and implement just-enough-administration in Windows Server.

Lesson 4 Secure and analyze SMB traffic

What is SMB?

SMB improvements in Windows Server 2025

SMB signing

SMB encryption

Demonstration: Configure SMB encryption on shares

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe SMB and configure SMB encryption and signing.

Lesson 5 Windows Server update management

Overview of Windows Update

What is the Windows Server Update Service?

WSUS server deployment options

What are Windows Update client policies?

Other update deployment options

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe Windows Server update management.

Lab: Configure security in Windows Server

Exercise 1: Configure Windows Defender Credential Guard

Exercise 2: Locate problematic accounts

Exercise 3: Implement LAPS

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Configure Windows Defender Credential Guard.

Locate problematic accounts.

Implement LAPS.

Module 10 RDS in Windows Server

This module details RDS in Windows Server and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) implementations.

Lesson 1 Overview of RDS

RDS overview and benefits

Client-experience features with RDS

Remote Desktop feature and RDS

What’s new in RDS for Windows Server 2025?

Plan an RDS deployment

Access RDS

Overview of RD Gateway

Overview of RDS licensing

Azure Virtual Desktop

Overview of Windows App

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Lesson 2 Configure a session-based desktop deployment

Overview of deploying session-based desktops

Demonstration: Install RDS

What is a collection?

Configure session collection settings

Demonstration: Create and configure a session collection

High-availability options for session-based desktops

Overview of RemoteApp

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Lesson 3 Overview of pooled and personal virtual desktops

Overview of VM-based desktop deployments

Overview of pooled virtual desktops

Overview of personal virtual desktops

Compare remote desktop options

High availability for pooled and personal virtual desktops

Prepare a virtual-desktop template

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Lab Implement RDS in Windows Server

Exercise 1: Implement RDS

Exercise 2: Configure RemoteApp collection settings

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Implement RDS.

Configure RemoteApp collection settings.

Module 11 Remote access and web services in Windows Server

In this module, students learn about remote-access technologies for Windows Server and Internet Information Services (IIS) deployment and usage.

Lesson 1 Deploy AD CS to secure network traffic

What is AD CS?

Options for implementing CA hierarchies

What are certificates and certificate templates?

Certificate enrollment methods

Configure trust for certificates

Demonstration: Enroll for a certificate

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to deploy and manage AD CS as well as to deploy, enroll and manage certificates.

Lesson 2 Overview of remote access in Windows Server

What remote access options does Windows Server provide?

Factors to consider when deploying PKI for remote access

What is WAP?

Authentication options in WAP

Publish apps with WAP

Discussion: Remote access usage scenarios

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to use remote access in Widows Server.

Lesson 3 Implement VPNs

VPN scenarios

Site-to-site VPN

Tunneling options

Authentication protocols

What is VPN Reconnect?

Configure a VPN server

Demonstration: Configure VPN

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to implement VPNs.

Lesson 4 Implement NPS

Overview of NPS

Plan an NPS deployment

Configure NPS policies

Implement RADIUS with NPS

Demonstration: Manage NPS

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to implement NPS.

Lesson 5 Implement Always On VPN

What is Always On VPN?

Deploy Always On VPN              

Latest features in IIS

Overview of IIS architecture

Overview of the Web Server (IIS) role

Prepare to install the Web Server (IIS) role

Install and configure the Web Server (IIS) role

Demonstration: Create and configure a new site in IIS

Lesson 6 Implement Web Server in Windows Server

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe and configure Web Server (IIS) in Windows Server.

Lab Deploy network workloads

Exercise 1: Deploying AD CS

Exercise 2: Implement Web Application Proxy

Exercise 3: Implement VPN in Windows Server

Exercise 4: Deploy and configure Web Server

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Implement Web Application Proxy.

Implement VPN in Windows Server.

Deploy and configure Web Server.

Module 12 Server and performance monitoring in Windows Server

This module details the monitoring tools and technologies available in Windows Server.

Lesson 1 Overview of Windows Server monitoring tools

Overview of Task Manager

Overview of Performance Monitor

Overview of Resource Monitor

Overview of Reliability Monitor

Overview of Event Viewer

Monitor a server with Server Manager

Monitor a server with Windows Admin Center

Use Sysinternals tools to monitor servers

Use Azure tools for Windows Server monitoring

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Lesson 2 Use Performance Monitor

What are performance bottlenecks?

What to monitor

What are data collector sets?

Demonstration: Review performance with Performance Monitor

Monitor network-infrastructure services

Considerations for monitoring VMs

Performance monitoring with Windows Admin Center

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe performance monitoring and use it in Windows Server.

Lesson 3 Monitor event logs for troubleshooting

Use Server Manager to review event logs

What is a custom view?

Demonstration: Create a custom view

What are event-log subscriptions?

Demonstration: Configure an event subscription

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe event logging and monitor it for troubleshooting purposes.

Lab Monitor and troubleshoot Windows Server

Exercise 1: Establish a performance baseline

Exercise 2: Identify the source of a performance problem

Exercise 3: Review and configure centralized event logs

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Establish a performance baseline

Identify the source of a performance problem

Review and configure centralized event logs

Module 13 Upgrade and migration in Windows Server (optional)

This module details the available tools in Windows Server for upgrading and migrating servers, and explains AD DS migration and the upgrade process.

Lesson 1 AD DS upgrade and migration

Windows Server upgrade overview

AD DS upgrade overview

Upgrade a previous AD DS version to Windows Server 2025

Migrate to AD DS in Windows Server 2025 from a previous version

Overview of the Active Directory Migration Tool

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Lesson 2 Storage Migration Service

Storage Migration Service overview and usage scenarios

Storage migration requirements

Migrate a server with storage migration

Storage migration considerations

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Lesson 3 Windows Server Migration Tools

What are Windows Server Migration Tools?

Install Windows Server Migration Tools

Use Windows Server Migration Tools

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Lab Migrate server workloads

Exercise 1: Select a process to migrate server workloads

Exercise 2: Plan how to migrate files by using Storage Migration Service

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Select a process to migrate server workloads.

Plan how to migrate files by using Storage Migration Service. 

 

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