Microsoft Course Listings

Microsoft Windows 7: Configuration

Installing, Upgrading, and Migrating to Windows 7

After completing this course, the student should be able to:

  • Recognize how to install Windows 7 to dual boot with Windows Vista
  • Identify the hardware requirements of Windows 7
  • Recognize how to prepare various installation sources for Windows 7
  • Prepare a USB disk as an installation source for Windows 7
  • Recognize how to use the Easy Transfer tool to migrate from Windows Vista to Windows 7
  • Recognize how to use an in-place upgrade to upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7
  • Use USMT to create an encrypted store
  • Recognize the best practices for migration with USMT
  • Use USMT to decrypt a store and migrate files and settings
  • Duration: 1.5hrs
Deploying Windows 7

After completing this course, the student should be able to:

  • Recognize how to use ImageX to capture an image of Windows 7
  • Recognize the steps for Windows 7 image deployment
  • Recognize how to prepare a Windows 7 image for deployment
  • Capture a Windows 7 image and prepare it for deployment
  • Recognize how to deploy Windows 7 using a configuration set from a network share
  • Identify the functions of WSIM
  • Recognize how to deploy a Windows 7 VHD for native boot
  • Recognize how to prepare a Windows 7 VHD for deployment as native boot
  • Create and deploy a Windows 7 VHD for native boot
Duration: 1.5 hrs
Configuring Hardware and Applications in Windows 7

After completing this course, the student should be able to:

  • Recognize the requirements for driver signing in Windows 7
  • Troubleshoot device drivers
  • Automatically generate executable rules
  • Use auditing to track which applications are used
  • Configure ACT
  • Identify the functions of the ACT components
  • Identify the ways in which Windows technologies may cause compatibility issues
  • Identify the features of IE 8
  • Duration: 1.5 hrs
Configuring Network Connectivity in Windows 7

After completing this course, the student should be able to:

  • Configure APIPA for IPv4 in Windows 7
  • Set up a network connection in Windows 7
  • Manage devices and printers
  • Identify the functions of Windows 7 network technologies
  • Configure firewall notifications
  • Rank firewall rules in the order of priority
  • Create an authenticated exception
  • Set up a Remote Assistance session to help a user
  • Recognize the ways in which solicited and unsolicited Remote Assistance works
  • Identify the features of PowerShell 2.0
  • Recognize the functions of remote shell and remote management policies
  • Recognize the benefits of Problem Steps Recorder
  • Duration: 2 hrs
Configuring Access to Resources in Windows 7

After completing this course, the student should be able to:

  • Recognize the features of various authentication types
  • Recognize the features of credential roaming and certificate path validation in Windows 7
  • Autoenroll for a certificate and renew a certificate
  • Recognize how the UAC architecture works
  • Recognize the differences and similarities between logging on as an administrator and as a standard user
  • Use Group Policy to configure UAC behavior
  • Share a printer between Windows 7 and Windows XP machines
  • Back up an EFS certificate
  • Configure NTFS permissions for a file or folder
  • Configure UAC behavior
  • Configure file, folder, and shared resources
  • Recognize ways in which you can configure HomeGroup
  • Use the netsh command to configure a BranchCache client
  • Configure a computer to be a Hosted Cache server
  • Configure BranchCache
Duration: 2 hrs
Configuring Mobile Computing in Windows 7

After completing this course, the student should be able to:

  • Encrypt a drive with BitLocker and use data recovery agents
  • Recognize the purposes of the various types of keys used by BitLocker
  • Use PowerCfg to work with power plans
  • Identify appropriate ways to implement DirectAccess
  • Identify the features of DirectAccess
  • Create a remote connection with VPN Reconnect
  • Recognize the security auditing features of Windows 7
  • Duration: 1.5 hrs
Monitoring, Backing Up, and Restoring Windows 7 Systems

After completing this course, the student should be able to: 

  • Specify the WSUS server a Windows 7 client computer should use
  • Use Group Policy in Windows 7 to configure the behavior of automatic reboots in relation to Windows Update
  • Configure the performance of a Windows 7 computer
  • Customize an existing power plan in Windows 7
  • Identify power settings you can configure in Windows 7
  • Create a striped volume
  • Configure policies for removable storage devices
  • Configure advanced event subscription settings
  • Identify the vulnerabilities of certain event log policies
  • Create a system repair disc
  • Create a backup in Windows 7
  • Enable System Protection for a drive in Windows 7
  • Perform a full system restoration in Windows 7
  • Restore a shadow copy of a file or folder in Windows 7
  • Duration: 2.5 hrs