Windows Server 2025 Administration Courseware (WS011WV-2025)

Lab description

The labs in this course cover Windows Server 2025 administration, starting with the deployment and configuration of Windows Server, implementing identity services, network services, storage, and virtualization. You’ll also implement failover clustering, backup, and RDS, configure security and monitoring, and upgrade and migrate server workloads in Windows Server. 

Module 1 Overview of Windows Server 2025 

This module provides an overview of Windows Server 2025 and describes its versions and deployment techniques.

Lesson 1 Overview of Windows Server 

• Windows Server history and role in business environments
• Overview of new Windows Server 2025 features
• Deprecated and removed Windows Server features
• Windows Server 2025 editions
• Windows Server 2025 Datacenter: Azure Edition
• Windows Server pay-as-you-go 
• Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server
• Windows Server release and servicing channels

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe the Windows Server and its editions and servicing channels.

Lesson 2 Windows Server deployment 

• Hardware requirements for Windows Server 2025
• Overview of deployment options 
• Deployment accelerators 
• Licensing and activation models for Windows Server

Lesson 3 Overview of Windows Server Core 

• Overview of Windows Server Core and its usage scenarios
• Server Core installation and post-installation tasks
• Use the Sconfig tool in Server Core
• On-demand installation features in Server Core
• Demonstration: Configure Server Core

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe Windows Server Core, including specific details about it and ways to administer it.

Lab: Deploy and configure Windows Server Core

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

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to deploy and configure Server Core.

Module 2 Windows Server administration

This module details administration tools for Windows Server. You’ll learn how to select the appropriate administration tool and use it effectively and securely.

Lesson 1 Overview of Windows Server administration principles and tools 

• What is Windows Admin Center? 
• Demonstration: Use Windows Admin Center
• Deploy Windows Admin Center in Azure
• Overview of Server Manager 
• Overview of remote server administration
• Demonstration: Manage servers remotely
• Use least-privilege administration
• Demonstration: Delegate privileges
• Privileged Access Workstations and jump servers, and when to use them

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe the concepts and main tools for administering Windows Server.

Lesson 2 Administer Windows Server with Azure Arc 

• What is Azure Arc?
• What are Azure Arc-enabled servers?
• Connect Windows Server to Azure Arc
• Manage Windows Server from Azure Arc
• Manage updates by using Azure Update Manager
• Demonstration: Connect Windows Server to Azure Arc

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe Windows Server and techniques for its deployment, activation, and servicing.

Lab: 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

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

• Perform remote server administration by using Server Manager.
• Implement Windows Admin Center for remote server administration.
• Use Remote PowerShell for remote server administration.
• Configure Azure Arc to manage Windows Server.

Module 3 Windows Server identity and management services

This module covers identity roles in Windows Server. It also discusses the main management mechanisms of Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), in addition to Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) and the cloud-based identity service Microsoft Entra ID (Entra ID). In this module, you’ll learn how to deploy domain controllers (DCs) and use the Group Policy mechanism to manage the AD DS environment.

Lesson 1 Overview of AD DS 

• What is AD DS?
• What’s new in AD DS in Windows Server 2025?
• AD DS objects
• AD DS forests and domains
• Overview of OUs in AD DS
• What is the AD DS schema?
• Overview of the AD DS replication process
• How does the AD DS sign-in process work?
• Overview of AD DS administration tools
• Demonstration: Use tools to manage objects and properties in AD DS

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe and manage AD DS and AD DS objects and processes.

Lesson 2 Deploy Windows Server DCs 

• What is an AD DS DC?
• What is the global catalog?
• What are operations masters in AD DS?
• Deploy AD DS DCs
• Upgrade from a previous AD DS version
• DC cloning
• Overview of DC service SRV records 
• Demonstration: Explore DC SRV records in DNS
• Transfer and seize roles in AD DS
• Deploy a DC in Azure IaaS

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe and manage AD DS domain controllers and their roles and records.

Lesson 3 Overview of Entra ID 

• AD DS scope and limitations
• What is Entra ID?
• Manage Entra ID
• Entra ID versions and capabilities
• Authentication with Entra ID
• Benefits of integrating Entra ID with AD DS
• Connect AD DS with Entra ID by using Entra Connect
• Connect AD DS with Entra ID by using Entra Cloud Sync
• Microsoft Entra Connect Health 
• Microsoft Entra ID Domain Services 
• Deploy a managed domain with Microsoft Entra Domain Services

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe Entra ID, authentication with Entra ID and connect Entra ID with AD DS.

