The goal of the course is to teach the foundational knowledge and skills necessary to become an Active Directory administrator. This includes how to setup and configure an Active Directory environment as well as understanding and implementing the most important Active Directory administrative tasks and features. After completing this course, you will have enough knowledge to successfully build and manage your own Active Directory Forest. With the knowledge gained from this course combined with some additional hands-on practice and experience, you could rightfully consider yourself to be a novice yet capable Active Directory Administrator. And that is no small feat! The features and functionality of Active Directory are quite extensive and there will be so much more to learn. But this course will get you well on the way and positioned to expand and grow your skills. You will be on the path to becoming a great Active Directory Administrator!

After learning important Active Directory concepts, you will learn how to deploy an Active directory forest including a root and child domain. You will then move on to additional administrative tasks including, replication topology configuration, user and group management, group policy as well as some basic troubleshooting and backup/recovery options.

The course is structured with video screen sharing lectures to explain the various Active Directory topics along with walk-through demonstration videos intended to alleviate the need for you to setup complicated lab environments. If you have the resources to setup multiple Windows servers networked together for your own lab, it recommended that you do this and perform the tasks from the demonstration videos on your own in order to get the most out of this course. Hands-on experience always helps you to retain all that new knowledge!