Audio Presentation Table Of Contents

Wondering what this audio course covers? Then take a look on this page.

The audio presentation is divided up into 15 CDs.  Each CD is divided into a number of tracks, each about seven to ten minutes long.  We've cross-indexed the tracks and subject description to the slide numbers printed in the Audio Companion.  So, for example, if you wanted to re-visit the subject of IPv6 stateless autoconfiguration, then you'd listen to track 6 on CD disc number7.  The accompanying relevant PowerPoint slides in the Audio Companion would start at slide number 211.

This table of contents also appears in the front of the Audio Companion that you receive with the CD package.

Volume / Track

PowerPoint      slide numbers

Subject

Disc 1

Introduction, Installing, and Upgrading

Track 1

1-4

Volume introduction - Class overview: what we'll cover in this seminar

2

5-8

Server 2008 hardware requirements

3

9-12

The "64-bit" issue:  don't be afraid of 64 bit, it's the default now

4

13

Working around 64-bit OS restrictions

5

14

Server Versions: Standard, Enterprise, DataCenter

6

15-17

Server setup options:  Server Core, permissible and disallowed upgrade paths

7

18-24

Server setup:  a look at "Panther"

8

25-28

Server setup, continued

9

29-32

Post-setup Tasks

Disc 2

New Management Tools and Not-so-new Technologies

Track 1

none

Volume introduction

2

33-34

Server Manager

3

35-37

Server Manager: configuring security

4

38

Roles

5

38-41

Roles, role services and features

6

42-45

CLI Server Manager: servermanagercmd.exe

7

46-50

CLI Server Manager: servermanagercmd.exe cont.

8

51-53

Server 2008’s almost-new improvements

9

54

"2008" technologies that first appeared in Vista I

10

54

"2008" technologies that first appeared in Vista II

11

55-56

"2008" technologies that first appeared in Vista III

Disc 3 

Server Core Initial Setup

Track 1

none

Volume introduction

2

57-59

Server Core introduction: what it is, why you'd use it

3

60-63

Managing Server Core:  why command-line, how to install roles/features

4

64-69

Managing Server Core: scripting, time zones, screen resolution

5

70-72

Managing Server Core: configuring IP addresses, DNS and WINS client setup; managing Windows update

6

73-77

Managing Server Core: changing name & domain; NETDOM basics; joining a domain; renaming computers; setting a DNS suffix

7

78-80

Managing Server Core: configuring a Remote Desktop, intro to the new remote secure shell (winrs)

8

81-82

Managing Server Core: winrs setup and configuration

9

83-89

Managing systems from Vista with Remote Server Administation Tools; firewall configuation; installing drives from the command line

Disc 4 

Managing Server Core

Track 1

none

Volume introduction

2

90-91

Managing server components with Server Core: overview

3

92-93

Managing server components with Server Core:  DNS

4

94-96

Managing server components with Server Core:  DNS, DHCP

5

97-99

Managing server components with Server Core: creating and managing DHCP scopes

6

100-104

Managing server components with Server Core: WINS, user account creation and management, Windows Activation, task scheduling

7

105-106

Managing server components with Server Core: using the CLI event log viewer

8

107-109

Managing server components with Server Core Bit Locker, Screen Saver

9

109-111

Managing server components with Server Core: screen saver

Disc 5

New Security Tools and New Network Stacks

Track 1

none

Volume introduction

2

112-115

New VPN: SSTP: Network Access Protection overview and concepts

3

116-121

Network Access Protection basic approaches

4

122-126

Network Access Protection policy creation

5

127-130

Network Access Protection scoring, expanding NAP, will it succeed?

6

131-135

The new TCP stack:  multithreaded protocol processing, intro to TCP receive-side window scaling

7

136-141

Optimizing TCP receive-side window size (and why you care)

8

142-144

RFC 1323's changes to TCP windows and Microsoft's first two generations of software trying to exploit those changes

9

145-147

Windows TCP, third generation:  how Vista/2008's TCP stack sizes differently (and better)

10

148-151

When the new TCP doesn't work:  dealing with bad network infrastructure

Disc 6

IPv6

Track 1

none

Volume introduction

2

152-162

Why IPv6 affects you

3

163-168

Disabling 2008's IPv6 stack, Disabling IPv4

4

169-176

IPv6 terminology, how to read IPv6 addresses

5

177-180

Loopback addresses, describing IPv6 network address ranges ("network prefixes")

6

181-183

Everyone gets at least 18 quintillion routable addresses:  IPv6's less flexible, but more generous network allocation scheme

7

184-189

"Why does IPv6 have so many bits?  So we can waste them!"  more on IPv6 network allocation and room for growth

Disk 7

IPv6 cont.

