Microsoft Certified: MCSE Core Infrastructure (Securing Windows Server 2016)

On this 4 day accelerated MCSE: Core Infrastructure (Securing Windows Server 2016) course, you will learn technologies and methods for hardening server environments and securing virtual machine infrastructures.

This course is 33% faster than traditional courses. This means you’ll get back to the office sooner, ready to apply your new skills.

This course starts by emphasising the importance of assuming network breaches have already occurred. It then teaches you how to protect administrative credentials and rights through:

• Mitigating malware threats
• Identifying security issues through auditing and Windows Server features such as Advanced Threat Analysis
• Securing your virtualisation platform
• Using new deployment options such as Nano Server and containers to enhance security
• Protecting access to files using encryption control
• Enhancing your network security

In preparing you for the exam, you’ll also cover the protection of Active Directory and identity infrastructure and threat detection solutions. In addition, the exam covers threat detection solutions, such as auditing, implementing Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA), the understanding of Operations Management Suite (OMS) Solutions and workload-specific security.

Your increased skills will allow you to return to work with a holistic and well-developed understanding of how to improve the security of your IT-infrastructure.

Firebrand are a Microsoft Learning Partner. This means you’ll get Microsoft’s Official Curriculum (MOC), delivered by our experienced Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCT). Learning through our unique Lecture | Lab | Review technique means you’ll be exposed to both practical and theoretical tasks. This will help you learn and retain information easier.

You’ll be prepared for and sit your exam at the Firebrand Training Centre. This is covered by your Certification Guarantee.

This course is an elective for MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure certification.

This course is aimed at IT professionals who need to administer Windows Server 2016 and work with networks that are configured as Windows Server domain-based environments, with access to the Internet and cloud services.

You’ll get certified 33% faster: This means you’ll be able to return to the office sooner and put your new skills and knowledge into practice.

Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC): As a Microsoft Learning Partner, we only offer official Microsoft curriculum. This means the content will be the most current and up-to-date available.

Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCT): You’ll learn from Microsoft certified trainers that boast years of industry experience. This experience will be used to provide relevant real-world examples and ultimately enrich your learning experience.

MOC 20744C: Securing Windows Server 2016

Module 1: Attacks, breach detection, and Sysinternals tools

In this module, you’ll learn about breach detection, attack types and vectors, cybercrime, and how you can analyse your system’s activity by using the Sysinternals tool suite.

Lessons

• Understanding attacks
• Detecting breaches
• Examining activity with the Sysinternals tool

Lab: Basic breach detection and incident response strategies

• Identifying attack types
• Exploring the Sysinternals tools

After completing this course, you’ll be able to:

• Describe breach detection
• Describe how to detect a breach by using the Sysinternals tools

Module 2: Protecting credentials and privileged access

This module explains how you can configure user rights and security options, protect credentials by using credential guard, implement privileged-access workstations, and manage and deploy a local administrator-password solution so that you can manage passwords for local administrator accounts.

Lessons

• Understanding user rights
• Computer and service accounts
• Protecting credentials
• Privileged-Access Workstations and jump servers
• Local administrator-password solution

Lab: Implementing user rights, security options, and group-managed service accounts

• Configuring security options
• Configuring restricted groups
• Delegating privileges
• Creating and managing group managed service accounts (MSAs)
• Configuring the Credential Guard feature
• Locating problematic accounts

Lab: Configuring and deploying LAPs

• Installing and configuring LAPs
• Deploying and testing LAPs

After completing this module, you’ll be able to:

• Understand user rights
• Describe computer and service accounts
• Help protect credentials
• Understand privileged-access workstations and jump servers
• Understand how to use a local administrator-password solution

Module 3: Limiting administrator rights with Just Enough Administration

This module explains how to deploy and configure Just Enough Administration (JEA).

Lessons

• Understanding JEA
• Verifying and deploying JEA

Lab: Limiting administrator privileges with JEA

• Creating a role-capability file
• Creating a session-configuration file
• Creating a JEA endpoint
• Connecting and testing a JEA endpoint
• Deploying a JEA configuration to another computer

After completing this module, you’ll be able to:

• Understand JEA
• Verify and deploy JEA

Module 4: Privileged access management and administrative forests

This module explains the concepts of Enhanced Security Administrative Environment (ESAE) forests, Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM), and Just In Time (JIT) Administration, or Privileged Access Management.

Lessons

• ESAE forests
• Overview of Microsoft Identity Manager
• Overview of JIT administration and PAM

Lab: Limiting administrator privileges with PAM

• Layered approach to security
• Configuring trust relationships and shadow principals
• Requesting privileged access
• Managing PAM roles

After completing this module, you’ll be able to:

• Understand ESAE forests
• Understand MIM
• Understand JIT administration and PAM

Module 5: Mitigating malware and threats

This module explains how to configure the Windows Defender, AppLocker, and Device Guard features.

Lessons

• Configuring and managing Windows Defender
• Restricting software
• Configuring and using the Device Guard feature
• Deploying and using the EMET

Lab : Securing applications by using AppLocker, Windows Defender, Device Guard Rules, and the EMET.

• Configuring Windows Defender
• Configuring AppLocker
• Configuring Device Guard
• Deploying and using EMET

After completing this module, you’ll be able to:

• Configure and manage Windows Defender
• Restrict software
• Configure and use the Device Guard feature
• Use and deploy the EMET

Module 6: Analysing activity with advanced auditing and log analytics

This module explains how to use advanced auditing and Windows PowerShell transcripts.

