DATA SHEET

Active Directory: Backup and Disaster Recovery

The Active Directory: Backup and Disaster Recovery 4-day WorkshopPLUS course
A solid business plans provides participants with the knowledge and skills required to prepare for, recover from,
to avoid Active or avoid specific Microsoft® Active Directory disasters.
Following a primer module, “Preparing for and Avoiding Disasters”, students will explore
Directory Disasters. several specific disaster scenarios, each addressed using this formula:
 Technical Description and Drilldown
 Business Continuity Impact
 Causes
 Prevention Strategies
 Preparing to Recover
 How to Recover
This workshop contains 300-level content. Please review the target-audience information
and contact your Microsoft Services representative to ensure that this workshop is
appropriate to the student’s experience and technical expertise.

WorkshopPLUS Benefits
Incoming Assessment to baseline knowledge. It is important for students to get
feedback on how much they have learned during the WorkshopPLUS course. To
accomplish that end, the Incoming Assessment measures what students know at the
beginning of the course. This 25-question assessment was developed by a team of
subject matter experts at Microsoft.
Outgoing Assessment to measure knowledge transfer. Students like to know how
much they learned as a result of the training. At the end of the WorkshopPLUS course,
students compare their Incoming and Outgoing results. In addition, the instructor reviews
the questions and discusses the answers in detail to ensure that students understand the
concepts. (Note: Individual results of the Incoming and Outgoing Assessment are not
provided to management.)
Action Planning Exercises to take workshop-acquired knowledge and apply them to
the workplace. Applying new knowledge to the real world is key to getting the most value
out of your training budget. The purpose of the Action Planning Exercises is to identify key
problems or proactive opportunities in your workplace — and then to use the skills learned
in this course to develop real-world action plans.
 Technical Highlights Syllabus
The Active Directory: Backup and Disaster Recovery workshop This workshop runs a FULL 4 days. Students should anticipate
consistent start and end times for each day. Early departure on
provides students with the skills and techniques to help them: any day is not recommended.
 Understand what it takes to prepare for and avoid Active Incoming Assessment. Students take a 25-question quiz that
Directory disasters. measures their baseline knowledge.
 Learn, in-depth, about the following Active Directory Module 1: Preparing for and Avoiding Disasters. Qualify what
Disaster scenarios:
constitutes an outage of Active Directory,;identify ways to prevent
o Loss of critical services (e.g., DNS) AD disasters; know what data should be collected in advance;
o Trusts with external domains fail and identify what information to communicate to business units.

o FSMO disasters Module 2: Core Disaster Recovery Scenarios. Explore six core
disaster scenarios, ranging from “Loss of Critical Services” to
o Active Directory object deletion or corruption
“Loss of Entire Forest Functionality”.
o Domain controller failures
Module 3: SYSVOL Scenarios. Investigate SYSVOL data
o Loss of entire forest functionality
failures, FRS component failures, and GPO disasters.
o SYSVOL data failures
Module 4: Disasters Avoided Through Good Operational
o FRS component failures Practices. Adjust operational practices to avoid disasters
o GPO disasters associated with massive clock adjustments, USN rollback, and
lingering objects.
o Massive clock adjustments
Module 5: Security Related Scenarios. Focus on prevention,
o USN rollback
including: Physical DC compromise, hacked DCs, and sidHistory
o Lingering objects elevation.

Target Audience Module 6: Relevant Changes In Future Releases. Review

To ensure the high-quality knowledge transfer students expect
from this 4-day workshop, class size is limited to a maximum of
16 students who meet the following criteria:
 Senior or top-level IT staff possessing at a minimum
MCSE-level certification in Microsoft Windows 2003.
 Operating-environment infrastructure architects with a
solid understanding of AD.
 Windows 2000/2003 Server administrators with solid
understanding of AD.
disaster recovery-related changes in Microsoft® Windows®
Server 2008.
Outgoing Assessment. Students complete the quiz again and
compare Incoming and Outgoing results to measure knowledge
transfer.
Action Planning Exercises. Students develop Action Plans to
improve real-world situations and/or implement proactive
measures.

 Escalation support staff (top-tier only).

This workshop is just one of

many available from Microsoft
Services.
For more information, contact
your Technical Account
Manager or Services
representative.

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