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One of the commonest server systems that IT Auditors are likely to encounter, Microsoft Windows 2003, is a prime candidate for core business activity. And in most systems the complex central directory – Active Directory – is the main agent responsible for defining structures and security. This course, hands-on in-house or in-lab only, will allow a small group of IT Auditors to experience Microsoft Windows 2003 and Active Directory first hand.

COURSE BENEFITS

Skills:

After completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Describe how Windows 2003 works and its inter-relationship with Active Directory

• Audit the administrative controls over Windows 2003 and Active Directory

• Audit the core security rules and their propagation

• Audit and evaluate user access and permissions structures

• Review event logs

• Appreciate how Windows 2003 may be hardened and locked down

Support Materials:

This course is accompanied by a manual that includes full briefing notes.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This course is designed for a small group in-house, and by arrangement only. IT Auditors should have a minimum of six-months’ experience before they come on this course.

This course is by arrangement only

COURSE Programme

Introduction

• About Windows 2003

• How it fits in with Windows NT/2000

• Basic features of Windows 2003

Windows 2003 Network Administration

• Windows 2003 and TCP/IP

• Domains, trees and forests

• Domain modes of operation – mixed mode and native mode

• New functionality available in native Windows 2003 mode

• DNS and directory services

• The Lightweight Directory Access protocol (LDAP)

Windows 2003 New Features

• Administration Tools - The Microsoft Management Console

• Disk Quotas

• Encrypted File System

• IPSec and Kerberos Security

• The Active Directory Service (AD)

What is Active Directory?

• How does it control a Windows 2000/3 network?

• Where do other versions of Windows fit in?

• Active Directory Objects – Forests and Trees

• Active Directory Domains, Organisational Units, Groups and Users

• The Active Directory Management Tools

• Delegation of Control

• Group Policy Objects and how they are used

• Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI) and how to use it

• Windows 2003 User and Group management

The Group Structure

• Universal, global and local groups

• Group Policy Objects

• Using Group Policy Objects to control a Windows 2003 network

• How to audit Group Policy

File and Directory Permissions

• How Windows 2003 access controls work

• Setting and maintaining file and directory permissions

• The new permissions manager interface

• Windows Scripting and Active Directory

The Windows Scripting Host

• Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI)

• How to use ADSI scripting to manage Windows 2003

Windows 2003 Auditing Facilities – the Event Log and How to Use it

• Event log scrutiny – the event log viewer, the Event Comb and the Log Parser

Hardening Windows 2003

TRAINING

In-House Training

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