Microsoft Certified Solution Expert (MCSE)

Installing, upgrading, and migrating servers and workloads
• Introducing Windows Server 2016
• Preparing and installing Server Core
• Preparing for upgrades and migrations
• Migrating server roles and workloads
• Windows Server activation models

Configuring local storage
• Managing disks in Windows Server
• Managing volumes in Windows Server

Implementing enterprise storage solutions
• Overview of DAS, NAS, and SANs
• Comparing Fiber Channel, iSCSI, and Fiber Channel over Ethernet
• Understanding iSNS, DCB, and MPIO
• Configuring sharing in Windows Server 2016

Implementing Storage Spaces and Data
Deduplication
• Implementing Storage Spaces
• Managing Storage Spaces
• Implementing Data Deduplication

Installing and configuring Hyper-V and virtual machines
• Overview of Hyper-V
• Installing Hyper-V
• Configuring storage on Hyper-V host servers
• Configuring networking on Hyper-V host servers
• Configuring Hyper-V virtual machines
• Managing virtual machines

Deploying and managing Windows and Hyper-V containers
• Overview of containers in Windows Server 2016
• Deploying Windows Server and Hyper-V containers
• Installing, configuring, and managing containers by using Docker

Overview of high availability and disaster recovery
• Defining levels of availability
• Planning high availability and disaster recovery solutions with Hyper-V virtual machines
• Backing up and restoring by using Windows Server Backup
• High availability with failover clustering in Windows Server 2016

Implementing failover clustering
• Planning a failover cluster
• Creating and configuring a new failover cluster
• Maintaining a failover cluster
• Troubleshooting a failover cluster
• Implementing site high availability with stretch clustering

Implementing failover clustering with Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V
• Overview of the integration of Hyper-V Server 2016 with failover clustering
• Implementing Hyper-V VMs on failover clusters
• Key features for VMs in a clustered environment

Implementing Network Load Balancing
• Overview of NLB
• Configuring an NLB cluster
• Planning an NLB implementation

Creating and managing deployment images
• Introduction to deployment images
• Creating and managing deployment images by using MDT
• Virtual machine environments for different workloads

Managing, monitoring, and maintaining virtual machine installations
• WSUS overview and deployment options
• Update management process with WSUS
• Overview of Windows PowerShell DSC
• Overview of Windows Server 2016 monitoring tools
• Using Performance Monitor
• Monitoring event logs

Planning and implementing an IPv4 network
• Planning IPv4 addressing
• Configuring an IPv4 host
• Managing and troubleshooting IPv4 network connectivity

Implementing DHCP
• Overview of the DHCP server role
• Deploying DHCP
• Managing and troubleshooting DHCP

Implementing IPv6
• Overview of IPv6 addressing
• Configuring an IPv6 host
• Implementing IPv6 and IPv4 coexistence
• Transitioning from IPv4 to IPv6

Implementing DNS
• Implementing DNS servers
• Configuring zones in DNS
• Configuring name resolution between DNS zones
• Configuring DNS integration with Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
• Configuring advanced DNS settings

Implementing and managing IPAM
• Overview of IPAM
• Deploying IPAM
• Managing IP address spaces by using IPAM

Remote access in Windows Server 2016

• Overview of remote access
• Implementing the Web Application Proxy

Implementing Direct Access
• Overview of Direct Access
• Implementing Direct Access by using the Getting Started Wizard
• Implementing and managing an advanced Direct Access infrastructure

Implementing VPNs
• Planning VPNs
• Implementing VPNs

Implementing networking for branch offices
• Networking features and considerations for branch offices
• Implementing Distributed File System (DFS) for branch offices
• Implementing BranchCache for branch offices

Configuring advanced networking features
• Overview of high performance networking features
• Configuring advanced Microsoft Hyper-V networking features

Installing and configuring domain controllers

• Overview of AD DS
• Overview of AD DS domain controllers
• Deploying a domain controller

Managing objects in AD DS
• Managing user accounts
• Managing groups in AD DS
• Managing computer objects in AD DS
• Using Windows PowerShell for AD DS administration
• Implementing and managing OUs

Advanced AD DS infrastructure management
• Overview of advanced AD DS deployments
• Deploying a distributed AD DS environment
• Configuring AD DS trusts

Implementing and administering AD DS sites and replication
• Overview of AD DS replication
• Configuring AD DS sites
• Configuring and monitoring AD DS replication

Implementing Group Policy
• Introducing Group Policy
• Implementing and administering GPOs
• Group Policy scope and Group Policy processing
• Troubleshooting the application of GPOs

Managing user settings with Group Policy
• Implementing administrative templates
• Configuring Folder Redirection, software installation, and scripts
• Configuring Group Policy preferences

Securing Active Directory Domain Services
• Securing domain controllers
• Implementing account security
• Implementing audit authentication
• Configuring managed service accounts

Deploying and managing AD CS
• Deploying CAs
• Administering CAs
• Troubleshooting and maintaining CAs

Deploying and managing certificates
• Deploying and managing certificate templates
• Managing certificate deployment, revocation, and recovery
• Using certificates in a business environment
• Implementing and managing smart cards

Implementing and administering AD FS
• Overview of AD FS
• AD FS requirements and planning
• Deploying and configuring AD FS
• Web Application Proxy Overview

Implementing and administering AD RMS
• Overview of AD RMS
• Deploying and managing an AD RMS infrastructure
• Configuring AD RMS content protection

Attacks, breach detection, and Sysinternals tools
• Understanding attacks
• Detecting security breaches
• Examining activity with the Sysinternals tools

Protecting credentials and privileged access
• Understanding user rights
• Computer and service accounts
• Protecting credentials
• Privileged Access Workstations and jump servers
• Local administrator password solution

Limiting administrator rights with Just Enough Administration
• Understanding JEA
• Verifying and deploying JEA

Privileged access management and administrative forests
• ESAE forests
• Overview of Microsoft Identity Manager
• Overview of JIT administration and PAM

Mitigating malware and threats
• Configuring and managing Windows Defender
• Restricting software
• Configuring and using the Device Guard feature

Analyzing activity with advanced auditing and log analytics
• Overview of auditing
• Advanced auditing
• Windows PowerShell auditing and logging

Deploying and configuring Advanced Threat Analytics and Microsoft Operations Management Suite
• Deploying and configuring ATA
• Deploying and configuring Microsoft Operations

Management Suite
• Deploying and configuring Azure Security Center

Secure Virtualization Infrastructure
• Guarded fabric
• Shielded and encryption-supported virtual machines

Securing application development and server work load infrastructure
• Using SCT
• Understanding containers

Planning and protecting data
• Planning and implementing encryption
• Planning and implementing BitLocker
• Protecting data by using Azure Information Protection

Optimizing and securing file services
• File Server Resource Manager
• Implementing classification and file management tasks
• Dynamic Access Control

Securing network traffic with firewalls and encryption
• Understanding network-related security threats
• Understanding Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
• Configuring IPsec
• Datacenter Firewall

Securing network traffic
• Configuring advanced DNS settings
• Examining network traffic with Message Analyzer
• Securing and analyzing SMB traffic