Migrating from Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 to Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Course 2283: 3 days; Instructor-led

Introduction

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

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

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

§ Describe the migration process from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows Server 2003.

§ Plan a migration.

§ Design a migration strategy.

§ Maintain application services during a migration.

§ Develop a plan to test migration.

§ Maintain network services during a migration.

§ Migrate a Windows NT 4.0 Domain to Windows Server 2003.

§ Prepare to restructure domains.

§ Restructure domains.

§ Complete the restructure process.

Microsoft Certified Professional Exams

There are no Microsoft Certified Professional exams associated with this course.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must:

§ Complete Course 2279: Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure

§ Complete Course 2282: Designing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure

§ Some experience with network applications such as Exchange, SQL, and ISA is required to be able to identify potential migration blocking issues, but this student does not need to be an expert on any one application platform.