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MCSA
Windows Server® 2016

Complete Study Guide Exam 70-740, 70-741, 70-742

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Will Panek



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This book is dedicated to the three ladies of my life, Crystal, Alexandria, and Paige.

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank my wife and best friend, Crystal. She is always the light at the end of my tunnel. I want to thank my two daughters, Alexandria and Paige, for all of their love and support during the writing of all my books. The three of them are my support system, and I couldn’t do any of this without them.

I want to thank all of my family and friends who always help me when I’m writing my books. I want to thank my brothers Rick, Gary, and Rob. I want to thank my great friends Shaun, Jeremy, and Gene.

I would like to thank all of my friends and co-workers at StormWind Studios. I want to especially thank the team who I work with on a daily basis and that includes Tom W, Dan Y, Corey F, Ronda, Dan J, Jessica, Dave, Tiffany, Tara, Ashley, Brittany, Doug, Mike, Vince, Desiree, Ryan, Ralph, Dan G, Tyler, Jeff B, Shayne, Patrick, Noemi, Michelle, Zachary, Colin, and the man who makes it all possible, Tom Graunke. Thanks to all of you for everything that you do. I would not have been able to complete this book without all of your help and support.

I want to thank everyone on my Sybex team, especially my development editor, Kim Wimpsett, who helped me make this the best book possible, and Rodney R. Fournier, who is the technical editor of many of my books. It’s always good to have the very best technical guy backing you up. I want to thank Rebecca Anderson and Christine O’Connor, who were my production editors, and Judy Flynn for being the Copy Editor.

I want to also thank Chris Crayton who is my Technical Proofreader. Special thanks to my acquisitions editor, Kenyon Brown, who was the lead for the entire book. Finally, I want to thank everyone else behind the scenes that helped make this book possible. It’s truly an amazing thing to have so many people work on my books to help make them the very best. I can’t thank you all enough for your hard work.

About the Author

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William Panek holds the following certifications: MCP, MCP+I, MCSA, MCSA+ Security and Messaging, MCSE-NT (3.51 & 4.0), MCSE 2000, 2003, 2012/2012 R2, MCSE+Security and Messaging, MCDBA, MCT, MCTS, MCITP, CCNA, CCDA, and CHFI. Will is also a four time and current Microsoft MVP winner.

After many successful years in the computer industry, Will decided that he could better use his talents and his personality as an instructor. He began teaching for schools such as Boston University and the University of Maryland, just to name a few. He has done consulting and training for some of the biggest government and corporate companies in the world including the United States Secret Service, Cisco, United States Air Force, and US Army.

In 2015, Will became a Sr. Microsoft Instructor for StormWind Studios (www.stormwindstudios.com). He currently lives in New Hampshire with his wife and two daughters. Will was also a Representative in the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 2010 to 2012. In his spare time, he likes to do blacksmithing, shooting (trap and skeet), snowmobiling, playing racquetball, and riding his Harley. Will is also a commercially-rated helicopter pilot.

Table of Exercises

EXERCISE 1.1 Installing Windows Server 2016 Datacenter (Desktop Experience)

EXERCISE 1.2 Installing Windows Server 2016 Using Server Core

EXERCISE 1.3 Creating a Nano Server VHD

EXERCISE 2.1 Downloading and Installing MDT 2013

EXERCISE 2.2 Configuring MDT 2013

EXERCISE 2.3 Prepare a System for Imaging by Using the System Preparation Tool

EXERCISE 2.4 Installing Windows Server 2016 from a Disk Image

EXERCISE 2.5 Installing the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit

EXERCISE 2.6 Configuring MAP

EXERCISE 3.1 Viewing Disk Configurations

EXERCISE 3.2 Initializing Disk Drives

EXERCISE 3.3 Converting a Basic Disk to a Dynamic Disk

EXERCISE 3.4 Creating a Volume Set

EXERCISE 3.5 Creating Mount Points

EXERCISE 3.6 Installing Microsoft MPIO

EXERCISE 3.7 Configuring iSCSI Storage Connection

EXERCISE 3.8 Installing the iSNS Feature

EXERCISE 3.9 Configuring Shared and NTFS Settings

EXERCISE 3.10 Configure the NFS Data Store

EXERCISE 3.11 Configuring Disk Quotas

EXERCISE 3.12 Starting the Windows PowerShell Utility

EXERCISE 4.1 Installing Hyper-V in Full Installation Mode

EXERCISE 4.2 Creating an Internal Virtual Network

EXERCISE 4.3 Creating a Differencing Hard Disk

EXERCISE 4.4 Creating a New Virtual Machine

EXERCISE 4.5 Installing Hyper-V Integration Components

EXERCISE 4.6 Creating a Linux Virtual Machine

EXERCISE 4.7 Updating Linux Ubuntu 16.10

EXERCISE 5.1 Installing NLB Nodes

EXERCISE 6.1 Installing the Failover Cluster Feature

EXERCISE 6.2 Running the Validate A Configuration Wizard

EXERCISE 6.3 Creating a Cluster

EXERCISE 6.4 Clustering the Print Services Role

EXERCISE 6.5 Using the Dependency Viewer

EXERCISE 7.1 Installing Docker

EXERCISE 7.2 Installing a Base Operating System

EXERCISE 7.3 Adding an Image to a Container

EXERCISE 7.4 Uninstalling an Image

EXERCISE 8.1 Installing a WSUS Server

EXERCISE 8.2 Setting WSUS Server Options

EXERCISE 8.3 Configuring a GPO for WSUS

EXERCISE 8.4 Backing Up Active Directory

EXERCISE 9.1 Using Performance Monitor

EXERCISE 9.2 Installing SNMP

EXERCISE 9.3 Configuring SNMP

Subnet Mask Exercise 10.1 Class C, 10 Hosts per Subnet

Subnet Mask Exercise 10.2 Class C, 20 Hosts per Subnet

Subnet Mask Exercise 10.3 Class C, Five Subnets

Subnet Mask Exercise 10.4 Class B, 1,500 Hosts per Subnet

Subnet Mask Exercise 10.5 Class B, 3,500 Hosts per Subnet

EXERCISE 11.1 Installing and Configuring the DNS Service

EXERCISE 11.2 Configuring a Zone for Dynamic Updates

EXERCISE 11.3 Creating a Delegated DNS Zone

EXERCISE 11.4 Manually Creating DNS RRs

EXERCISE 11.5 Simple DNS Testing

EXERCISE 11.6 Using the nslookup Command

EXERCISE 11.7 Enabling DHCP-DNS Integration

EXERCISE 12.1 Installing the DHCP Service

EXERCISE 12.2 Authorizing a DHCP Server

EXERCISE 12.4 Creating a New Scope

EXERCISE 12.5 Configuring User Class Options

EXERCISE 12.6 Creating a Superscope

EXERCISE 12.7 Creating a New Multicast Scope

EXERCISE 12.8 Enabling DHCP-DNS Integration

EXERCISE 12.9 Creating and Activating a New DHCPv6 Scope

EXERCISE 12.10 Configuring DHCP Failover

EXERCISE 12.11 Configuring DHCP Filtering

EXERCISE 12.12 Enabling DHCP Name Protection

EXERCISE 13.1 Installing the IPAM Feature

EXERCISE 13.2 Provisioning an IPAM Server

EXERCISE 13.3 Configuring IPAM Server Discovery

EXERCISE 13.4 Manually Add IPAM IP Address and Blocks

EXERCISE 13.5 Adding Resource Records

EXERCISE 13.6 Managing the DNS zone

EXERCISE 13.7 Creating a DHCP Scope

EXERCISE 13.8 Setting up DHCP Policies

EXERCISE 13.9 Configuring Role-Based Access Control

EXERCISE 13.10 Configuring Auditing

EXERCISE 14.1 Installing the Remote Access Role

EXERCISE 14.2 Setting Up a VPN Server

EXERCISE 14.3 Changing Remote Access Logging Settings

EXERCISE 14.4 Creating a Network Access Policy

EXERCISE 14.5 Restricting a User Profile for Dial-In Access

EXERCISE 14.6 Configuring Encryption

EXERCISE 14.7 Creating a VPN Network Access Policy

EXERCISE 15.1 Enabling BitLocker in Windows Server 2016

EXERCISE 15.2 Installing the DFS Namespace Service

EXERCISE 15.3 Setting Up a DFS Namespace

EXERCISE 15.4 Configure the NFS Data Store

EXERCISE 15.5 Configuring BranchCache Firewall Exceptions

EXERCISE 15.6 Installing BranchCache on Windows Server 2016

EXERCISE 15.7 Enabling Auditing of Active Directory Objects

EXERCISE 15.8 Generating and Viewing Audit Logs

