Lessons Learned Forum at Schaumburg

As a network administrator one of your tasks is to configure a solution to allow your client’s access to the network. One way to simplify client access is to use the Domain Name System, DNS, to resolve user friendly computer names into the appropriate IP Address so that your client can access local resources or access web sites on the Internet. Your task this week is to find an article on the Internet describing what DNS is or why DNS can benefit you as a network administrator. You will then write 5-7 lines summarizing what you have found. Please include the link and your summary for this week’s assignment. Postings and at least one comment to another classmates posting are due by Sunday at midnight.

For the first assignment, we’d like you to write a small paragraph (5-7 lines) discussing some of the components of Vista that you are looking forward to learning in this module. Feel free to bring up topics that you think will be challenging to learn as well. Please remember that these comments can be viewed and commented on by your fellow classmates at Computertraining.Com, Schaumburg, IL. Postings are due by Monday at midnight.

As a network administrator one of your tasks is to configure a solution to allow your client’s access to the network. One way to simplify client access is to use the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, DHCP, to assign IP Addresses to the client computers. Your task this week is to find an article on the Internet describing what DHCP is or why DHCP can benefit you as a network administrator. You will then write 5-7 lines summarizing what you have found. Please include the link and your summary for this week’s assignment. Postings and at least one comment to another classmates posting are due by Sunday at midnight.

For the final week of the 70-290 book, we’d like you to write a summary (5-7 lines) of what you’ve learned in the first Server 2003 book - what was challenging, what was interesting, and/or what you hope to pick up in the next book (Network Infrastructure (70-291)). Feel free to reference chapters/pages in the book, labs completed, or Internet links to articles supporting your summary. Postings and at least one comment to another classmates posting are due by Sunday at midnight.

Review the following video on Active Directory and post 5-7 sentences on what you’ve learned.  Learning ADUC in and out will help you in your future career.  Postings and at least one comment to another classmates posting are due by Sunday at midnight.

http://www.vtc.com/products/MicrosoftWindowsServer200370290/ManagingUsersAndComputers/35804

For this week’s assignment, we would like you to research user and group planning. Spend some time researching the Internet for different ideas on how to plan and implement users and groups on a larger corporate scale (design ideas, issues, planning, documenting, etc).  Find an article, link, posting to share here and write 5-7 lines summarizing what you have found.  Please include the link and your summary for this week’s assignment. Postings are due by Sunday at midnight.

For this assignment, you should review the animation from the following link for the Managing Permissions on Files and Folders topic, and Users and Groups subsection. The animation is 6:35 minutes long. Following review, write a short paragraph (5-7 lines) discussing the benefits and disadvantages of the different group scopes that we discussed this week. Postings are due by Sunday at midnight.

http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsServer2003/evaluation/demos/sims/dayinlife/viewer.htm

For the final blog post, write a summary of your experience here at ComputerTraining.com. Include an overall summary of what skills you have gained, what you intend to accomplish following the class, and what you would have done differently if you could do it all again.

As your instructor, I always learn from my students and each class that I teach. I am proud to say that I’ve learned a lot about your class – your hard work, dedication, and perseverance have impressed me tremendously over the last 6 months.  I personally wish each of you only the best and hope to continue to hear from each of you about your successful IT careers and new certifications in the near future.

For this week’s assignment, write a 5-7 line summary of what you liked, or disliked, about ISA 2004. Please include details from the book (referencing chapter/page), labs, or Self Test. Describe some advantages/disadvantages of the tool as a whole. Please remember that these comments can be viewed and will be commented on by your fellow classmates at Computertraining.Com, Schaumburg, IL. Postings and at least one comment to another classmates posting are due by Monday at midnight.

As a network administrator one of your many tasks will be to create accounts in Active Directory. The most common account that you will create is a User Account.  Unfortunately, you will not always have the GUI available for your usage. The following link is an article on the Microsoft TechNet website that discusses the different command line tools that you can use to create and modify user accounts. Your task this week is to write a paragraph (5 to 7 lines) summarizing when you would use each of the three different command line tools to create user accounts. Please remember that these comments can be viewed and commented on by your fellow classmates at ComputerTraining.Com, Schaumburg, IL. Postings are due by Sunday at midnight.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.09.adtools.aspx

**Edit: since a couple of you mentioned the link above didn’t work, here’s the revised version: an article titled: “11 Essentials Tools For Managing Active Directory”

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc137799.aspx