Udemy – Microsoft Active Directory: The Complete AD DS Masterclass

Active Directory is the technology everyone inherits and almost nobody was actually taught. You get handed a domain that somebody built fifteen years ago. The OU structure makes no sense. There are groups nested inside groups nested inside groups. Group Policy is a pile of overlapping GPOs that “work, mostly.” And when replication breaks or logons slow to a crawl, you’re expected to fix it, even though nobody ever explained how any of it fits together. This course fixes that. It teaches you the model behind Active Directory: how it thinks, why it behaves the way it does, and then puts your hands on the keyboard so you can actually work with it.

How this course is built:

• Concept lectures explain what the major Active Directory components are and why they work the way they do.
• Numerous demos show you how common administrative tasks are performed in the real tools.
• 20+ hands-on simulations and labs let you perform tasks yourself, including installing the AD DS role, promoting a domain controller, joining computers to the domain, creating users and groups, building GPOs, working with PowerShell, and more.
• Downloadable reference posters cover DNS, replication, FSMO roles, Group Policy, group scopes, OU design, PowerShell, administrative tools, and other core topics.
• Drag-and-drop, sorting, hotspot, and interactive exercises break up the video content and give you additional opportunities to practice and reinforce what you just learned.