EXERCISE 15.9 Configuring iSCSI Storage Connection

EXERCISE 15.10 Installing the iSNS Feature on Windows Server 2016

EXERCISE 16.1 Installing NLB Nodes

EXERCISE 16.2 Installing the Failover Cluster Feature

EXERCISE 16.3 Running the Validate a Configuration Wizard

EXERCISE 16.4 Creating a Cluster

EXERCISE 16.5 Clustering the Print Services Role

EXERCISE 16.6 Using the Dependency Viewer

EXERCISE 17.1 Installing Hyper-V in Full Installation Mode

EXERCISE 17.2 Creating an Internal Virtual Network

EXERCISE 17.3 Creating a Differencing Hard Disk

EXERCISE 17.4 Creating a New Virtual Machine

EXERCISE 17.5 Installing Hyper-V Integration Components

EXERCISE 17.6 Creating a Linux Virtual Machine

EXERCISE 17.7 Updating Linux Ubuntu 16.10

EXERCISE 18.1 Viewing the Disk Configurations

EXERCISE 18.2 Promoting a Domain Controller

EXERCISE 18.3 Installing AD DS on Server Core Using PowerShell

EXERCISE 18.4 Creating an RODC Server

EXERCISE 18.5 Viewing the Active Directory Event Log

EXERCISE 18.6 Joining a Computer to an Active Directory Domain

EXERCISE 18.7 Configuring DNS Integration with Active Directory

EXERCISE 19.1 Creating an OU Structure

EXERCISE 19.2 Modifying OU Structure

EXERCISE 19.3 Using the Delegation of Control Wizard

EXERCISE 19.4 Delegating Custom Tasks

EXERCISE 19.5 Creating Active Directory Objects

EXERCISE 19.6 Creating a User Template

EXERCISE 19.7 Managing Object Properties

EXERCISE 19.8 Moving Active Directory Objects

EXERCISE 19.9 Resetting an Existing Computer Account

EXERCISE 19.10 Applying Security Policies by Using Group Policy

EXERCISE 19.11 Fine-Grained Password Policy

EXERCISE 19.12 Creating and Publishing a Printer

EXERCISE 19.13 Creating and Publishing a Shared Folder

EXERCISE 19.14 Finding Objects in Active Directory

EXERCISE 19.15 Creating a PSO Using the Active Directory Administrative Center

EXERCISE 20.1 Creating Sites

EXERCISE 20.2 Creating Subnets

EXERCISE 20.3 Configuring Sites

EXERCISE 20.4 Creating Site Links and Site Link Bridges

EXERCISE 20.5 Moving Server Objects Between Sites

EXERCISE 20.6 Creating a New Subdomain

EXERCISE 20.7 Assigning Single-Master Operations

EXERCISE 20.8 Managing Trust Relationships

EXERCISE 20.9 Adding a UPN Suffix

EXERCISE 20.10 Managing GC Servers

EXERCISE 20.11 Managing Universal Group Membership Caching

EXERCISE 20.12 Backing Up Active Directory

EXERCISE 21.1 Creating a Group Policy Object Using the GPMC

EXERCISE 21.2 Linking Existing GPOs to Active Directory

EXERCISE 21.3 Filtering Group Policy Using Security Groups

EXERCISE 21.4 Delegating Administrative Control of Group Policy

EXERCISE 21.5 Configuring Automatic Certificate Enrollment in Group Policy

EXERCISE 21.6 Configuring Folder Redirection in Group Policy

EXERCISE 21.7 Creating a Software Deployment Share

EXERCISE 21.8 Publishing and Assigning Applications Using Group Policy

EXERCISE 21.9 Applying Software Updates

EXERCISE 22.1 Installing AD CS Through Server Manager

EXERCISE 22.2 Configuring AD CS Through Server Manager

EXERCISE 22.3 Configure an Auto-Enrollment Group Policy for a Domain

EXERCISE 22.4 Creating a Certificate Template

EXERCISE 22.5 Publishing a Certificate Template

EXERCISE 22.6 Revoking a Certificate

EXERCISE 22.7 Configuring CA Policy Auditing

EXERCISE 22.8 Backing Up the Certificate Authority Server

EXERCISE 23.1 Installing the AD FS Role on a Computer Using Server Manager

EXERCISE 23.2 Configuring the AD FS Role on the Computer Using Server Manager

EXERCISE 23.3 Configuring Multifactor Authentication

EXERCISE 23.4 Workplace Joining a Device

EXERCISE 23.5 Installing an AD RMS Role on the Local Computer Using Server Manager

EXERCISE 23.6 Backing Up an AD RMS Database

EXERCISE 23.7 Adding a Trusted User Domain

EXERCISE 23.8 Exporting the Trusted User Domain

EXERCISE 23.9 Exporting the Trusted Publishing Domain

EXERCISE 23.10 Adding the Trusted Publishing Domain