This course is designed to teach students how they can enhance the security of the IT infrastructure that they administer. This course begins by emphasizing the importance of assuming that network breaches have already occurred, and then teaches you how to protect administrative credentials and rights to help ensure that administrators can perform only the tasks that they need to, when they need to.

This course explains how you can use auditing and the Advanced Threat Analysis feature in Windows Server 2016 to identify security issues. Students will also learn how to mitigate malware threats, secure your virtualization platform, and use development options such as Nano server and containers to enhance security. The course also explains how you can help protect access to files by using encryption and dynamic access control, and how you can enhance your network’s security.

Securing Windows Server 2016 is designed to prepare students to sit for Exam Number: 70-744. A passing score on this exam can be used to earn the Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) designation.

Completion of the following, or equivalent knowledge:

• Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016 (MCSA)

• Networking with Windows Server 2016

• Identity with Windows Server 2016 (Active Directory)

A solid, practical understanding of:

• Networking fundamentals (including TCP/IP, User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and Domain Name System (DNS)

• Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Principles

• Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization fundamentals

• Windows Server security principles