Lesson 4 Implement Group Policy 

• What are Group Policy and GPOs?
• Overview of GPO scope and inheritance
• Default domain GPOs 
• Demonstration: Create and configure a domain-based GPO
• Overview of GPO storage and replication
• What are Starter GPOs?
• What are administrative templates?
• Overview of the central store

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to implement and manage Group Policy objects.

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

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

• Deploy a new domain controller on Server Core.
• Configure Group Policy.
• Configure directory synchronization by using Microsoft Entra Connect.

Module 4 Network infrastructure services in Windows Server

This module details the core networking services in Windows Server, including DHCP, DNS, and IP Address Management (IPAM).

Lesson 1 Deploy and manage DHCP

• Overview of the DHCP server role
• Install and configure the DHCP role
• Configure DHCP options
• Demonstration: Configure the DHCP server role
• Configure DHCP scopes
• Demonstration: Create and configure a DHCP scope
• DHCP AD DS authorization
• High-availability options for DHCP
• How to achieve DHCP failover

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to install, configure and manage DHCP server role.

Lesson 2 Deploy and manage DNS services 

• DNS components
• What are DNS zones?
• What are DNS records?
• Demonstration: Install and configure the DNS role
• Manage DNS services
• Records management in DNS
• Configure DNS zones
• What is DNS forwarding?
• DNS for on-premises and Azure resources
• DNS integration in AD DS
• Overview of DNS policies 
• Overview of DNSSEC

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to install, configure and manage DNS server, DNS zones and DNS policies.

Lesson 3 Deploy and manage IPAM 

• What is IPAM and when should you use it?
• IPAM deployment requirements
• Process for deploying IPAM
• Configure IPAM options
• Demonstration: Install the IPAM role service (optional)
• Administer the IPAM service
• Manage DNS zones with IPAM
• Configure DHCP servers with IPAM

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to deploy and administer IPAM service.

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

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

• Deploy and configure DHCP.
• Deploy and configure DNS.
• Implement IPAM.
• Manage IP address spaces by using IPAM.

Module 5 File servers and storage management in Windows Server

This module details services that deal with file systems, volumes, and storage. Students will also learn about data deduplication, sharing, iSCSI, and Distributed File System (DFS) services.

Lesson 1 Volumes and file systems in Windows Server

• Overview of file systems that Windows Server supports
• Use ReFS in Windows Server
• Overview of disk volumes 
• Demonstration: Manage volumes in Windows Server
• Overview of File Server Resource Manager 
• Manage permissions on volumes

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe file systems in Windows Server, describe and manage volumes.

Lesson 2 Implement sharing in Windows Server 

• What is SMB?
• Overview of SMB improvements
• Overview of SMB over QUIC
• Configure SMB shares
• Demonstration: Configure SMB shares by using Server Manager and Windows PowerShell
• Best practices for sharing resources
• Overview of NFS

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to implement sharing and manage shared resources in Windows Server.

Lesson 3 Implement Storage Spaces in Windows Server 

• What is the Storage Spaces feature?
• Components and features of Storage Spaces
• Usage scenarios for Storage Spaces
• Provision of a storage space
• Demonstration: Configure Storage Spaces
• Overview of Storage Spaces Direct 
• Demonstration: Configure Storage Spaces Direct

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe Storage Spaces, configure components of Storage spaces and configure storage spaces direct.

Lesson 4 Implement Data Deduplication 

• What is Data Deduplication?
• Usage scenarios for Data Deduplication
• Core components of Data Deduplication
• Deploy Data Deduplication
• Demonstration: Implement Data Deduplication
• Backup and restore considerations with Data Deduplication

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to implement and manage Data Deduplication.

Lesson 5 Implement iSCSI 

• What is iSCSI?
• iSCSI components
• Considerations for implementing iSCSI
• iSCSI usage scenarios
• Demonstration: Configure and connect to an iSCSI target

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe, implement and manage iSCSI service in Windows Server.

Lesson 6 Implement DFS 

• Overview of DFS 
• Deploy the DFS service
• Implement DFSR for files and AD DS
• DFS namespaces and replication
• Manage DFS databases
• Overview of Azure Files and storage utilities for datacenters

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe DFS, manage DFS replication and describe Azure Files.

