Microsoft Technical Curriculum

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Managing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment (MS2274): This five-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to manage accounts and resources in a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 environment. The course is intended for systems administrator and systems engineer candidates who are responsible for managing accounts and resources. These tasks include managing user, computer, and group accounts; managing access to network resources; managing printers; managing an organizational unit in a network based on Active Directory directory service; and implementing Group Policy to manage users and computers. This is the first course in the Systems Administrator and Systems Engineer tracks for Windows Server 2003 and serves as the entry point for other courses in the Windows Server 2003 curriculum.
Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment Course (MS2275): This three-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills that are needed to effectively maintain server resources, monitor server performance, and safeguard data on a computer running one of the operating systems in the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family.
Implement, Manage, and Maintain a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (MS2277): This five-day, instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to implement, manage, and maintain a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 network infrastructure. The course is intended for systems administrator and systems engineer candidates who are responsible for implementing, managing, and maintaining server networking technologies. These tasks include implementing routing; implementing, managing, and maintaining Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Domain Name System (DNS), and Windows Internet Name Service (WINS); securing Internet Protocol (IP) traffic with Internet Protocol security (IPSec) and certificates; implementing a network access infrastructure by configuring the connections for remote access clients; and managing and monitoring network access. This is the fourth course in the Systems Administrator and Systems Engineer track for Windows Server 2003, and it is the final course in the Systems Administrator track.
Plan, Implement, and Maintain a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory (MS2279): This five-day instructor-led course includes self-paced and instructor-facilitated components. It provides students with the knowledge and skills to successfully plan, implement, and troubleshoot a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory directory service infrastructure. The course focuses on a Windows Server 2003 directory service environment, including forest and domain structure, Domain Name System (DNS), site topology and replication, organizational unit structure and delegation of administration, Group Policy, and user, group, and computer account strategies.
Updating your Network Infrastructure and Active Directory Technology Skills to Windows Server 2008 (MS6416C): This five-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to work with Network Infrastructure and Active Directory technologies in Windows Server 2008. This course is intended for individuals who already have experience with Network Infrastructure and Active Directory technologies in Windows Server 2000 or Windows Server 2003 to upgrade their skills to Windows Server 2008.
Updating Your Applications Infrastructure Technology Skills to Windows Server 2008 (MS6417B): This three day instructor led course provides students with an understanding of Applications Infrastructure technologies in Windows Server 2008. This course is intended to allow individuals who already have experience with Applications Infrastructure technologies in Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003 to upgrade their skills to Windows Server 2008.
Deploying Windows Server 2008 - Beta 3 (MS6418A): This 3-day, instructor-led course provides students with an understanding of migrating and deploying Windows Server 2008, including installation, configuration, and upgrading. Special emphasis is given to upgrading common server configurations and using the Windows Server Deployment Solution Accelerator.
Configuring and Troubleshooting a Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure (MS6421): This five-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to configure and troubleshoot a Windows Server 2008 network infrastructure. Students will learn to implement and configure secure network access and implement fault tolerant storage technologies. Students will gain an understanding of the network technologies most commonly used with Windows Server 2008 and IP-enabled networks. Students will also learn how to secure servers and maintain update compliance.
Configuring and Troubleshooting Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services (MS6425): This five-day instructor-led course provides to teach Active Directory Technology Specialists with the knowledge and skills to configure Active Directory Domain Services in a distributed environment, implement Group Policies, perform backup and restore, and monitor and troubleshoot Active Directory related issues.
Configuring and Troubleshooting Identity and Access Solutions with Windows Server 2008 Active Directory (MS6426): This three-day instructor-led course provides the knowledge and skills that IT Professionals need to configure identity and access solutions with Windows Server 2008 Active Directory.
Configuring and Troubleshooting Internet Information Services in Windows Server 2008 (MS6427): In this 3-day instructor-led course, the students will learn to install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot an Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Web Server in Windows Server 2008.
Configuring and Troubleshooting Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services (MS6428): This two-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to configure, manage, monitor, and troubleshoot a Terminal Services (TS) environment. The course focuses on configuring of TS core functionality, licensing, Gateway, and Web Access. This is the second course in the Windows Application Platform Services Technology Specialists Who Use Windows Server 2008 curriculum and will introduce the students to the Windows 2008 Terminal Services.

