Windows Server 2025 Administrator (WS011WV-2025)

The course begins with an overview of administration techniques and continues with topics about identity services, networking, virtualization, high availability, and disaster recovery. This is a comprehensive course that has extensive content and labs, and you ll find it helpful for exam preparation and as a guide for administering a Windows Server environment.

Module 1: Module 1 Overview of Windows Server 2025

• Overview of Windows Server
• Windows Server deployment
• Overview of Windows Server Core

Lab: Deploy and configure Windows Server Core

• Exercise 1: Deploying and configuring Server Core
• Exercise 2: Provisioning an Azure trial subscription

Module 2: Windows Server administration

• Overview of Windows Server administration principles and tools
• Administer Windows Server with Azure Arc

Labs: Manage and configure Windows Server

• Exercise 1: Perform remote server administration by using Server Manager
• Exercise 2: Implement Windows Admin Center for remote server administration
• Exercise 3: Use Remote PowerShell for remote server administration
• Exercise 4: Configure Azure Arc to manage Windows Server

Module 3: Windows Server identity and management services

• Overview of AD DS
• Deploy Windows Server DCs
• Overview of Entra ID
• Implement Group Policy

Lab: Implement identity services and Group Policy

• Exercise 1: Deploy a new domain controller on Server Core
• Exercise 2: Configure Group Policy
• Exercise 3: Configure directory synchronization by using Microsoft Entra Connect

Module 4: Network infrastructure services in Windows Server

• Deploy and manage DHCP
• Deploy and manage DNS services
• Deploy and manage IPAM

Lab: Implement and configure network infrastructure services in Windows Server

• Exercise 1: Deploy and configure DHCP
• Exercise 2: Deploy and configure DNS
• Exercise 3: Implement IPAM
• Exercise 4: Manage IP address spaces by using IPAM

Module 5: File servers and storage management in Windows Server

• Volumes and file systems in Windows Server
• Implement sharing in Windows Server
• Implement Storage Spaces in Windows Server
• Implement Data Deduplication
• Implement iSCSI
• Implement DFS

Module 6: Hyper-V virtualization and containers in Windows Server

• Hyper-V in Windows Server
• Configure VMs
• Secure virtualization in Windows Server
• Containers in Windows Server

Module 7: High availability in Windows Server

• Plan for implementation of failover clustering
• Create and configure failover clusters
• Overview of stretched clusters
• High availability and disaster-recovery solutions with Hyper-V VMs

Lab: Implement failover clustering

• Exercise 1: Configure iSCSI storage
• Exercise 2: Configure a failover cluster
• Exercise 3: Deploy and configure a highly available file server
• Exercise 4: Validate deployment of the highly available file server

Module 8: Disaster recovery in Windows Server

• Hyper-V Replica
• Backup and restore an infrastructure in Windows Server

Lab A: Implement Hyper-V Replica and Windows Server Backup

• Exercise 1: Configure and implement Hyper-V Replica
• Exercise 2: Configure and implement backup with Windows Server Backup

Module 9: Windows Server security

• Credentials and privileged-access protection in Windows Server
• Harden Windows Server
• JEA in Windows Server
• Secure and analyze SMB traffic
• Windows Server update management

Lab: Configure security in Windows Server

• Exercise 1: Configure Windows Defender Credential Guard
• Exercise 2: Locate problematic accounts
• Exercise 3: Implement LAPS

Module 10: RDS in Windows Server

• Overview of RDS
• Configure a session-based desktop deployment
• Overview of pooled and personal virtual desktops

Lab: Implement RDS in Windows Server

• Exercise 1: Implement RDS
• Exercise 2: Configure RemoteApp collection settings

Module 11: Remote access and web services in Windows Server

• Deploy AD CS to secure network traffic
• Overview of remote access in Windows Server
• Implement VPNs
• Implement NPS
• Implement Always On VPN
• Implement Web Server in Windows Server

Lab: Deploy network workloads

• Exercise 1: Deploying AD CS
• Exercise 2: Implement Web Application Proxy
• Exercise 3: Implement VPN in Windows Server
• Exercise 4: Deploy and configure Web Server

Module 12: Server and performance monitoring in Windows Server

• Overview of Windows Server monitoring tools
• Use Performance Monitor
• Monitor event logs for troubleshooting

Lab: Monitor and troubleshoot Windows Server

• Exercise 1: Establish a performance baseline
• Exercise 2: Identify the source of a performance problem
• Exercise 3: Review and configure centralized event logs

Module 13: Upgrade and migration in Windows Server (optional)

• AD DS upgrade and migration
• Storage Migration Service
• Windows Server Migration Tools

Lab: Migrate server workloads

• Exercise 1: Select a process to migrate server workloads
• Exercise 2: Plan how to migrate files by using Storage Migration Service

• Some exposure to, and experience with, Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) concepts and technologies in Windows Server 2019 and newer.
• Experience working with, and configuring, Windows Server 2019 and newer.
• Experience with, and an understanding of, core networking technologies such as IP addressing, name resolution, and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP).
• Experience working with, and an understanding of, Microsoft Hyper-V and basic server-virtualization concepts.
• An awareness of basic security best practices.
• Experience working directly with Windows client operating systems such as Windows 10 and newer.
• Basic experience with Windows PowerShell.
• Basic experience with Microsoft Azure platform.