This course helps prepare you for the APL-1008 Administer Active Directory Domain Services modern credential. You'll learn how to create, deploy, and maintain an Active Directory Domain Services environment.

This course is for IT Administrators responsible for maintaining an on-premises Active Directory environment or preparing to migrate an on-premises Active Directory environment to the cloud.

Before starting this module, you should have knowledge of and experience working with Windows Server and Core networking technologies.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Define Active Directory Domain Services forests and domains
• Deploy Active Directory Domain Services domain controllers
• Migrate a domain controller to a new site
• Manage Active Directory Domain Services operations masters
• Define users, groups, and computers
• Define organisational units
• Manage objects and their properties in Active Directory
• Create objects in Active Directory
• Configure objects in Active Directory
• Perform bulk management tasks for user accounts
• Maintain Active Directory Domain Services domain controllers
• Define Group Policy Objects
• Implement Group Policy Object scope and inheritance
• Define domain-based Group Policy Objects
• Create and configure a domain-based Group Policy Object
• Configure a domain password policy
• Configure and apply a fine-grained password policy
• Configure user account rights
• Configure user account rights to restrict access
• Delegate permissions in Active Directory
• Protect User Accounts with the Protected Users group
• Describe Windows Defender Credential Guard
• Block Windows NTLM authentication
• Locate problematic accounts

Course Subjects:

• Deploy and manage Active Directory Domain Services domain controllers
• Create and manage Active Directory objects
• Create and configure Group Policy Objects in Active Directory
• Manage security in Active Directory
• Guided project - Administer Active Directory Domain Services