Lab A: Implement Data Deduplication

• Exercise 1: Install the Data Deduplication role service
• Exercise 2: Configure and verify data deduplication

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

• Install the Data Deduplication role service.
• Configure and verify data deduplication.

Lab B: Configure iSCSI storage

• Exercise 1: Install and configure the iSCSI Target Server role
• Exercise 2: Configure and connect to iSCSI Targets

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

• Install and configure the iSCSI Target Server role.
• Configure and connect to iSCSI Targets.

Lab C: Configure redundant storage spaces

• Exercise 1: Configure the redundant Storage Spaces feature

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

• Configure the redundant Storage Spaces feature.

Lab D: Implement Storage Spaces Direct

• Exercise 1: Implement Storage Spaces Direct

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

• Implement Storage Spaces Direct.

Lab E: Configure SMB over QUIC

• Exercise 1: Configure and issue a server certificate
• Exercise 2: Configure SMB over QUIC

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

• Configure and issue a server certificate.
• Configure SMB over QUIC.

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

• Implement Data Deduplication.
• Configure iSCSI storage.
• Configure redundant storage spaces.
• Implement Storage Spaces Direct.
• Configure SMB over QUIC.

Module 6 Hyper-V virtualization and containers in Windows Server

In this module, students learn about virtualization services in Windows Server. The module details Hyper-V, options to help secure a virtualization environment, containers, and Kubernetes.

Lesson 1 Hyper-V in Windows Server

• Overview of the Hyper-V virtualization platform
• Hyper-V improvements in Windows Server 2025
• Manage Hyper-V with Hyper-V Manager 
• Best practices and considerations for configuring Hyper-V hosts
• Overview of nested virtualization 
• Integrate the Hyper-V platform with Azure IaaS

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe Hyper-V, new features in Windows Server 2025 and manage features of Hyper-V

Lesson 2 Configure VMs 

• VM configuration and generation versions
• Operating systems in Hyper-V VMs
• Overview of VM settings
• Storage options in Hyper-V
• VHD formats and types
• Shared VHDX and VHD Set files
• Overview of Hyper-V networking 
• Networking features for Hyper-V
• Manage VM checkpoints
• Import and export VMs
• Demonstration: Create and manage a VM

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to configure and manage Hyper-V virtual machines and its main components.

Lesson 3 Secure virtualization in Windows Server 

• What is a guarded fabric?
• Attestation modes for guarded fabric
• Overview of the Host Guardian Service
• Types of protected VMs in a guarded fabric
• General process for creating shielded VMs
• Process for powering-on shielded VMs

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe virtualization security features in Windows Server.

Lesson 4 Containers in Windows Server 

• What are containers?
• Containers vs. VMs
• Overview of container isolation modes
• Manage containers using Docker
• Pull and push container base images
• Run a Windows container
• Manage containers using Windows Admin Center
• Demonstration: Deploy containers by using Docker and Windows Admin Center

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe containers in Windows Server, manage containers with Docker and Windows Admin Center.

Lab A: Implement and configure virtualization in Windows Server

• Exercise 1: Create and configure VMs

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to use Hyper-V Manager and Windows Admin Center to create a virtual switch and VHD, and then create and manage a VM.

Lab B: Install and configure containers

• Exercise 1: Install Docker and download an image
• Exercise 2: Deploy and configure a container

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to install and configure containers.

Module 7 High availability in Windows Server

This module details high availability in Windows Server and primarily focuses on the Failover Clustering feature.

Lesson 1 Plan for implementation of failover clustering

• What is failover clustering?
• Achieve high availability with failover clustering
• Clustering terminology and key components
• Cluster quorum in Windows Server
• Considerations for planning failover clustering

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe and plan failover clustering feature.

Lesson 2 Create and configure failover clusters 

• The Validate a Configuration Wizard and policy requirements for cluster support 
• Create a failover cluster
• Demonstration: Create a failover cluster
• Configure storage for failover clustering 
• Configure networking for failover clustering
• Configure quorum options
• Demonstration: Configure a quorum
• Configure roles for high availability
• Manage failover clusters
• Configure cluster object properties
• Configure failover and failback

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to create, configure and manage failover clusters in Windows Server.

