Course
Skills
Windows Server 2012 R2: Server Deployment
In this course, we sharpen our familiarity with the Microsoft operating system deployment tools and learn how to design and deploy a private cloud.
What you'll learn
In this course, we sharpen our familiarity with the Microsoft operating system deployment tools and learn how to design and deploy a private cloud. We also hone our skills with server upgrade, domain/forest consolidation, and server role migration.
Table of contents
Designing for Automated Server Installation
30mins
- Overview 2m
- Why Automate Server Deployment? 3m
- The Windows Imaging File Format 3m
- Approaches to Automating Server Deployment 1m
- High Touch Deployment 2m
- Demo 1: Obtaining the Windows ADK 1m
- Demo 2: Touring the Microsoft Deployment Tools 3m
- Lite Touch Deployment 3m
- Zero Touch Deployment 1m
- Demo 3: Obtaining and Touring MDT 2013 3m
- Thick vs. Thin Images 1m
- Deploying Virtual Machines 2m
- Demo 4: Touring VMM 2013 and App Controller 3m
- One More Set of Gotchas 1m
- For Further Learning 0m
- Summary 1m
Implementing a Server Deployment Infrastructure
28mins
- Overview 2m
- How to Scale Windows Deployment Services 4m
- Scaling WDS: An Example 1m
- Demo 1: Using DFS-R to Scale Multi-site WDS 6m
- What Exactly Is a Private Cloud? 2m
- Microsoft Private Cloud Technology Stack 1m
- Introducing the Windows Azure PowerShell Module 1m
- Demo 2: Uploading a VM to the Windows Azure Public Cloud 9m
- For Further Learning 1m
- Summary 1m
Implementing Server Upgrade and Migration
28mins
Planning and Deploying VMM Services
28mins
- Overview 1m
- The 'Private Cloud' According to Microsoft 2m
- What Exactly Is System Center Virtual Machine Manager? 2m
- Components in the SCVMM Architecture 4m
- About Profiles 2m
- About Templates 2m
- About Services and Clouds 2m
- Demo: Touring SCVMM 2012 R2 9m
- Service Deployment to Untrusted Targets 2m
- For Further Learning 1m
- Conclusion 1m
Planning and Implementing File and Storage Services
32mins
- Overview 1m
- iSCSI and iSNS 4m
- Virtual Fibre Channel 3m
- Demo 1: Touring iSCSI and iSNS 6m
- Re-introducing Storage Spaces 2m
- Storage Spaces Architecture 2m
- About Data Deduplication 2m
- Demo 2: Using Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication 4m
- Network File System (NFS) Server 1m
- Server Message Block (SMB) 3.0 2m
- Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) 1m
- Demo 3: Working with NFS Server 2m
- For Further Learning 1m
- Conclusion 1m
About the author
Timothy Warner is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Cloud and Datacenter Management who is based in Nashville, TN. His professional specialties include Microsoft Azure, cross-platform PowerShell, and all things Windows Server-related. You can reach Tim via Twitter (@TechTrainerTim), LinkedIn or his blog, AzureDepot.com.