Windows server administration

This course covers the installation and configuration of mainstream operating systems, important network services, disaster recovery procedures, and techniques for ensuring the security of the system.Students will learn and apply basic concepts and methodologies of System Administration and Security by building from the ground up a miniature corporate network. They will be responsible for installing backend servers that users would normally require for day to day operations. They will also be responsible for validating, from a user’s perspective that their network is functional. Lastly, they will implement security measures into the network and do a risk assessment as to how effective their security measures are and their fellow students. Students will use Microsoft Windows Server for the Active Directories servers, and Microsoft Windows XP and/or 7 for the clients. Also, Ubuntu 10.10 and/or CentOS 5.6 will be used for the networking part of the class. All server and client computers are Virtual Machines working on a VMware environment.