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About This Course

This three-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to migrate from Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 to Windows Server 2003 by creating a deployment plan for migrating the operating system, Active Directory directory services, network services, and application services. This course will also teach how to implement this deployment plan.

Audience Profile

This course is intended for individuals who are IT Professionals with design and implementation experience with Windows. The skills required are:

• Able to design an Active Directory and networking infrastructure based on an organization's business needs and infrastructure factors.
• Able to identify and categorize existing services and business requirements.

Prerequites

Before attending this course, students must have:

• Course 2279, Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure, or equivalent knowledge and skills.
• Course 2282, Designing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure, or equivalent knowledge and skills.
• A thorough understanding of Domain Name System (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), and Windows Internet Name Service (WINS).
• Experience with network applications such as Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, and Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) is required to identify potential migration blocking issues; however you need not be an expert on any one application platform.

At Course Completion

After completing the course, students will be able to:

• Describe the process for migrating domains from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows Server 2003 and Active Directory.
• Develop a migration deployment plan.
• Design a migration strategy.
• Maintain network and application services during a migration.
• Test a migration plan and conduct a pilot migration.
• Prepare the Windows NT 4.0 environment for migration to Windows Server 2003 and Active Directory.
• Upgrade a Windows NT 4.0 domain to Windows Server 2003 and Active Directory.
• Prepare to restructure Windows NT 4.0 account and resource domains.
• Restructure account and resource domains from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows Server 2003 and Active Directory.
• Complete the process of restructuring domains from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows Server 2003 and Active Directory.