Maintaining a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database (MS2780): This instructor-led course provides students with product knowledge and skills needed to maintain a Microsoft SQL ServerT 2005 database. The course focuses on teaching individuals how to use SQL Server 2005 product features and tools related to maintaining a database.
Implementing a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database (MS2779): This five-day instructor-led course provides students with product knowledge and skills needed to implement a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database. The course focuses on teaching individuals how to use SQL Server 2005 product features and tools related to implementing a database.
Implementing and Maintaining MS SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (MS2793): This three-day instructor-led course teaches students how to implement a Reporting Services solution in an organization. The course discusses how to use the Reporting Services development tools to create reports, and how to use the Reporting Services management and administrative tools to manage a Reporting Services solution.

Updating Your Skills from Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server or Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 (MS3938): This three-day, instructor-led course offers Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server or Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 administrators with the skills they need to manage a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 infrastructure. This course focuses on the new features and administrative tasks in Exchange Server 2007. The student will learn skills that enable them to deploy and manage an Exchange Server 2007 environment. This course's aim is not to provide detailed design skills, but will cover planning skills at a level sufficient to enable decision making during the implementation process.
Implementing and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 (MS2400): This five-day, instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills that are needed to update and support a reliable, secure messaging infrastructure. This infrastructure is used for creating, storing, and sharing information by using Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 in a medium-sized to large-sized (250 to 5,000 users) messaging environment. This course offers a significant number of hands-on practices, discussions, and assessments that assist students in becoming proficient in the skills that are needed to update and support Exchange Server 2003.
Introduction to Installing and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 (MS5047B): At the end of this three-day course, students who are new to Microsoft Exchange Server will learn how to configure and manage a messaging environment in accordance with technical requirements. Students will learn how to install Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and manage routing, client access, and the backup and restore of databases. They will also learn how to manage addressing and recipient objects such as mailboxes, distribution groups, and contacts.
Managing Messaging Security Using Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 (MS5049): This one-day instructor-led course provides messaging specialists with the knowledge and skills to manage messaging security and policies. Students will learn how to manage messaging and connection security. They will also learn how to manage spam, anti-virus, and content filtering. And finally they will learn how to install and configure a gateway server.
Recovering Messaging Servers and Databases using Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 (MS5050A): This one-day course teaches messaging specialists to recover Exchange mailboxes and servers in a variety of disaster scenarios. Students will learn how to perform full and dial-tone recoveries of a mailbox server, as well as repair a mailbox database. They will also learn how to perform a full recovery of Client Access servers, Hub Transport servers, Unified Messaging servers, and Edge Transport servers.
Monitoring and Troubleshooting Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 (MS5051A): This two-day workshop teaches messaging specialists to monitor and troubleshoot an Exchange Server 2007 messaging system. Students will learn how to correlate client and server issues and resolve those issues. They will also learn how to monitor systems and create reports from the monitoring data.
Configuring, Managing and Troubleshooting Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 (MS10135A): This five-day, instructor-led course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to configure and manage an Exchange Server 2010 messaging environment. This course does not require previous Exchange Server experience, but does require that students have significant experience in managing Windows Server and Active Directory directory services or Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). This course will teach you how to configure Exchange Server 2010, as well as provide guidelines, best practices, and considerations that will help you optimize your Exchange Server deployment.
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SharePoint Services 3.0 Introduction: In this course, you will explore the core components of SharePoint Services 3.0 as well as the types of solutions that it provides. In addition, you will learn about the administrative tools and security model of SharePoint 3.0.
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Level 2: This class builds on the lessons taught in SharePoint Services 3.0 Introduction and teaches more advanced topics.
Implementing and Administering Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in Windows Server 2008 (MS6438): This two-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to successfully implement Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) version 3.0 in their organizations. It emphasizes that students should think about the architecture of their entire environment, including business and application needs, during the planning and deployment phases. The course covers how to perform a clean installation of WSS 3.0 and also describes all the prerequisites required to select the most appropriate method for upgrading WSS from 2.0 to 3.0 in a specific scenario. In addition, the course focuses on how to manage WSS after it is configured.
Implementing Microsoft Office 2007 SharePoint Server (MS5061): This three-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills required to implement Microsoft Office 2007 SharePoint Server successfully in their organization
SharePoint Designer 2007: Basic: In this course, students will learn the core features and functions of SharePoint Designer 2007.
SharePoint Designer 2007: Advanced: The course uses a combination of lecture, hands-on practice, and independent exercises to build on the skills and concepts taught in SharePoint Designer 2007: Basic. Students learn how to create dynamic components, work with multimedia files, create interactive content, design with layers, and create tables and forms. Students also learn the basics of data-driven Web sites, and how to fix typical Web site problems. This SharePoint Designer course teaches you how to build web pages with SharePoint Designer software. Web pages can be used on SharePoint sites and other web sites as well. This course does not teach you how to use SharePoint.
Microsoft SharePoint 2007 – Power End User: This 4-day class combines ‘Site Member’ and ‘Site Owner’ courses, to provide comprehensive training that will present students with a ground-up understanding for how to use, operate and build sites in a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment. Students first learn about site navigation, data storage and retrieval through instructor-led modules covering navigation, search and effective use of lists and libraries. Building on this information, students then take a deeper dive into site administration, learning how to create and manage sites, lists, libraries, views and workflows. Security and rights administration are also covered. Functional concepts and best practices are interwoven into the material, providing a framework for the topics discussed. This course is oriented to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, but is also applicable to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Purpose
SharePoint 2007 Operations: This 5-day deep-dive will guide individuals through the process of architecting and setting up SharePoint 2007 applications and customizations from an Operations viewpoint.
Introduction to Development Using Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (MS 50046A): This in-depth, two-day, instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge of using Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to create reusable and modular Web sites for use in intranet, extranet, or Internet scenarios. Students will learn how to manage access to information stored within a SharePoint environment, how to perform common object model tasks, and how to create Web parts to customize user interfaces. Participants will also learn how to use Web services for data requests transactions, how to create and deploy event receivers, and how to utilize Windows Workflow Foundation.

