Opleiding: Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server Courseware (20740WV) [M-20740WV]

OVERVIEW

This is a 5-day entry-level course is designed for IT professionals who have minimal experience with Windows Server and seek to advance their knowledge and skills.

This course is designed for professionals who will be responsible for managing the installation of Windows Server as well as storage and compute services, and who need to understand the scenarios, requirements, and storage and compute options that are available and applicable to Windows Server.

Updated June 2026

OBJECTIVES

After this course participants should be able to:

• Prepare and install Windows Server with Desktop Experience and as a Server Core installation and plan a server upgrade and migration strategy.
• Describe the various storage options, including partition table formats, basic and dynamic disks, file systems, virtual hard disks, and drive hardware, and explain how to manage disks and volumes.
• Describe enterprise storage solutions and select the appropriate solution for a given situation.
• Implement and manage Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication.
• Install and configure Microsoft Hyper-V.
• Deploy and manage containers on Windows Server.
• Describe the high availability and disaster recovery technologies in Windows Server.
• Plan, create, and manage a failover cluster.
• Implement failover clustering for Hyper-V virtual machines.
• Manage, monitor, and maintain virtual machine installations.

AUDIENCE

This course is intended for IT professionals who have some experience working with Windows Server, and who are looking for a single five-day course that covers storage and compute technologies in Windows Server. This course will help them update their knowledge and skills related to storage and compute for Windows Server.

Candidates suitable for this course would be:

- Windows Server administrators who are relatively new to Windows Server administration and related technologies, and who want to learn more about the storage and compute features in Windows Server.

- IT professionals with general IT knowledge, who are looking to gain knowledge about Windows Server, especially around storage and compute technologies in Windows Server.

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CONTENT

Module 1:  Install, upgrade, and migrate servers and workloads

• Introducing Windows Server
• Prepare and install Server Core
• Prepare for upgrades and migrations
• Windows Server activation models

Lab 1: Install and configure Windows Server

• Exercise 1: Install Windows Server Core
• Exercise 2: Perform post-installation tasks
• Exercise 3: Perform remote management

Module 2: Configure local storage

• Manage discs in Windows Server
• Manage volumes in Windows Server

Lab 1: Manage disks and volumes in Windows Server

• Exercise 1: Create and manage volumes
• Exercise 2: Resize volumes
• Exercise 3: Manage virtual hard disks

Module 3: Implement enterprise storage solutions

• Overview of direct-attached storage, network-attached storage, and storage area networks
• Compare Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet
• Understanding iSNS, data center bridging, and MPIO
• Configure sharing in Windows Server

Lab 1: Plan and configure storage technologies and components

• Exercise 1: Plan storage requirements
• Exercise 2: Configure iSCSI storage
• Exercise 3: Configure and manage the share infrastructure

Lab 2: Configure SMB over QUIC

• Exercise 1: Configure an SMB share
• Exercise 2: Configure a certificate for SMB over QUIC
• Exercise 3: Configure SMB over QUIC
• Exercise 4: Validate SMB over QUIC connectivity

Module 4: Implement Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication

• Implement Storage Spaces
• Manage Storage Spaces
• Implement Data Deduplication

Lab 1: Implement Storage Spaces

• Exercise 1: Create a Storage Space
• Exercise 2: Enable and configure storage tiering

Lab 2: Implement Data Deduplication

• Exercise 1: Install Data Deduplication
• Exercise 2: Configure Data Deduplication

Module 5: Install and configure Hyper-V and virtual machines

• Overview of Hyper-V
• Install Hyper-V
• Configure storage on Hyper-V host servers
• Configure networking on Hyper-V host servers
• Configure Hyper-V VMs
• Manage Hyper-V VMs

Lab 1: Install and configure Hyper-V

• Exercise 1: Verify installation of the Hyper-V server role
• Exercise 2: Configure Hyper-V networks
• Exercise 3: Create and configure a virtual machine
• Exercise 4: Enable nested virtualization for a virtual machine

Module 6: Deploy and manage Windows Server and Hyper-V containers

• Overview of containers in Windows Server
• Prepare for containers deployment
• Install, configure, and manage containers

Lab 1: Install and configure containers

• Exercise 1: Install Docker and download an image
• Exercise 2: Deploy and configure a container
• Exercise 3: Run a Windows container by using Windows Admin Center

Module 7: Overview of high availability and disaster recovery

• Define levels of availability
• Plan high availability and disaster recovery solutions with Hyper-V VMs
• Network Load Balancing overview
• Backup and restore with Windows Server Backup
• High availability with failover clustering in Windows Server

Lab 1: Plan and implement a high-availability and disaster recovery solution

• Exercise 1: Determine the appropriate high availability and disaster recovery solution
• Exercise 2: Implement storage migration
• Exercise 3: Configure Hyper-V replicas

Module 8: Implement and manage failover clustering

• Plan for a failover cluster
• Create and configure a new failover cluster
• Maintain a failover cluster
• Troubleshoot a failover cluster

Lab 1: Implement a failover cluster

• Exercise 1: Create a failover cluster
• Exercise 2: Verify quorum settings and adding a node

Lab 2: Manage a failover cluster

• Exercise 1: Evict a node and verify quorum settings
• Exercise 2: Change the quorum from Disk Witness to File Share Witness, and define node voting
• Exercise 3: Verify high availability

Module 9: Implement failover clustering for Hyper-V virtual machines

• Overview of integrating Hyper-V in Windows Server with failover clustering
• Implement and maintain Hyper-V VMs on failover clusters
• Key features for VMs in a clustered environment

Lab 1: Implement failover clustering with Hyper-V

• Exercise 1: Configure virtual environment and iSCSI storage
• Exercise 2: Configure a failover cluster for Hyper-V
• Exercise 3: Configure a highly available VM

Module 10: Maintain and monitor Windows Server installations

• WSUS overview and deployment options
• Update management process with WSUS
• Overview of PowerShell Desired State Configuration
• Overview of Windows Server monitoring tools
• Use Performance Monitor
• Monitor Event Logs

Lab 1: Implement WSUS and deploy updates

• Exercise 1: Implement WSUS
• Exercise 2: Configure update settings
• Exercise 3: Approve and deploy an update by using WSUS

Lab 2: 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