Lesson 3 Overview of stretched clusters 

• What is a stretched cluster?
• Overview of Storage Replica
• Prerequisites for implementing a stretched cluster
• Synchronous and asynchronous replication
• Select a quorum and witness mode for a stretched cluster
• Configure a stretched cluster

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe stretched cluster, storage replica and cluster replication.

Lesson 4 High availability and disaster-recovery solutions with Hyper-V VMs

• High-availability options for Hyper-V VMs
• Overview of live migration
• Requirements for live migration 
• Provide high availability with Storage Migration

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe and plan High availability and disaster-recovery solutions for Hyper-V.

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

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

• Configure iSCSI storage.
• Configure a failover cluster.
• Deploy and configure a highly available file server.
• Validate deployment of a highly available file server.

Module 8 Disaster recovery in Windows Server

This module details technologies to implement disaster recovery in a Windows Server environment.

Lesson 1 Hyper-V Replica

• Overview of Hyper-V Replica
• Plan for Hyper-V Replica
• Configure and implement Hyper-V Replica
• Demonstration: Implement Hyper-V Replica
• Overview of Azure Site Recovery

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe and configure Hyper-V replica in Windows Server.

Lesson 2 Back up and restore an infrastructure in Windows Server 

• Overview of Windows Server Backup
• Implement backup and restore
• Back up and restore Hyper-V VMs
• Overview of Azure Backup 
• Implement backup and restore with Azure Backup

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe, implement and manage backup 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

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

• Configure and implement Hyper-V Replica.
• Configure and implement backup with Windows Server Backup.

Lab B: Configure Azure Backup

• Exercise 1: Configure Azure Backup for On-Premises Servers

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to configure Azure Backup for On-Premises Servers.

Module 9 Windows Server security

In this module, students learn about security technologies that address various critical components in a Windows Server environment.

Lesson 1 Credentials and privileged-access protection in Windows Server

• Configure user rights in Windows Server
• What is the Protected Users group?
• Overview of authentication policies and authentication-policy silos
• What is Windows Defender Credential Guard?
• Windows Defender Credential Guard requirements
• Configure Windows Defender Credential Guard
• NTLM blocking overview
• LDAP security
• Locate problematic accounts in AD DS
• Demonstration: Locate problematic accounts

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to configure security features in Windows Server to protect accounts.

Lesson 2 Harden Windows Server 

• What is a Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS)?
• LAPS improvements in Windows Server 2025
• How LAPS works
• Configure and manage passwords by using LAPS
• Demonstration: Configure and deploy LAPS
• Limit administrative access to help secure hosts
• How to help secure DCs
• Overview of the Security Compliance Toolkit

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe, implement and manage LAPS.

Lesson 3 JEA in Windows Server 

• What is JEA?
• Role capability files
• Session-configuration files
• JEA endpoints
• Connect to a JEA endpoint
• Demonstration: Connect to a JEA endpoint

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe and implement just-enough-administration in Windows Server.

Lesson 4 Secure and analyze SMB traffic 

• What is SMB?
• SMB improvements in Windows Server 2025
• SMB signing
• SMB encryption
• Demonstration: Configure SMB encryption on shares

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe SMB and configure SMB encryption and signing.

Lesson 5 Windows Server update management 

• Overview of Windows Update 
• What is the Windows Server Update Service?
• WSUS server deployment options
• What are Windows Update client policies?
• Other update deployment options

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe 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

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

• Configure Windows Defender Credential Guard.
• Locate problematic accounts.
• Implement LAPS.

Module 10 RDS in Windows Server

This module details RDS in Windows Server and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) implementations.

Lesson 1 Overview of RDS 

• RDS overview and benefits
• Client-experience features with RDS
• Remote Desktop feature and RDS
• What’s new in RDS for Windows Server 2025?
• Plan an RDS deployment
• Access RDS
• Overview of RD Gateway 
• Overview of RDS licensing 
• Azure Virtual Desktop 
• Overview of Windows App

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Lesson 2 Configure a session-based desktop deployment 

• Overview of deploying session-based desktops
• Demonstration: Install RDS
• What is a collection?
• Configure session collection settings
• Demonstration: Create and configure a session collection
• High-availability options for session-based desktops
• Overview of RemoteApp

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Lesson 3 Overview of pooled and personal virtual desktops 

• Overview of VM-based desktop deployments
• Overview of pooled virtual desktops
• Overview of personal virtual desktops
• Compare remote desktop options
• High availability for pooled and personal virtual desktops
• Prepare a virtual-desktop template

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Lab Implement RDS in Windows Server

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

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

• Implement RDS.
• Configure RemoteApp collection settings.

