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MS 20744: Securing Windows Server 2016
Description
This five-day, instructor-led course teaches IT professionals 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 occurred already, and then teaches you how to protect administrative credentials and rights to ensure that administrators can perform only the tasks that they need to, when they need to. This course also details how you can mitigate malware threats, identify security issues by using auditing and the Advanced Threat Analysis feature in Windows Server 2016, secure your virtualization platform, and use new deployment 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.Course Outline
Module 1: Breach detection and using the Sysinternals tools
In this module, students will learn about breach detection, attack types and vectors, cybercrime, and how you can analyse your system’s activity by using the Sysinternals tool suite.Lessons
- Overview of breach detection
- Using the Sysinternals tools to detect breaches
Lab: Basic breach detection and incident response strategies
- Identifying attack types
- Using incident-response strategies
- Exploring the Sysinternals tools
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Describe breach detection.
- Describe how to detect a breach by using the Sysinternals tools.
Module 2: Protecting credentials and privileged access
This module explains how you can configure user rights and security options, protect credentials by using credential guard, implement privileged-access workstations, and manage and deploy a local administrator-password solution so that you can manage passwords for local administrator accounts.Lessons
- Understanding user rights
- Computer and service accounts
- Protecting credentials
- Understanding privileged-access workstations and jump servers
- Deploying a local administrator-password solution
Lab: User rights, security options, and group-managed service accounts
- Configuring security options
- Configuring restricted groups
- Delegating privileges
- Creating and managing group managed service accounts (MSAs)
- Configuring the Credential Guard feature
- Locating problematic accounts
Lab: Configuring and deploying LAPs
- Installing local administrator password solution (LAPs)
- Configuring LAPs
- Deploying LAPs
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Understand user rights.
- Describe computer and service accounts.
- Help protect credentials.
- Understand privileged-access workstations and jump servers.
- Understand how to use a local administrator-password solution.
- Understanding JEA
- Configuring and deploying JEA
- Creating a role-capability file
- Creating a session-configuration file
- Creating a JEA endpoint
- Connecting to a JEA endpoint
- Deploying JEA by using Desire State Configuration (DSC)
- Understand JEA.
- Configure and deploy JEA.
- Understanding ESAE forests
- Overview of MIM
- Implementing JIT and Privileged Access Management by using MIM
- Using a layered approach to security
- Exploring MIM
- Configuring a MIM web portal
- Configuring the Privileged Access feature
- Requesting privileged access
- Understand enhanced security administrative environment forests.
- Understand MIM.
- Understand how to implement JIT and Privileged Access Management by using MIM.
- Configuring and managing Windows Defender
- Using software restricting policies (SRPs) and AppLocker
- Configuring and using Device Guard
- Using and deploying the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit
- Configuring Windows Defender
- Configuring AppLocker
- Configuring and deploying Device Guard
- Deploying and using EMET
- Configure and manage Windows Defender.
- Use Software Restricting Policies and AppLocker.
- Configure and use Device Guard.
- Use and deploy the EMET.
- Overview of auditing
- Understanding advanced auditing
- Configuring Windows PowerShell auditing and logging
- Configuring auditing of file-system access
- Auditing domain logons
- Managing the configuration of advanced audit policies
- Windows PowerShell logging and auditing
- Understanding auditing.
- Understand advanced auditing.
- Audit and log Windows PowerShell.
- Overview of Advanced Threat Analytics
- Understanding OMS
- Using ATA and OMS
- Preparing and deploying ATA
- Preparing and deploying OMS
- Understand Advanced Threat Analytics.
- Understand OMS.
- Overview of Guarded Fabric VMs
- Understanding shielded and encryption-supported VMs
- Deploying Guarded Fabric VMs with administrator-trusted attestation
- Deploying a shielded VM
- Understand Guarded Fabric VMs.
- Understand shielded and encryption-supported VMs.
- Using Security Compliance Manager
- Introduction to Nano Server
- Understanding containers
- Configuring a security baseline for Windows Server 2016
- Deploying a security baseline for Windows Server 2016
- Deploying, managing, and securing Nano Server
- Deploying, managing, and securing Windows Server containers
- Deploying, managing, and securing Hyper-V containers
- Understand Security Compliance Manager.
- Describe Nano Server.
- Understand containers.
