Windows NT 4.0: System Administration
Course length: 3 days
Course
description
Overview: Students will learn how to
administer users, groups, and domains in a Windows NT 4.0 network.
Prerequisites: To ensure your continued success, students must first complete the 
Software Training courses,
Windows NT Workstation 4.0: Orientation or
Windows 98: Introduction; Microcomputer Hardware; and Essentials of Microsoft Networking or have extensive equivalent knowledge, and have
a basic understanding of the Internet. For example, you should know how to
launch an application, create and save files, and copy files from CDs and
other media. The Software Training
class, Internet Explorer 5.x is designed to teach these skills, though
it is not required.
Delivery
method:
Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured
hands-on activities.
Benefits: Students will learn how to
create and administer user and group accounts, manage network resources, and
set up and administer permissions for files and folders. Students will learn to
establish trusts, set up and administer network printers, and use auditing
functions to generate and view security logs. Students will also learn how to
perform tape backups.
Target
student:
Students enrolling in this course should be familiar with the Windows NT 4.0
user interface and have experience supporting networks and end users.
What's
next:
Windows NT 4.0: System Administration is
the first course in this series. The next Software Training course in
this series is Windows NT 4.0: System
Architecture and Network Support, which is the Logical Operations equivalent
of the Microsoft Core Technologies course. It teaches students how to install
and manage Windows NT Server 4.0 and Windows NT domains.
Performance-based
objectives
Lesson objectives help students become comfortable
with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful
completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Discuss how domains are used in Windows NT.
- Create users and set properties for user accounts.
- Create groups and establish trusts between domains.
- Manage user accounts and assign security policies.
- Use shared folder permissions and NTFS permissions to secure network
resources.
- Use Server Manager and Windows NT Diagnostics to manage network
resources and system configurations.
- Administer local and remote printing devices.
- Implement an audit policy and use Event Viewer to view and archive
log events.
- Use the Windows NT Backup utility to back up and restore files.
Lesson
1: Overview of Windows NT directory services
Comparing
Windows NT Server 4.0 with Windows NT Workstation 4.0
Domains
Logging
on to a computer or domain
Lesson
2: Managing users
Managing
users
User
profiles and logon scripts
Lesson
3: Managing groups
Managing
groups
Introduction
to trusts
Managing
users and groups in a trusted relationship
Lesson
4: Account administration
Account
administration
Account
policies
Lesson
5: Securing network resources
Using
shared folder permissions to secure network resources
Using
NTFS permissions to secure network resources
Securing
system interactions
Lesson
6: Managing network resources
Managing
servers
Managing
domains
Viewing
system configuration
Lesson
7: Printing support
Creating
printers
Administering
printers
Lesson
8: Auditing events and resources
Auditing
events
Auditing
files and directories
Auditing
printers
Lesson
9: The Backup utility
Overview
of the Backup utility
Backing
up and restoring files
Using
batch files to schedule backups