Module 11 Remote access and web services in Windows Server

In this module, students learn about remote-access technologies for Windows Server and Internet Information Services (IIS) deployment and usage.

Lesson 1 Deploy AD CS to secure network traffic 

• What is AD CS?
• Options for implementing CA hierarchies
• What are certificates and certificate templates?
• Certificate enrollment methods
• Configure trust for certificates
• Demonstration: Enroll for a certificate

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to deploy and manage AD CS as well as to deploy, enroll and manage certificates.

Lesson 2 Overview of remote access in Windows Server

• What remote access options does Windows Server provide?
• Factors to consider when deploying PKI for remote access
• What is WAP?
• Authentication options in WAP
• Publish apps with WAP
• Discussion: Remote access usage scenarios

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to use remote access in Widows Server.

Lesson 3 Implement VPNs 

• VPN scenarios
• Site-to-site VPN
• Tunneling options
• Authentication protocols
• What is VPN Reconnect?
• Configure a VPN server
• Demonstration: Configure VPN

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to implement VPNs.

Lesson 4 Implement NPS 

• Overview of NPS
• Plan an NPS deployment
• Configure NPS policies
• Implement RADIUS with NPS
• Demonstration: Manage NPS

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to implement NPS.

Lesson 5 Implement Always On VPN

• What is Always On VPN?
• Deploy Always On VPN                

Lesson 6 Implement Web Server in Windows Server 

• Latest features in IIS
• Overview of IIS architecture 
• Overview of the Web Server (IIS) role 
• Prepare to install the Web Server (IIS) role
• Install and configure the Web Server (IIS) role
• Demonstration: Create and configure a new site in IIS

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe and configure Web Server (IIS) 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

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

• Implement Web Application Proxy.
• Implement VPN in Windows Server.
• Deploy and configure Web Server.

Module 12 Server and performance monitoring in Windows Server

This module details the monitoring tools and technologies available in Windows Server.

Lesson 1 Overview of Windows Server monitoring tools

• Overview of Task Manager
• Overview of Performance Monitor
• Overview of Resource Monitor
• Overview of Reliability Monitor
• Overview of Event Viewer
• Monitor a server with Server Manager
• Monitor a server with Windows Admin Center
• Use Sysinternals tools to monitor servers
• Use Azure tools for Windows Server monitoring

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Lesson 2 Use Performance Monitor 

• What are performance bottlenecks?
• What to monitor
• What are data collector sets?
• Demonstration: Review performance with Performance Monitor
• Monitor network-infrastructure services
• Considerations for monitoring VMs
• Performance monitoring with Windows Admin Center

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe performance monitoring and use it in Windows Server.

Lesson 3 Monitor event logs for troubleshooting 

• Use Server Manager to review event logs
• What is a custom view?
• Demonstration: Create a custom view
• What are event-log subscriptions?
• Demonstration: Configure an event subscription

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to describe event logging and monitor it for troubleshooting purposes.

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

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

• Establish a performance baseline
• Identify the source of a performance problem
• Review and configure centralized event logs

Module 13 Upgrade and migration in Windows Server (optional)

This module details the available tools in Windows Server for upgrading and migrating servers, and explains AD DS migration and the upgrade process.

Lesson 1 AD DS upgrade and migration 

• Windows Server upgrade overview
• AD DS upgrade overview
• Upgrade a previous AD DS version to Windows Server 2025
• Migrate to AD DS in Windows Server 2025 from a previous version
• Overview of the Active Directory Migration Tool

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Lesson 2 Storage Migration Service 

• Storage Migration Service overview and usage scenarios
• Storage migration requirements
• Migrate a server with storage migration
• Storage migration considerations

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

Lesson 3 Windows Server Migration Tools 

• What are Windows Server Migration Tools?
• Install Windows Server Migration Tools
• Use Windows Server Migration Tools

By completing this lesson, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

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

By completing this lab, you’ll achieve the knowledge and skills to:

• Select a process to migrate server workloads.
• Plan how to migrate files by using Storage Migration Service.