This course is part one of a series of three courses that provide the skills and knowledge necessary to implement a core Windows Server 2012 R2 infrastructure in an existing enterprise environment. The three courses collectively cover implementing, managing, maintaining, and provisioning services and infrastructure in a Windows Server 2012 environment. While there is some cross-over in skillset and tasks across the courses, this course primarily covers the initial implementation and configuration of those core services, such as Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), networking services, and Hyper-V configuration.

• A good understanding of networking fundamentals

• An understanding and experience configuring security and administration tasks in an enterprise environment

• Experience supporting or configuring Microsoft Windows clients