Lessons

• Overview of auditing
• Advanced auditing
• Windows PowerShell auditing and logging

Lab: Configuring advanced auditing

• Configuring auditing of file-system access
• Auditing domain sign-ins
• Managing advanced audit policy configuration
• Windows PowerShell logging and auditing

After completing this module, you’ll be able to:

• Understanding auditing
• Understand advanced auditing
• Audit and log Windows PowerShell

Module 7: Deploying and configuring Advanced Threat Analytics and Microsoft Operations Management Suite

This module explains the Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics tool and the Microsoft Operations Management suite (OMS), and details how you can use them to monitor and analyse the security of a Windows Server deployment.

Lessons

• Deploying and configuring ATA
• Deploying and configuring Microsoft Operations Management Suite

Lab: Deploying ATA and Microsoft Operations Management Suite

• Preparing and deploying ATA
• Preparing and deploying Microsoft Operations Management Suite

After completing this module, you’ll be able to:

• Deploy and configure ATA
• Deploy and configure Microsoft Operations Management Suite

Module 8: Secure Virtualisation Infrastructure

This module explains how to configure Guarded Fabric virtual machines (VMs), including the requirements for shielded and encryption-supported VMs.

Lessons

• Guarded Fabric
• Shielded and encryption-supported virtual machines

Lab: Guarded Fabric with administrator-trusted attestation and shielded VMs

• Deploying a guarded fabric with administrator-trusted attestation
• Deploying a shielded VM

After completing this module, you’ll be able to:

• Understand Guarded Fabric VMs
• Understand shielded and encryption-supported VMs

Module 9: Securing application development and server-workload infrastructure

This module details the Security Compliance Manager, including how you can use it to configure, manage, and deploy baselines. Additionally, you’ll learn how to deploy and configure Nano Server, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Windows Server Containers.

Lessons

• Using SCM
• Introduction to Nano Server
• Understanding containers

Lab: Using SCM

• Configuring a security baseline for Windows Server 2016
• Deploying a security baseline for Windows Server 2016

Lab: Deploying and Configuring Nano Server

• Deploying, managing, and securing Nano Server
• Deploying, managing, and securing Windows container

After completing this module, you’ll be able to:

• Understand SCM
• Describe Nano Server
• Understand containers

Module 10: Planning and protecting data

This module explains how to configure Encrypting File System (EFS) and BitLocker drive encryption to protect data at rest.

Lessons

• Planning and implementing encryption
• Planning and implementing BitLocker

Lab: Protecting data by using encryption and BitLocker

• Encrypting and recovering access to encrypted files
• Using BitLocker to protect data

After completing this module, you’ll be able to:

• Plan and implement encryption
• Plan and implement BitLocker

Module 11: Optimising and securing file services

This module explains how to optimise file services by configuring File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) and Distributed File System (DFS). You’ll learn how to protect a device’s data by using encryption or BitLocker. Students also will learn how to manage access to shared files by configuring Dynamic Access Control (DAC).

Lessons

• File Server Resource Manager
• Implementing classification management and file-management tasks
• Dynamic Access Control

Lab: Quotas and file screening

• Configuring File Server Resource Manager quotas
• Configuring file screening and storage reports

Lab: Implementing Dynamic Access Control

• Preparing for implementing Dynamic Access Control
• Implementing Dynamic Access Control
• Validating and remediating Dynamic Access Control

After completing this module, you’ll be able to:

• Understand File Server Resource Manager
• Implement classification management and file-management tasks
• Understand Dynamic Access Control

Module 12: Securing network traffic with firewalls and encryption

This module explains the firewalls that are present on Windows Server.

Lessons

• Understanding network-related security threats
• Understanding Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
• Configuring IPsec
• Datacenter Firewall

Lab: Configuring Windows Firewall with Advanced Security

• Creating and testing inbound rules
• Creating and testing outbound rules
• Creating and testing connection security rules

After completing this module, you’ll be able to:

• Understand network-related security threats
• Understand Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
• Configure IPsec
• Understand Datacenter Firewall

Module 13: Securing network traffic

This module explains how to secure network traffic and how to use Microsoft Message Analyser, Server Message Block (SMB) encryption, and Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC).

Lessons

• Network-related security threats and connection-security rules
• Configuring advanced DNS settings
• Examining network traffic with Microsoft Message Analyser
• Securing SMB traffic, and analysing SMB traffic

Lab: Securing DNS

• Configuring and testing DNSSEC
• Configuring DNS policies and RRL

Lab: Microsoft Message Analyser and SMB encryption

• Installing and using Message Analyser
• Configuring and verifying SMB encryption on SMB shares

After completing this module, you’ll be able to:

• Configure advanced DNS settings
• Examine network traffic with Message Analyser
• Secure SMB traffic, and analyse SMB traffic

You’ll be prepared for and sit the following exam on-site. This is covered by your Certification Guarantee.

Exam 70-744 Securing Windows Server 2016

This exam will test the following skills:

• Implement server hardening solutions (25-30%)
• Secure a virtualisation infrastructure (5-10%)
• Secure a network infrastructure (10-15%)
• Managed privileged identities (25-30%)
• Implement threat detection solutions (15-20%)
• Implement workload-specific security (5-10%)

Included in your accelerated training course will be:

• Microsoft Official Curriculum
• Exam 70-744: Securing Windows Server 2016

Students should have at least two years of experience in the IT field and should have:

Completed the following courses or have equivalent knowledge:

• 20740: Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016
• 20741: Networking with Windows Server 2016
• 20742: Identity with Windows Server 2016

A solid, practical understanding of:

• Networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and Domain Name System (DNS). 
• Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) principles. 
• Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization fundamentals. 
• Windows Server security principles.