Install Windows Servers in host and compute environments

• Install, upgrade, and migrate servers and workloads. Determine Windows Server 2019 installation requirements. Determine appropriate Windows Server 2019 editions per workload
• Install Windows Server 2022
• Install Windows Server 2022 features and roles

Server Core & Admin Tools

• Install and configure Windows Server Core Implementing Windows Server 2019 Admin Center

Image Management & Deployment

• Create, manage, and maintain images for deployment. Plan for Windows Server virtualization
• Update images with patches, hotfixes, and drivers
• Install Roles and Features in offline images
• Make a Bootable USB Flash Drive
• Reset Administrator Password Server 2022

Domain Controller Installation

• Install and configure the domain controllers,  AD DS fundamentals
• Install a new forest 
• Add or remove a domain controller
• Install AD DS on a Server Core installation

Users and Computers Management

• Create and manage Active Directory users and computers.  Create, copy, configure, and delete users and computers
• Implement offline domain join
• Configure user rights
• Perform bulk Active Directory operations

Groups and Organizational Units

•  Create and manage Active Directory groups and organizational units
• Create and manage groups
• Create and manage OUs 
• Delegate management of Active Directory with groups and OUs

Authentication & Account Policies

• Configure service authentication and account policies
• Configure account policies
• Configure and apply Password Settings Objects
• Delegate password settings management 

Maintain Active Directory

• Maintain Active Directory
• Manage Active Directory offline
• Active Directory backup and recovery
• Manage Read-Only Domain Controllers
• Managing AD DS replication 

GPO Management

• Create and manage Group Policy Objects
• Configure multiple local Group Policies
• Overview of domain-based GPOs
• Manage starter GPOs
• Configure GPO links
• Back up, restore, import, and copy GPOs
• Create and configure a migration table
• Reset default GPOs
• Delegate Group Policy management
• Detect health issues using the Group Policy
• Infrastructure Status dashboard 

Group Policy Processing

• Configure Group Policy Processing: Configure processing order and precedence
• Configuring inheritance
• Configure security filtering and WMI filtering
• Configure loopback processing
• Configure and manage slow-link processing and Group Policy caching
• Configure client-side extension behavior
• Force a Group Policy update

Group Policy Settings

• Configure Group Policy settings
• Configure software installation
• Configure scripts
• Import security templates
• Configure folder redirection
• Configure administrative templates
• Configure Group Policy preferences
• Configure item-level targeting

Disks and Volumes

• Configure disks and volumes
• Configure sector sizes appropriate for various workloads
• Configure GUID partition table (GPT) disks
• Create VHD and VHDX files using Server Manager or Windows
• PowerShell
• Mount Virtual Hard Disks (VHDs)
• Determine when to use NTFS and ReFS File Systems
• Configure NFS and SMB shares using Server Manager
• Configure SMB share and session settings using Windows
• PowerShell
• Configure the SMB server using Windows PowerShell
• Configure file and folder permissions 

Server Storage

• Implement server storage
• Configure storage pools
• Implement simple, mirror, and parity storage layout options
• Configure tiered storage
• Configure the iSCSI target and initiator
• Configure Datacenter Bridging (DCB)

Data Deduplication

• Implement data deduplication
• Implement and configure deduplication
• Implement a backup and restore solution with deduplication