Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate

Installing, upgrading, and migrating servers and workloads

Introducing Windows Server 2016

Preparing and installing Nano Server and Server Core

Preparing for upgrades and migrations

Migrating server roles and workloads

Windows Server activation models

Lab: Installing and configuring Nano Server

Installing Nano Server

Completing post-installation tasks on Nano Server

Performing remote management

Configuring local storage

Managing disks in Windows Server

Managing volumes in Windows Server

Lab: Configuring local storage

Creating and managing volumes

Resizing volumes

Managing virtual hard disks

Implementing enterprise storage solutions

Overview of DAS, NAS, and SANs

Comparing Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet

Understanding iSNS, DCB, and MPIO

Configuring sharing in Windows Server 2016

Lab: Planning and configuring storage technologies and components

Planning storage requirements

Configuring iSCSI storage

Configuring and managing the share infrastructure

Implementing Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication

Implementing Storage Spaces

Managing Storage Spaces

Implementing Data Deduplication

Lab: Implementing Storage Spaces

Creating a Storage Space

Lab: Implementing Data Deduplication

Installing Data Deduplication

Configuring Data Deduplication

Installing and configuring Hyper-V and virtual machines

Overview of Hyper-V

Installing Hyper-V

Configuring storage on Hyper-V host servers

Configuring networking on Hyper-V host servers

Configuring Hyper-V virtual machines

Managing virtual machines

Lab: Installing and configuring Hyper-V

Verify installation of the Hyper-V server role

Configuring Hyper-V networks

Creating and configuring a virtual machine

Enable nested virtualization for a virtual machine

Deploying and managing Windows and Hyper-V containers

Overview of containers in Windows Server 2016

Deploying Windows Server and Hyper-V containers

Installing, configuring, and managing containers by using Docker

Lab: Installing and configuring containers

Installing and configuring Windows Server containers by using Windows PowerShell

Installing and configuring Windows Server containers by using Docker Installing

Overview of high availability and disaster recovery

Defining levels of availability

Planning high availability and disaster recovery solutions with Hyper-V virtual machines

Backing up and restoring by using Windows Server Backup

High availability with failover clustering in Windows Server 2016

Lab: Planning and implementing high availability and disaster recovery solution

Determining the appropriate high availability and disaster recovery solution

Implementing storage migration

Configuring Hyper-V replicas

Implementing failover clustering

Planning a failover cluster

Creating and configuring a new failover cluster

Maintaining a failover cluster

Troubleshooting a failover cluster

Implementing site high availability with stretch clustering

Lab: Implementing a failover clustering

Creating a failover cluster

Verifying quorum settings and adding a node

Lab: Managing a failover cluster

Evicting a node and verifying quorum settings

Changing the quorum from Disk Witness to File Share Witness, and defining node voting

Verifying high availability

Implementing failover clustering with Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V

Overview of the integration of Hyper-V Server 2016 with failover clustering

Implementing Hyper-V VMs on failover clusters

Key features for VMs in a clustered environment

Lab: Implementing failover clustering with Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V

Configure iSCSI storage

Configuring a failover cluster for Hyper-V

Configuring a highly available VM

Implementing Network Load Balancing

Overview of NLB

Configuring an NLB cluster

Planning an NLB implementation

 Lab: Implementing NLB

Implementing a Network Load Balancing (NLB) cluster

Configuring and managing the NLB cluster

Validating high availability for the NLB cluster

Creating and managing deployment images

Introduction to deployment images

Creating and managing deployment images by using MDT

Virtual machine environments for different workloads

Lab: Using MDT to deploy Windows Server 2016

Configuring MDT

Creating and deploying an image

Managing, monitoring, and maintaining virtual machine installations

WSUS overview and deployment options

Update management process with WSUS

Overview of Windows PowerShell DSC

Overview of Windows Server 2016 monitoring tools

Using Performance Monitor

Monitoring event logs

Lab: Implementing WSUS and deploying updates

Implementing WSUS

Configuring update settings

Approving and deploying an update by using WSUS

Lab: Monitoring and troubleshooting Windows Server 2016

Establishing a performance baseline

Identifying the source of a performance problem

Viewing and configuring centralized event logs