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Microsoft Technology: A Detailed Overview

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Course Duration: 3 days

Course Code: CSMS1

Course Description:

Microsoft offers a rapidly expanding range of products to build complete, cost-effective, business solutions. As a result, an increasing number of companies are selecting an IT strategy based around Microsoft's technology: operating systems, desktop applications, server services, component technology and development tools. These companies see potential long-term benefits in using an integrated set of products from a single supplier that reduces the time spent building 'infrastructure', allowing them to focus on business solutions.

This course provides an unbiased overview of this 'Microsoft-centric' approach: its strengths and weaknesses.

Where appropriate, the systems and services discussed will be used or demonstrated. Discussion will be encouraged, focusing on the new business opportunities that the technology offers. This is not a 'hands-on' course.

Prerequisites:

System architects, designers, analyst, developers, support managers and staff, programme and project managers, those with technical sales/pre-sales responsibilities or anyone wanting to understand the 'big picture' of Microsoft technology. This seminar is not intended for anyone who needs an in-depth understanding of specific Microsoft products

A reasonable level of IT knowledge, including the use of Windows and LANs, is assumed.

This course includes the following modules:

The Windows Family

• Microsoft Operating System Family.
• The Corporate Desktop.
• Windows Servers: NT, 2000 and 2003.
• Terminal Server.
• Clustering and Network Load Balancing.
• BackOffice and Windows Server System. Comparison with S/390 (MVS), Unix and NetWare

Windows NT Domains

• Microsoft Domains Operation.
• Remote Access (RAS).
• Account types.
• User profiles.
• Trusted Relationships.
• Typical Domain Configurations

Windows Active Directory

• Windows NT domains Vs Active Directory, Active Directory Logical Structure.
• Active Directory Physical Structure.
• Logging on and Kerberos.
• Applying Group Policy Objects.
• Flexible Single Master Operations.
• Global Catalog

File and Print Services

• Installation.
• NTFS vs. FAT.
• Windows 2000 Enhancements.
• Sharing and accessing File and Printers.
• Local and Network Access.
• Permissions.
• Printer Configurations

NetWare, Unix and IBM SNA Interoperability

• NetWare in a Windows Environment.
• NetWare Migration to Windows.
• Novell Interoperability products.
• Windows NT Services for UNIX.
• Other UNIX Support.
• IBM SNA and Microsoft Host Intergration Server.

Network Infrastructure

• TCP/IP Protocols.
• IP Addressing.
• Routing.
• DHCP Server.
• TCP/IP Utilities.
• DNS Server.
• NetBIOS over TCP/IP and WINS.

SQL Server RDBMS

• SQL Server architecture and Distributed Management Framework.
• Operation.
• Decision support versus OLTP.
• Replication and Data warehousing.
• Gateways.
• SQL Server 2000 price/performance

System Management Server (SMS)

• SMS Clients, Sites & Hierarchies.
• Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM).
• Hardware\Software Inventory.
• Software Distribution.
• Software Metering.
• Remote Support.
• Discovery.
• Queries.
• Status Messages and Log files

Internet and Intranet Technologies

• Growth.
• Typical Applications and Business Opportunities.
• Core Services and standards.
• Connecting to the Internet.
• Web Servers and Browsers.
• HTML.
• Side and Client -side processing.
• XML.
• Secure transactions: Encryption, PKI, SSL, SET and Smart cards.

MS Internet and Web Products and Services

• Internet Information Server (IIS).
• Microsoft Authoring Tools.
• Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server.
• Commerce Server.
• BizTalk Server.
• SharePoint Portal Server.

Exchange Server

• Exchange Architecture.
• Outlook and Web Access clients.
• MAPI.
• Groupware.
• Shared/Public folders.
• Application design/development options.
• Exchange Server 2000 Enhancements.

Software Development

• Designing Distributed Systems.
• Rapid Application Development (RAD).
• Microsoft's Solutions Development Discipline (MSDD).
• Business Object Modelling.
• Components vs. Objects.
• Testing Tools.

Components and MS DNA Architecture

• What are components? Component Standards: COM/COM+, CORBA and JavaBeans.
• 2-tier vs 3-tier applications.
• Microsoft's DNA Architecture: Transactions, Scalability/Performance, Security and Integration.
• Microsoft Message Queue Server (MSMQ).
• Comparison with the J2EE solutions.

Microsoft .NET

• Why do we need .NET? Software as a service.
• What is .NET? The .NET Platform and Framework.
• ASP.NET.
• Web Forms.
• Win Forms.
• C# and VB.NET.
• Web Services and the Service-Oriented Application model.

To make an enquiry for this course to be run ONSITE at your location, click here or call Sales on +44 (0) 20 7620 0033.

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