Track 1

none

Volume introduction

2

190-195

Intro to IPv6 address types: unicast, multicast, anycast… but no broadcasts

3

196-199

"Unicast" address types:  routable, link-local, site-local

4

200-206

Unicasts cont.; Multicasts

5

207-209

Getting the bottom 64 bits, new types of MAC addresses

6

210-221

"Stateless" auto-configuration steps pre-RFC 3041 and post-RFC 3041

7

222-227

Temporary, preferred, tentative and public addresses; starting the discussion of "scope zones"

8

228-238

Scope zones completed: that's that "%" sign on the end of some IPv6 addresses?

9

239-244

IPv6 name resolution; IPv4/IPv6 transition technologies

Disc 8

Virtual Machines and Hyper-V

Track 1

none

Volume introduction

2

245-247

Virtual Machine Overview

3

248-250

Hyper-V server basics

4

251

Major virtual machine products

5

252

VM hardware hurdles – basics

6

253-257

VM hardware hurdles – rings

7

258-267

VM hardware hurdles – rings cont.; Intel and AMD strategies

Disc 9

Hyper-V cont.

Track 1

none

Volume introduction

2

268-276

Hyper-V hardware requirements; hypervisors

3

277-283

Installing Hyper-V; Hyper-V architecture

4

284-292

Hyper-V MMC; building virtual machines with Hyper-V

5

293-305

Creating NICs and legacy NICs; enlightened and unenlightened OSes and drivers

6

306-311

Enlightened drivers cont.; Integration Services

7

312-316

Integration Services cont.; VM settings

8

317-320

Licensing; disaster recovery

9

321-323

Additional Hyper-V issues; Hyper-V limitations

Disc 10 

New Backup and Restore…and Disaster Recovery

Track 1

none

Volume introduction

2

324-331

Server 2008 backups

3

332-336

Backing up with the CLI

4

337-346

Backing up with the GUI

5

347-349

Server 2008 Active Directory backups

6

350-362

Scheduling backups; bare metal restores

7

363-372

Restoring files; restoring the Registry

8

373-375

SMB 2.0

9

376-384

Sysvol basics, changes, and improvements

 

Disc 11 

Sysvol Changes and Name Resolution Changes

Track 1

none

Volume introduction

2

385-388

Replicating Sysvol

3

389-396

Replicating Sysvol – step 1 and 2

4

397-403

Replicating Sysvol – step 2 cont. and Step 3

5

404-409

Name resolution changes in Server 2008

6

410-415

Changes to DNS internals

7

416-420

DNS client changes

8

421-429

New record types – DNAME

9

430-435

New record types – the GlobalNames zone

Disc 12

AD I: DCPROMO Changes and Upgrade Strategies

Track 1

none

Volume introduction

2

436-437

What’s new in Active Directory

3

438-444

Setting up Active Directory with Server 2008

4

445-448

DCPROMO

5

449-451

DCPROMO cont.

6

452-456

DCPROMO cont.

7

457-459

DCPROMO cont.

8

460-466

Scripting DCPROMO

9

467-471

DCPROMO switches

10

472-473

ADPREP

11

474-476

Active Directory setup

Disc 13

AD II: RODCs and Password Settings Objects

Track 1

none

Volume introduction

2

477-480

Modern AD design issues

3

481-487

Read-only Domain Controllers – overview

4

488-492

Read-only Domain Controllers – preparation and setup

5

493-507

DCPROMO – step-by-step

6

508-511

RODC logons

7

512-517

RODC logons cont.

8

518-526

RODC passwords

9

527-534

Creating local administrators for RODC

Disc 14

AD III: RODCs, PSOs, AD Backup and Recovery, Install From Media and Snapshots

Track 1

none

Volume introduction

2

535-539

RODCs and 2003 DCs

3

540-542

Fine-grained password policies

4

543-548

Time in Windows; creating a Password Settings Object (PSO)

5

549-558

Creating a Password Settings Object cont.

6

559-566

Active Directory maintenance and backups

7

567-574

Protecting items from deletion

8

575-581

Install From Media – fast Domain Controller creation;

9

582-585

Server 2008 Active Directory snapshots

Disc 15

Group Policies and Terminal Services

Track 1

none

Volume introduction

2

586-592

Server 2008 Active Directory snapshots – step-by-step

3

593-599

Group Policies – overview and searching

4

600-603

GroupPolicies – “starter” GPOs

5

603-611

Terminal Services – what’s new, what’s improved, and what needs work

6

612-619

Terminal Services – RemoteApps

7

620-621

Terminal Services – TS Gateway