- Planning and implementing encryption
- Planning and implementing BitLocker
- Encrypting and recovering access to encrypted files
- Using BitLocker to protect data
- Plan and implement encryption.
- Plan and implement BitLocker.
- Introduction to FSRM
- Implementing classification management and file-management tasks
- Understanding Dynamic Access Control (DAC)
- Configuring FSRM quotas
- Configuring file screening
- Preparing DAC
- Implementing DAC
- Understand FSRM.
- Implement classification management and file-management tasks.
- Understand DAC.
- Understanding Windows Firewall
- Software-defined distributed firewalls
- Creating and testing inbound rules
- Creating and testing outbound rules
- Describe Windows Firewall.
- Understand software-defined distributed firewalls.
- Network-related security threats and connection-security rules
- Configuring advanced DNS settings
- Examining network traffic with Microsoft Message Analyzer
- Securing SMB traffic, and analysing SMB traffic
- Creating and testing connection security rules
- Configuring and testing DNSSEC
- Using Microsoft Message Analyzer
- Configuring and verifying SMB encryption on SMB shares
- Understand network-related security threats and connection security rules.
- Configure advanced DNS settings.
- Examine network traffic with Microsoft Message Analyzer.
- Secure SMB traffic, and analyze SMB traffic.
- Overview of WSUS
- Deploying updates by using WSUS
- Implementing the WSUS server role
- Configuring update settings
- Approving and deploying an update by using WSUS
- Deploying Windows Defender definition updates by using WSUS
- Understand WSUS.
- Deploy updates with WSUS.
Module 3: Limiting administrator rights with Just Enough Administration
This module explains how to deploy and configure Just Enough Administration (JEA).Lessons
Lab: Limiting administrator privileges by using JEA
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 4: Privileged Access Management and administrative forests
This module explains the concepts of Enhanced Security Administrative Environment (ESAE) forests, Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM), and Just In Time (JIT) Administration, or Privileged Access Management.Lessons
Lab: Limiting administrator privileges by using Privileged Access Management
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 5: Mitigating malware and threats
This module explains how to configure the Windows Defender, AppLocker, and Device Guard features.Lessons
Lab: Securing applications by using AppLocker, Windows Defender, Device Guard Rules, and the EMET.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 6: Analysing activity by using advanced auditing and log analytics
This module explains how to use advanced auditing and Windows PowerShell transcripts.Lessons
Lab: Configuring encryption and advanced auditing
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 7: Analysing activity with Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics feature and Operations Management Suite
This module explains the Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics tool and the Microsoft Operations Management suite (OMS), and details how you can use them to monitor and analyse the security of a Windows Server deployment.Lessons
Lab: Advanced Threat Analytics and Operations Management Suite
Module 8: Securing your virtualization an infrastructure
This module explains how to configure Guarded Fabric virtual machines (VMs), including the requirements for shielded and encryption-supported VMs.Lessons
Lab: Deploying and using Guarded Fabric with administrator-trusted attestation and shielded VMs
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 9: Securing application development and server-workload infrastructure
This module details the Security Compliance Manager, including how you can use it to configure, manage, and deploy baselines. Additionally, students will learn how to deploy and configure Nano Server, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Windows Server Containers.Lessons
Lab: Using Security Compliance Manager
Lab: Deploying and Configuring Nano Server and containers
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 10: Protecting data with encryption
This module explains how to configure Encrypting File System (EFS) and BitLocker drive encryption to protect data at rest.Lessons
Lab: Configuring EFS and BitLocker
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 11: Limiting access to file and folders
This module explains how to optimize file services by configuring File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) and Distributed File System (DFS). Students will learn how to protect a device’s data by using encryption or BitLocker. Students also will learn how to manage access to shared files by configuring Dynamic Access Control (DAC).Lessons
Lab: Configuring quotas and file screening
Lab: Implementing DAC
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 12: Using firewalls to control network traffic flow
This module explains the firewalls that are present on Windows Server.Lessons
Lab: Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 13: Securing network traffic
This module explains how to secure network traffic and how to use Microsoft Message Analyzer, Server Message Block (SMB) encryption, and Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC).Lessons
Lab: Connection security rules and securing DNS
Lab: Microsoft Message Analyzer and SMB encryption
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 14: Updating Windows Server
This module explains how to use Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) to deploy updates to Windows Servers and clients.Lessons
Lab: Implementing update management
After completing this module, students will be able to:
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