Deploying Microsoft Windows Vista Business Desktops (MS5105): This two-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to successfully deploy Windows Vista business desktops throughout their organization. Students are introduced to the deployment life cycle, which consists of planning for the deployment, building and customizing the deployment method, and then implementing the actual deployment. Students are introduced to the tools and guidance to be used throughout various stages of the deployment life cycle.
Installing and Configuring the Windows Vista Operating System (MS5115): This three-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to install and configure Windows Vista desktops. It will focus on four main areas: installing, securing, networking, and browsing. By the end of the course, the student will have installed and configured a Windows Vista desktop that is secure, on the network, and ready for browsing. This is the first course in the Windows Vista curriculum and will serve as the entry point for other Windows Vista Technology Specialist courses.
Maintaining and Troubleshooting Windows Vista Computers (MS5118): This three-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to successfully maintain and troubleshoot Windows Vista computers. It will provide them with the knowledge and skills necessary to identify technical problems that can occur in an organization's client computers. The course will focus on five main troubleshooting areas: operating system, hardware, networking, security, and applications. It will also provide the knowledge and skills necessary to monitor and maintain Windows Vista client computers.

Programming with the Microsoft .NET Framework Using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005: This five-day instructor-led course enables developers who are migrating from a different development language, an earlier version of Visual Basic .NET or Visual C#, or who have completed entry-level training and experience using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, to gain in-depth guidance on programming the Microsoft .NET Framework versions 2.0 and 3.0 with Visual Studio 2005.
ASP.NET Using Visual Studio 2008: In this course, you'll learn how to use features of Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Basic 2008 to build ASP.NET 3.5 Web pages. You'll gain an understanding of the architecture behind ASP.NET and how to use the various ASP.NET server controls. You'll learn to create consistent web sites using Master Pages, add membership features and configure-deploy ASP.NET applications, to authenticate users and limit their access to resources, direct users using Site Navigation tools, debug .NET, and to display/edit data using ASP.NET and ADO.NET. In addition, you'll learn new ASP.NET 3.5 features, such as support for LINQ (Language Integrated Query), CSS tools, and will become familiar with the tracing features in Visual Studio that help you quickly troubleshoot issues. You will also learn how to work with ASP.NET Profile features, ASP.NET Web Parts, and how to take advantage of creating your own user-defined control. As you progress through the course you will learn about optimizing your sites, the new support ASP.NET AJAX, the new ListView control, and so much more.
Introduction to C# Programming with Microsoft .NET: In this five-day instructor-led course, developers learn the fundamental skills that are required to design and develop object-oriented applications for the Web and Microsoft Windows by using Microsoft Visual C# .NET and the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET development environment. This course provides an alternative entry point for less experienced programmers who are not familiar with object-oriented design and programming with Windows or the Web.
Introduction to Programming Microsoft .NET Framework Applications with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005: This five-day instructor-led course enables introductory-level developers who are not familiar with the Microsoft .NET Framework or Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 to gain familiarity with the Visual Studio 2005 development environment. Students will also learn basic skills using either Microsoft Visual Basic or Microsoft Visual C# as a programming language.
Visual Studio 2008: ADO.NET 3.5: This two-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to access and modify data by using ADO.NET 3.5.
Visual Studio 2008: ASP.NET 3.5 (MS6463A): This two-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to create a fully functional Web application by using ASP.NET 3.5.